[Women's] SOTD Saturday 3rd of June 2023

[foxbins]

It's a lovely summer day here, not too hot. I'm wearing Jour d'Hermes. It can sometimes go a little celery-ish on me, but today it's perfect.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Creed Scent of Oger

 

[*dora*]

Happy BNanniversary, shadesofbleu! 🍾
Happy belated birthday, Reiu

I'm wearing Maai Bogue from a sample.

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[hednic]

SOTE: Siecle by Fragonard

 

[HouseOfPhlegethon]

Currently pouring rain outside. We need it.

White Patchouli by Tome ford.

Belated Birthday wishes for Reiu!

 

[Pippin06]

SOTE--Allure Homme Sport Extreme

 

[cazaubon]

Thanks @Trilby Lark and @CookBot , hoping my excitement will return at some point. I’m just accepting it and going with the flow.

 

[Shycat]

A very happy Basenotes Anniversary to @shadesofbleu

I had a pleasant day out in my backyard yesterday--moving along at a slow, back-friendly pace, trimming the burning bushes back and pulling a few weeds, leaving them laying where they fall for another day. I've almost got my pool pristine, and recall I have a six foot natural wood picket fence. It's doesn't exclude or demand excessive privacy, but along with trees, bushes, and strategic gardening I have a genuine sense of privacy.

I'm all sweaty and really quite dirty and I turn around to find a very small old woman standing behind me. I'm 5'3. She...must have been around 4' 8" since she came up to my shoulder. She asked "Now are you Brenda? Are you waiting for me to bring you Vidalia onions?" She had a bag of Vidalia onion sets in her hand.

OH, this is a test of my character. Very bad things occurred to me in the first second.😈

1. Yes, I am Brenda. Give me those.
2. No, I am not Brenda. Give me those anyway.

We had a nice chat. I was defensive. "I'm just getting over a back injury. I can't care for my flowers like I usually do. Things usually look so much better." As in: Normally, you can tell this is a daylily bed. I found the inner strength to stop whining after just that one declaration.

Okay, those three declarations. But I mean honestly! Of all years! Normally, I'd could flag people down on the highway to brag on my daylilies, and point some stunning ones that I hybridized myself. This year? "I did manage to spray some poison ivy with Round-Up. Would you like to see it?"

She tells me stopped at my house even though my car is burgundy and not really red, because she saw all the flowers in the front little bed. (Oooooo, I liked that!) I smiled and asked her if she'd like to come back today, and that I'd dig and divide a pink daylily for her--it's on the edge of the bed....and it felt like an apology for all the weeds, and a friendly thing to do since said she'd lost her husband this last November to cancer. She said okay, and though somehow (ageism, and the fact that she couldn't find Brenda) I doubted she'd be able to find my house again, I spaded off some daylilies, just a few off the edge of a big clump.

Today she rang the bell at a very civilized hour of 11am, and we walked back to get her six fans of "Shores of Time" that I had ready for her. So truly a nice woman, she let me show off another visible-only-because-it's-on-the-edge specimen that was in good bloom.

I had to give her six fans of "Shores of Time" because I know women. I am one. I know somewhere there is a woman named Brenda who will get three fans of "Shores of Time."




sotd: Lily and Spice

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Guerlain Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus. A very water lighter take on the original Mitsouko. Makes me think of a pond with lilies.

 

[CookBot]

I had to give her six fans of "Shores of Time" because I know women. I am one. I know somewhere there is a woman named Brenda who will get three fans of "Shores of Time."

I haven't seen a daylily with a ruffled edge like that. Very pretty.

 

[kosui no kaori]

Good evening.

For once in my life I want it to be Monday. I want the weekend to fast forward.

Day one of the sale was successful but incredibly overwhelming and problematic. Tomorrow is day two.

SOTD was Le Lion.

I hope that you feel better soon, @ineespenes ❤️‍🩹

Happy Birthday to @shadesofbleu 🥳🎂

@Shycat, what a thoughtful and generous gesture! I laughed at your intrusive onion thoughts. Those lilies are beautiful - like plush, ruffled dresses. I hope that the woman - and Brenda - enjoys them ❤️

Have a great evening.

No SOTE tonight.

 

[Shycat]

I haven't seen a daylily with a ruffled edge like that. Very pretty.

I like this "phase" of the ruffled daylily edge trend. It's a tetraploid--some chemical treatment of some kind of something (let me vague that up for you) produces plants with double DNA. It gives a daylily this thick sense of substance. The flowers can be bred for more complexity and color variations--everything pushes to maximum possibility. These edges eventually became so flamboyant that some were called "chicken fat."

Shores of Time is just a fine daylily in every respect--even being lightly fragrant. I could go on forever about what make it a great daylily. You can see more pictures of interesting advances by Googling Petit, Floyd Cove, Lambertson, Frank Smith, and generally something like 2023 New Introductions. Tetraploidy gives the substance, but be cautioned that they are still daylilies that last one day--and the thicker the substance they can "melt" and look messy the next morning.

Plus, Frank Smith generously enhances his photos...everybody does to some extent, so don't fall too truly for them...and some colors only come with magnesium fertilizer. Epsom salt. Blooms on the same plant can be different from first bloom to last bloom.

If ones "gets into it" though, like me, since the flowers only last a day? I can go to the garden at the crack of dawn and gather blossoms snapped at the base to admire in a decorative bowl inside where the sun won't fade any color. And at the end of the day? Walk your garden and pick every bloom to smell and admire (or criticize for sun fading) and lastly admire how pretty the top of your compost pile looks. Then the next day there are is no dead heading of messy or wet blossoms, and nothing melted over newer buds waiting for their day in the sun.

Every morning, the garden is new.

 

[Shycat]

Good evening.

For once in my life I want it to be Monday. I want the weekend to fast forward.

Day one of the sale was successful but incredibly overwhelming and problematic. Tomorrow is day two.

SOTD was Le Lion.

I hope that you feel better soon, @ineespenes ❤️‍🩹

Happy Birthday to @shadesofbleu 🥳🎂

@Shycat, what a thoughtful and generous gesture! I laughed at your intrusive onion thoughts. Those lilies are beautiful - like plush, ruffled dresses. I hope that the woman - and Brenda - enjoys them ❤️

Have a great evening.

No SOTE tonight.

Gardeners tend to share--and they will tend to share with anybody (especially when they find themselves over run. Everything I own needs to be pruned or divided. One or the other, and everything needs weeding. And among the sharing gardeners? NOTHING is better than going to a pal with a "score" and saying "Look what I got for free! Here, we can split it."

In that way, gardeners are like Basenoters.... "Look at all these samples--please, take some." Except our beloved babies actually DO multiply. Like samples in the sample basket when you order things from Lucky Scent. One day you wake up and have... Goddam, 350

 

[Trilby Lark]

Much to my surprise, I'm getting somewhat addicted to Jo Malone Peony & Suede Blush. I've been wearing it to bed every night. Flowers! What's happening to me?