I’m still working on the Colour Theory post. I’ll get there – probably a couple more weeks.
Happy May.
We’ve had glorious weather in the past week: warm and sunny, with only one day verging on hot. Really proper spring in the mid-70s. I mowed the lawn, which I’d been putting off, touched up some interior wall areas with paint that have been crying for it, and did some repainting around the new bathroom vanity (which is so so much better than the previous one).
The tulips are finishing up, with the two large black ones staying the course longer than anyone else. I can’t remember what I planted in that trough except that it was mostly tulips. You’d think I’d learn and label, but no.
The lily of the valley is up, but like last year, I’ve only got one flower stalk. I thank it every day. I will transplant everything this year with the hope that new soil and some food will mean more flowers next spring.
And, I had my first appointment for the braces on my lower teeth last week. The orthodontist stuck gooey purple stuff in my mouth to make moulds of the teeth as they are now. We discussed which tooth will come out in mid-May and how they will adhere the braces on lower teeth in early June.
On that trip into town I was able to drench myself in Hermes Twilly which I noted fairly recently I had liked on a quick spray and sniff a bit ago, but particularly I liked the bottle and the bowler hat presentation.
Now I can say I actually quite enjoy the perfume.
Launched in 2017 (March wrote about it here), Fragrantica calls this a floral: simple.
The nose for this was Christine Nagel and the notes are ginger, bitter orange, bergamot, tuberose, orange blossom, jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla. Pretty straight-forward and straight-forwardly pretty.
This is incredibly enjoyable. The ginger keeps it from being too sweet or juicy up top.
As it develops, it’s quite close to the skin on me. The orange blossom comes out more strongly, along with the jasmine — a pretty, soapy version. I don’t really get tuberose in the way you do in tuberose-centric fragrances.
The drydown is gentle vanilla-sandalwood.
It’s not terribly long-lived, but you could probably spray this till the cows come home and it wouldn’t be offensive.
I think the marketing guff is sort of silly: A free-spirited and daring (not to my mind) fragrance woven with striking ginger and delicate tuberose (don’t view tuberose as delicate, but that’s me).
If I were buying (which I’m still not – see teeth above) I would probably get this for the presentation. I really like looking at the bottle with that whimsical hat.
This is one of those mainstream fragrances that rises above the noise. It’s a good, solidly made spring juice that I imagine would get compliments for being just that: not deeply challenging, not interesting because it’s strange. Just really attractive and enjoyable.
Pics: Wiki, pexels and mine
Heya Cinnamon,
Agreed. The whole of the Twilly range is “really attractive and enjoyable”. Did you know FragranceNet has 1oz bottles, they even have the 15ml travel!
Portia x
I really am not buying bar charity shop finds. It’s such fun though and a decent fragrance to boot. I think it’s something I’d gift to someone who thinks they don’t want to wear perfume.
Twilly! I didn’t buy a bottle but I’d love one as a gift. It really is a pretty fragrance. If I recall, I thought it would have been a good At Work fragrance in the before times. It’s been hailing and snowing today hahaha my poor plants.
I really liked your post on it from 2017. Agree about At Work. It’s May. When do you start to get spring?
I haven’t worn Twilly in sges but I do remember it being pretty and very wearable!!!
Your garden is lovely!!!
I would think this would be nice for scenting the sheets. My garden says thanks.
I’m working on a perfume order and decided to add a sample of Twilly. I always wanted to try it but just never got around to it. I like pretty and easy wear perfumes. They are my spritz and go. I too like the bottle. It looks like someone with a delightful sense of humor created it!
Exactly that: delightful sense of humour. I found it to be a pleasure to wear. Enough going on to maintain attention.
Your tulip and LotV photos are very pretty. I have buds on my rose bushes now, and a couple have blossomed. We had a very rainy weekend. I own a mini size of Twilly and agree that it’s very wearable and easy to like. Twilly has a bunch of flankers now, but I haven’t tried any of them. That seems to be the perfume manufacturer’s formula: launch something. If it does well, make a bazillion flankers that are either barely any different OR wildly different, but keep the names and bottles all very similar to confuse the consumer!
Thank you regarding pics. I planted a new rose in the autumn with old pink coloured flowers. I hope it performs (perfumes?).
I don’t think I sniffed this one. I love the name: to me it sounds like an Aunt you’d have who’d drive an MG (that she kept sorted herself), let you taste her coffee at 6 and her Mai Tai at 10 (knowing you’d dislike both) and would bring back delightful little trinkets for you from her travels that were fun and quirky and very you.
And the bottle is too cute.
I’m glad you’re having good weather!
It’s really pretty — in the same way that Lutens Dompteuse is pretty. But, the Lutens is more interesting and quirky. Twilly is pretty and really wearable but definitely not quirky. Agree the bottle is adorable. Well worth sniffing.
Like Auntie Mame! I want to be thst Aunt!!!
I think you already are..
I remember enjoying Twilly on a quick drive-by sniffage pre-plague. I’d be interested to try the ginger & pepper flankers. Hermes seem to do decent flankers, where they share the same root as the OG & the tweaks to the formula seem thought out.
We went for a short break at the coast last week. Perfect weather, as you say. When we left the apple & cherry were in fully blossom. We returned home & it’s all finished. Let’s hope the pollinators were busy in our absence.
I’m not good with flankers. Not sure why. Hermes has done a lot of really nice stuff in the past 10 years.
Which coast? My apple and cherry blossom are done, as are the tulips. The roses are working their way to blooming, and the jasmine has leaves. Expect it will start to perform in late June and last through the summer. The lilies and the peony are working on it.
The Yorkshire coast. Great beaches all up the Yorkshire & Northumbrian coast. It isn’t usually that warm in late April & early May. We fell lucky.
We’re in for another bumper crop of blackcurrants & the gooseberries are starting to develop. The wild strawberries have self seeded everywhere. They are so delicious & are a perfume in themselves. DH has netted the cherry tree as the blossom & fruit are the pigeon’s favourite. The peony has lots of big buds, promising a lush display. I think I’ll put in some delphiniums & hollyhocks this year to “kill” the horrid yellow brick wall & grey plastic top the neighbours have.
Terre d’Hermes has had some lovely flankers.
Your garden sounds great. You got me with wild strawberries. I absolutely love them! I envy you them. 🙂
It’s mainly lawn & patio with the fruit in the top tier. The front is mainly lawn with little planting.
Those tiny strawberries are such a treat. I brought 1 plant from my old house. They’re now everywhere. Look for Alpine strawberries. They grow like weeds anywhere
Oooh, gooseberries! very hard to get here. Blackcurrants too. I would so love to visit the Yorkshire coast. I’d love London but would really love to see the English countryside. It is, I guess, in my blood since that Ancestry thing says I am 100% British Isles. (I was hoping for a little Spanish or African or Ashkenazi Jew in there to spice things up, but nooooo!)
One day you will have to visit this country plus Paris. It will happen!
It can be very wild. The weather can be calm in a morning, the wind gets up when the tide changes & floods the coast roads. A friend ignored the warnings, parked on the coast road in Scarborough & went walking on the cliff top. Came back to find her car floating out to sea! As long as you’re aware of tide times, high tide flood warnings etc it’s beautiful.
Gooseberries need multiple bushes near to each other as they’re wind pollinated. They are fussy about watering too. Not enough & they just go hard, too much & they rot. Both they & the blackcurrants enjoy the fruit garden. It’s south facing, was originally clay but has had a composting every year for the last three decades. We don’t dig it in just mulch it over the soil. The worms etc aerate everything & it stops most of the weeds.
I’m looking at cassis sorbet, ice cream & possibly more cassis liquer this year