SOTD: Allure Sensual pure parfum and giving thanks

Today is a feast day and on those days of harvest we must give thanks, so here are few things I am thankful for:

All the wonderful bloggers I now correspond with
The privilage of being able to brew a cup of tea
That I have family and friends to lean on in hard times and good times
That the weather is perfectly cold for today
That there lovely wonderful animals in the world
Lazy Sunday mornings
The joy I take in reading
The simple joys of a midnight feast (like the one I had last night of eggs fried in butter; I got home very late and had not had dinner)
Perfect red lipsticks
My sense of smell
And the beauty of perfumes.
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Osmanthus
Amber

Tea: No. 25

And now for a song that has always made happy, Just Like Heaven by The Cure, this variation from when MTV was actually good, and the very fun showcase called Unplugged:


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image: The Family Feast by Alfred Barber
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SOTD: Allure Sensuelle pure parfum

The lovely sunny spring weather has turned to rainy spring weather. Going through my scent wardrobe I was tempted to bring out my heavy oriental hitters: Organza Indecence, Must, or Un Bois Vanille. But the reality is I simply have come to that time of the year that even when it is cold outside spring is still very visibly here and no autumnal/winter scents are what I want to wear. So instead I am going with Allure Sensualle pure parfum (the only strength of Allure Sensualle I wear), which is very much a floriental scent yet the patchouli used in it has a cool earthy quality to it that makes it appropiate for spring weather. I almost dismissed this image as being to much in the mode of bodice-ripper, but I love the fact that the model is short haired, that is she not the "ideal" of beauty, but she has contemplative alluring quality on her face that well the more I look at the image the more I am drawn to it.

And a quote:

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.-- Peter Ustinov

In these days of craptastic economy I thought this one was highly fitting and appropiate.

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Sensual by Royo