Daylight savings time has come which officially means you tired boss the days are getting longer and the temperatures are getting warmer. Which further means we gotta be mindful of what we’re smelling like while we’re traipsing through these airports and getting on and off these aircraft. Y’all know how I feel about scents and don’t nobody want to sit next to you smelling like you helped Jesus carry the cross up to Calvary *Cues Calvary by Richard Smallwood and Victory*
In this post, I will be sharing the best fragrances to wear while traveling. These results are based on two factors, freshness and staying power. When you’re on a long haul flight, smelling clean for an extended period of time is essential.
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Colonia Pura by Acqua Di Parma
This is one of my favorite colognes to travel in at the moment. I purchased it in a duty-free shop in Italy while looking for something fresh and new!
Colonia Pura opens with intense fresh notes of sunny bergamot, juicy orange, and delicate petit grain. It seduces with a heart sublimated by a harmonious combination of spicy notes of coriander, combined with the sensual floral accent of jasmine sambac absolute and narcissus absolute. Finally, it embraces with a refined duo of woody notes: cedarwood and patchouli, while white musk notes close the composition.
Colonia Pura is a luminous, fresh and transparent fragrance. It embodies the contemporary side of Italian lifestyle.
Chloe by Chloe
#classic
This one you’re probably familiar with if you’ve spent any amount of time exploring fragrances. It’s definitely an oldie but goodie!Recently, while I was wearing this, someone told me, “You smell like you just took a bath!”
Bathing is essential.
Chloe begins with a combination of floral powdery notes, hints of peony, lychee and springtime freesia. The airy, flirtatious head notes drift away to reveal the richer and more sensational side of the rose. The distinctive character of this unique rose is accompanied by magnolia and lily of the valley, as well as subtle intimations of warm amber and elegant cedarwood.
Well, come on Lily of the valley, Joy!
Amazing Grace by Philosophy
Oh, how sweet the sound!
Amazing Grace is Philosophy’s best selling fragrance. It’s amazingly clean and beautifully feminine. The fragrance features notes of welcoming bergamot to greet the senses, irresistibly soft, clean muguet blossoms, and lasting musk with its classic beauty.
Love In White by Creed
This one gives all types of FLOUS vibes. (And by FLOUS, I mean Michelle Obama. Who else would I be referring to?) It has been reported that Michelle Obama’s signature fragrance is Love in White by Creed.Whenever I’m walking through the airport wearing Love In White, I’m complimented on how “pretty” I smell.
Love in White is a floral oriental scent that features top notes of orange zest then blends into rice iris white jasmine magnolia daffodils and rose. The scent finishes off with sandalwood vanilla and ambergris.
I know, that sounds like a lot. But seriously, it’s Michelle approved.
Virgin Island Water by Creed
This is another favorite. It’s currently on myVirgin Island Water opens with a citrusy cocktail of white bergamot, Jamaican lime, and Sicilian mandarin. The citruses are accompanied by a note of copra, the white inner flesh of a coconut. The heart includes intensive Indian jasmine, sweet hibiscus, exotic ylang-ylang, and cold, spicy ginger. The base of the composition includes sugar cane, musk, and white rum.
Talk about walking around smelling like the beach!
Alright, guys and gals, that’s all for now. But I’m interested to know, what are some of your favorite fragrances to travel in? Drop your recommendations below.
Thanks for reading, and as always, pray fervently and travel often!
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Breakfast With Tiffani Spotlight: Shena Smith and Daughters United In Christ, Inc.
When I turned 30 in 2014, I began to experience an even heavier burden for teens that I believed could no longer be addressed in the confines of a classroom. After praying on this matter for a few days, God confirmed through my quiet time, students, and wise counsel that all my engaging, coaching, and empowering of my students had to break out the classroom. I could not address the social and emotional unrest my students experienced in a class period, let alone my lunch period as the masses would come daily to speak and inquire on their fears, doubts, and pursuit of truth.
Shena: I have learned the beauty of authenticity through mentoring. I remember when a student first looked to me and called me her mentor. I was an amalgamation of anxiety, gratitude, and fear. When the young lady explained to me why she wanted my mentorship, it was not because I had it all together or because I did everything right. It was actually the opposite: she chose me because” I did not pretend to know it all and that I relentlessly pursued to do what’s right.” Thereby, it seems that mentoring is not only about teaching your audience what to do or what not to do, or how to meet success, but also reflecting genuineness of who you are and genuineness of how you arrived to where you stand today. Mentoring has shaped my character primarily because through it, I am answering the call to action Titus speaks of in Titus 2:3-5 regarding “older women” teaching and advising the young. As women take on this role rightfully and reverentially, we get to bring honor to God’s word!! That amazes me. Through my conduct, my beliefs, my faith – I get to make Christ real, I mean really real to another young lady. Overall, I share with my girls often how I didn’t experience mentors or counsel as a teen and I wished that I had someone who could have poured into me. Each girl I encounter, I imagine if she too is that same young girl who needed what I needed, but had no one answering the call. “The harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few” and I choose to be one of the “few.”
Carl: Mentoring is important for two reasons. First, it allows you to share your time, knowledge, and resources to positively impact the life of another person by guiding them along the way. And secondly, it gives your mentee the opportunity to not only learn from you, but to also feel supported and encouraged as they navigate through their journey. I think it’s extremely important that as we climb the “ladder of life” we always reach back and pull up as many people as we can. That’s the true essence of mentorship.
, by Mark Batterson. In the book, Mark had a chapter where he talked about his life goals and those of people he is connected to and how consistently “praying circles” around those goals affected how they were accomplished.