Spring maybe. Sigh. At least the sun is out and on village walks I’ve seen a female pheasant and numerous rabbits. If they are all happy to be out and about we’re getting there.
Reflexology, haircut, new Turkish deli in town is wonderful. Will be doing that again soon. Semi-annual Gate to Plate food festival at town on Atlantic coast. Wonderful chicken dosa etc and ginger kombucha. Adequate donuts.
This is the last week the wonderful Sara’s Petite Cuisine will be open (my favourite bakery). Will visit of course – and bring a card and flowers at the end of the week.
I have Hermès on the brain at the moment. Sure, you say, ok.
A couple of YouTubers I watch have multiple Birkins or Kellys. I love them, they are really nice bags, particularly the Kelly. But I keep reminding myself that my current car was less expensive than one of these bags new. Doing that balance thing: car on the one hand, bag on the other…
Anyway, it’s been another of those weeks that try the being. But slightly balanced with some nice bits.
Joe the Lab’s gut went doolally again, just five weeks after our last go-round. Dogter visit. He’s now got this probiotic dust I sprinkle on his breakfast. Things are improving. The vet’s office felt dire though, like the more experienced receptionist just looked so unhappy. Still thinking that once we get this sorted I’ll move him to the independent surgery, where everyone looked cheerful and which is a five minute drive from home.
This Hermès. It’s late spring into summer, assuming your seasons are dry and warm.
I have to say I lurve these bottles. They are just such pretty colours and so tactile.
I have a mini from a friend – which looks exactly like the big bottle, but small…
From 2016, with Christine Nagel as the nose, notes include rhubarb, red fruits, lantana (which apparently smells herbaceous, and per AI of a mix of citrus, blackcurrant and gasoline or spices – well, that sounds very interesting; anyway, see pic below), and white musk.
On me, this starts out really sharp citrus peel. Really good and really tangy. Not lime, not grapefruit. Rhubarb has its own sharp-sweet thing going on.
It moves on to a bit of sweet and citrus (rhubarb and those red fruit?) with a musky undercurrent you can get with good citrus.
The drydown is light musky citrus – totally what you want when things start to hot up.
It’s a cologne, so not terribly long-lived but you can just splash it on again and start the process over from the top.
It’s also, relatively speaking, cheap as chips: 50ml is £77.
This will enter my late spring etc rotation alongside my even cheaper than chips Agrumi di Sicilia. Until my little bottle bids farewell.
Pics: mine, Wiki Parfums, pexels
The perfume sounds lovely and I’m going in search of a sample forthwith. In spite of the lantana . I grew it extensively when I lived in Florida, because it attracted butterflies. However, I thought the flowers smelled awful! Perhaps there are different types though.
We’ve had some nice, quite warm weather in North Texas until this past weekend, when we had rain, hail, and a 40 degree drop. Ouch.
I was very happily surprised by this. Ah, butterflies. We are just starting to see the return of big bees and butterflies.
Ugh I was up much of the night with Coco, who has occasional bouts of pancreatitis, she’s on a very restricted low-fat diet but I suspect she got into some delicious bit of nasty food, perhaps on a walk. So I feel your pain, pooch-wise. I think moving to (or at least checking out) the new vet sounds like a good plan. I love bags and have a rotation in various colors, all the same basic shape (slouchy and oversize) and I can do the quick switch with my purse organizer that everything lives in.
I keep saying I wish he could tell what he’s feeling which is clearly silly. Feeling hopeful about the new vet.
I now have three bags in rotation which are different styles and colours.
Uh oh.. Another lemming might have been born..
I love rhubarb. I used to filch it out of our neighbors’ garden (I think they thought there was something wrong with me) Not sure that I needed it in a cologne but then you said Lantana..
Hope the pooch is back up soon. My god-dog is on a diet so the old treats came back home with me to give out to other dogs in the building. They are, of course, thrilled.
I wonder if it could be found on the discounters.
Oh, Joe’s been on the same food for years — special gut stuff. He tolerates it because he’s a lab and will eat most things but he does sometimes imply he’s like a bit of a change.
Isn’t she lovely. One of my go to colognes. I adore rhubarb & grow it. Eating it by the stick as a child, not with sugar. It’s delicious cooked with a little ginger cordial & stem ginger, or with orange juice in the oven. Rhubarb crumble is the best though, specially with some oats & hazelnuts in the crumble.
My garden isn’t big enough for rhubarb but I love it in crumble when others make it. Having said that you can find it here in the farm shop and for some reason I’ve never bought it.
You must buy some
I did that too! The neighbors thought I was a little touched in the head.
I’ve always eaten lemons & limes like they’re oranges. I’m partial to a sip of pickled onion vinegar & shots of cider vinegar. Tart/sour is probably my favourite flavour profile
I’ve grown lantana but I don’t recall a scent. Rhubarb is persackly as described!
Interestingly I have never sniffed this – I thought it was brand new… but your mention of 2016 (!) means I’m woefully out of the loop! Sounds lovely, though, and I’m in agreement re the bottles !
I think my parents grew lantana decades ago.
These are lovely bottles. Very well designed.
I’ve also got a little mini of that Rhubarb Cologne, Cinnamon. And I agree that spring into summer is just the right time for it. I love that shade of red that is the bottle. Our weather just did a 60 degree swing from the 90s to the 30s — a cold snap. Had to turn the heat back on.
We’re having the same weather, Dina! As I type this the heat is making itself known, thank Floyd- 34F is a bit… chilly.. to gut it out with no heat!
Same weather here too. Feels strange to turn on heat after having used the air conditioner for a while!
The red is gorgeous. I am sorry to hear about your weather. Mother Nature is playing games.
My daughter in DC was telling me about that insane weather!
Heya Cinnamon,
Interestingly they had a Friday Community Project at Now Smell This that was Wear Hermès. Love their fragrances too. I went for vint-ish Parfum d’Hermès. A perfect Autumnal spritz.
From this cologne bottle I have a packaged collection of 15ml travels in the whole range and a bottle of Citron Noir. I think there might be another but can’t remember or be arsed to go look.
Glad it’s starting to feel warmer for you and bummer about the pooch.
Portia xx
Joe’s results came back fine. The vet thinks it’s an age thing. He will continue to get the probiotic sprinkle on his food, which he enjoys.
These are very tactile bottles.