Portia

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Hello Australian Perfume Junkies and friends, So glad to have you drop by Scent Diary. Grab a cuppa or beverage of choice, sit back and check what has happened, been eaten, spritzed and seen in our lives in Sydney, Australia.

At then end please leave us some comments. What or who did you see, do, eat with. Did you spritz, purchase, have arrivals or finish a sample? What’s happening in your world? If you’re writing or reading opinions, we can disagree but keep it nice and try not to give or take offense. Right now the world needs a web of friendships and connection more than ever. We all have perfume and each other in common. That’s a whole lot.

Scent Diary: 21.9-27.9.2026

Monday

I was up VERY late watching TV. So slept through my Aquarobics classes. Got up and discovered spring is a bouncing around here in Sydney. Sunshine, warmth and a beautiful breeze. Took Momo straight out for a wee.

Jacques Fath Lilas Exquis

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

1. Don’t Touch The Phone
2. Avoid Negative Input (TV, Socials)
3. Drink Water
4. Sunlight In Eyes
5. Move Body 3 Minutes
6. One thing I’m grateful for
7. One Small Win
8. Tea, Black Pepper and Turmeric (not every day)

Watered the plants on Jin’s balcony. They are very excited about

Came in to start my Trivia Q&A but lost an hour or so to social media and blogs. No drama.

NOPE! I’m starving. Had lunch. Forgot to take a pic. Soz. Chicken, Carrot, Onion, Hummus Sandwiches. Y U M !

OK, It’s nearly 1pm and I’m finally ready to Trivia Q&A.

Thank everything I had quite a bit of the work already done for this weeks Trivia Q&A. I sat here at the computer with no break or even stand ups and went into flow state. It was like the work was already in my head, I just needed to get it into the computer. Written, printed, emailed to the Queens all before 4.30pm.

Celebrated by opening a new arrival, Obvious Parfums Un Oud. Not a bad synthetic oud. Comfortable, spicy, fungal wood and not a combat zone.

Fed and walked Momo. She was bloody starving. Poor baby.

Read. Chilled.

Jin and I went to the aquatic centre. Jin hit the Body Balance class and gym. I did an AquaZumba class.

Home.

Dinner.

Fed and walked Momo.

Berdoues Maasai Mara. It’s turned cool and damp.

Bed.

Tuesday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Today is cool and grey. Momo was positively frisky on our early walk this morning.

Berdoues Maasai Mara. WARMING ME UP!

Doing the laundry. Dusting. May vacuum, may not. Let’s see.

Hit the Post Office, there were a few parcels. Nothing perfumed.

Got some blogging done. Social media and emails.

Home. Lunched. Ham & Salad Toasted Bagel. MMMM

Laundry.

Fed Momo. Took her for a wander in the very London-like spitting mist and chilly wind. Beautiful and refreshing. That is the face of a happy pooch.

Jin came home while I was hanging laundry. He’s off to meet a mate.

BUBBLE BATH.

Jean Patou Joy Forever

Read and napped.

Excellent sugar reading!

Got my Trivia bag together. Ready to rock the week.

We were super busy tonight 107 players! Lots of fun and laughs.

Home.

Fed and walked Momo. You can’t really tell but it’s foggy and there’s a misty drizzle.

Jacques Fath Velours Boisé

Read.

Bed

Wednesday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Histoires de Parfums 1969

It’s a cool and cloudy morning. I have a very long list of tasks. Which will probably get ignored. My head is just not in the game.

Last load of laundry for the week. Folding some of the dry stuff

Lunch was same as yesterday Toasted Bagel with Ham & Salad. YUM!

Gisella, who is our girlfriend and lives upstairs, and I did some planting in our backyard strip. We have had some deaths back there over winter and I wanted to give some extra fullness to the established plants. I bought some tube stock because they tend to naturalize and jump start better.

There are four new Leptospermum Starry Night. It’s a beautiful Aussie native that the pollinators adore, doesn’t grow very tall but can broaden out a couple of meters.

One Camellia sasanqua Sparkling Burgundy (three have died while waiting to be replanted, damnit!). It looks bright pink here but the flowers are a pinkish red purple. Fingers crossed we have some success.

Here is Gisella having a plant.

Fed and walked Momo.

Reading.

Parfums Gres Cabochard

Went to work. It was a bit quiet tonight. we had fun though.

Home.

Fed and walked Momo. Spitting rain. Cold and wonderful.

Thursday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Cartier L’Heure Fougueuse IV

Fed and walked Momo. The spring wildflowers are blooming in the cemetery.

Post Office run. Nothing fragrant. Grabbed a roast chook from the supermarket for lunch tomorrow.

Made some lunch. Carrot sticks and French Onion Dip. HA! PLUS, against all good health and diabetes recommendations I ate an Iced Doughnut with sprinkles. GAH! So good.

Guess which film I decided to watch some of, curled up with Momo on the couch?

BUBBLE BATH

Guerlain Sha-Lemur

A crew of us went to Wentworth Park Greyhound races tonight. Betty, Gisella, Jin and I arrived super early so we snuck off for dumplings. Phil joined us there but I forgot to take a pic with all five of us.

It was a fun crew. Many had never been to the Greyhounds live. The track closes next month so it was a fond farewell for us. We even ran into the trainer who had given us Jinx and Paris. His dog came 5th but he told us it would. Jin did our betting and we won or placed in almost every race. Very cool.

There was hardly anyone else at the venue. We had a party all to ourselves. HEAVEN.

Home. Jin went straight to bed.

Fed and walked Momo.

Tonight is a pre full moon.  It’s usually so hard to take pics of. Tonight it wanted to be shot.

Blogged, Read.

Boucheron Jaipur Homme

Bed

Friday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Fed and walked Momo.

L’Occitane Iris Bleu Iris Blanc

The sun is shining so brightly today on my 58th Birthday. I spent the morning making Mum’s Chicken Salad sandwich filling. Headed down to the supermarket to grab a few extra things.

On the way to lunch I picked up Aunty Ann and we met BFF Kath at work. We had a little picnic in the shade.

Home. Quick ablutions.

Jin arrived and fell asleep on the couch.

Serge Lutens Five O’Clock au Gingembre. A perfect fit for a cool Spring night with a full moon and out with my love.

Off to town. Jin drove. Look at that moon!

Jin booked early parking so we could go find some dinner.

Woo Hoo! Tried a brand new Vietnamese. The food was ENORMOUS and the couple that run it so sweet and friendly.

Then we went to Dracula the ballet. It’s a classical juke boxscore, with many of the long time favourite pieces combined into a story. The emphasis was on lifts and tricks, and gymnastic athleticism. There was some lovely dancing from the four ghostesses. They stole the show and every time they hit the stage the whole rooms energy lifted. Also the second lead man floated through the air. He did some really astounding things and made them all look easy, and beautiful. Set, costume and music all good. I came out satisfied.

Home. Jin went straight to bed.

I watched some shit TV.

Vintage Miss Dior extrait.

Bed

Saturday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Burberry Brit Woman EdT

Fed and walked Momo.

Vacuumed.

Watching Ted Lasso Season 4

Obviously NOTHING ELSE GOT DONE!

Jin came home, took ownership of the couch and pooch. Slept happily for a couple of hours.

When he awoke we spent a lovely hour opening everyone’s gifts. What a sensational bunch of loveliness. A couple of fragrant ones included… and SOCKS!

Zara Vetiver Pamplemousse

The Harvest Moon was absolutely stunning this evening.

Then we headed offf for dinner with a few of my mates since teenage years. As we were pulling out of the apartment block Gisella came home so we grabbed her too. Eve and her Mum, Rebecca (one of my teenage girlfriends), Craig (who was a serious heart throb during our school formal years) and his lovely wife Linda. We hit the Freeway Hotel, where I’m hoping we will get a new Trivia soon. It was a lovely evening, so much chatter and catch up. We even got up to dance to the live, one man band.

Home. Fed and walked Momo.

Bed

Sunday

Morning Routine: 10 Minutes.

Jin is already up and on the couch with Momo. These two are the happiest on Sunday morning. It’s Jin’s first day off of the weekend.

Amouage Figment Woman. Candy floss narcissus and incense.

Weather grey and cool.

Fed and walked Momo.

Came here to do some Scent Diary updating.

Jin decided we needed to go back to the Parramatta Park Wisteria walk before they are done. It’s raining so we were almost the only people there. HEAVEN!

Afterwards we headed over to our favourite Japanese All You Can Eat A La Carte restaurant Okami. We met Kath and TinaG there. Food was consumed. Outrageous amounts. So delicious.

Home. Nap.

Yves Saint Laurent Velours

Off to work at Lockie’s Hotel tonight.

It was busy and fun. There was a HUGE Birthday Cake! I’ve never seen anything like it. Eve Greentree bought and brought it. The whole venue got some and I brought some home to share with our mates in the building. Emma did the birthday AI and took the photo.

Home. Jin went off to bed.

BUBBLE BATH

CHANEL No 18 EdT

 

Now it’s your turn. Please tell us something you did, spritzed, ate, wore, bought or finished. Maybe you saw a friend, a show, an exhibition. Maybe you got through the week without having to bury a body. Whatever, please share something with us.

I read and respond to every comment. C’mon, let’s chat.
Portia xx