Welcome to the weekend and our same old open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you're smelling out and about on the streets lately, the fragrance you wish you were smelling on the street, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: top image is A Billion Dying Suns [cropped] by Ian Muttoo at flickr; some rights reserved.
Our favorite local children’s park, a very neighborhoodly little gem that has been recently upgraded to better sitting areas and benches – even the little splash pad got upgraded – has its very own fashion show when all the Moms gather: some in their yoga suits, others wearing sun dresses, it is still warm but not as excruciatingly hot as it was a say a month ago. The perfume that prevails around the Mom crowd and is still going strong as a trend is still: BR540. Some Moms wear the original some pass around the cheaper “inspired by” versions of it, clapping their hands that they were able to purchase it for much. I watch and observe from the side. However a couple of times I was able to step in and introduce them to some Chanel. There is this one Mom in particular who asked me about my perfume, it was Chanel °18 and because I had the bottle with me – I let Her try it. She was a little shocked with the price but a few days ago She brought Her very own bottle of it and thanked me for the recommendation. She said She was able to talk Her Husband into buying it. She also said She never heard of “ambrette seed” but told me Her Husband absolutely hated BR540 (She had the original) and that would always complain about Her wearing it and that if spending this much money on a fragrance – Chanel °18 is like a fresh spring breeze and although also expensive – subtle and romantic. Not cloying and beautiful. I guess I can claim “conversion perfumista points” for this particular situation haha.
I have never smelled Chanel 18, but iris is my favorite so maybe I would like it. Not sure about the ambrette seed. Might be okay.
Ok I have a manufacturer’s samples of °18 – when I have a chance to go to the Post Office I will mail a sample of it to You. Just note: while it is a beautiful fragrance it is also going to be overlooked by many (You know standing next to the strong-willed Coromandel) and it is not an iris-centric perfume per se. Nothing like Hiris or Infusion d’Iris where You smell it and exclaim: oh iris! You have to really press Your nose to the wrist, iris is the support note. That’s all. But You will be able to try it for Yourself soon.
One more question: have You tried Chance Splendide yet? The purple Chance? I have samples of that one too if You haven’t tried it. It also has iris.
Yes, I did not care for it. You don’t need to send 18. If it isn’t iris-centric, maybe I wouldn’t be interested. You already have things coming to me.
It does however have iris and ROSE in it, even if iris is not the first note that jumps at You – it is still a very special fragrance and I don’t mind at all.
Happy weekend!
Sotd is JM Orange Bitters.
I am heading out to pick up some croissants, along with other yummy baked goods for a getogether. I might or might not be caught eating one on the way back, shhhh.
I love the popcorn smell in cinemas and it would be fabulous if the streets smelled like that too.
Enjoy your get together! Hope you had a fun day.
Were you the one who was interested in 4160 Tuesdays New York ’55? I happened to come across my bottle and thought it was you who mentioned it awhile back. If you’re interested I can send it out to you.
Gail! Thank you so much for having me in your mind. I indeed mentioned it in the past.
I appreciate your kindness so much but I actually already own a bottle of NY ’55 so please keep the bottle and smell fab! 🩷
Oh that’s awesome you have a bottle!
Orange Bitters – you smell marvelous, happy888cat. I hope your get-together went well.
I do the same when I buy sangyak, I have to tear off bits on the way home as it’s usually warm and right out of the oven. It never gets home without my ragged ‘trimming’ at the edges.
Luckily, sangyak, which is a Persian flatbread made with whole wheat and regular flour studded with sesame seeds that is about four feet long and shaped like an oval, is usually folded over and wrapped in brown butcher paper, at least at my local shop, so the pilfering is not readily apparent.
This all makes me think of L’Artisan Bois Farine, which I’m suddenly wanting to smell. I had some years ago but it’s long gone.
The get-together went really well, thank you! We all love breakfast so it was brekkie items for dinner. So much fun!
I have never tried sangyak. I needed to google and now I want one! Having bread that’s fresh out of the oven and actually not eating at least a bite is a crime and total disrespect to the Carb Gods. 😉
Bois Farine is a beauty and also Uncle Serge’s Jeux de Peau, another bready masterpiece.
I could not face a Maksim sample this morning, so I am wearing one of my favorites, Aedes de Venustas. I needed that blast of rhubarb this morning.
Reading “The Pirate Queen” and liking it very much. I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies yesterday, gave a dozen away, and had two for breakfast. Should be a good day!
Ah foxbins, you had oatmeal for breakfast. Very healthy!
I also enjoy my own oatmeal cookies for breakfast. I don’t care for chocolate chips so I add bananas and dried apricots.
You smell great!
As a child, my daughter said breakfast was her favorite meal because it was the only one you could eat dessert for the meal and it was acceptable. I avoid packaged breakfast foods (cold cereal, pop tarts) but I have eaten a slice of apple cake or banana or pumpkin bread or a nice cookie with milk.
I am very impatiently waiting for FedEx because it has my bottle of Chance Eau Vive in it and it is the one Chanel I haven’t smelled yet. FedEx claims my package will be delivered Sunday – which is tomorrow. If I remember correctly FedEx does deliver on Sunday so I hope it’s true and I can finally put my hands on Eau Vive tomorrow already.
Eau Vive is wonderfully uplifting. I hope you love it!
I’m back in Chinchilla again. We may not make it out of the 40’s today, so I needed a fuzzy, warming perfume.
Kris, sorry it wasn’t to your liking. Honey can be a polarizing note. It loves me and I love it, but I know some people read it as urinous. 🍯
Have a great weekend!
Hey, you win some and you lose some🤣
I’m in Prada L’Eau Ambrée this morning — it’s giving a nice, slightly fizzy/buzzy vibe that feels energizing. It might encourage me to vacuum my window blinds. Or not! 😆
I cannot think of a single fragrance that would induce me to vacuum my blinds.
You smell lovely, however.
This made me laugh! And I totally agree, they have not yet come up with that fragrance.
Every time I think about vacuuming the blinds, I grab a Swiffer instead.
I would vote for not.
All of my fragrances discourage me from vacuuming the blinds!
Lol
I always get confused between Prada L’Eau Ambre and Prada Ambre. I suspect that Ambre morphed into L’Eau Ambre at some point, but perhaps they are two different scents. Either way, you smell lovely, SheriG.
Is Prada Ambre the one that has faintly lavender colored juice? Seems like I sampled that after lucasai praised it. L’Eau Ambrée is in an opaque bottle so I can’t tell what color that juice is.
No, Prada Amber comes in the same shape bottle as L’Eau Ambre with the silver strip across the top (confusingly) but the original Prada Amber bottle is clear glass and the juice is medium-dark honey colored. It is a thick rich honeyed scent with amber, patchouli, benzoin & labdanum. IIRC, this was slimmed down and renamed L’Eau Amber in the darker smokey bottle of the exact same style. But I could be wrong.
No, they were two different scents, the L’Eau Ambree is much much lighter.
oops, just saw this Robin. OK, you are confirming my memories of it. Prada certainly made it very confusing for consumers. (Maybe so they’d think they were buying the same scent and their nose was deceiving them).
Prada did very confusing names in the beginning…and often referred to their own fragrances using different names than what was on the packaging.
Tobacolor for a beautiful California day.
Heading out for walk.
You smell great!
I love Tobacolor! It’s such a perfect cool weather scent.
Mr. allo took such good care of me last night and this morning as I slowly emerged from the achey fog of my Covid vaccine yesterday.
I’m still commando (quite rare for me!) but I’m sure I’ll be back to fragrance-wearing soon.
That’s so nice you are being taken care of. I hope you are back to 100 percent soon!
Thank you, lillyjo. I feel better already.
Mine was rough this year too. Glad to say flu jab much better, got it yesterday afternoon and was tired this morning but feel fine now.
I’m glad your flu shot wasn’t too bad and that you’re feeling better😊
I had both at once. The first (I think COVID?) went in without me noticing. The second felt like it was going straight into my muscle, painfully. One or both of them made me achy the next day, and the pain in my arm is just going away now, three days later.
I’m sorry about that muscle shot and glad the pain is finally subsiding.
I’m heading to work to get a few extra hours in this week.
I’m wearing Narciso White Cube.
You smell so good!
Smelling good!
Hope the extra shifts pay well, and you smell delightful 🙂
In Toronto today. Lunch with my oldest friend and his wife (just back from a trip to Tokyo, so good to see them again), a little shopping, a lot of walking. So much walking! I did it in SL Rousse: it was a cool sunny autumn day and that rough spiciness seemed like the perfect counterpoint (plus of course I was limited to what I brought with me).
So much walking and so much smelling good!
Weather here is really great, enjoy all your walks! I have been going out every morning to get my daily 10k and then treating myself to a baked good (yes, I exercise so I can eat more 😛 ).
You’re making me look forward to my trip to Toronto in a couple of weeks!
We welcome you ockeghem! Hope you have a great time here!
Rousse is so lovely!
I brought out Shalimar L’essence today. It’s cool and rainy-ish so a cozy choice was needed. I missed checking in the last few days; I wore Ciara on Thursday (for doing some paperwork organizing) and Choco Musk on Friday. Comfort scents seem to be on the agenda.
That time of year.
It sure is.
We returned last night from our 3-day minitrip exploring nature in the unglaciated northwest corner of Illinois/Iowa. Incredibly beautiful weather the entire time, truly ‘golden autumn’ days, winds very calm with only an occasional colorful leaf dropping. Walking through the rustling leaves, we reached a highlight of our trip, the top of a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River where we were privileged to see an eagle fly overhead. I wore YR Nature Millenaire the entire time, and coupled with the incredible beauty of our surroundings, this lovely woody/earthy scent is the embodiment of peace in my soul. That is my contribution to this week’s cp.
Back to the business of life today, had to work at our library’s fall book sale and I’m exhausted. Going to relax with WS game 2. SOTD is just a spritz of Pacifica Mountain Temple to keep that peaceful zen feeling alive. Hope to catch up on the posts I missed tomorrow. ☮️✌️
Sounds nice. We are watching the game too!
Your trip sounds so lovely!
Very nice, Laila. I finally got to smell that one thanks to someone here and it was lovely. This Mountain Temple (or my skin) really amplified the cloves, a spice I use a lot in cooking both savory and sweet dishes.
I wore L’Eau Papier today for an online zoom all day class, it was very calming.
That is a long class, hope it was worthwhile!
It was! 😁
Good!
L’Eau Papier was sadly not for me but knowing you, you must smell fab!
I wore LADDM today to get me through a rainy, gloomy day. (Our first in a long time — weird around here that it’s taken so long.) Long, long day with running the kid around, running errands, having to volunteer to clean up after the kid’s orchestra (if we don’t, we lose our volunteer deposit), then having to attend a concert by a musical group where I’m on the board, and we’ve been dealing with some HR and funding issues lately, so hard to not think about those while I sit there. Then home to see some very surprising election results. Long day.
Gosh! Hope you get very good rest tonight.
Were those election results a good surprise, or a bad one? Pls ignore if this will violate the comment policy.
I wore Volutes last night (thanks to an NST friend) and it was so sheer and soothing, a very nice fall transit scent from our heat wave into cooler weather.
Love Volutes.
A good one…I should wear that this week, thanks!
Pleasant sunny day today, will be in the high 70’s before some much-needed rain. I am not used to having to water my herbs until late October. The basil looked so bad, I just harvested some of it to use in a salad.
I wore Clean Reserve Skin yesterday with a later in the day overlay of Solinotes Rose. I had bought that one when I was testing rose fragrances and it is surprisingly good for a $25 1.7 oz I got at the grocery store. Today, I am trying out a sample of Tabac by La Via Del Profumo. I got a camphor note on first spray and it seems to have disappeared. I have been looking into tobacco notes. My sample of Herod is so far my favorite but I tried Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille at the counter some months ago and found it better than I remembered and I will have to go dig out my sample.
I planted some tobacco this year, just to see what the plant is like. I have to say, it did not do so well in my care/yard. The plants in the ground quickly died. One I left in the pot survived but is very straggly. Plus a friend from Kentucky told me you won’t get the typical tobacco effect unless the leaves are smoked in a hut and that is NOT happening. The plant seems to have no scent on its own. I might plant some patchouli next year.
I voted yesterday, finally, after not making it in time for the 6 PM closing weeknights last week since I was not finished with work by that time. I am not taking any chances this year getting my vote in. Saturday morning worked out great, minimal wait time.
Sorry your tobacco did not make it! It was a cool idea anyway.
I’m wearing Lancome Tubereuses Castanes today, which is not very tuberosey to my nose.
Like so many tuberose scents!
It’s mostly chestnut and tonka, surprisingly enough.
Chestnut & tonka sound perfect for fall weather, though.
Post shower I am going open my Box of Eels extrait.
Box of Eels is always a good choice-I have the EDT and it’s like a silk chiffon scarf-so light but has presence. Nice time of year for it, too.
Enjoy your beautiful elixir!
Wow. I have to collect my jaws off the floor…. Just the whole sentence made my day… OPENING that bottle is a whole ritual. I am very curious, please if You would be so kind to fill me in: a) have You tried the extrait already or will it be Your first time after You open that bottle? b) what size is the bottle?
Wearing whiffs of Bois des Iles EDT that’s left over on one of my scarves. Yes, it’s time for scarves here and I’m wearing one of my favorites I picked up in France a couple years ago. 🧣
Had to leave work early last night, which thankfully management was very gracious about. I’ll be calling off tonight as well because I feel like I’ve been dragged through a bush backwards. 🥴
We use that expression here too. Also ‘drug up’ rather than brought up. You smell awesome and I hope you get some rest and mental peace soon.
Thanks, I’m off for a few days now with no plans other than walking the dog. I’ve been so tired lately I think I’ve been in bed TOO much…
I’m sorry you’re sick.I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you.
Hope a couple more days of rest will do the trick Deva!
Sounds very nice. Those Profumum Romas last a very long time on my perfume-eating skin.
Sunday morning, it’s finally raining here, and I’m in Profumum Roma Arso. I smell like a cozy fire, with amber on the side. 🔥
Yum.
Beautiful warm sunny fall day here and I’m still working on my odd work project-it’s due tomorrow and Tues. All week I’ve been wearing old perfumes-well, the ones I liked when I first found blog/MUA. Lots of eau d’Hadrien (I’ll use just the shower gel tomorrow) and today is Mure et Musc. I always went back and forth on this one-I love it/I don’t love it. But my friend once wore it and she smelled divine so I’m hoping to channel some of her energy today. Have a good start to the week, all you beautiful smelling and kind and interesting people 🙂
I bet you will be SO happy on Tuesday night when it is all done and dusted!!
MeM never smelled good on me, but honestly I can’t remember why.
I love revisiting old perfumes and getting surprised. You smell great, Carole.
It’s pouring rain today and the sky is dark, so it’s gloomy, too. I’m making beef stew in the slow cooker. I’m wearing Paco Rabanne La Nuit edp today.
Oh, this is my next endeavor in the slow cooker. Do you follow a certain recipe or just wing it?
Ooh, there’s a wonderful smelling blast from the past. I hope your stew turned out tasty. How could it not, right?
One of our sons just got an insta-pot and is discovering to his delight how much time it saves. Mom, you just put everything in and forget about it!! He very enthusiastically brought over some chicken noodle soup he made. It was good.
I just wing it. Veg on the bottom, carrots and potatoes take longer to cook than the meat. I usually add Better Than Bouillon paste to my liquid. I think it’s really hard to screw up a slow cooker stew.
A little bit of marmite and a little bit of mashed anchovy helps too…I learned that from Serious Eats. Helps build the umami flavor.
https://www.seriouseats.com/all-american-beef-stew-recipe
🌞 and 72 degrees here, another glorious autumn day. Keeping the zen going this morning with coffee + the newspaper in bed, then a nice dip in the hot tub and some bird-watching. Putting the rest of our things from the trip away and relaxing the rest of the day.
SOTD because I love ☕️ is YSL Black Opium. It’s not as dark or heavy as its name implies, especially layered over BBW’s Vanilla Mocha Café body products, but is more of a warm gourmand coffee and vanilla blend.❤️
I never do this but I’m posting this song of the day because I heard it on the radio earlier today played in honor of her birthday, October 25, 1941, and I think that some of us here can identify with it.🎶
https://youtu.be/ZrVLL7soS1U?si=FOL5MhRvUxqwAzGW
Laila, this video made me unexpectedly burst into tears. Remembering my mom belting out this song in the 70’s and through the decades when she was finding strength. Thank you 🎵❤️
You’re welcome. I thought it might stir up memories from the past, as it did me, yet how pertinent are the lyrics for today’s world?
Me too lillyjo!! The days of am radio! But I don’t know if I have ever seen that video.
Thanks Laila.
My brother used to tease me by singing this song at the most embarrassing moments. Makes me smile thinking about it now, although I sure wanted to smack him back then.
Has anyone smelled Isabel Doyen’s Tortoise Vetiver for Le Nez?
This morning I smudged Allure Sensuelle on one wrist and while talking and not thinking some Coco on my neck and while I love both I felt horrible wearing both but it was too late… I don’t now but You got to wear either one at a time.
After shower and for tonight I wore Coco Mademoiselle Intense and enjoyed it so much as I always do. It has a 2nd strongest patchouli in the Chanel collection with 1st place being Coromandel.
I LOVE the labdanum in Coco Mademoiselle Intense and I find the dry down to be all about – but You must wait until the dry down to get to its full potency – the earthy, dark, strong patchouli similar to Coromandel.
By the way tonight my friend and I and my Daughter/Her Granddaughter visited a 3rd friend of ours who broke Her foot badly and is immobilized at home. We brought dinner and care. My friend (with a broken foot) told the friend who came with me to go look in the bathroom on Her vanity – that all the perfumes there were gifts from me!! I also went to look and indeed it was a work of art. There was a tiny 4ml Coromandel as a little gift I brought it out and my friend hasn’t tried it yet I dabbed it on both of them and they were lifted into the stratosphere haha. So much dark patchouli all around me tonight.
Oh how lovely!
I liked Morning Chess by Vilhelm Perfumery (on myself and also the hubs) so much that I got a partial bottle of Smoke Show. Definitely some shared DNA that runs through some of these Vilhelms and also Dear Polly from the brand. A dry fruity leathery citrusy vetiver woody vibe. Everything very well blended. I don’t smell the oud and the tobacco. If they exist they’re quite defanged, which is fine for this scent.
Last night it was Shalimar Millesime Iris for cozy sleep thanks to a generous NSTer. Guerlain’s concept for updating traditional Shalimar and expanding it/dosing it with new ingredients to appeal to wider/younger audiences is really a master class on how to do this. As much as I love and will always cherish vintage Shalimar, I was ready to try all the new ones too. Though I confess I have a hard time keeping all the flankers straight. And then some of them disappear before I get around to it. Oh well c’est la vie.
Happy Monday to all. I am still enjoying the novel feeling of wearing my L.L. Bean sheepskin-lined slippers and a sweater in the early morning after seemingly endless weeks of heat.
your slippers sound nice. I have Italian slippers..they are called “smoking slippers” I guess. LOL! They don’t have any lining but they are comfortable to wear around the home and if I have guests over they look good with clothing. I don’t wear them outside of the home. This is the brand. https://www.gallo1927.com No affiliation
I used Shalimar shower body wash the other day and it was divine. Shalimar is always a good idea…
Totally agree on the Shalimars. Wish that is what they’d done with LHB too instead of just remaking it.
Currently snowing. Luckily, it’s warm enough that it’s not sticking. The rest of the week it looks to be a bit warmer, so hoping this is the last I see of it before I leave.
My nervous system seems over stimulated recently, so I have just the tiniest spritz of Amour de Cacao for its soothing properties.
Yesterday, it was so nice to pluck out some frozen chicken and veggie soup and chuck it in the microwave to have a no fuss, easy, comforting meal. I can’t believe I’ve discovered food prepping so late in life. What else have I been missing? 🙃
Snowing?!? Ack! Not ready for that.
Been getting fixings for a batch of chili. Love doing that when the weather cools off.
Chili is definitely on my list of things to make this winter. But beef is crazy, I make substitute ground turkey instead. I shook my fist at the weather gods today because no, a couple of weeks of sunny mid 60’s is NOT too much to ask for. Went from summer right into winter here. Yech.
My brother clued me in about a sale on ground beef at one of the local grocery stores here.
Beef is expensive, but by the time you add everything else you’ve stretched it quite a bit…2 pounds of ground beef plus 2 large cans of chopped tomatoes plus extra veggies (I use mostly onion & carrot) and I usually add 1/2 to a whole cup of strong coffee, then I serve with beans (I never cook them in) plus shred cheese & sour cream, so when I freeze I use those silicone cube trays and only need a rectangle at a time…can’t remember but think it is a half a cup?
Food prep is so helpful. We discovered batch cooking (even if it’s just for 2 of us). I love making soups for winters. One fantastic thing is cooking chicken thighs in your crockpot (bonus is the broth after for soups). It’s a win-win since you have chicken and delicious home made stock.
Happy cooking!
I still can’t find my bottle of L’heure Bleue but found my bottle of no 22 edt. So I am wearing no 22 and still celebrating a Browns win.
Yes yes yes to 22!! What a meditative beauty <3
Despite having a quiet long weekend and reading NST, I somehow never mentioned my perfume. I wore quite a bit of Guerlain AA Fique-Iris, and today I’m back to work in 24 Faubourg.
The perfect work fragrance…I am considering for the Friday project!
I am determined to get through these Maksim samples, so today is L’Oud Marin. It’s really interesting, oud with piles of seaweed and kelp, I think. No calone that I can smell. But it’s not really “me”.
I had gotten in a rut with dinner preparation, eating a lot of the same things, week in and week out. I spent a couple of hours over the weekend with AI Claude, telling it what was in the fridge, freezer, and pantry and it created a two week meal plan and a shopping list to fill in what was needed. I made it keep dates so I can eat what’s been hanging around and it keeps inventory, too. So far I am pleased.
Now if you could just get Claude to do the cooking and cleanup!🧑🍳
I’ve been trying to train the cats, but so far no luck! Claude would probably be easier.
The idea of ‘training’ a ‘cat’ gave me my chuckle of the day!😹
It IS possible to train a cat! But you have to be more stubborn than said cat, which is a big ask.
I wore Coco Mademoiselle Intense last night and I woke up this morning wafting Labdanum, benzoin and patchouli from my hair and absolutely loved it.
Yay because my 50ml bottle of Allure Sensuelle arrived today and because I finished work – there is no brainer for me what my SOTD will be post showering.
As usual I am searching all over the internet for a bottle of Allure Sensuelle extrait and just when I see one and click on it – oh yes it’s there except for the “out of stock” right under it. Sigh
Good luck, you will find it eventually!
I wore AG Ce Soir ou Jamais yesterday and received a compliment from a fellow fragrance lover. What a lovely flinty rose🌹
Today I grabbed FB Dark Night because I have the dregs of a bottle at the office. Glad I have a BUB as we’re moving into the season of dark days and dark nights🎆
This Denver Broncos fan would like to thank your Seattle Seahawks for putting KC in their place last night.
More than happy to oblige👏
I’m wearing El Born for the first time in a long time. I’m going through the collection as I cull and find things I thought I didn’t like are actually good.
Ha, isn’t that the way?
It’s one of the things I love most about collecting perfume.
Cooler temps today with clouds this afternoon but warming back up midweek and maybe some rain later this week. Haven’t had a drop💧 in more than 2 weeks!
My personal perfume project this week is to wear scents In the ‘spirit’ of the upcoming holiday this weekend 👻. My SOTD today is another oldie, BBW’s Midnight Pomegranate. Pomegranate, cassis and blackberry with a bit of floral in jasmine and a base of patchouli. Fruity and sweet, yet dark and moody, it works!
Wishing a great week ahead for all!🎃🧙♀️🐈⬛
That’s a great project!
More chilly weather for me today. It feels like early December here, not October. And it was raining this morning. Is it too much to ask for 2 weeks of sunshine and temperatures in the mid 60’s?
Been doing more testing of my new Tauer samples. Over the weekend, I retested Patch Absolue. And sure enough, in the middle of the boozy topnotes, there is a short-lived blast of white flowers, hanging out in the middle of a rum barrel.
SOTD = Tauer Vanilla Absolue. A dry, spicy vanilla. No cupcake or frosting to be seen here, folks. I paired it with Korres’ Coffee Beans body butter.
Sounds like a great fragrance combo. I was going to do something similar with BBW Vanilla Cafe creme and Choco Musk (which is more vanilla than chocolate). Your Tauer sounds wonderful!
Instead I was in my Neutrogena oil.
Neutrogena oil is one of my favorite “fragrances”
The Korres Coffee Beans is not black coffee at all, but a fancy, foo-foo drink. I get a distinct, well-made marshmallow note from it.
Oh your layers sound great!!
And sorry we stole. your weather…past week has been what just that, so long as you don’t poke your head out the door until mid morning.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep bragging about glorious weather here. October can be super volatile and unpredictable.
The Tauer vanilla sounds cozy, not cloying😋
Forgot to mention the woody base notes in this yesterday. It’s got the typical volume I associate with a Tauer perfume. A little goes a long way!
Oh, before I forget.
RIP Walter Konig, perpetually famous for portraying Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series.
Yep, saw that! The crew is fast disappearing. And in case you missed this great pic on George Takei’s insta:
https://www.instagram.com/p/De9siDhCF4a/?hl=en
So touching💕
I am in a cloud of Allure Sensuelle for personal enjoyment but if someone comes in contact with me they will probably be wondering what is my beautiful perfume.