 comment came off as sort of snotty, I’m sorry, I meant for it to be helpful and wishful!
I’d hope they’d keep it but Flying Fox was, at least in these parts, a huge favorite too and now it’s either unavailable or only available in what I’m told is unrecognizable form–evidently it used to have far more jasmine. Makes me worry they’re not able to source the ingredients to keep making jasmine bombs…
Not that I want to provoke a run on Lust, or at least not before I go can grab a handful of solids for myself tomorrow
Flying Fox is gone? Ugh.
Apparently it’s only available in some jurisdictions, and even then not in a form that’s anything like the old one. I’ve actually only smelled the more recent version, and could not figure out why folks on the blogs kept describing it as such a big jasmine–what I smelled was pretty weak sauce. It seems I encountered the reform :/
SOTD is Elie Saab eau de Parfum. Haven’t worn this one in a while, so it was a nice change.
I was on The Body Shop’s Web page and saw their new spa line. Some of the products look nice. Has anyone tried them? And, I finally saw the summer fig that I want to try. Anyone try that one? Thoughts please….
It’s a gorgeous day today and the one day for the next week or so that I’m going to have my husband around so, of course, my blasted head aches. I’m inside having a rest after taking the kitties out for a fun game of “tangle your human in the leash”, bonus points awarded if they could gnaw a forbidden plant while we were distracted.
I would love to be wearing perfume today but the bacon smell made me queasy, so not gonna risk it. If my meds kick in I’m planning on wearing Pulp; otherwise I will live vicariously through y’all. I think I may whip up a quick batch of espresso butter cookie dough to bake later so I can enjoy the scent of browning butter, which can’t possibly smell bad.
Do consider sharing the recipe!
By the way, I do like Montale’s Chocolate greedy, does anyway have a coffee perfume to go with it? It lacks that extra umph!
I use this recipe:
With the following adaptations: I always double it because I can freeze or refrigerate half the dough.
I use a whole egg instead of just the yolk.
I roll the dough into 2″ diameter logs in waxed paper and chill, then slice (about 1/2″ thick) and toss in the sugar just before baking. They end up quite thin and have a better texture this way.
I use Demerara sugar instead of the brown/white mixture.
Mine usually bake a tiny bit longer.
I have a similar recipe for brown-butter cookies, but flavored with cardamom.
That sounds good. Actually, one could add spice easily to this recipe. The espresso powder doesn’t actually make them taste like coffee, just enhances the toffee-like flavor.
Thanks for the recipe. I run a “Munch munch club” with my grade six students and plan to make these cookies and then tell them that they just had their first taste of coffee. I like to get them hooked early.
My grandmother got us all hooked on coffee EARLY–at around age 3 or 4. She would give us a mixture of coffee and milk with a lot of sugar. Probably about 1/3 coffee and 2/3 milk. Gradually, as we got older, it would be more coffee and less milk. I was drinking coffee straight (although still with sugar) by about age 10. My mother thought it was terrible; she said drinking coffee would stunt my growth. Considering that I am 5’9″, if it did stunt my growth it may be a good thing!
Have you tried Noir Exquis? Or, having just smelled a bunch of Montales, I thought their Intense Cafe was one of their best (though I did not get to Chocolate Greedy so I can’t compare exactly.)
Look! Forbidden plants! BONUS POINTS!!!!
Sorry the bacon didn’t help – I’m sure the browned butter will.
Mom has a huge patch of mexican feather grass they love to tunnel in and ambush each other. I’m not keen on a trip to the vet for an intestinal blockage, but they think it’s delicious stuff to nibble.
I wish I could properly share the chaos that ensues with three leashed teenage cats and the clumsy humans who are trying to keep from stomping them/strangling anyone/being climbed and bitten.
I’d love to watch you walk those little guys
! Wish I’d leash-trained our guys when they were kittens. I think it would be a blood bath now at 3 years old.
So…I’ve been trying to ‘repurpose’ scents that I don’t wear by experimenting with candles, soap, balm etc. and I can safely report that 9 out of 10 experiments have pretty much been a failure. More Charlton Heston than Heston Blumenthal. Re. Perfume for candles…I think that regular perfume doesn’t work for three main reasons: it’s not oil based and is too liquid so doesn’t blend very well, it’s not concentrated enough so there is no smell, and it burns off too quickly so what little smell there is doesn’t last. BUT if you have fond memories of the things you made at kindergarten/ pre school…ie. Mounds of unusable objects that only a mother could love then have a go.
Balms…mixing perfume with coconut oil ( the oil was in my cupboard ) results in something that looks like the leftover fat from a Sunday roast with a layer of slime on top.
My next project is soap…using tallow as itching this will be a real goer. Once more …and as before ….I won’t be doing any research or following a recipe so don’t imagine the results of mutton fat crossed with YSL Paris will take the perfume world by storm.but who knows – a new ‘note’ maybe come out of it.
I ant have more than 45 cm of bottles in my collection as that is how long my shelf is and I love getting rid of the excess…so here goes. Bring on another disaster.
Spot the typo in the above! All I’m saying is tallow makes a good hard soap compared to most vegetarian options…I’m anti palm oil and am too impatient to use olive oil etc because of hardening time. I don’t want gloppy soap.
Your energy is astounding! I’m going to make a note of soap-making as a possible project for my third life, and bring it on quickly, please! I’ve been forming a plan to teach adult literacy as my contribution to society (if the good people at AL will have me; they didn’t seem very keen when I made enquiries) because my hobbies are so inward-looking. Something to go with embroidery and sewing will be good and soap making at home has appeal: it seems just slightly arcane in this modern day, and sounds like lots of fun. My father told me that during the Depression, his mother made used to make soap and once it sort of exploded all over the kitchen. I’ve no idea about the process, but please do be careful.
I was thinking about perfume fire works …when you light them they go whizzing up to the sky and then poof…a rain of perfume drifts down on all the audience. Wouldn’t that be cool?
All my projects fail but it’s the journey that counts!
Perfumed fire works would be the ultimate cool! Shalimar Catherine Wheels (oh, the elegance)…aldehydic sparklers…vetiver Tom Thumbs!
And– here’s a thought– you could re-tell the rather grisly story of 5 November from a perfumista POV: “Guy Fawkes’ scented message”; “Perfume and Parliament: what Guy Fawkes really wanted”; “‘I just wanted to share the sandalwood,’ says Fawkes”.
Apparently my great-grandmother used to make her own soap (with lard) – because after my grandmother died, my mother found a FORTY-FIVE GALLON crock full of homemade soap in her kitchen pantry.
I suspect that it smelled of pig and wood ash. Yours has got to smell better than that.
I’ve just done the conversion of 45g to litres–wow, that is certainly a lot of lard!
Likewise gobsmacked at the thought!!
My great-aunt also made her soap (and churned butter and raised chickens) during the war (WW2). I believe lard was involved as well as lye. I got the feeling that it could be dangerous.
Yep, that’s the basic recipe – lard and lye. Ugh.
I’ve seen pictures of women with bleeding hands from doing the washing. Sorta took the nostalgia out of it for me!
I’ve made my own soap for a long time. Perfume never worked for me (the alcohol made the soap seize up, so I had soap on a stick