Well I don’t quite know what it is but I can’t just seem to get myself in gear this week. I do have stuff to review but I think the combination of time change/onset of winter/other impacts just sort of made me want to sit in the corner sniffing old favorites.
I am not sure what I am going to wear to Sue’s memorial here in LA. Chene, perhaps. It was one we both loved and loved on each other. For my friend’s Husband’s memorial maybe French Lover. Nice, and won’t scare the horses. For Jury Duty however. Would a heaping helping of Juste Filthy be juste enough to keep me from being chosen? Or would it lead to Contempt charges? A 5150? Who knows..
On a note both lighter and heavier I did discover a new comfort food: Trader Joe’s Salted Maple Syrup ice cream. Maple Syrup with a touch of sea salt over sweet cream ice cream. And less than $4 per pint. You’re welcome (or you may want to curse me..)
And I will take advantage of Veteran’s Day to do some cleaning in the kitchen. Not quite at the Joan level, but.
Any new comforts coming your way? We’d love to read about them.
Images: Wikimedia Commons, Trader Joe’s Website
Love anything with maple in it! Maple sugar candy! I get a ton of maple syrup in immortelle and just love it in perfume (and in my garden).
I love immortelle. Sables is one of my favorite AGs and a go-to for winter.
I think Sables was my first introduction to immortelle. I thought it was amazing!
Also re jury duty — many times I have been summoned, never chosen, including for the Rust case here. I must give off some kinda vibes (but nobody ELSE wants to be there either so). For the Rust case(s) they clearly wanted people who knew/had read NOTHING about the case which … huh? You’d have had to be living under a rock. A rock with no internet access.
I only got caught in 1. The guy was accused of taking a person’s wallet by force and then carjacking/kidnapping a driver using the carwash behind the 7-11 he was at, Of course he didn’t know (nor did I) that these places have about 375 cameras so we got shots of him doing everything. Including forcing the retired nun to drive him off the property. So he committed the crime on 47 different cameras and then kidnapped Mother Teresa. Good move. He pled out over the lunch break.
Juste Filthy is … not that filthy, IMO. I think it’s stunning. I love wearing it and I don’t think I’m freaking anyone out but who knows, really. It’s less obnoxious than patchouli oil and there’s plenty of that going around here. (why do some folx think their “natural oil” made from v stinky herbals is just fine?)
I don’t think it’s stinky either, but that’s me.
I’m sorry to hear that the recent grief, time change, and seasonal change has still got you stuck in a rut, but I feel that it’s sure to change soon. In New England, in addition to great old favorites like Butter Pecan and Coffee flavors of ice cream, my grandparents also had Maple Walnut. So your treat makes logical sense to me.
As for my recent treats, I ordered a decant of Chanel Les Exclusifs 1957 edp off of ebay last week after wearing and loving a sample. It’s a musk with aldehydes, bergamot, pink pepper and coriander. Great “wallpaper” scent as March would say.
What’s weird is that I intensely dislike maple walnut. As a matter of fact, I don’t like nuts much at all when they’re in things and not the focus. Peanuts are great but cover them in chocolate and it’s a hard no.
I liked the Chanel, but not enough to purchase.
Ooooh, a wallpaper scent! We’re overdue for a post on those, I was just thinking about that.
I’d like to read that..
Another nominee for wallpaper scents: Bulgari Omnia Crystalline.
Bulgari au the vert is to me ultimate “wallpaper”- really good and often overlooked- I drained a bottle years ago and for some reason never replaced it.
I’m sorry that you are having a tough time. I wouldn’t go with a little filthy thing for jury duty, I would go with the out and out filthy. Jury duty doesn’t pay much. Just say that jury duty would cause a financial strain that you can’t afford. It may or may not work. Jury duty is $20 per day in Ohio. Maple stuff is a little iffy for me. But I discovered the L’Occitane Lavender hand cream and loving that.
Well it’s hardly the toughest so I am going to try to keep the whining at a slight din.
Maple is deeply iffy for me. I don’t like maple candy or any of that stuff. But this is just grade B syrup over sweet cream ice cream, with a pinch of salt.
Dude I’m going to pull your Preppy New Englander card! I loooooove maple. Syrup, candy, that crazy Canadian maple pudding…
I know right? I don’t like salt water taffy either.
Just the Usual Suspects for this time of year ( we’re back to normal for the season but OMG! the past few days it’s been in the TWENTIES!
All Damb Day!
I soothed my soul by beginning a deep clean of my house ( including washing the kitchen walls and ceiling), figuring post- surgery I won’t be able to AND I’ll be mostly stuck here, looking at it
And I most definitely am NOT about that foolishness
Good for you for getting it done early!
We’re supposed to get an actual rainstorm so the news is al ready with “StormWatch 2025” graphics.
I’m so sorry you’re going through these losses & trying times.
Wear the Juste Filthy with a generous overspray of MKK. You’ll be giving superb unwashed vibes, no one will choose you
Unless the selector is a perfumista.
Ha! Wouldn’t that be hysterical!?
They would be mixing jurors by smell: “you with the patchouli, you go sit in the back.
There is that..
Oh you know, it’s not the worst.
IDK about Juste Filthy and MKK layered. Although I can imaging that after marinating in both for a few hours I will be very unpopular, or very popular. Not sure which would be worse.
Hey Tom. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Repeat as needed. Same for spoons full of ice cream to mouth. Repeat as needed.
Even when life is rosy, this is a tough time of year. Treat yourself the same way you’d treat a beloved friend. ?
I’ll pass on the “repeat as needed” for the ice cream. Oh wait, did you write need? I saw that as “want”? Which would be when the freezer case ran out.
I would hope they take one look at you at jury duty and say ‘this guy needs a break — bye bye’.
Makes total sense not being able to focus on a post — too much else to be going on with. And all difficult.
Ice cream seems a perfect way to deal with a hard time. I vote for whipped cream and mini marshmallows as well.
I don’t know how to present “needs a break.” Oh well, Jury duty is theoretical until they actually ask us to come in. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
Heya Tom,
Two at once, and a jury duty! That seems like a lot for one week. Thinking of you buddy.
Wear the Juste Filthy, it will give you a subversive lift all day long.
Portia xx
I may juste have to do that. Maybe layered over French Lover. All that nice-guy button-down vetiver over that “juste came from the Mineshaft” drrrtyness..
You seem to be in a place that I am very familiar with and one I think everyone here has visited more than once.
You did a post – Got Nuttin’
Next you posted – Ain’t Got Much
Hope the next one is – Got a Little Bit of Somethin’! 🙂
Take good care of yourself, Tom.
Oh I am sure I will be back next time.
Good. Being nice wears me down! 😉
I know, right? Which is why I try not to do it.
HA!
I am so sorry for your loss. It’s a lot at once, and comfort sounds like a smart way to go. Be gentle with yourself.
Maple flavored anything is not my jam or ice cream choice, so I’m not tempted. Maple leaves? Flag? Awesome. Maple leaf bedecked hockey players? Splendid.
I consider jury duty a risky day off work. Risky, because I had a family member get chosen for a nightmare inspiring case. Normally I go and just get a long day to read for pleasure, so it’s fun. I hope yours is the latter.
For perfume, I pick something to wear that is inoffensive but veers elegant. Jeeeeeest in case I meet someone interesting in that auditorium. I think I wore Elysium last time. Let us know how it goes.
I’m Team Hockey in Maple Leaves ftw!!!
well if I could get John Tavares and some maple syrup I would be too!
What is weird is that I don’t like Maple anything, except syrup. So this is perfect. They didn’t have an urge to stick in mini waffle chunks or anything.
Jury duty can be okay, but I have had them change the venue at the last minute from downtown to way the hell in the North Valley. If I’d been empaneled on that one I’d have found to person guilty and voted to give him the chair. Even though we don’t do that anymore.
30 years of being called for Jury Duty and have I ever been called to the Beverly Hills courthouse, blocks from me? Nope. Downtown, Airport, North Valley, sure. Ugh.
I love Chene. Love love love– that was one of my first the that I acquired. I’m going to have to huff that one after writing this. I haven’t smelled French Lover. It sounds like you’re having a time of it, and I’m so sorry for these losses, these passages. I’m thanking and cursing you about the ice cream. We don’t have a Trader Joes within an hour of us, but there’s one about an hour and twenty. I think I will have to do a “big shopping trip” which will entail a visit to Costco-‘and the TJ that’s a 1/4 mile from it. Thank you for the extra five pounds BEFORE Thanksgiving. Drats.
Sorry. Did I mention that TJ’s also has a really excellent non-alcoholic ginger beer?
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/triple-ginger-brew-051857