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 30.10.2020
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
Tuberose Flash.
Lots and lots of Coco.
I’ve got to try this. Did it help?
COCO! You smell fabulous Cassieflower.
Patricia de Nicolai’s Cuir Cuba Intense. I didn’t wear it a long time and almost sold the bottle because the licorice note suddenly became too strong for my nose. I felt nauseous after I’ve sprayed it on last year :-/ Recently I gave it another chance and I enjoy it again BUT only two sprays at once…moderate does it in this case.
Woo Hoo Neva, so glad you’ve learned the trick and fallen back in love.
Portia xx
O M G! Wearing Adam Levine For Her today. SO MANY COMPLIMENTS! It was crazy. People following my scent trail to ask what it was, all day and into the night. Long after I’d stopped smelling anything they kept asking.
Portia x
Isn’t it just gorgeously cuddly? And for virtually free in perfume terms.
That sounds interesting! I will look it up and try but I think I haven’t seen it around. What kind of scent is it?
Neva,
It’s a spicy/white floral/sandalwood/vanilla that seems to project amazingly and have a very noticeable sillage.
Portia xx
Well, heck. My wallet may thank you.
Antonia’s Flowers Tiempe Passate for another walk to the cemetery. It’s a lovely sunny day.
Snap on the weather.
Started off with Aromatics Elixir Parfum but it was a bit tame so I’ve just spritzed on some Opium. Yasss, that’s what I was looking for!
Ooops 😀 what was the occasion?
A nice walk in the cold but sunny weather. Such excitement (eye roll).
Aromatics Elixir Parfum is a bit tame. WOWZERS!
Ha, yeah, I needed something BIG today for some reason.
L’artisian’s Mure et Musc for me and today’s burst of heat here. It’s floating lovely, being musky, berry and a tad citrus.
Delicious
Areej Le Dore’s Baikal Gris. It has a super bright opening of Vick’s crossed with camphor, but then goes warm, cozy, fresh. Woods by the sea?
WOW!
I got waaaaaaay more balsam fir after the first couple of days. The vanilla-amber has everything else on a gentle lead, the cedar keeps the fir from popping too loud in the fire, and the medicinal aspects are all but gone. Is warm-woodsy-skank a thing? Because that’s what it smells like on me and I’ve never felt so known.
Heeley L’Amandière, a dewy, blurry floral. Delicate and springlike (if I subscribed to seasonal perfume, which I don’t).Quite fleeting on me but I enjoyed reapplying.
Most of the Heeley’s seem short lived to me, but the fragrances! So gorgeous.
I love, love, love L’amandiere but I’ve never bought a full bottle. Yes, it’s truly a spring scent with all the hyacinths and grass. Oh, I want it now….
Enjoying wearing my Strangers Perfumes Salted Green Mango today. It’s a little sour, sweet, citrus and creamy all at the same time. Don’t need a lot and it does last which is great. This house has lots of interesting scents – Oliver is another I am in love with.
Salted Green Mango sounds excellent.
Sorry I’ve been MIA this week.
Today I’m cleaning, washing and writing Trivia Q&A. Love my Mondays. Wearing quite a lot of Dent de Lait by Serge Lutens. In my head it sounds like Don’t Delay! Milky floral with a metallic tang, weird and pretty.
Portia xx
LOL, Don’t delay! I think this will become a standard just like Dante’s Bra 😀
HA! Yes. Dante’s Bra is funny too.
Now it will always be Dante’s Bra to me Neva! LOL
Pierre Guillaume Myrrhiad, so gorgeous. Cool and sunny here (Seattle) and I’ll be cooking and watching a little football. Walked 9 miles yesterday doing errands and going for a beer at a local microbrewery.
I have so much trouble posting here sometimes – the first two times I tried today, I got the message that my comment was spam. This keeps happening to me – am I doing something wrong? I’d like to post more, but sometimes I just give up.
Hi SpringPansy,
We have the dreaded WordPress glitch here at the Posse sometimes. It comes and goes. Patty has had it seen to and fixed numerous times and it keeps coming back. Sorry. it’s annoying for us too.
Portia xx
I like the way you spent the day. How is Myrrhiad? I’ve tried only a few PG’s, there’s been no distributor in my country until maybe a few weeks ago. Unfortunately they don’t have the complete range, Myrrhiad is not among them.
Hi Neva,
I like myrrh and I like vanillas with a twist, so Myrrhiad is right up my alley. Fragrantica says it’s a “warm oriental fragrance that contains ingredients of myrrh, leather, black tea, vanilla and licorice.” But my box from Pierre Guillaume (my bottle is the ceramic white one PG’s from Huitieme Art brand) says: “Warm and sensual with notes of amber and balsam, Myrrhiad is an oriental perfume that celebrates all the facets of this ancestral resin, enhanced in this fragrance by the leathery, animal dimension of black tea absolute interlaced with a cocktail of different vanillas an liquorice.” and this is more accurate to my nose – myrrh, lots of vanilla, a dash of licorice and black tea – it doesn’t really have leather, just that aspect of the black tea absolute. It’s not super powerful or long lasting which is also fine with me. Hope this helps!
Thank you, it sounds very inviting and cozy.
Myrrhiad is so beautiful SpringPansy. I never understood why people hated the Huitieme Art bottles so much. I thought them beautiful and ingenious.
Portia xx
Sample thunk of JHAG Moscow Mule. A lovely fresh citrus number that did not last for long on me at all.
Hey Melanie,
Such a good name though, eh?
Amouage Epic for a night at the opera.
Nice one Neva – which opera you seeing?
Bizet’s Carmen 🙂
YAY! Carmen is so good to sing along to.
How was the production?
Yes, many popular arias (what’s the plural of it in English?) from Carmen.
It was one of those modern productions with a mostly bare stage, basic costumes, but the surprise to me was Carmen herself – a tall and huge, rather masculine singer with a powerful voice.
Angels Share. I don’t find it too boozy. I’d wear it anytime and anywhere. Well blended. Totally unisex.
LEMMING!
I was pseudoshopping yesterday & had both Myrrhiad & Angel’s Share in my cart. Still deciding whether to pull the trigger but can’t decide which.
I did trigger on 3 FM travel sprays. Dries van Noten, Musc Rav & Outrageous.
The new lockdown has sent me into a scent buying spiral. I really should get on da Bay to sell on the bottles I never reach for anymore. Fingers crossed I pull my finger out & balance the books
Multiple sprays of Jungle l’Elephant for a cold and damp day. Don’t care if I’m gassing anyone out. Quit my not-teaching job yesterday- no music allowed in the COVID era so I was doing admin tasks but I was miserable. Going to spend some time focusing on my tiny fledgling photography business.
Congratulations! Wishing you all the best! xoxoxo
I wish you luck with your new business. Photography is great, so creative and fulfilling. My ex husband is a photographer and he’s one of the few people I know who are truly in love with his profession.
OOOOOHHHH! MMKinPA!
That’s a huge and brave step. Fingers crossed for you and the new venture. You’ll do great.
Are you allowed to have private music students? It seems so weird that Trump can have rallies and you can’t teach music. You’d think it would be less toxic?
Portia xx
Bvlgari Omnia Crystalline edp for me today, which I love since it’s light and comforting. Perfect for my mood today. Happy weekend all!
It’s such a wonderful perfume. I’m glad it’s still around. Happy weekend to you too!
I don’t think I ever tried this DinaC, does it sparkle like the name suggests?
Portia xx
it’s the kind of day where I’m thankful when it’s a robocall! LOL! What a morning – and it’s only 10a! I’m coked to the gills in AdP’s Iris Nobile – I’m finished with (hopefully) my last Critical Call of the day, going to walk The Girl, then go plant some peony roots. Iris Nobile mixes well with the scent of cooling, slightly damp earth. Happy Friday, everyone!!! xoxoxo
You smell beautiful. What colour peonies Musette? They are one of my all time faves.
Portia xx
A sample of Serge Lutens Nuit de Cellophane. Gorgeous Osmanthus, mandarin, and jasmine. Can’t stop sniffing my wrist!
I ‘ve recently tried it again after many years. It’s so beautiful, clean, fresh and slightly soapy. You smell amazing!
I have this but so rarely wear it. Thanks for the reminder Kathleen.
Portia xx
Just had a super hot Tabu bubble bath. Dousing myself in Vendetta woman by Valentina.
Portia xx
holy cats & crackers! I’ll bet you are stankin’ up the joint something FABULOUS!!! xoxoxo
Last night I wore aromatics Elixir to bed, it was great for a cold blustery night! but I didn’t care for the dry down when I woke up. Today I am wearing narciso red cube – very powdery – it reminds me of Dior pure poison without the jasmine.
Hey there Ann,
Sensational bed scent. Bit too full on to wake up to?
Narciso does such yummy scents. Those cubes all look fantastic too.
Portia xx
Yes! I want all the cubes!
ELDO’s Like This! Why didn’t I buy it earlier? I’m enjoying this perfume so much.
Right now I’m drinking a hot ginger tea and cooking a pumpkin cream soup. How convenient 🙂
HA! Art imitating life, or the other way around Neva?
Portia xx
Synchronized with the nature, I guess 😉