Happy Monday, and happy World Turtle Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Kenzo Flower in the Air, by perfumer Alberto Morillas. Tea at the moment is Upton Bond Street.
Reminder: on 5/27, wear a fragrance by Alberto Morillas, if you have one.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: shown are Kenzo sneakers for Vans, from a 2012 collection.
Vintage Guerlain Chants D”aroma
That would be D’Aromes….ugh…Monday mornings!
I’ve been enjoying my new bottle of CdA this spring – I’ll bet the oakmoss in the vintage is really wonderful.
It is 🙂
Doh! romes …. 😉
Love those shoes! It’s nice to see something so cheerful looking on a Monday.
This is my crunch week (reports) and the boss just got back from a conference so I’m double timing it on getting his schedule back in order and getting work done. Plus we’ve got another intern starting today! BUSY!
So this is a quick check in for SOTD: Aedes de Venustas (signature). That sour rhubarb note really throws me off, but it does settle down and smells so much nicer later.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Very good luck with crunch week!
Monday afternoons are not much better! I’m wearing Divine L’éternel féminin, which is the extrait of the original Divine.
No tea right now, but I finished a large pot of fancy Earl Grey this morning.
I’ve discovered that I actually own 3 Morillas, and used to have another. The original Acqua di Giò, which I finished a bottle of in the nineties.
I have more Morillas than I thought. Gosh, he has quite a list.
If it makes you feel any better, I only have 2 (Kenzo Flower and the “la cologne”). I’d figure I’d have more as well. What a vast list!
Just scanned the list to see if I have anything by Morillas – and I do! Kenzo Flower, which I picked up at the Copenhagen duty-free.
Right now I am in Une Fleur de Cassie which might be a little too much for a Monday morning.
Cassie is never too much, you smell wonderful!
Those are such fun shoes! Trying to stay awake after holiday and lack of sleep last night.
It appears I own precisely 1 Alberto Morillas perfume which makes Friday easy, for today I smell coolly tuberosey in Carnal Flower. Interestingly when I met up with Rosie in London for a perfume get together we stopped by Frederic Malle and they have Carnal Flower hair fragrance and aftersun, both of which sound very lovely.
Google the collection — there are lots of Kenzo Vans!
I googled vans and on their site searched for Kenzo with no results. I found Kenzo shoes on other sites but for more than I’ll ever pay for sneakers. Advise me?
Oh, I meant if you do a google image search, you’ll see tons of models — I don’t know that they’re still making them, or if they were ever affordable!
SOTD MFK Pluriel. Love the sneakers!
I do like that one 🙂
I LOVE shoes like the ones in the photo…..I have on Converse today, covered in flowers! 🙂
I might can do a different Morillas scent everyday this week…I must be drawn to his creations!
SOTD: Versace Versence. Beautiful, happy, crisp Summer scent! I’ll be reaching for this one quite a bit this summer…..
Have a wonderful Monday, Y’all! Working 1/2 a day, then heading over to my son’s 4th grade school party. 3 more school days! 🙂
Versense is quite nice!
Have fun at the party!
Versense works so well for hot weather.
Chaos Donna Karan, in the glass shard bottle.
Good stuff! !!
🙂
You smell fantastic.
Serge Lutens Fleurs de Citronnier, summer anticipation and pure bliss
You smell deliciously honeyed.
Have seen that mentioned a couple of times lately, I’ve got to get around to trying it.
I’m able to participate in the probject today thanks to my bottle of Bvlgari Omnia, which I got dirt cheap online. It’s a very versatile scent you can wear anytime and anywhere. For example, I’m off to a 3 hour kayak lesson smelling fab!
Pretty sure I’ll smell a little different by the time I get back. Hope everyone has a fantastic day! ????
So you decided to buy the Kayak? Have fun!
No, haven’t decided yet, just testing it out and getting a lesson. I will try out a SUP after the holiday ????
Also, in honor of those cute sneakers, I’m wearing my slip-in Vans in the dog print pattern they did a couple of years ago to benefit the SPCA.
I have friend who would love your vans. A huge dog lover.
Testing out the kayak before buying is the smart-girl thing to do. How fun!
I really loved kayaking! Hope you have fun!
I’ve only got two AM perfumes, Omnia and Truth – I’ll have to break them out later this week.
For today I’m wearing EL Private Collection, one of my favorite spring perfumes.
I like all three of those, Truth is an under-rated gem.
I agree, I’m looking forward to wearing Truth soon.
Eau de Gaga.
Cute sneakers. I used to have a similar pair.
I wasn’t sure what scent I wanted to wear this morning so I chose Alaia Paris. It’s easy to wear and office appropriate. Easy is good on a Monday morning.
Those sneaks are so cute! Just read through the list of Morillas creations and I have quite a few. I’m going to dig out my old bottle of Salvador Dali and see how it smells, I haven’t worn it in years but an old school oriental sounds good today.
I went through the Morillas list yesterday and somehow missed that he did the original Dali: I have the EDP in the frosted bottle and the parfum in the black bottle (which is starting to go a bit weird in the top) and have loved it since the mid-eighties. Going to have to wear that this week for sure.
Going through the list more carefully, I just discovered that I have TEN Morillas scents. I am astonished.
I’ve just discovered that I own another Morillas. I’m now on 4 with one in my past.
Isn’t that something? Something about Morilla must really speak to you, no matter the brand!
He does warm-and-slightly-strange in a way that speaks to me: M7, Salvador Dalí (not THAT strange but with an out-of-place whiff of wood smoke), Baiser du Dragon, Pi, Omnia, Byzance (SO peculiar)….
SOTD is a cloud of Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur.
I accidentally went commando this morning so I smell like nothing more than a smudge of L’Occitane Roses et Reines hand cream — mostly roses, very nice for late spring.
And sometimes that is enough. You smell like a rose!
I realized after I posted that today is Victoria Day here in Canada so I could pretend I’m wearing Roses et Reines in honour of a queen, but really I’m just wearing it because it’s what I had to hand. It really is great, though.
I really like that hand cream. The scent reminds me very strongly of rose flavored macarons.
Wearing Narciso edp today. I love this so much.
This has extreme staying power. I sprayed some ony my hand yesterday noon. It’s still going strong 26hrs later.
Prompted by a conversation with Sun Mi, I am wearing Lann-Ael by Lostmarch. Really yummy and comforting 🙂
I like that one too. Although I only have a tiny decant. You smell great today!
It’s on my list of samples to acquire! 🙂
I could send you a sample. Contact me at librik at yahoo.
That’s so kind of you!
I have a city supervisors planning meeting today, so I put on something quite light, Nirvana White.
Very nice and not loud at all.
It looks like I only have two perfumes from Morilla. I am wearing his Aqua di Gio today, I don’t wear this one a lot, I should though, it is very nice for spring and summer.
Now that calone-bomb aquatics aren’t quite so ubiquitous I really enjoy wearing Aqua di Gio on occasion.
Oh interesting observation! Because yes I find it pleasant but previously too ubiquitous– maybe if I tried it again I’d have a different thought now…
I’ll see if I can do a full week of Morillas. It’s Voulez-vous coucher avec Moi by Kilian today.
I’ve never smelled any Kilian scents but I have the lyrics of Patti LaBelle’s Lady Marmalade running through my head now. 🙂
Me too! I actually put the song on my computer system and on speakers for everyone. Happy Monday!
What do you think about it? The tester was almost empty when I sniffed it – it seemed nice, but not breathtaking.
It’s not seductive in the slightest as the name would have you think, it is a beautiful, luxurious white floral that is green as opposed to indolic. it’s definitely worth a try but if you’ve already found your white floral perfume(s) than I doubt this will knock any off the pedestal.
I am wearing Chamade and sprayed very lavishly and it STILL smells heavenly and not overdone.
Lately everything has been smelling so, well…optimum.
You smell beautiful. I’m curious what version you have? EDT?
Yes, Petunia, current (maybe a few years old) EDT.
hmmm… good to know.
Chamade always smells good! I also agree its a fragrance that is good even when you put on a lot. I don’t have many that I’d say the same.
That’s really true!
Happy Monday!
Short week, but I will need to get reports before the long weekend (5 days!)
SOTD: Niki de Saint Phalle. The more I wear, the more I like it and now I see why it has been in continuous production since the 1980s. Once you get that nutmeg/hay/grassy flower meadow scent, you are just a happy hippy camper.
Bonus: A co worker of mine always smell amazing- and I now know why- she wears Quelque Fleurs, which is what her mother and grandmother wore. WOW!
I wore Nikki de Saint Phalle from the early to late 80s….what I remember is the spearmint note….I did some quick research on it and it has been reformulated (the original contained oakmoss) and also passed through several owners….not sure if it is still in production? Most of what I find available now is on ebay and discount online perfume shops…I am afraid to revisit it because of the reformulation……
you smell great! I always found Nikki to be such an unusual scent!
Ah! There is a herbal note that is refreshing BUT it does not feel nor smell like mint to me. The bottle says Switzerland, and I bought it online, so it could be in an Indiana Jones type warehouse somewhere in Gstaad!
OOH! you probably have a vintage! From what I read the splash bottles were vintage whereas the cylinder spray bottles were the reforms…..yes, there is definitely an herbal note in there but for some reason my nose always honed in on the spearmint!
I get a minty note in the opening of my splash bottle. I’m not sure how old it is though. I bought it from Fragrance net last year.
A local perfumer in my area has the same splash bottle that I bought. (dark blue bottle with colorful snakes painted on the front) She told it was reformulated from it’s original version. She thought that the marigold note wasn’t as prominent as the original.
I know what I wore was definitely vintage because I wore it in the early eighties to late eighties (I think it was released in 82?)….I remember the spearmint and yes, marigold… there was also oakmoss in the base…..not sure now if the splash bottles are the reform or the spray bottles are the reform……I had the pure perfume which came in a blue square bottle with a stopper that had two entwined snakes…gosh, I wish I would have saved that bottle!
I’ve seen that bottle on ebay. It is really different.
My vintage bottle is from Switzerland, too! I *wish* I got spearmint or hay or grassy/flower/meadow from it — on me it’s all oakmoss, which I love, mixed with weird outer-space fruit. It’s actually the most shocking thing I’ve ever smelled, but the ongoing rave reviews make me feel compelled to keep trying to get my nose around it. 🙂
LOL! Yes it could be perceived as a shocking scent ….. I loved your description of “weird outer-space fruit”!!!!!!…… I loved it from the moment I sniffed it and rushed to get the bottle….it might be one of those fragrances you either love or hate…
Oh and it also has the note of artemesia…does anyone know what that is and what smell it resembles? Perhaps this is creating the oddness for some noses?
What Swiss website is it? Would be great if there was a good source close by.
There are lots of different artemisia and they vary in scent from a strongly bitter herbal smell to smelling almost like maple syrup. Tarragon is an artemisia (I think), as are wormwood and sagebrush. I sometimes have a hard time recognizing it in a perfume because of how different it can be, but I wouldn’t think it would smell minty. The variety that tends to take over my garden smells quite syrupy from a distance but up close makes me think of a combination of Provence lavender and tarragon. Not sure I helped much with my description 🙁
That was extremely informative! it would explain the herbal note but there is definitely spearmint in Niki as well which I always thought was an interesting mint to have in a perfume….I happen to prefer spearmint e.o. over peppermint e.o. and have used it in blends with jasmine e.o.s (spearmint blends really nice with jasmine…freshens it up a bit) … the Artemisia, however, might be enhancing the mint as well ….wormwood I read is used as an insect repellent….
Quelque Fleurs is just so pretty. I have a mini parfum and I don’t know why I don’t wear it more often.
Very few Morillas in my collection, a sample of Voulez vous coucher and a mini bottle of Pleasures. I’m not sure if I will wear either of them this week. My SOTD is Journey, like Princess Tonk writes about her SOTD, it smells optimum with its honey, jasmine, mimosa goodness.
honey jasmine & mimosa sounds wonderful!
Just my thought. I’ve got to get around to trying this one.
Happy to help if you leave your email here, or when I will comment tomorrow. I bought the travel spray when on holiday in Abu Dhabi, which left me budget for the Lyric travel spray. Ofcourse you get less product per euro (in my case), but 30 ml is enough for me, and if I should run out I can buy another 30 ml.
Oh my gosh this is INCREDIBLY generous–man, perfume people, it knocks me out! It’s truly too kind to offer to spare some of your 30ml and mail it across an ocean just so I can smell it, but I am so touched and if ever I’m in your next of the woods I would love to trade you a cup of coffee for a sniff 🙂
Uh oh – I am starting to have an urge for honey, jasmine, mimosa goodness. Only Amouage I have is Gold Woman and I need a sister for her.
Yes, these Amouages tend to miss their kin!
Hamamelis – how does Journey compare to Nuit de Cellophane, if you’ve tried it?
I was surprised to read how many Morillas creations I’ve owned and loved over the years. I am going to pay tribute to Sr. Morillas this week in honor of his wonderful nose! Thank you Robin for the info you provide through NST which has taught me so much about fragrance!
Sotd: Good Girl Gone Bad ????
Glad it’s fun!
Oooh, I want those sneakers! And maybe the perfume, too. I’m not a twin today, but perhaps a sister in Kenzo L’Eau.
I’m wearing Papillon Anubis and liking it a lot (many thanks to SophieC again). It reminds me a bit of Arquiste Nanban, I should try them side-by-side.
PSA: the Hiram Green sale is on, it’s not a huge discount (20%), but noticeable. I wonder if they might reduce the price further when they get closer to the launch of new packaging, but they seem to be out of Voyage already…
These two are close and I keep telling myself I should only buy one and so have to decide which I love more. I *think* Anubis is a little smoother and sweeter, Nanban a little spicier. I’d love to hear your comparison. Anubis is also close to Cuir de Velours, which I do own. But I might eventually need them all!
Good to know I’m not totally off base, I’ll keep you posted about the results. And I should try Cuir de Velours again, I don’t really remember it well.
I also thought them similar, and testing them side-by-side helped draw out the differences. My memory is slightly hazy but what Amy writes seems right, plus (on me) Nanban lasted longer, although both did well.
Thank you! I might try the same experiment over the weekend.
Following a conversation with pixel, I decided to test out my sample of Box of Eels EDT from the amazing hajusuuri, and…I smell middle-aged. Meh. I suppose it’s pleasant enough. I’ll have to try it out a few more times before deciding it’s not for me, I suppose. I’d hoped it would strengthen my backbone for kind of a crappy day, but it didn’t. I should start keeping some emergency sprays in lab.
Sorry you didn’t get on with Box of Eels, but I vote yes on keeping emergency perfume at work. 🙂
Have you got a system for choosing just a few perfumes to keep at work?
I keep a large stash of samples in my desk at work and one or two decants of office friendly fragrances….(not that you asked me 🙂 !!!)
Not really a system, no! I’m actually working from home now, but I used to always have a sample or two in my desk, as well as decants of something I think of as “always easy,” such as No. 5 Eau Premiere or Infusion d’Iris, and if I’d had a decant of Mary Greenwell Plum when I was working, I’d have had one of those in my desk too.
Middle aged folks must smell really classy, then ????
Now that’s interesting, Koyel! I’ve heard “smells like old lady/man” or “too young and girlie” but never “smells middle-aged.” What does that connote to you?
It reminds me of something my mother might wear! (So yes, Deva, classy 🙂 ) Sophisticated, with a mixture of contempt and amusement and the silly antics of the young, but not quite ready to accept a deteriorating body with grace. I don’t know–Chanel No 5 smells like old lady to me (sacrilege!), and I can’t imagine myself wanting to wear it, but BdI smells like something I could grow into in a decade or two.
Now that you’ve asked me to pinpoint what I mean, I find myself floundering! I will have to think about it more.
Usually chypres are associated with “old lady” smells …the irony is I wore plenty of big bold chypres in my pre-teen, teen and very young adulthood in the 70s and 80s …….
I read somewhere that most “older” women do not want to smell like an “old lady” and they gravitate towards more youthful fragrances…..case in point my almost 80 year old mother who no longer wears ANY of the classic and vintage fragrances she wore years ago…now she wants what she refers to as “refreshing”……her exact words “Don’t buy me anything that isn’t REFRESHING”….she loves clean, light , sweet and soft florals …..her favorite perfumer is Jeffrey Dame….
I am so glad you called it a chypre! It smelled like what I would call a chypre, but the sites I checked quickly didn’t call it one, so I started doubting my grasp of what chypre is.
That’s a funny observation 🙂 It hasn’t been true for my mother so far, but she’s still got time to get really old.
“a mixture of contempt and amusement” Lol describes my middle aged self perfectly! I have never smelled Bdl, but now I feel I must have it:)
I think there are 2 issues with samples. One is that they never seem to smell completely like a full bottle, unless they are a big sample. The other issue is that we may tend to spray or dab too little to really get the full effect. Is that possible, Koyel?
I definitely gave myself a couple generous sprays! It was a good-sized sample, probably 2 mL. I do always have that problem with dabbers, though 🙁 As for differences from the FB, I have often noticed that, too! I wonder if it’s a question of aeration, like with decanted wine. All those particles travel through air before landing in the decanting vial. I’d certainly believe that the atomizing process would lead to a change in scent profile! So, it’s certainly possible, but this sample is pretty much optimal as samples go, since it’s a good-sized sample in a glass spray bottle.
Well, I didn’t LOVE Bois des Iles when I first smelled it from a decant at first. I didn’t get the “gingerbread” I wanted. Weather may be part of it sometimes or a dislike for Chanel aldehydes.
But I love it now and you’re allowed to put it down and walk away slowly. There are many other perfumes for you to love!
Koyel, I’m not sure if I included a dabber of BdI Extrait. I would be curious to hear what you think of it.
In fact you did! I just forgot about it because I try out sprays before dabbers. But I put some on this morning, and I must say it’s goooorgeous. Unlike the EdT, it’s not powdery at all on me, and has none of the suffocating weight. It’s a much lighter, cinnamon warmth (not quite gingerbread on me, but much closer than the EdT, which didn’t give me any of those spices). While the EdT reminded me a lot of CN5, the extrait doesn’t at all (which is a good thing). Still not FBW for me (I haven’t got 200€ just sitting around), but I get why people love it!
I’m testing Nomenclature’s iri_del and as an iris lover, I’m really enjoying it.
But … it’s a dabber sample. I keep promising myself that I will buy more than one dabber sample of a scent (if I *must* sample) so that I can decant into a spray, but my gluttony keeps overriding my sanity. Obviously this situation is never, ever going to end without some sort of restraint, but that sounds so tedious, amiright? I am (very vaguely) considering an anti-Donatella and writing down what I have not purchased and then using that money more … considerately?
I have nothing insightful to contribute, so I’m just going to say that I hate dabber samples.
Me too. I usually end up dumping the whole thing on myself but even then I am not satisfied . . .
same here
Exactly.
Ping me, I am happy to solve this problem at least for iri_del 🙂 catherineh789 at ye olde geemayle
Oh my goodness! That’s incredibly sweet of you, C.H. I’ll email you shortly.
I think I only have one Morillas (Iris Prima) so I’ll probably save that for Friday. Today, it’s Jasmin et Cigarette. But I started to feel a tickle in my throat late last night and sleeping didn’t do anything to banish it, so J&C is more of an idea than an experience for me right now.
I’m in CK One from my older daughter’s stash from the nineties when she was in high school. There’s still half a bottle left and it smells pretty good!
I’ve just realised that CK One is another Morillas creation. I’ve still got a bottle somewhere, so that is another option. Morillas count is now at 6.
Yup. I’ve had the strangest impulse all day to tell someone to clean her room. 😉
Ooh! That just sparked the same memory for me. 🙂
Wearing La Chasse aux Papillons, which I love, but which has faded with uncharacteristic speed this morning. Must re-re-apply.
Thinking through what Alberto Morillas ‘fumes I have on hand. Original Panthere might be the only one, but I find wearing it a little, well, scary. It’s a bit of a banshee on my skin, unlike the gentle Papillons.
So pretty.
SOTD SHL 777 Khol de Bahrein since I had a bit of a sweet tooth this morning. I thought it might be too powdery and sweet for the beautiful warmish day here, but, so far, no suffocation.
I need to order a sample of that. I keep meaning to test it. Assuming that you are testing, how do you like it?
Also, did you see my email?
I like it a lot but not sure I could sustain an interest long enough to warrant a FB. I have things similar in feel to this one but it’s definitely worth sampling if you like sweet and a bit powdery.
Haven’t gotten very far with the picking out a SOTD today. I am debating on either Jubilation 25 or going with Diorling today. After yesterday’s clothes buying, I’m all tapped out, so no perfume buying for a while.
Ooh those are both terrific choices–as far as having to make do with the perfume you have goes, at least you’re in very good shape!
Chiming in..Julia by TC
Smells like fruity bomb with lots of rhubarb..
Off today with the babies..and its been a hectic but fun morning..while my toddler is sleeping I am making some green tea (MF Nocturne Oriental) and the little meatball and I are going to hang out. Have to keep one entertained and quiet so the other one can sleep. Problems of NYC dweller..
Julia is probably a great scent to wear around the little ones. I’ve read that it would be a good scent for a young person. How do you like it?
Its pleasant but not FB worthy for me. Is has the fruity young vibe to it..and perfect for a spring like day and delicate. I could see a young woman or even a teenager loving this!
Sampling Champaca today…
It reminds me of something I’ve smelled before. It is going to take my brain a few hours to chug through all the perfumes I’ve sniffed so I will let you know in a couple hours when (if?) I get a hit…
I cheated before I could even complete this comment…a review on Fragrantica calls it “slightly spiced Eclat d’Arpege”…I had Eclat d’Arpege once upon a time and that description seems about right. Other reviewers call it nice but safe and that seems apropos too.
With my saved brain power, I will debate other perfumes to acquire today…which I do everyday actually just the time spent varies.
Trying out the new Dior, La Colle Noir. It’s not changing the world, but it smells great. Although even with a sprayer decant, I feel like I want MORE. Maybe I have a stuffy nose!
Nope. Trying Rrose Selavy on another patch of skin and it comes through loud and clear, even from a dreaded dabber. Deliciously spicy to me. Couldn’t be more different than the Dior, but of course I like them both!
That’ll cost you! What’s the Dior compare to, if anything?
It’s one of the smoothest roses I’ve ever tried, slightly amber-y and with a touch of green. I think one of the things I like about it is that it *doesn’t* seem quite like anything I know. It’s very Dior — family resemblances to the bigger and darker Oud Ispahan and the sweeter and I fear slightly more artificial smelling Gris Montaigne — but it also has a Chanel without the iris and aldehydes vibe. This may be the Dior I spring for, although I really wish they had smaller bottles.
Rrose Selavy turned out not to like me, although as I wrote below, I might have over-applied. But boy was it a camphor overload!
I should also say that there are *a lot* of classic designer roses I have never tried or smelled only once or twice.
Chanel No5 EDC. E-x-a-c-t-l-y what I needed today after an intense %&*(&* -filled Friday at work. Simply a lovely, uplifting, not-quite-skin-scent to make me feel sane.
Also, I think the musk in my laundry powder killed my nose yesterday. I applied No5 EDC after hanging up laundry but couldn’t smell it.
Then later sprayed a teeny bit of Narciso EDP and then later later modern Ivoire . . . and didn’t perceive them. Which is odd as they’re both very long-lasting with plenty sillage.
I must’ve gassed myself though as I couldn’t sleep at all that night. My head felt very heavy in an uncomfortable thick cloud. Yet there was no discernible smell. Odd. *hmpf to nose-killing laundry powder*
There is nothing worse than a nose killing musk! But No 5 is a great remedy.
Corsica Furiosa for me today — needed that big, bracing blast of GREENYGREENYGREENNESS to clear the mental cobwebs!
Yowza, you smell great!! Beauty habit had this line 20% off recently. Something named Corsica Furiosa may have jumped in my cart and checked itself out…????
Well, these things happen — at least you were there to catch it when it jumped! 🙂
I’m glad that bottle took some initiative on your behalf 😉
So good!
I have three Morillas in bottles and probably more if I paw through the samples but I’m not going to do that. Today I’m in Vanille 44, such a nice, non-sweet vanilla compared to some that I own. This morning I am wearing makeup (!) in order to have a visa photo taken for a July trip and tonight is the last symphony of the season so I’m set.
Celebrating a holiday and my birthday today, wearing Cristalle. Off to brunch with my darling. A whole list of my favorite things.
Happy Birthday , it sounds like a perfect day.
Happy Birthday! ????
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! Wishing you a whole year filled with nothing but your Favorite Things.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! You smell great!
Happy birthday! You smell fantastic!
Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day!
Happy Birthday fellow Gemini! You smell great! Mine’s in 3 days.
Happy Birthday Gi!
Happy birthday! To many more such terrific days 🙂
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Gi!
Happy birthday!
Took off into the carbonated morning in Femininité du Bois.
You smell super.
Wearing Byzance from a miniature I found at an old market…
How can you tell if the fragance has gone old?
If it smells good, wear it! No way to tell for sure, really, since the new will be a different formula anyway.
I will try to do a full workweek of Alberto Morillas – he is quite prolifiic!
SOTD = Le Labo. Vanille 44
Incensey non-sweet vanilla. It is one of my favorite vanillas!
Hmmm. When I get home next week must dig up my sample of this. I don’t usually like vanilla. I have a disinclination to smelling like food. Thank goodness there’s something I don’t like.
I’m not a vanilla fan either but Vanille 44 is dry enough that I don’t instantly feel the need to scrub. It joins Vanilla Insensee and a couple of others in the “moderately enjoyable” category. I seem to have a hard time finding something between syrup and scratchy woods with vanilla scents. If I had my sample here I would consider it for Friday.
I think you’ll like Jacques Zolty Van-ile.
It’s non-goirmand vanilla so you wouldn’t be licking your lips looking for a cupcake or doing the fingerlick test of vanilla frosting.
Ha!
Grrr on my atrocious spelling. Fat fingers are to blame!
Hahaha fat frosting fingers!
<3 <3 <3
Do you notice any citrus twist to it, or am I just noticing it because I'm overly suggestible? (Fragrantica mentions it but I can't say I noticed it before I read that.)
No citrus but may e I need to really comcenfrate on first spray. Fragrantica alao mentions aldehydes too and … I actually don’t know what straight up aldehydes smell like — I think aldehydes feel like champagne bubbles if that makes any sense.
This is what I always think too; it’s more a sensation than a distinct smell. But I could be utterly misguided on this one.
Yeah so this sent me off looking for the answer on aldehydes…and now I think maybe aldehyde is a state of mind 😉 No in all seriousness it sounds like aldehydes are a class of chemicals (“formed by partial oxidation of primary alcohols”) that can smell many different ways–like cinnamon, like anise, like almond and of course like florals or lemon which is more what I think of–so now my suspicion is that when we perfume consumers talk about aldehydic fragrances, we’re probably just referring to a subset of those…but at the same time, maybe that what we’re all talking about is a moving target? Because, e.g., apparently Apres L’Ondee is an aldehyde fragrance (anise aldehyde) but this is the first I’m hearing of it!
Since the weather has veered from sunny 25c to deluge and 14, I dug out a comfort scent and am in Lumiere Blanche today.
Today I’m wearing Bruno Acampora Musc. Such a lovely scent, but ohh boy! I have to use every trick I know to be able to smell it at least for a good few hours. Perfect understated travel scent. Driving (not me) across the country to get home to the city for a final exam for this spring. Then I have to get myself a new job. Plenty to do 🙂
Le Labo Tubereuse 40 is my Morillas choice. I think my CK One days are over 🙂 (but I will sniff it next time I see it)
BA Musc is lovely and I think of it as very soft, too. I was very surprised when my bf said it was very strong, though I think he has a super-human sniffer.
Super-human sniffer, I would love that superpower 🙂
Hmm.. I think that I possibly can’t smell certain musks. Even Muscs Koublai Khan ends up like a furry nice softpurring cat on me, after a little hour or so. Too short lasting on my skin.
But Parfum d’Empire Musc Tonkin EDP, that one is an animal 😀
I love BA Muscand can smell it for exactly 10 minutes and the it disappears like magic. So frustrating because I can tell that it’s so good.
Yes, so frustrating. I make sure I spray some on my sweater or shirt, hair, inside of my elbow.. Works a bit, especially on textiles but still. Would love it a bit more potent. Makes me wonder how the extrait in sprayform smells like. But not sure I dare try it, sooo pricy.
A weekend camping in the woods: Soul-replenishing! Sunshine warms us; hikes punctuate purposeful idleness; migratory birds in colorful plumage outsing each other; May wildflowers bloom everywhere; the babbling brook of a ‘river’ soothes. An explosion of lilacs greets us upon our arrival home. Keeping the Simple going today with the YR’s d/c Pur Desir de Lilas – Annick Menardo, perfumer – it’s ‘just’ lilac, no need for anything more.
That sounds truly lovely.
SOTD is Annick Goutal Gardenia Passion. I think this fragrance is very “happy” and delightful fragrance. I am perturbed with myself that I only have TWO Alberto Morillas fragrances in my collection. How can that be? Such a big list of compositions. I’d love to have some vintage Byzance! It looks like I’ll be wearing Kenzo Flower on friday.
Definitely a happy fragrance. You smell great.
Gardénia Passion is beautiful, I need to wear it more often.
I decided to break out my sample of La Curie Larrea and try it. I only have one scant spritz on now, but wow! It *does* smell like a desert monsoon: I’m getting the green of the creosote, dry dustiness, and leather! I’m looking forward to seeing if I can pick up more of the creosote in a heavier application.
I somehow tend to think that creosote is the bitter and dryer cousin of birch tar. What say you?
I say, “Hmmmm, uhhhh.” ???? Well, from what I’ve smelled of birch/birch tar/leather scents, I think it’s the drier of the two; creosote (the bush) is more green. I mean, it’s got chlorophyll mixed in, afterall. But the smells are definitely related, because Larrea tridentata is called ‘creosote’ because it smells like creosote (the chemical compound). Though, I don’t know if Larrea actually contains creosol–which birch tar does.
Oooh (spellcheck turned it to Pooh but I did a save)…taking notes as I have never heard of the La Curie line!
Haha, pooh. (Doesn’t take much to make me revert to kid-humor.) I hadn’t heard of La Curie either until I read Luca Turin’s blog–and discovered it’s based in my own darned town! The irony. The scent he reviewed ended up winning an Art and Olfaction Award.
https://perfumesilove.com/2016/04/07/incendo-la-curie/
L’artisan santal, another discontinued scent I’m smelling too late in hand-me-down sample form? It’s very light on me, but is lovely in its understated way. I pledge to enjoy while it lasts and not fall in love.
Ok we are gonna hold you to it!! (I hadn’t even heard of that one, truth be told. Ooh, but it reminds me to ask you for a scent twin consultation: have you smelled the two different Le Labo Santals? Am I crazy to prefer 26–the home spray–to 33?)
Secret scent twin, you know I am not going to call that crazy!
Actually, it turned out to have no threat of swooning. I dumped the whole half-full vial on myself and could barely smell much beyond a little citrus and tiny bit of sandal after the first half hour.
Also one day we should swap some things. 😉
Jjlook, speaking of sandalwood, have you tried Serge Lutens Santal Majuscule? I tried on so many perfumes yesterday, and SM was a stand out.
Hey there, Sunny! I have tried that one, and it was a little to sweet/strong for me, maybe? But I did like the scent and gave the sample to my fellow in the hopes of smelling it on him occasionally…
Still fighting off the cold and damp, this time with Tea for Two. I just read that we have received more precipitation in the past few days than in the seven months previous. I can believe it.
Take care, and stay dry.
Thanks. We need the rain here and it should be warm and sunny again tomorrow so I am putting up with it.
Hello, NST! We’ve been reeling under an Antarctic blast, and when I wore Cristalle yesterday, I felt its brilliance more keenly than I usually do. It was like clear silver light around me all day. Once in the cold is enough for the time being, though, so today’s SOTD is the gloriously golden, warm Bois des Iles. To my own nose, I smell interesting and complicated; to my dear man, reassuring and homey, and a little like sun-dried laundry, apparently. There is NO accounting for the masculine psyche!
Fascinating! I can’t account for the laundry aspect (that’s really mystifying), but I think Box of Eels qualifies as both comforting and complex. Best of all possible worlds!
There was a small patch of snow on my walk this morning so the tide has definitely turned. I was reading about Diorissimo EDT yesterday and thinking that it could be a cool, clear winter scent much in the same way you are wearing Cristalle. Speaking of laundry…three loads waiting now that the sun is finally poking through the clouds!
Morillas is a good week for me! Versense is the only FB I have (largely due to pricepoint–thanks discounters!) but I’ve got a bit of Good Girl Gone Bad, Vanille 44, Penhaligon’s Iris Prima, Thierry Mugler Cologne, and I would not at all mind having some Aedes Palissandre d’Or! Will also add that though Daisy, Bright Crystal, and Aqua di Gio for women are ultimately not what I want to wear, I admire the talent in creating those kinds of megahits–obviously they connected with a LOT of people!
Would you be surprised to hear I also have a bit of Vanille and Cologne, and wouldn’t mind the Aedes, either?
I must look up some of the others you mention…
Monday morning Fate! This just goes on and on and I like it very much, but it isn’t perfect if you know what I mean?
I am looking for the perfect spicy floral oriental. Hmmm…
How about Aedes de Venustas Oeillet Bengale?
You know, I tried that once and it didn’t ring any bells with me, but perhaps I should give it anther go. I know the notes suggest I should find it charming…thanks for the suggestion, kind hajusuuri!
I’m wearing Ostara today. Apparently the only Morillas I have is Omnia, so I know what I’m wearing Friday.
Also, I appreciated the house-hunting well-wishes over the weekend. I responded, but just in case it was too late and nobody saw it… thanks!
I don’t seem to have anything by Morillas, although I did have a bottle of Omnia years ago, and Palissandre d’Or is on my FB list. Meanwhile, Plum today. It’s wet and cold, and I need something cheerful.
I wore Hermes Le Jardin de Monsieur Li
I’m wearing Gin Fizz, which I could have sworn I didn’t like but seems to be just right today. I’m glad I took a chance and sprayed the little sample when I found it, sitting unloved in Mom’s bathroom drawer, because I’m having tympanic spasms in my right ear and they’re driving me freakin’ insane, and the nice fresh scent on my wrists is helping to distract me. Haven’t had this problem in years and had forgotten how irritating it is, as bad as hiccups that won’t go away.
Ouch! I hope this stops soon!
Oh I hope that ends quickly! The spasms, I mean, not the Gin Fizz. I have varying levels of tinnitus and its the fact that it is in my head that makes me so nuts. I can imagine spasms are even more so.
Yeah, it’s incredibly irritating and puts me in a bit of a bad mood. My husband suffers from mild tinnitus and I have to admit that I’m a lot more sympathetic when I remind myself how uncomfortable a malfunctioning ear is.
Trying out Bergamote 22 this morning, but there is a slight fresh and ozonic thing going on, that might smell great on someone else, but I can’t stand it lingering on me all day.
This morning I was in the lovely Oud Ispahan, but I had to take a second shower after my haircut because the woman who did the cut put like 20 lbs of product in my hair after the cut. I felt like a total grease bomb. 🙁 It’s been a struggle finding a stylist that can give me a good pixie cut that isn’t extremely expensive.
So post-shower I’m re-trying Silver Iris. I really like the powdery sweet aspect, but there’s something in it that feels very shrill to my nose. Ah well, close but no cigar.
I feel the haircut pain so much. My hair has grown absurdly long merely because even my last few efforts to pay $$$ for it failed so badly, I can’t bring myself to try again–it is just too upsetting to dislike your hair AND have paid out the nose for the privilege.
(I will admit it’s possible the last stylist I did like has set me up for a lifetime of disappointment–when I was living in Paris, I met a girl with a PERFECT haircut in the friends and family section of an indie pop show, and she gave me the number for her stylist, who flew in once a month from Tel Aviv to make house calls to private clients. On several fronts, I probably need to reconcile myself to the idea that I am not likely to recapture that kind of cool 😉 )
I won’t go to the hairdresser because they always make me look like a political candidate.
Hahaha I can totally relate. For some reason they always give me the Jackie O
OMG I know this all too well.
Well just have the stylist fly in to where ever you are now! I would suggest you just fly to Tel Aviv, but that is not the happy go lucky proposition it once was.
wow – that must have been one hell of a stylist! that’s better than many of us will ever experience – so at least you had that. 🙂
the frustrating thing is that i’m not terrible at cutting hair. i’ve given my mom several haircuts that have garnered compliments from total strangers asking where she got her hair cut – i just can’t reach my own head the same way…
A good hair stylist is worth their weight in gold!
So true!!
So sorry about the haircut woes. I had a really really bad one a number of years ago at the same time as a wonky mammogram (which turned out to be nothing). My person woke up to find me crying and assured me, “I am sure there’s nothing wrong with your health.” “It’s not that,” I wailed, “it’s my hair.”
I shouldn’t laugh…but I did!
Ditto 🙂
Well, it was pretty funny, especially once I got someone to fix the haircut! (And found out the mammogram wasn’t a real issue.)
yeah, this is pretty hilarious. 🙂 (and I’m so glad your health woes were nothing!)
Thank you!
That is such a good story, thank you for sharing 🙂
I love those moments when vanity absolutely 100% triumphs. I had no idea how vain I was until that haircut!
Morillas #1: Acqua di Parma “Colonia Intensa”. Today was a bit of a disaster at work so it will be a tough week to dig ourselves out for the doo-doo. And this perfume was no good, all fine words at the start of the day with “citrus this” and “cardamom that”, but when the chips were down Colonia Intensa was nowhere to be found. Fair weather friend! :^)
I hope tomorrow is a better day.
Sorry about your work…what a drag. And hope your perfume starts pulling its weight.
Those shoes are awesome! I wore a pair of Vans back in high school… loved them.
SOTD = Moss by Commodity. It’s better than I expected it to be.
I like Moss a lot. Was thinking about getting some for my brother.
I hate samples. This is a well established fact. However, I hate not being able to try new things more so I am resigned to making this work in a positive way. I still have well under 100 samples. I do not stash them, I use the whole sample, unless it is a large decant I ordered deliberately of things I really need to spend some time with or are simply too expensive for me to
spring for a whole bottle. I have decided that keeping a small journal with my impressions of each sample is probably the best way for me to remember what I experienced. Any thoughts or suggestions?
This is smart, she said, having just dumped a sample of Rrose Selavy all over herself. That said, I find when I do keep notes that things often change pretty dramatically between tries. But if I have only .7 ml of something, it is very hard to get any sense of the scent and its progression without using at least half of it, if not more. So this isn’t a suggestion, but an addition to your query!
Some sort of journal is good! A they used to say in the therapist to prison ers world I worked in for a while, “if it’s not written down it didn’t happen.”
Ach Warning! Don’t dump Rrose Selavy! The camphorous note completely wiped out anything else and it’s awful, at least on me. If I stick my nose right up to my skin I can vaguely smell rose. Perhaps this one requires a light hand, or it just isn’t for me. The first dabs were so enticing.
I do that, stinker_kit. I tend to prefer writing rather than using an Excel spreadsheet so I bought an nice old-school address book to jot down notes, for the most part alphabetised by house. I also do the spreadsheet, but I rarely update it as I associate doing so with work. I’ve relaxed my standards considerably, and am sometimes content just to write “no” as an impression. Not very articulate for sure, but I’m fine with simplifying everything for the time being.
So under Serge Lutens Serge Noire there will just be a No. It takes hours to get to the part where it smells like Japanese incense.
That’s so true Holly. I used to have a spreadsheet, but it just felt like labor. I occasionally write reviews on my blog to track things, but even that is more work than I’m often willing to give samples that I don’t love (which is 99% of them!).
It’s nice to know you share my outlook, Sun!
I am sitting here and laughing because Serge Lutens Serge Noire is just so bloody awful. It really does smell like someone has been sweating excessively in a polyester uniform. Maybe that is what he was going for……
Serge Noire was a big fat Hell No for this very reason.
You gotta *work * for that incense!
SOTD: vintage Hermes Rocabar.
I have several Morillas creations that I am hoping to wear later this week, but at the moment I’m in nothing… Having an allergic reaction to some product I’m using and I am testing one product at a time to see what the culprit is. Hoping it’s not perfune!!!
Ugh. Hope your allergic issues resolve soon, and easily!
I wore AdP Aqua Nobile Magnolia edt this morning and have switched to L’Antichambre Ambre Chocolat for the evening. Not sure if I will wear Palissandre d’Or or Byzance Friday…