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Perfumistas in Autumn: Crunchy leaves, bonfires & smoke in the air, the smell of Petrichor & the rich perfumes of Vanilla & Hot Chocolate. Thread 28.

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teta · 30/09/2020 21:23

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Shrillharridan · 10/01/2021 16:59

Sorry, I mean razor! That'll teach me to type without my glasses on 🤓

Shrillharridan · 10/01/2021 17:02

Great review!
Oh I'm so tempted 😀

MissBattleaxe · 10/01/2021 17:20

@Shrillharridan Oh go on. They're only £8.

PearsMorgan · 10/01/2021 17:27

SOTD beyond rose. Have done nothing today and could easily fall asleep now but kids need feeding.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 10/01/2021 23:23

SOTD Stella. I am so fed up today, really weepy and low. How can we keep going like this until spring? This isn’t living, it’s just existing.

Shrillharridan · 11/01/2021 08:35

judy I know 💜

Calmasasleepycat · 11/01/2021 10:40

I know Judy, it’s miserable. I’m of an age where, when I’m feeling down, I start calculating what percentage of my remaining life COVID has taken from me and DH. It’s not a happy figure 🙁. But the vaccine is coming 👏 so at least the end of the lockdown is in sight.

Shrill I will be posting the samples today. 😊. Your lovely envelope arrived today, thank you. x

teta thanks for the heads-up on Cristalle. I have ordered a bottle, as I can’t imagine never smelling Cristalle again. I acquired a bottle in my 30’s when, as a mum with a young family and not much money, I went to the loos at work and on the shelf was a bottle of Cristalle with a note “Unwanted present - free to anyone who would appreciate it more.” I nabbed it and wrote a thank you note back on the shelf, but never found who the kind donator was. I kept the empty bottle for years after as the vestiges of the scent were left behind.

FloofyIsFragrantButFuckedOff · 11/01/2021 12:19

Calm that is so lovely Smile

I can't believe they are discontinuing Cristalle! I would have thought that was a good seller too but maybe people are buying Yardley Jade instead! I don't know whether discontinuation is worse than reformulation which is also infuriating.

Thanks and comforting scents to all who need it. This is definitely a hard time (hopefully the darkest hour before the dawn though). I'm feeling paralysed with everything that is going on (home learning, DCs in exam years and going to Uni years, elderly parents, health crap for me and a DC and let's not even mention money and jobs!) I just can't seem to think about anything without feeling a huge amount of stress. I too can think of nothing cheering or happy or to look forward to. It's awful. I know lots of others have even more and worse going on and I especially feel sympathy for people working in the education centre as well as the students and families. (And everyone working, not just education of course)

On that note teta I have no advice as we are in the same boat here. I keep trying to get them to go for walks (or start running!) outside as I think it's so beneficial but not much luck. I've turned a blind eye to the amount of online chatting late at night and getting up times as long as their work is done. Having said that I am trying to get them in a bit of a routine for the afternoons/early evening at least, finish work, hopefully out for a walk, some cooking, watch something with me maybe, eat dinner etc. I'm also trying to get them to do their work in the week and keep their weekends free so they have them to look forward to as a break from work at least. God knows what will happen with exams this year though, the uncertainty is not helping at all Hmm

I'm also trying to cheer them up (realistically though) with hopes of vaccines and while things won't be "normal" for some time they will be better. Something to look forward to.
(Although I've been told that shielding should continue after both vaccinations Hmmwhich makes me want to hide under my bed and stay there.

Also, little luxuries to enjoy - for us as well as DC - this is hard with little disposable income but I jiggle the budgets! Eg I try to buy them nicer bubble bath than usual and they agree a bath time rota so they can have long uninterrupted baths. Nicer hot chocolate they can have when they get into bed. I really look forward to that too with squirty cream Blush in bed with my book. And let's be realistic as they are teens - the promise of McDonalds breakfast at the weekend Grin I "justify" it as they have to get out of bed before 10.30 for it Wink

I think we just have to try and keep going and think about little things and a day at a time.

None of that was perfume related (and very long and possibly irrelevant to lots, sorry) so in penance, my SOTD will be Heeley Cardinal...

FloofyIsFragrantButFuckedOff · 11/01/2021 12:19

Eeek that was really really long Blush

Shrillharridan · 11/01/2021 13:06

floofy
I get you.
Ds1 is y13 and is really stressed.
Mum is poorly (cough and temp) and as she has copd I've had to go and take her obs. Took over an hour to get through to the gp surgery (at 10am!) and they are calling her back at some point today. Obv need to avoid hospital atm. Hopefully they will prescribe her some steroids or antibiotics.
I'll have to go back down later.
Ds2 (y7) is plugging away at the online learning. The teachers are doing their best but its SO dry/boring.
I'm sat in bed mning and watching staged on Netflix.
I'm SO bored. Its too cold and wet to go out walking (for me anyway!) and I did all the cleaning at the weekend.
I need to find something to take up my time that isn't napping/eating.
Sotd 4160 temptation

riotlady · 11/01/2021 14:38

SOTD Zoologist Bat

@Shrillharridan I received my samples this morning, thank you! Very excited to smell them later. Posted yours yesterday so hopefully should be there soon

riotlady · 11/01/2021 14:46

Missed this whole page when I posted- I'm sorry everyone's having such a rough time, everything is just utterly shit at the moment. I don't know how I'm going to cope if nurseries close.

@Calmasasleepycat that story is so lovely, what a kind person!

@FloofyIsFragrantButFuckedOff that sounds like a good routine you have going, mcdonalds breakfast is the best! Things are so tough at the moment it's having little things to look forward to that get you through

@Shrillharridan hope your mum is doing ok

OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 11/01/2021 15:19

im also low and weepy and just nto finding any joy in anythign right now. just mindlessly scrolling through the same old things looking for anythignt o distract me tbh

Shrillharridan · 11/01/2021 17:23

Mums got antibiotics and has got have a covid test.
Had IT issues with ds2s learning today but sorted now.
Its cold and wet and crap out there.
I may go back to bed!

OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 11/01/2021 17:32

honestly, im just tired of everything. its my birthday tomorrow and i cant even muster up any energy for the cheesecake ive been promised. it all just seems too bleak and i dont even want to blind buy perfume which normally i love doing. blargh

Shrillharridan · 11/01/2021 17:42

Well I hope your day tomorrow is better than expected one
And maybe the cheesecake will help? X
I'm in a foul mood.
I really should just take myself off to bed

OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 11/01/2021 17:45

thansk shrill ill just be happy if everything is calm and quiet. the last couple of years have been an absolute disaster in terms of family health and my own health and im just worn out from it all. if nothing else, id just like this year to be calmer than the last couple

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 11/01/2021 20:19

SOTD Diptyque Eau Duelle. 💐💐💐 for everyone who is fed up. My colleague tested positive today - I know their family has been pretty cavalier with the rules, plus a school aged child, but it feels close to home.

1frenchfoodie · 11/01/2021 21:06

Hi all. SOTD Comme des garçons x Monocle Sugi; fresh bright lemony cyprus to perk me up to tackle my to do list at work. It worked! Though probably down to feeling 100% again after antibiotics for tonsil infection - hope your mum’s antibiotics have the same effect Shrill

Sorry it is so rough for so many of you. Jan/feb is a yucky time to be locked down for what feels like the forseeable. Schools still open here in France though pics/tales of crowds out over the weekend and clusters of the ‘UK variant’ dont bode well. Closer to home the plumber who came to try to fix dodgy heating (unsuccessfully), for the third time, and instead took us from tepid to icy cold and gave us a gas leak has been to focus of my (internalised) ire.

Lotsofpots · 12/01/2021 07:32

Happy new year you lot.

I've decided to get my fragrance mojo back, and have ordered a bloom sample pack to get me back on the wagon.

I have basically lived in Liz Earle no 15, 4160 white Queen and a bit of 4160 rhubarb and custard or PP fireside for the last few months.

1frenchfoodie · 12/01/2021 09:10

SOTD Heeley Eau Sacrée. Delicious warm spicyness, lots of olibanum. Was from a sample I’d dismissed - think I must have got it in warm weather where it is delicious in the chill (inside and out as central heating still on the blink).

MissBattleaxe · 12/01/2021 09:40

Hang in there everyone. The end is in sight. I think mothers are finding it so hard because we're carrying everyone and trying to smooth things over whilst trying to make sense of it ourselves. Your kids won't notice this , but you're providing them with love, security and reassurance, so give yourself some credit.

I have a DS aged 14 and a DS aged 11 and they are both in training for the Eating Olympics.

SOTD LUSH Frangipani. It reminds of when I went to one of their Renaissance spa treatments. It was so beautiful and they were just rolling it out but then COVID happened. The perfume is gorgeous though - like marzipan blossom!

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 12/01/2021 11:42

SOTD M&G Dark Rum.

KateMAB · 12/01/2021 17:47

Sotd MM jazz club. I'm going off it slightly as DD1 kept asking if I could smell burning,

FloraMacDonald · 13/01/2021 10:47

Grin @kateMAB. I love Jazz Club. I think I prefer it to BTF, which I find a bit sweet.
Dagian today. It's a scrubber. Smells like cat wee at first.

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