More perfume!
Today I went perfume smelling on my lunch break!
Except I didn't plan ahead, which meant I was already wearing perfume, so I couldn't try anything on. Damnit! But I WANTED a scent today, my comfort scent, to be exact. I'm so over all my flashy scents that I pulled out an old Bodyshop perfume I have, Amorito, which is pretty much straight up chocolate/vanilla, with just a hint of something warm and spicy (I think its sandalwood and maybe even something slighty astringently floral?) to make it smell more like a perfume and less like I just smashed my wrist into an eclair. But I love it! It lasts all day, and after a stronge start it settles down into a warm, dry coccoa scent that you just keep smelling at odd moments. It is stressful at work, and I just think this perfume is so soothing, like a warm hot chocolate at a kitchen table with incense lit behind you and a vase of flowers on the windowsill.
(SORRY! Perfume apparently brings out the ~POET~ in me)
ANYWAY, so I could only smell perfumes on the cards, not on my skin, so my opinion will PROBABLY change. But I fell in love with both Thierry Mugler (who I only knew because my fiance has his Ice Man cologne, which is AWESOME) and Badgely Mischka, whose Couture is to die for, but whoe Fleurs de Nuit is what really stole my heart. As the name suggests it's floral, but it's got a lot of ambers and woods in it too, making it really warm and spicy (I picked up more of that than that review seems to, though). DOES WANT. I'm going in sans perfume tomorrow so I can spray it on and see how it sits on me. LOOOOOOVE.
I didn't mind Bulgari's Jasmin Noir as well, but not as much, and also their Rose Essentielle, except I wouldn't wear it because it was too straightforward rose-y sweet for me. And speaking of Thierry Mugler, I quite enjoyed Alien, except I think it's something I'd need to wear around all day to get a proper sense of.
As for things I DIDN'T like, I was surprised that I didn't like Chloe. It's def. a sophisticated, 'grown-up' scent., but I can't get over the 'little old lady' sense I get from it, which I THINK is from all the musky generic florals, like alcoholic air freshener. Not for me! Also - L'eau D'Issey, which I really wanted to love, but completely didn't. It smells like soap. Soap and generic 'Ocean Breeze' toilet freshener, and I found it so boring and so clean. Ugh.
AND. I went into a CRAPPY perfume shop that seemed to only have celebrity and designer stuff, and (stupidly) asked for help from the lady. I said 'Do you have anything with stand out violet notes?' and she looked COMPLTELY BLANK before offering me a SARAH JESSICA PARKER scent called Covet Pure Bloom because (I suspect) it was in a purple bottle. It was...pretty average. That's IT. It wasn't even BAD. It was just average and boring and completely middle of the road. I wouldn't hate wearing it, but I would never CHOOSE to wear it. I don't even need to mention the COMPLETE lack of violet, do I? OH WELL. I'm using all these perfume cards as bookmarks, so at least my books will smell sweet.
THAT MAKES ME SOUND REALLY SNOBBY. I hate that. Look, one of my favourite perfumes is With Love by Hilary Duff, ok? OK?? I admit it. And here is a nice justification of that. The almost spicey-almost woodsy incense-amber-sugar mixture smells like sex to me and I love it. So there! I'm not, and will never be, a perfume snob. Also - I HATE Chanel No 5 (although, yes, I do still like Chanel Chance, even though I can never wear it anymore because it smells like Kate, my ex).
I'm sorry about all the perfume blather! You know this phase won't last, also, I just found a Supernatual/Glee crossover comm that is sure to take up some words soon.
I'm escaping into fantasy land right now because I hate work and want it to die. SORRY. This won't change until after Christmas, sigh. Until then, you'll just have to put up with me!
--Beck
Except I didn't plan ahead, which meant I was already wearing perfume, so I couldn't try anything on. Damnit! But I WANTED a scent today, my comfort scent, to be exact. I'm so over all my flashy scents that I pulled out an old Bodyshop perfume I have, Amorito, which is pretty much straight up chocolate/vanilla, with just a hint of something warm and spicy (I think its sandalwood and maybe even something slighty astringently floral?) to make it smell more like a perfume and less like I just smashed my wrist into an eclair. But I love it! It lasts all day, and after a stronge start it settles down into a warm, dry coccoa scent that you just keep smelling at odd moments. It is stressful at work, and I just think this perfume is so soothing, like a warm hot chocolate at a kitchen table with incense lit behind you and a vase of flowers on the windowsill.
(SORRY! Perfume apparently brings out the ~POET~ in me)
ANYWAY, so I could only smell perfumes on the cards, not on my skin, so my opinion will PROBABLY change. But I fell in love with both Thierry Mugler (who I only knew because my fiance has his Ice Man cologne, which is AWESOME) and Badgely Mischka, whose Couture is to die for, but whoe Fleurs de Nuit is what really stole my heart. As the name suggests it's floral, but it's got a lot of ambers and woods in it too, making it really warm and spicy (I picked up more of that than that review seems to, though). DOES WANT. I'm going in sans perfume tomorrow so I can spray it on and see how it sits on me. LOOOOOOVE.
I didn't mind Bulgari's Jasmin Noir as well, but not as much, and also their Rose Essentielle, except I wouldn't wear it because it was too straightforward rose-y sweet for me. And speaking of Thierry Mugler, I quite enjoyed Alien, except I think it's something I'd need to wear around all day to get a proper sense of.
As for things I DIDN'T like, I was surprised that I didn't like Chloe. It's def. a sophisticated, 'grown-up' scent., but I can't get over the 'little old lady' sense I get from it, which I THINK is from all the musky generic florals, like alcoholic air freshener. Not for me! Also - L'eau D'Issey, which I really wanted to love, but completely didn't. It smells like soap. Soap and generic 'Ocean Breeze' toilet freshener, and I found it so boring and so clean. Ugh.
AND. I went into a CRAPPY perfume shop that seemed to only have celebrity and designer stuff, and (stupidly) asked for help from the lady. I said 'Do you have anything with stand out violet notes?' and she looked COMPLTELY BLANK before offering me a SARAH JESSICA PARKER scent called Covet Pure Bloom because (I suspect) it was in a purple bottle. It was...pretty average. That's IT. It wasn't even BAD. It was just average and boring and completely middle of the road. I wouldn't hate wearing it, but I would never CHOOSE to wear it. I don't even need to mention the COMPLETE lack of violet, do I? OH WELL. I'm using all these perfume cards as bookmarks, so at least my books will smell sweet.
THAT MAKES ME SOUND REALLY SNOBBY. I hate that. Look, one of my favourite perfumes is With Love by Hilary Duff, ok? OK?? I admit it. And here is a nice justification of that. The almost spicey-almost woodsy incense-amber-sugar mixture smells like sex to me and I love it. So there! I'm not, and will never be, a perfume snob. Also - I HATE Chanel No 5 (although, yes, I do still like Chanel Chance, even though I can never wear it anymore because it smells like Kate, my ex).
I'm sorry about all the perfume blather! You know this phase won't last, also, I just found a Supernatual/Glee crossover comm that is sure to take up some words soon.
I'm escaping into fantasy land right now because I hate work and want it to die. SORRY. This won't change until after Christmas, sigh. Until then, you'll just have to put up with me!
--Beck