Lucchesa
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WOSOTD: October. I did a ten minute yoga video this morning then a walk to the post office and pharmacy during another splash of sunshine in a rainy day. Good work, @Seajewel and @Amazonia!!!
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Yes, yes, yes, thank you all for keeping me motivated!!! And that line about Amazonia's weather got me out into the bright, unexpected early autumn sunshine since the weather in the Pacific NW is now officially unpredictable (yesterday was supposed to be cloudy, it rained most of the day). If it's nice, I'd better get my ass outside. About a 45 minute walk with some good hills. WOSOTD was Hoiru because I didn't manage to get anything on before heading out for a very stressful doctor's appointment, and Hoiru was the most comforting scent I had in my car (usual purse decants were in my travel bag -- need to remedy that!). Hoiru's really lovely, but not exactly motivating. Anyway, the doctor prescribed high intensity interval training and/or weight training and yoga or tai chi. She particularly felt yin yoga (which I pretty much hate) would be good for my anxiety. So I'm going to be finding some online workouts to do. She said sweating every day is something to aspire to, to keep the brain healthy. So glad I have you all to keep me going!
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Hello, witchy friends! Nice work, @Seajewel and @Madame Mew! I have a decent of the unholy basketball scent coming, too! I hope it works for me. Yesterday two shorter walks: one to the dollar store for more envelopes and one to the post office for the lady of the Vote Forward letters. WOSOTD: Two Sheep and Two Goats which I haven’t worn since last fall but it’s SO beautiful!!!!!! And lasted all day and apparently got onto my Fitbit because I can still smell it on my left wrist 36 hours later. Today’s scent: Studie Einer Zeige which has an almost fizzy feel. I did a long walk but not an intense one. I kept stopping to take pictures of autumn leaves.
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WOSOTD: Black Annis. I walked to -- ready for it? -- the post office. To mail more GOTV letters. Pretty much a slug the rest of the day.
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Hi, all!!! WOSOTD: Dead Leaves and Red Carnation. I made my son leave the house 45 minutes early for his orthodontist appointment (I said an hour, but he didn't comply) so that we could walk the dog on a trail near the orthodontist. She is reluctant to walk starting from home but loves to walk in any unfamiliar area -- park, hiking trail, she was ecstatic to be out exploring. We only got in a 30 minute walk because of drive time, but it was good, it was outdoors, it was better than nothing. An hour is WAY better than nothing, @Madame Mew! @Amazonia, I love the creativity in incorporating your granddaughter into your workout!
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Cedarwood, Vanilla Absolute & Tolu Balsam
Lucchesa replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Wet, this was all cedar bark, and it was loud, like you'd just fallen off the swing at the playground and were sitting in the freshly re-mulched cedar chips. But it calmed down pretty quickly on me. It's still cedar dominant, but the balsam is there too, and possibly the vanilla, though it is having trouble standing up to the cedar. There's definitely a sweetness, but evergreens always sweeten on my skin. I wouldn't say it's obviously vanillic. One of the most beautiful realistic cedars I've tried recently. -
Not sure what year my Twisted Oak Tree decant is. I like it a lot. It has the cologney feel of the dead leaves note with wood and ivy. Very outdoors in the fall. It's not aquatic on me, nor am I getting any appreciable moss, and over its wear length, which is a good eight hours or so, it softens and sweetens as forest scents tend to do on my skin.
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Good work, everyone! @Kelthara, you take care of yourself in the way that is best for you. @Supertrooper Omni I've never thought of putting BPAL in my leave in conditioner! This opens up new possibilities. Yesterday I wore October again because I love it so much so I should wear the heck out of it while it is actually October. And I walked a different direction than usual, and I did some modest 3-minute intervals, trying to bump up the walking intensity a bit. Today I put on The Twisted Oak Tree, another Weenie from years past, and played tennis for the first time in about a year. My aunt and I are pretty terrible, but we have a lot of fun. Later in the afternoon I talked with my son's therapist for an hour. I was out running errands in a beautiful neighborhood, so instead of heading home and taking the call there, I just parked and walked around the autumn streets with views of Puget Sound. Not really exercise, but movement, and a chance to be outside. The nice days will be far fewer and farther apart soon.
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Hello, witchy workout friends! I've got some catching up to do. Sunday my workout scent was The Illustrated Woman. Damn, why don't I wear that more often??? It's so good! I walked to the post office in the rain and got very damp. Yesterday's WOSOTD: Blood and Judgement So Well Commeddled. A lot more almondy than leathery from what I remembered. My son and I took our dog for a little hike, about 40 minutes, in a local park. Today: checked the date and am wearing the 13 from October 2017, one of my favorite 13s, with spices and coffee. I walked to the post office (again, I'm writing dozens of GOTV postcards) and did a little extra turn around a small park in that neighborhood. And I'll try to do at least 10 minutes of yoga this evening. Good luck with the grandkid, @Amazonia! I hope things are working out, @VetchVesper.
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@VetchVesper All the love in your direction!!! I'm sorry things are hard right now. Hi, witchy workout friends! Yesterday I wore In Templum Dei, one of the Only Lovers Left Alive scents that I find autumnal. It's a wonderful lightly spicy resin. I walked around Green Lake. The weather was blustery but dry, then it poured all night. But I managed to find some non-raining times today. This morning I put on Canis Major and did a jog to the postbox about a half mile from my house when I realized our mail had already come. I read somewhere that jogging 5 minutes a day adds time to your life. I did about 7. But my knees are not happy about it. Later in the day Canis Major had faded, so I applied some Bogle and took a 45 minute walk. I used to love Bogle, but it's a little sweet for my current tastes. This evening I did a 10 minute yoga from a YouTube video. I too have always had a thing for Jeff Goldblum. I'm so glad you don't find that weird.
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Canis Major is a lovely, cozy scent. There's an initial sharp coolness, the star-speckled qualities, but it doesn't last long on my skin. Soft brown musk dominates with soft dry hay, not the aggressively lemony note that hay sometimes turns into. This reminds me a lot of Coyote without the buckskin -- I wonder if there is some amber in here as well.
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Hi, witchy friends!!! Today I put on In the Forest and took my dog for a hike at Carkeek Park. Less than an hour but it was a lovely day and wonderful to be out in the autumn woods. @Madame Mew, no, I don’t recommend Fitbit. My original and very expensive one was a gift from my best friend. I liked it a lot — it even counted heart rate and stairs. But it went blank shortly before the one year warranty expired, and they sent a replacement, which only lasted a couple months. I replaced that with the cheapest possible Fitbit just so I’d stay with the platform for my friend’s sake, and now I’m having the overcounting issue, which apparently is really common. My dad has had his Garmin fitness tracker for three or four years without problems. And if you have a phone with you all the time, most of them have pretty good step counters.
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Love to all of you, and sorry for being MIA -- I was in California visiting family. And kind of a tough trip. Yesterday I got up early to walk my sister to work since I was leaving a couple hours later, so I got a nice AM walk in but forgot to wear any perfume (too early for my brain to be online). I put on Alice afterwards because my mom likes it and I knew the comfort would be good in the airport and airplane. Today's WOSOTD was October! Perfect for this morning, nice crisp early autumn day. I had to go to the hardware store, which google said was a 29 minute walk each way, and I had exactly an hour to do it, but it ended up only taking 40 minutes, even with time finding and buying the item I needed. My fitbit has gone off the rails. It gave me a bunch of steps for washing my hands. I'm really annoyed at this. I need to break out some Death Adder!
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Edgar Miche, Mysterious Explorer. Leather! Not too active today but walked my sister's dog for about 20 minutes this morning.
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Edgar Miche is a dusty leather scent on me, and like thekittenkat I get that slight chemical tang leather scents sometimes impart on my skin. I get no cardamom (which is okay because it sometimes gives me a skin reaction), clove or galangal. Eventually the leather softens, the chemical smell fades, and I can smell the sandalwood. It ends up as soft dusty leather and sandalwood. Nice, but there are other leather scents more easily available (Marquis de Carabas) that I like better.
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Today was a travel day. Lots of errands to run this morning — groceries, bank, pet food — but no structured workout time until I got to the airport and passed security. Then I had about half an hour to take a walk. Dragging my luggage. I think my fitness tracker has gone off the rails, though. It thinks I’ve walked over 6 miles today which I find hard to believe. Though I did have to walk back to the bank because I left my ATM card there... I knew it was going to be stressful so I put on Water of Notre Dame before leaving for the airport. I’d say it was neutral — more of a meditation than a workout scent. Hi, @Kelthara! 118 days is amazing! I’m glad you’re back on track. Awesome work, everyone!
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Welcome, @Supertrooper Omni! And I’m too lazy to tag the rest of y’all, but good workouts, everyone! Today I got inspired by @Amazonia’s long walks and put on some Startled Toad (which I thought I had a low partial of and it turns out it’s a whole bottle, woo hoo!). It was my last day to make a return at TJ Maxx, about 2.5 miles away, lots of hills, so I walked instead of driving. From there I met my son at the vet for Abby’s annual physical, a good ploy for making my son get a little outdoor exercise. He walked home while Abby was being seen, and I walked her home when she was done. 13,500 steps up to now per my fitness tracker! And Startled Toad was great.
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@Seajewel Welcome! Any progress is good progress! I missed Hay Moon and am sorry. It seems to be very popular. The champaca kept me from trying You Get a Lifetime; it rarely agrees with me. But I LOVE Startled Toad. Maybe I'll wear that tomorrow. Good workouts, everyone! And @Amazonia, frankly I wouldn't want to encounter Klaus under a bridge. Today I had a busy day and knew I had to grab a workout this morning before my lecture. I managed to get in a 20-minute half walk, half jog. And halfway through I realized -- I forgot step 1! I didn't have any perfume on. I went home and applied Cat Event Exorcist.
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On me, Cat Event Exorcist combines cuddly brown musk with woods. I don't get an aquatic component, though the holy water may be contributing a cool feeling that balances the warmth of the musk. I only get a whisper of dry clove, and if I hadn't looked at the ingredient list, I wouldn't have noticed the frankincense. The soft drydown is gently woody brown musk, and it stays at this skin scent level for quite a while.
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Well-aged decant. A Demonstration of Affectionate Excitement starts out similar to Cathedral, with cedar and that frankincense that mimics cedar. I'm not sure I could differentiate the ho wood, but there was that fresh sharp bamboo note. So: opening: cedary frankincense and bamboo. In the next stage, the bamboo receded and the myrrh and beeswax began to partner with the woods and frankincense, so kind of a honeyed Penitence. Gradually the woods began to fall away, leaving incense and beeswax, with the latter lasting longest on my skin. Lovely at every stage.
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Welcome, @a_bear! Hi, everyone! Good workouts! @Amazonia, my daughter has a heavy bag in our basement. It was what she asked for for Xmas last year. I have no idea what to do with it so have just left it alone, but she uses it regularly. I like wearing manly man scents, too; she tends towards softer and sweeter (Daybreak and Irish Coffee Buttercream are favorites of hers). @Madame Mew & a_bear, thanks for the yoga suggestions! Today's WOSOTD: A Demonstration of Affectionate Excitement. It happens to be the first scent in my decant box, and I kept it but never reviewed it, so I'll remedy that now. It started off woody, then softened and sweetened quite a bit. A friend I hadn't seen for a while wanted to walk the lake, so I rode my bike to meet her, and we did the 2.8 mile circuit at something more like a stroll than a workout rate for me. But it was a gorgeous sunny day and was wonderful to be out. Then I rode my bike to the post office and back home, which got my heartrate up more. And after that I walked a few blocks to a friend's house because she wanted my dog to check her backyard for raccoon smells. Abby decided the raccoons had moved on.
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Negative COVID test results landed this morning! (As I was 99.3 percent sure that they would.) Today's WOSOTD: Dead Leaves and Vanilla Incense. It really felt like early fall this morning. I walked the dog to the local bookstore, about a mile away, to buy a birthday gift for my mother in law, then Abby wanted to continue on to the pet food store a couple blocks farther and get a treat. When I got her home, I went back out and walked to the natural food store for a bottle of wine and some goodies for the gift. (Abby can go in the bookstore but not the grocery store, and we had a traumatic incident this spring with her being abducted by a do-gooder who thought she was uncomfortable tied up in front of the supermarket.) Anyway, 5 miles according to my step counter, not sure how long because Abby can be poky, but definitely a lot of time out in the bright sunlight, which emerged midday from the gloom of the morning. DL & VI was nice but its staying power was not up to that of Elf, which lasted and lasted. Maybe a better yoga scent than walking.
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Dead Leaves and Vanilla Incense is a lovely, light DL blend with just a hint of vanilla on me and the kind of incense that is sometimes described as white or pale. It strikes a nice balance between the earthy leaves and the ethereal incense, barely sweetened by the vanilla. Wear length on me is probably a little less than average, though.
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Awesome workouts, everyone. And CLOSETS, @VetchVesper! @Amazonia, a 4.2 mile walk with hills and headwinds in 51 minutes is badass enough for Lady Death Savage, to be sure. Today, Elf! Another walk, this one north to the little frisbee golf park about 1.3 miles from my house. 38 minutes all told -- I would have gone a bit longer but had to get back home to take my husband for a COVID test. @Madame MewYoga sculpt sounds interesting! Do you hold the weights or are they the kind you wrap around your arms with velcro?
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I'm in too! I love this idea!!! 1) My main goal is to preserve my mental health by getting outside as much as I can. A week ago I couldn't go outside because of wildfire smoke, and it just about pushed me over the edge. So, grab a walk whenever it's not pouring down rain. Subsidiary goals: try some online yoga, cardio or strength training. My daughter's school has a daily 20 minute fitness class I could try. 2) Today's selection: Gacela of the Dark Death. Flipping beautiful! Foresty scent to get me outdoors. 3) I walked around Green Lake. About 3.5 miles total from my house. Takes about 45-50 minutes. 4) I'm so glad I got my workout in today! Gacela is a good autumn hiking scent. Or autumn staying indoors scent, but we don't care about that. Yay, @VetchVesper @Madame Mew & @Amazonia!!! (Is ping pong a euphemism?) Yay, Wanda, Antikythera Mechanism and SO!