Mother's Day with Estée Lauder and a recipe for the yummiest Peanut Butter Paleo Cookies

Estée Lauder Simple Pleasures Gift Set, Eau de Parfum Spray 30ml and Body Lotion 75ml $85.00 (also contains makeup bag not shown) available on counter and www.esteelauder.com.au until stocks last.

This Sunday marks the 30th Mother's Day I have spent with my gorgeous Mumma, as I've grown older she's only grown wiser and every year I appreciate her so much more than the last. 

Mother's Day is a day to spoil all the lovely generous Mums of the world and I'm going to have so much fun spoiling mine. Most Mothers tend to deprive themselves of lifes little luxuries so as to give their children everything they can. A nice fragrance is an indulgence that most Mother's tend to skip buying for themselves, which is why it makes a thoughtful and sweet pressie.

Estée Lauder has released a selection of favourite fragrances and makeup sets for Mother's Day, which are all extremely beautiful and any Mum would be over the moon to receive along with a cup of tea in bed. For me Estée Lauder's fragrance Pleasures is quite a memorable scent, my favourite grade one teacher Mrs Henderson wore it and I remember smelling it when she would put stickers on my spelling tests, I saved money from my first job to buy it for my Grandmother for her birthday and on sunday I will be giving it to my Mum as a thank you for being my greatest inspiration, best friend and putting up with me for the past 30 years.

Estée Lauder Pleasures is a fresh sheer fragrance, floral notes include Jasmine, lilies, Peonies and exotic Baie Rose. I cannot wait to smell it on Mum when she gives me the best hugs in the world.

If you like to spoil your Mum with some sweet baked treats then here is one of my favourite recipes, these cookies are best enjoyed with a cup of milky tea and lovely long chat. 

PEANUT-BUTTER PALEO GUILT FREE COOKIES

(very technicial measurments and instructions coming up....NOT!)

3/4 cup Almond meal 

1 egg

2 tablespoons of crunchy peanut-butter

2 tablespoons of brown sugar

1 tablespoon of linseeds

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Sprinkle of cinnamon

Half a handful of sultanas or raisins 

1. Mix all ingredients with fork till it forms a very sticky mixture.

2. Using the best tools god gave you, your hands! Roll into ping-pong ball sized pieces.

3. Line a tray with baking paper and arrange your cookie balls in a formation so they don't touch each other.

4. Bake for 12-15mins or till they smell ready!

Happy guilt free baking babes!

Here are a couple of my favourite photos of my beautiful Mother and I, hope you all have a lovely day with your Mother's and if you are not together then celebrate them with their favourite things.

xxx Nella

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'It's all coming up Roses' - Roses De Chloé EDT Fragrance Review

Roses De Chloé 30ml $80 /  50ml  $100  / 75ml $140 available from www.davidjones.com.au

Chloé girls are the epitome of feminine french girl cool, with the most perfectly relaxed tousled hair, only a touch of makeup and usually dressed in the divine cotton lace. With every new Chloé fragrance launched I dream of being as angelic looking as the models in the campaign. Roses de Chloé is the new scent from Chloé which feels like a sister to L'eau De Chloé and the original Chloé EDP meaning the scent still feels very familiar but is slightly more simplistic and uncomplicated with an added floral freshness.

Original key notes of Amber and Cedar Wood take a lower tone with the scent becoming floral focused with a soft  bouquet of Damasena Rose and Magnolia leading the notes. Bringing a new youthful take on the very traditional use of Rose in fragrance, refreshing and young but still true to Chloé's rich signature femininity.

Whilst wearing Roses De Chloé for the first time I received no less than 6 compliments, which are always nice to hear 'Nella you smell so pretty' 'Babes what is your new perfume, it's so you' 'What are you wearing? It's so fresh'. Wearing a Roses De Chloé made me feel girly and pretty, the fragrance rests on your skin and is considerate not feeling too heavy or lingering. Wearing it I wished my hair was as perfectly whispy and tousled like Caroline Brasch, Tilda Lindstam and Esther Heech photographed by Fabien Baron for the beautiful campaign accompanying the fragrance.

xxx Nella

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'Our Moment' a fragrance by One Direction...here are my thoughts about it.

'Our Moment' EDP 30ml $49.00 50ml $59.00 100ml $79.00 available from Myer from 26th August.

Ok ok settle down, put your undies back on One Direction have released a perfume....It was inevitable right?!
The campaign is an adorable black and white spoof of traditional fragrances and the bottle is so hideously cute it hurts. But I know you're all like 'Nella what does its smell like?' Here are the notes that the fragrance people told me are in 'Our Moment':

Top: Pink Grapefruit, Wild Berries & Red Currants
Mid: Jasmine Petals, Fresh Freesia & Frangipani
Dry: Creamy Musk, Sheer Woods & White Patchouli

So basically everything teenage girls love, if I was a 13 year old girl I would be spraying it on every 10 minutes and I would have thought it ruled my 13 year old girl world so hard. 'Our Moment' smells like teenage girls should without that sickly cheap lollie smell that some celebrity fragrances have. It is quite intensely fake floral but settles to a softer vanilla musk when it dries on the skin.

Would I wear 'Our Moment'......YES! Not everyday but during summer to the beach on a casual day it would be perfect nothing too intense. I am obsessed with the bottle though, pink tulle and a crown, its so cute, I hate it, I love it.

If you are a mother of a teenage girl who is begging for this perfume and you are scared your house is going to end up smelling so sickly sweet it gives everyone a headache, then fear not 'Our Moment' is subtle enough to not turn the whole house into smelling like a bath bomb.

If you love Diptyque Duelle, then you are not going to be into 'Our Moment' but if you like Marc Jacobs Daisy or Ellie Saab then I think you might have found your new favourite fragrance.

Bored of my review? Sorry here is a GIF of Harry and Zayn almost making out:

So anyway I was invited to the launch of 'Our Moment' and Michaela and I were VERY excited to pose with the life size 1D cut outs after 2 or 5 glasses of champagne....

Thank you to Sarah and Platnium MC Pr for inviting me to the launch.

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