The weekend was great: warm, sunny and just perfect for a quick visit to Sonoma. The hardest part was not to wear any perfume: I had a hankering for vanilla perfumes recently, which were completely inappropriate for a wine tasting. But now I’m back and waft happily Spiritueuse Double Vanille (I need to get a decant of it!). My internal batteries and our wine cabinet got recharged but I’m hopelessly behind my blogs reading. But if you’re reading this I want to let you know: I’ll get to all of your posts.
Have a productive and fragrant week!
Undina
Image: a picture I took at one of the wineries. I think this is her site though I couldn’t find this picture anywhere online.
Undina's Looking Glass 
Sounds like a great weekend. We should do that too! Actually, we have wine waiting for us at a local winery that we forgot to pick up!
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Then you have a good reason to go there! :)
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Hi again Undina,
Latiaxis is just Azar! Yes and I really did forget the wine. It is paid for and just waiting for me!
Azar xx
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I wasn’t sure if you wanted me to delete one of two comments, so I left both :)
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I envy you the Indian summer weather – it’s perishing here… And you are so lucky having Sonoma on your doorstep! My local wine outlets are pretty much just supermarkets – we don’t even have an off-licence anymore.
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Wait… What do you mean “Indian summer”? It’s just a regilar September weather! Our Indian summer will come in October ;)
Come visiting: we’ll take you to our favorite wineries.
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I haven’t been to a winery in ages. Of course the ones here on the east coast are nothing like the ones you’re used to.
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There are so many good places to go for a day trip around there that I envy myself sometimes! ;)
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Good you feel relaxed and that your wine cabinet is full again.
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Unfortunately now it’s to go back to work :) Well, at least I can wear a perfume to the office.
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ohhhh, yes you CAN!
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It sounds lovely! I miss Sonoma, and the Russian River Valley area in particular. Which wineries did you visit and/or buy stuff from? Any stuff from Stag’s Leap? Let me live vicariously. :)
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This weekend we went to Sonoma, we didn’t visit Napa. But, in general, most times when we go we visit boutique wineries with less than 10K cases/year production. We go to “big guys” usually only to see grounds.
The best place (wine-wise) out of those we visited yesterday was Ty Caton. Ledson‘s fake castle looked impressive but we tasted enough by that time so we decided to try it another time.
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Hey U,
I’m glad you hade a good weekend! Mine was great too, I was at Pitti Firenze but with lots of wine as well ;)
J.
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And lots of perfumes, I assume? ;)
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Too many perfumes, I didn’t care any more the last day :)
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Buuut, one I love very much. I was writing about it recently, Monsieur from Huitieme Art. I think I have the new love ;) I wore it every night!
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Huitieme Art is the line that I’m very curious about but had almost no chance to explore yet.
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Enjoy your time in Sonoma! I had such a wonderful visit there a few years ago. It was around Christmas, but the weather was beautiful. We did some wine tasting, of course. Looking forward to your stories once you’re back.
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December in Sonoma is just a perfect time: it’s off season so there are not that many tourists but the weather is still great. We usually try to do one of our yearly trips in the first half of December.
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It doesn’t allow me to reply directly… My latest post was about Monsieur and contemporary society. You can take a look what I wrote about it. Huitieme art is about unusual scents, that’s why it has the name “Huitieme Art” :) I think that those scents need to be understood a bit… like almost every Pierre’s creation…
I will get samples in November and I can send some of them to you!
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Usually 5 levels comments nesting is enough but I should probably increase it :)
I do not mind “working” on a perfume as an excercise (e.g. I keep testing again and again Chanel No 5 and Shalimar waiting for the revelation) but with those perfumes I usually do not go farther than just a sample. A perfume that I want to wear should work forme from the first, maybe second try.
Since I stopped buying samples until I’m done testing those I’ve already got (never?), if you get extra samples of the line I’d love to do an exchange with you. Just drop me a line when – and we’ll figure out what I can send you.
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