A SOTD (Scent Of The Day) thread is a really good conversation generator. The idea is you’ll chime in through the week with whatever scent you are wearing. You don’t need to be super knowledgable, have high faluting tastes or be a published author to comment. Just tell us what fragrance you’re wearing, smelling, buying etc. and how it makes you feel and/or anything else about it that tickles your fancy.
You can also comment on everyone else SOTD choices too. It’s great to tell someone how much you love their choice, ask for more info about it, the house or perfumer. There’s someone here from around the world 24/7 and Perfume Posse people love to chat. We like to keep it fragrant but there’s always room for life events and adventures too. This is our place to share how we smell, live, love, eat, work, raise kids and pets and get on with the business of living.
SOTD 25.9.2020
You probably won’t have time to write every scent, every spritz. Whenever you feel the mood take you, share your current spritz and a few things about it. Maybe you love/loathe it, want it, are excited by the notes/bottle/SA who sold it: WHATEVER! As always here at Perfume Posse, taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
Hopefully you will come back and see if anyone has responded to your SOTD comment. Then you can reply to them, and so on.
Go To It Crew.
Portia xxx
Francesca Bianchi Angel’s Dust.
YUM
Went off to Aquarobics this morning wearing Trefle Pur by Atelier Cologne. It is a pretty cologne plus fragrance.
Home and Salvatore Ferragamo Convivio from the Tuscan Soul range has arrived. Bought it off a Sale Doc on FB from an Aussie buddy. Perfectly fits the warm spring weather we are having here. Simple green herby scent. Very nice.
Portia xx
Was really good this morning, put on Kenzo Amour, gentle enough not to be overpowering anybody at yoga class this evening. Then blew it all by going sniffing with my niece and a friend. I’m a wall of scent right now. Have to get some of it off me. And soon. My bad. Oops.
YAY!! Super scented Cassieflower sounds just about right to me.
Portia xx
Spent the day without spritzing anything. I kept telling myself I was going to have a bath. Then I didn’t.
It’s 11.15pm and I think I will now.
LUSH Rose Jam bubble bath, here I come.
Portia xx
I’ve been diligently trucking through a bottle of Van Cleef & Arpels Bois D’Iris. Sadly, I think the remaining 1/5th has become muted and more chemical-smelling.
I did have a couple of days that my tiny stash box lived in 80 degree heat for a couple days. (Tricksy to safely stash perfume from both a preschooler and the heat.)
Do I chuck it?
No, let it settle back down. You need a childproof medicine cabinet for your fragrance Ariel.
Portia x
Metascents Chandra for me – lemon, vetiver, bit of tea and tonka. sits really close but every now and then i get a little waft.
Silly smelly story: Earlier in the supermarket I was walking around sniffing and thinking to myself that someone must be wearing REALLY strong perfume as I could smell it through my mask. I was trying to guess who was leaving such a trail. It was only when I reached the outside door that the realization hit: I had been using patchouli oil this morning before I put my clean mask into my bag. I started giggling a bit to myself. Duh, what a wally.
HA! What a great way to grocery shop though Cassieflower.
WHAT were you doing with patchouli oil?
Portia x
I was rubbing a few drops into an air freshening disc in the car.
OOOOH! Good idea.
Narciso eau Ambrée. Yum (lick lick).
Hello Cassieflower – as a fellow Narciso lover should i investigate? And more importantly, what colour/shape bottle this one? xx
What can I say but yes. You definitely need to try it out. It has more of a floral aspect, with a beachy vibe. The bottle is the same cube as the rest of the line in an orange hue.
Through the day I’ve been wearing all four Amouage Renaissance Collection frags. Review coming Thursday.
They are really interesting, off the beaten track but totally wearable.
Portia xx
Monday again! Sylvaine Delacourte Lilylang. This one is fb worthy.
I have the sample sets here Cassieflower but keep forgetting to spritz them. thanks for the reminder,
Portia xx
Hello, I’m back. Been off the radar for a while. Today is PG Suede Osmanthe. A sweet and gentle little suede without much growl. A good coating of it makes it last a little better. Will not scare children or horses.
WOO HOO! Cassieflower! How we have missed you. welcome home.
LOVE Suede Osmanthus, I have a bottle too!
Portia xx
Versace Blonde tonight.
Had a fabulous trivia night. So many of my favourites!
Tonight it’s 11pm. I’ve come home from trivia, got out of drag, tidied the kitchen, vacuumed the house, washing on second load, about to have a snack and coffee.
Penhaligon’s Halfeti Leather for my cleaning frenzy.
Jin is at work tonight so better I get it all done now so we can both sleep tomorrow.
Portia xx
Hey Portia, belated birthday wishes. You smell spectacular in VB. I just bet you’ve been spoiled rotten. xx
Thanks Cassieflower,
Well, I was already rotten so spoiled is all we can hope for.
Portia xx
Hey Portia. Wishing you a belated and warm Happy Birthday! Been wearing Gucci Bloom on and off for the past week. A bottle will probably be in my future.
Maya! Thank you.
YAY for Gucci Bloom. It’s freaking awesome, eh?
Portia xx
Penhaligon’s Halfeti Leather for work at the Bridal Salon today. Helped a few groups of guys with their suit ideas, gave a bride and MOB bridesmaids advice (they’re booked in for a consult with bridesmaids next week), a couple of formal dresses and I SOLD a WEDDING GOWN! Picked THE dress and four others to try on. In it everything changed about the way she held herself, looked at herself, walked and radiated. It was a magnificent moment and we both knew it was the dress, still she tried on the rest just to be sure. What a wonderful feeling.
Portia xx
Woot!!!!
Oh, that makes me a little teary eyed. Nicely done!
Woohoo! Sounds like a win for everyone!
And happy belated birthday!
Happy Birthday, Portia!
Thanks Pam X
A belated happy birthday, Portia, and many returns of the day. It sounds like it was fantastic.
I’m in Amouage Lyric Woman because Musette mentioned it the other day. I put some on after my shower last night and the drydown is so incredible that I added more this morning. I’m in an amazing world of spicy, rosey warmth.
that is an amazing fragrance, isn’t it? And it has the half-life of plutonium! xoxoxo
Thanks SpringPansy, it has been a wonderful week.
You know I wish Lyric W had the same longevity for me. I get a good 6 hours but more than half of it is very quiet dry down.
Portia x
I’m finishing up a Really FILTHY Job (the last cleaning/sweeping/etc of the machine shop, prior to handing over the keys). It’s SO filthy a job that I decided to a) take a shower PRIOR to doing it, b) put on a FULL FACE and c) wear vintage Arpege extrait and dusting powder!
Nobody ever said I had any sense 😉 xoxoxoxo
HA! Amazing
😀 <3
You smell amazing – but did I miss something? Are you selling your machine shop???
yep. Keeping the business but selling the equipment/brick & mortar – in fact, it’s all over but the literal sweeping-up. Which, of course, falls on me. 😉
xoxo
Hey, petunia! Happy Birthday!!! You know I am wishing you the very best ! Is Jin making you dumplings? Oh, wait. That’s MY birthday dinner! LOL! Have a marvelous day! xoxoxoxo
Thanks Musette,
HA! Jin made ROAST PORK & CRACKLING with all the veggies. Kath came over and another girlfriend TinaG. Perfect, low key, fabulous food, wine and conversation evening.
SPOILED!
Portia xx
and much deserved spoiling! You are such a good person – you deserve every happiness! xoxoxo
I love you. X
Happy Birthday Portia. Hope you got lots of lovely pressies. XXX
Thanks Matty,
Some really well thought out gifts this year. Jin made it all about experiences. Really cool.
Portia xx
Dear Portia, Happy Birthday! It was so great to see you on the Zoom–you are way handsome, and I love your happy, smiley aura.
My SOTD is a perfume oil from Alkemia–too early in the day for the 70s green chypres I favor. Today’s is Arcanum: eastern spices, aged patchouli, sandalwood, frankincense, nag champa, and “dragons blood.”
you and me and the green chypres, E! Love them always!
xoxo
XOXOXO
Thanks Queen-Cupcake.
ZOOM has given me so many smiley reflective moments too. What a fun couple of hours! Thanks for being a part of it.
HA! Never too early for a hyper.
Portia x
GAH! Chypre.
Coffee first!
First of all – happy birthday dear Portia! I hope you have a wonderful day filled with all the things that mean a lot to you.
Today it’s Sublime Balkiss from The Different Company. It was your review on APJ that made me try it. I’m on my second bottle already 🙂
Hey Neva,
Thank you. There was a shitload of wonderful.
Woo Hoo! Sublime Balkiss is fabulous. So glad to have been part of your choice.
Portia xx
Happy birthday Portia!!
SO happy Briggite.
It was a 16+ hour birthday marathon. Loved every minute.
Portia xx
Not so much a SOTD (it’s Chanel Cuir de Russie) as birthday greetings to you Portia, hope you ate, drank and spritzed to excess all day and well into the night..
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, thoughts and insights with us, you’re a dead set legend xxx
Hey Lee,
Thank you.
Yes to all the above. It’s 11.22pm and the first moment I’ve had to sit at the computer and reply to Posse comments. HUGE day. So much fun.
Jin filled the day to the brim and every moment was an adventure.
Now I’m completely wrecked. YAY!
Portia xx