It's Mole Day, plus we have a few birthdays: Johnny Carson, Pelé, Anita Roddick. And it's Unbottling Emotions Friday...our community project for today: wear a scent that you think embodies an emotion, and tell us what that emotion is. Thanks go to happy888cat for the suggestion!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Me: Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré for cheerfulness.
Reminder: on 10/30, celebrate the start of Halloween weekend by wearing a fragrance that you like, but that isn't quite "you"...so it works as a costume, so to speak.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2026, where I'll occasionally manage to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is The Yellow Rows Of…..(Not Texas) [cropped] by Ian Sane at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m wearing Byzance, which a friend once described as a memory of something you have always known in your heart is true. I loved that.
That’s a beautiful description, cazaubon. A good friend wore this in university. It’s a great scent and the bottle is beautiful.
That is excellent!
What a truly beautiful perfume and a masterpiece.
Love the bottle!
I love your SOTD, Robin, and I love its cheerful yellow bottle. The picture you chose is idyllic. I’d like to s[pend some time in the woods here. We have old growth forests and nice walking trails.
I chose Kelly Caleche because I haven’t worn it in a long time and I just wanted to smell it.
Hope everyone’s day is calm (a girl can dream, right? )
Oh you likewise smell fantastic!
We are not getting intense fall color here so far, but I would not mind a nice walk in the woods myself.
Guerlain Insolence for defiant playfulness.
Perfect call! You smell great today Glannys.
And the song match for your SOTD would be “I Know What Boys Like” by The Waitresses.
Spot on! And thanks you for introducing me to a new song!
Good morning and Happy FriYAY y’all!
I gotta get back in the groove of remembering the community project! I’m still projecting last night’s bedtime scent: Radiant Mirage by Estee Lauder. My favorite kind of patchouli…..
Have a great weekend everybody!
You have a great weekend too! And do ignore the cps unless they amuse you 🙂
You smell great…Radiant Mirage gives me Midnight Poison vibes.
Oooooooooh, really??
I’m back in Astier de Villatte today, but went with Ambré Liquide which is a sparkling, sun drenched amber. As far as a matching emotion, I’d say it’s the contented feeling of a walk through the woods under yellow and red autumn leaves, dappled sunshine patterning the path, and a day free from any kind of obligation or worry. It’s lovely, calming, and at the same time invigorating, inspiring a hopeful outlook in dark times.
Beautiful morning so I drove to the park to walk the dog and began to feel so ill I came back and I’m now back in bed. But it was a gorgeous morning:
https://www.instagram.com/p/De1sgnLM69z/?vrfl=MXcyZzlxNXIzZ2FnYQ==
Hope you feel better soon!
Thank you. I’m enjoying a cup of restorative Cranberry Autumn tea.
Stay resting and feel better soon!
I feel like I sleep way too much, but yep, I’m been in bed.
Also, just saw this and immediately thought of your love for Norm McDonald
https://www.instagram.com/reel/De22cW2vUhI/?vrfl=c2JkZDM4cjhpeXlm
Beautiful pic and hope you feel better soon. And you smell great…I have a sample of that one I am working my way through as I try to remember I don’t need all the ambers…just many… ehaeheh 😉
One can never have too many ambers, especially with the onset of cooler weather! ❄️ I adore their 10ml bottles. ❤️
Went do you head south?
Of course, I meant when.
In a few weeks. My contract ends 11/14 so I will probably leave that following week depending on the weather. Did you get any other samples from DSH? If so, looking forward to hearing about them. I’m sorely tempted by the one Robin wore a couple of weeks ago.
I did not like Chinchilla. It was too strong on me and sometimes the honey smells like cat pee on me. I really liked Snow Angels, a crisp floral aldehyde. Special Formula X-treme is a skin scent and was ok but reminded me of Glossier You. They have some nice things.
Indochine = bliss.
Love! Thought about wearing this.
Wearing CdG Kyoto. I do love incense and I need a little bit of extra zen today.
I wish CdG had a coffret of travel sprays for the Incense series.
I do too. If they sold travel sprays individually I would get Zagorsk or Kyoto.
Wearing a new fragrance that I recently purchased makes me feel confident. SOTD is DSH American Beauty (Rose No 1).
Enjoy your new purchase!
What kind of rose is it?
I would call it a jammy rose. It is compared to Stella. It’s very nice but the longevity is fair. Most perfumes last forever on me. This is fading after about four hours.
Hello and tgif!
Sotd is No.5, the first perfume I got from my mum. I was overjoyed because I used to sit by her vanity and watch her do makeup and dab perfume on her neck and wished I could do the same. Emotion of the day is “elated”.
What a beautiful memory and thank you for the great CP idea!
That’s a great memory.
I can picture this.
This is great!
Love the feels in your post today, happy888cat.
Coyoacan from Fantome is happiness in a bottle and just brightens my mood every time.
Going to London in a week and a half and will be doing lots of perfume shopping. Can’t wait.
Have a safe and fun trip!
Have a great trip andndo report in on your shopping and perfume finds!
How fun! Have a wonderful trip.
Have a great trip!
Have a wonderful time! Anything in particular you’re hoping to find???
Your trip sounds awesome! Have a safe and uneventful flight with no airport delays!
Love today’s photo!!! 😍Trying Le Beau Parfum today….the new-ish version…a tuberose ylang bomb and I’d call it joyful 😁
Feeling very relieved with good results for two screenings I had in the past week. ☺️
Good news!
Yay for good results!
So happy for you!
That’s such good news, She-ra!
Must be such a relief for you, She-ra. Now you can enjoy the weekend.
W00t w00t w00t for the good screening news! And a tuberose ylang bomb sounds great, TBH.
melograno body oil
Other child is home today with 103 fever..
She was already sick a few weeks ago and now its back again.
I am making myself tea with ginger and other things to keep me healthy to take care of all sick ones at home. At least my better half is well enough to go to work today-one less to worry about.
Good grief Charlie Brown!
It is a mental torment to me to see a child sick with fever but I like to tell myself that each and every sickness/infection they go through helps them strengthen their immune systems.
I hope she gets better soon!
You need a tea steeped in fortitude but I’ll send you some fortitude over the ether for now, LTSG.
Oh no. Poor kids! And poor you, worrying so much about them.
I’m with Robin today on the cheerful / happy front: Arielle Shoshana Saturday. Happy bottle (I have a travel size), happy scent. 🙂
Yes it is, very happy!
Emotion to match: Résilience
And you should get extra points for the emotion in the name!
SOTD is Maksim Oud Indochine. It’s nice, I like it, but there is something sour that wafts in and out over the hours that puts me off getting a bottle.
I think today I may make some oatmeal cookies. Oatmeal always feels fall/winterish to me and smells cozy. Is there an oatmeal-smelling perfume?
I bet there are quite a few but I don’t know them!
Sitting on the UP train at the Toronto Airport heading into the city: we flew in for a little vacation, just a few days, visit with friends, go to a pen show, do big-city things. I’m wearing Michael for Men by Michael Kors, and it smells like happiness to me for a number of reasons: I bought it on a trip (to Toronto, actually, in 2001 at its launch), and I love scents that remind me of trips I’ve taken; it’s the first scent that made me realize patchouli could be beautiful, and my fav; and it’s gorgeous — it could have been made to my specifications.
This is a gorgeous one, you smell great pyramus. I love the way it smells on my husband too. Perfume memories are so great.
Patch note twins with you today!
Posted under Thursday because I didn’t see Friday, so accidental.
Vintage Coco – melancholy. I can just say that I am glad Coco came out when it did originally because it gave something really good for the ladies back then. Back then most fragrances were great anyways, I’m going to tell You that I don’t watch almost any TV, but sometimes I like to watch a movie together with Family and my favorite movies ever were the ones from 80s and 90s. I’m not going to even get into discussion why movies were great back then – but when I do see movies from 80s and 90s I like to see the way house and apartments were kept/decorated back then. Automatically I like to keep my eyes on their vanities and shelves and I am always trying to see (and hope) I see any bottles of perfumes displayed!! I always hope to see a bottle of Chanel somewhere in those movies haha. Sometimes I see actresses dressed in the 80s and 90s and I like to think which perfume would go good with the character.
I am also going to say 2 things: vintage Coco lasts forever and ever and is absolute perfection. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful perfume.
I stumbled upon an article listing 11 perfumes fit for the Queen Marie Antoinette. In it I found two that seem like they are fit for me: Arquiste Venice Rococo and Lubin Black Jade. (Of course Delina was the number 1 mentioned in this article).
Arquiste Venice Rococo made my head spin when I read the notes: Blush Violet, Blush Rose and Chamomile, Dusty Iris and Animalic Amber. Oh man: it sounds like a dream to me, have any of You tried it? To make insult to the mental injury (I want this so bad now!) they make this bottle in a 30ml format so I am almost in tears that I want it.
The other one Lubin Black Jade has plenty of good sounding notes but the one I’m interested in is Cinnamon. Among the whole list of notes the Cinnamon sounds so good. Anyone tried this one? Let me tell You the emotion now: DESIRE.
Venice Rococo is a very powdery rose. Have you smelled FM Lipstick Rose? It reminds me of that. Both beautiful but you must like powder to enjoy it.
Yes I do know Lipstick Rose and it was a love. I LOVE powder time infinity. I don’t think that there could ever exist a perfume too powdery for my taste. Love Lipstick Rose, love Misia, love Insolence. No wonder I fell for this list of notes!! Thanks for this comparison now I know I could blind but it. I am going to keep it in mind that I want a bottle even though it’s a non-Chanel. Thank You!!
Teint de Neige is the ultimate powder bomb for me. Lorenzo Villoresi.
Heard about it. Thanks for putting it in the words You have: ultimate powder bomb. Must try for me and I will try to obtain a sample for sure.
Sorry for posting so much: but I have one more emotion: disbelief. Someone is selling me… Chanel authentic leather ballerinas US size 2. They are one size bigger than what my Daughter wears now so they will fit in like a year or so. I am paying for these an equilevent of what I would pay for a dinner in a restaurant for just the 2 of us. She will be the first in the Family to have the privilege of sporting a double C logo on Her feet!! I’m so excited!!
Hope she will love them and wear them in good health 🙂
I’ve just been reading an article in The Guardian about the importance of beauty in our lives – everyone here has a head start on that!
I’m starting my weekend in PdN’s Le Temps d’une Fête, simply because it’s beautiful and that makes me happy.
Thank you, just googled & read that article!
I want to read the article – I will do a google search
Up early for lab work.
That’s three mornings in a row I have set my alarm. Not my retired life usual.
On my way for a movie- a Friday afternoon treat with a senior AND a matinee discount!
Going to see You Can See Everything while wearing St. Moritz.
I admire that You have been sporting St. Moritz. Did You purchase a full bottle of it?
Hope it was a great movie!
SOTD = Blend No. 83
Nice! I haven’t worn this much since I got it several years ago but when I wear it, it gives me a good feeling. I don’t necessarily smell the liquor 🥃 (methinks my nose is broken) but what I do smell is the dark chocolate and coffee!
In other news, I’ve never stayed at an Airbnb. For what it’s worth, I suppose one has to have a larger family unit to make it better. Anyway, here’s what’s happening with the industry. When I read about all the rules (admittedly from IG), I was kind of disgusted because I just don’t think I need to do all that one is supposed to do before checking out. Here’s a gift article from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/travel/airbnb-host-rules-cleaning-chores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1E.Vqd8.b7BR_tqe0ovE&smid=nytcore-ios-share
I’ve stayed at Airbnbs since almost the beginning, because they removed a lot of friction for families travelling. Hotels are not hospitable to parents; even with teens, Ockeghem Teen would like to state, hotels are not good unless you get two rooms, which, $$$. (One of the Ockeghems snores. Not saying who.) They’re great for being able to cook your own breakfast and not have to worry about taking care of that meal, and for having separate rooms for one rental price. They used to be cheaper than hotels, and so it made sense to do *some* chores at the end (take out the trash, throw towels in the washer).
But in the last 5-10 years, prices have gone up significantly and quality has nosedived. They’re usually managed by large companies, are bare bones and dumpy, and are in buildings full of Airbnbs. The personalized / local touch is gone, and if I’m paying for what’s basically a low-quality hotel, I expect not to do chores. Until hosts clean up their acts, hotels are where we’re staying more often these days.
Yeah, no one asked, but there are my thoughts on Airbnb after over 10 years with them. 🙂 We had amazing apartments in Copenhagen and on the Rhein 11 years ago. Lately they’ve mostly been inconvenient and dumpy.
We’ve also had great ones all over the world, most recently we had a great owner-managed one in Tokyo. A husband and wife architect/design couple owned it. Small house in non-tourist area, very much local flavor.
We also stayed in anonymous awful ones in Tokyo that were filthy from previous visitors when we arrived.
Another problem with Airb&bs is that they ruin neighborhoods. More traffic, noise, people coming and going at all hours in both residential neighborhoods and apartment buildings which jacks up the prices so locals can’t afford to live there anymore in L.A., a city that already has a severe housing shortage. Only the owners profit and yes, they’re usually large companies these days. (surprise!)
There is no one to complain to and the cities have very loose enforcement, even though many towns have laws on the books that require minimum 30 day rentals.
Case in point – NYC although I am not familiar with the laws.
NYC has outlawed most of them, I think. A while back, tho I’m sure people have found ways around. But — Lisbon is one of the worst. So bad.
Oy! Inconvenient and dumpy does not bode well. Thanks for chiming in.
My husband and I stay in them sometimes. We have had great luck at very reasonable prices. We are both pretty picky and so I was kind of concerned about it the first time we did it. It’s pretty easy to look at reviews and see which ones are nice.
Good for you! I don’t believe it’s in the article but at least one article mentioned being “deceived” by pictures.
You can be deceived by the text, too. “Air conditioning” can mean a tiny portable air conditioner that only cools 3 feet in front of it.
Staying at Airbnbs worked out for me several years ago during a couple of trips. One was a small group of 3 people, and the other was a larger group of 9. No trouble for us. However, both instances were well before COVID.
But given what I have heard about the new rules, I would give them a pass and stay in a hotel.
Emotion: excitedness because I just Google searched a fragrance I have heard about BUT never paid attention to and overlooked it’s name: Teint de Neige. The name translates to: color of snow. O M G!! I love snow, everything related to snow and I am especially interested in snow portrayed in my favorite thing in the world: perfume. So not only is Teint De Neige inspired by snow but I was just told on here it is the ultimate powder bomb. I’m about to blind but this one!!
Hope your blind buy works out for you.
Sorry I don’t have any to send you or I would Might save you some $$ if you don’t like it. You could prolly get a sample from Luckyscent (not affiliated).
I think you would like Venice Rococo for sure, and I know you can get a sample at Luckyscent plus the 30 ml bottle is only $105. That isn’t too bad a price.
I’m wearing limited edition Golden Dolly by LVNEA, an all natural perfume released just few weeks ago. It’s such an amazing creation, uncanny in the way it smells like farm elements: grass, corn husks, maple butter and that lovely musky funk. It makes me feel like I’m a kid again, rolling in scratchy hay piles and trying not to trip on the chickens running around my feet. Whimsical, and pure carefree joy in a bottle. This company always knocks it out of the park with their limited editions which are really special and beautifully put together.
That sounds wonderful! Like the small sizes too.
Whoo hoo, Mole Day! 6.02 x 10^23 for the win!
Laila had asked me a question earlier in the week that I am getting around to answering now. Yes, the contestant on Jeopardy! did get the Chanel No. 5 question correct. It is such a perfume icon that even a regular Joe or Jane would know about it, and some of its history.
Thank yous go to lillyjo and allo for sending the sun my way today. Seeing it did wonders for my disposition. Unfortunately, that was offset by forgetting ALL the coupons I had clipped for grocery shopping this afternoon. Had them in the purse and completely blanked that they were in there. So I am more than a little irritated with myself.
SOTD = Reminiscence Patchouli EdT, for calm and grounding.
Yay for the Sun!
Boo for forgetting the coupons. I’ve done that myself.
Luckily for me, most of those coupons don’t expire until November 30. I had plenty of salty words to say before I calmed down a bit.
Yay for sun and RP! Now that’s a patchouli fragrance.
Rem Patchouli smells even better on sun-warmed skin or skin warm after exercise.
That sounds like an ideal combination.
I went to bed too early last night and was wide awake at 4 a.m.
I’m feeling fine though. I just finished filling out my ballot to drop off tomorrow.
My sotd is Dune. Today it is giving me a happy and content feeling. Perfect for a sunny day.
I associate Dune with happiness and contentment too. It’s such a perfect fragrance.
It truly is perfect and unique.
Glad to hear that you are feeling much better today!
Dune is a moody and melancholic scent for me. But that’s the great thing about perfume; there are no wrong answers. Just ones that are right for you.
There are times when Dune is melancholy for me too. I always sniff the cap before I spray, because I never know how it will wear for my emotions.
Mr. allo and I got our Covid shots today and I’m just now starting to feel a bit sleepy and achey. They always hit me hard and one can always hope that this time will be the exception.
I am wearing Caron Pour un Homme from a generous NSTer swap and it’s making me feel grateful🥰
Hope you feel better soon. My husband and I rarely get much of the side effects of the Covid vaccines, but we did this year. Achey, chills and headache this time around. Luckily, it doesn’t last more than a day or two.
Thank you, Kris. I’m sorry you had a harder go of it this year. For me, the symptoms usually peak at about 8pm and that’s when Mr. all knows to heat my rice pillow. Wrapping myself around it seems to make all the difference.
I like a Japanese buckwheat pillow, myself!
I did flu shot this afternoon and suspect I will be in bed much earlier than usual tonight!
I hope your symptoms are mild and that you get a good night’s rest.
Oof I wish both of you an easy night and to feel better in the morning.
Thank you, DeniseH!
COVID shots and tetanus shots have been the worst for me. Hope yours isn’t too bad tonight.
Thank you. I’m just about at the witching hour and ready to head to bed😴
My fragrance this evening honors Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop in 1976, an important landmark in my youth that introduced my sister and I to so many reasonably priced fragrances that used excellent raw materials. I’m particularly fond of their old perfume oils that came in 15 and 30 ml rounded bottles with the plastic daubers, so I’m wearing Madagascar Vanilla Flower Perfume Oil tonight, which I received from Hera in an old NST swap before Canada/US relations deteriorated so stupidly and tariffs ruined so much. Her bio is super interesting, she was a woman entrepreneur in a man’s world, an environmentalist, a human rights and animal rights activist before PETA (none of her fragrances were tested on animals). What an influence this woman had on me and so many others!