This blog is for rambling about, well, everything that interests me. Gardening. The Farm. Perfume. Fashion. Photography. Fried chicken. Books. Clutter. Hoarding. Sewing. Writing. Murder Mysteries. Bacon. TV. Movies. Restaurants. Cooking. Oh, and don't forget the cat pictures.
Well... well.... OK, it's not as if you don't already know I'm a madwoman. But I'll hide my financial irresponsibility down here in the comments. Even though I see that I've written enough for a post here. :)
Some totally unneeded background: My official perfume budget is one bottle per quarter out of General Funds. Gifts, and a certain percentage of windfalls, don't count against the budget. Neither do rewards for doing certain Scarey Things. Neither do under-twenty-dollar bargains, as long as those bargains don't happen too often. "Too often" is at my discretion. You can see that there are a lot of loopholes in this budget.
This is leading up to the fact that I bought a year's worth of bottles. I am now frantically tracking back to see when I last bought a General Funds bottle, in the hope that I can buy something before October of 2011. :)
But the four bottles (ta da!) are:
Parfumerie Generale Iris Taizo. This was the sensible, well-evaluated, I Already Know I Love It purchase. And she had the tiny 30ml bottles, and the bottle is so darn cute! (Ahem. I do not say "cute". Self editing will cut in now.)
The Different Company Oriental Lounge. This, and the other two, were purchased based on a twenty-minute drydown in the store. This is Wrong and Against The Rules. On the other hand, my past sniffed-that-day purchases from The Perfume Shop worked out, so I choose to attribute magical powers to Naz and her perfume recommendations. And I wanted to try The Different Company. And I wanted to love an Oriental, and this quiet, transparent, "junior Oriental"/"gateway Oriental" seems like just my speed. And the twenty minutes on my skin were gorgeous. So I broke the rules.
Andy Tauer Orange Star. I want to love an Andy Tauer. It's irrational, but I really really do. And I'm concluding, as part of my rationalizing, that my quest for the perfect orange may never end in _the_ perfect orange, but may just end in a group of orange fragrances - Theorema, Tuscan Blood Orange, The Color Orange (still on the Wanna Buy It list), possibly Bois de Copaiba someday, and now Orange Star - that each cater to the craving in different way. So this was a sensible purchase. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Serge Lutens Bas de soie. I almost didn't buy this - I went away gleefully clutching the first three, then got a whiff of Bas de soie as we were packing in the hotel, and fled back to buy it. (The Perfume Shoppe was in _walking distance_ of the hotel. Bwahaha.) I told myself that I have too many greens, that this was too close to No. 19, blah blah blah, and then I bought it anyway.
Greens are my most-loved category; I'm confident that if No. 19 and Cristalle and Ivoire and Jasmine White Moss and A Scent and Vent Vert can all carve out their own niche - and they have, with the psosible exception of modern Vent Vert, and it's a sadly reformulated echo of itself - then this lovely thing can too. It's a soft, powdery, ladylike green, so ladylike that it almost seems to be laughing to itself about the fact. I was seeing it as No. 19's niece, but I think it also lunches with Cuir de Lancome and Lancome Climat - they're all ladylike in a similar warm, elegant, Myrna Loy sort of way.
Mals! Yes yes yes. Now, it could be my nose and my skin, but I am getting that ultra-classic-but-with-a-sense-of-humor vibe. Well, I suppose No. 19 doesn't have the sense of humor, but she's gorgeous enough to get away without one.
No veil-drawing allowed! Inquiring minds want to know on a need-to-know basis. Which is basically all of us.
ReplyDeleteExactly what FS said! NO VEILS. Full disclosure is required.
ReplyDeleteWell, not of your financial outlay. A detailed listing of the incremental inventory will do.
Well... well.... OK, it's not as if you don't already know I'm a madwoman. But I'll hide my financial irresponsibility down here in the comments. Even though I see that I've written enough for a post here. :)
ReplyDeleteSome totally unneeded background: My official perfume budget is one bottle per quarter out of General Funds. Gifts, and a certain percentage of windfalls, don't count against the budget. Neither do rewards for doing certain Scarey Things. Neither do under-twenty-dollar bargains, as long as those bargains don't happen too often. "Too often" is at my discretion. You can see that there are a lot of loopholes in this budget.
This is leading up to the fact that I bought a year's worth of bottles. I am now frantically tracking back to see when I last bought a General Funds bottle, in the hope that I can buy something before October of 2011. :)
But the four bottles (ta da!) are:
Parfumerie Generale Iris Taizo. This was the sensible, well-evaluated, I Already Know I Love It purchase. And she had the tiny 30ml bottles, and the bottle is so darn cute! (Ahem. I do not say "cute". Self editing will cut in now.)
The Different Company Oriental Lounge. This, and the other two, were purchased based on a twenty-minute drydown in the store. This is Wrong and Against The Rules. On the other hand, my past sniffed-that-day purchases from The Perfume Shop worked out, so I choose to attribute magical powers to Naz and her perfume recommendations. And I wanted to try The Different Company. And I wanted to love an Oriental, and this quiet, transparent, "junior Oriental"/"gateway Oriental" seems like just my speed. And the twenty minutes on my skin were gorgeous. So I broke the rules.
Andy Tauer Orange Star. I want to love an Andy Tauer. It's irrational, but I really really do. And I'm concluding, as part of my rationalizing, that my quest for the perfect orange may never end in _the_ perfect orange, but may just end in a group of orange fragrances - Theorema, Tuscan Blood Orange, The Color Orange (still on the Wanna Buy It list), possibly Bois de Copaiba someday, and now Orange Star - that each cater to the craving in different way. So this was a sensible purchase. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Serge Lutens Bas de soie. I almost didn't buy this - I went away gleefully clutching the first three, then got a whiff of Bas de soie as we were packing in the hotel, and fled back to buy it. (The Perfume Shoppe was in _walking distance_ of the hotel. Bwahaha.) I told myself that I have too many greens, that this was too close to No. 19, blah blah blah, and then I bought it anyway.
Greens are my most-loved category; I'm confident that if No. 19 and Cristalle and Ivoire and Jasmine White Moss and A Scent and Vent Vert can all carve out their own niche - and they have, with the psosible exception of modern Vent Vert, and it's a sadly reformulated echo of itself - then this lovely thing can too. It's a soft, powdery, ladylike green, so ladylike that it almost seems to be laughing to itself about the fact. I was seeing it as No. 19's niece, but I think it also lunches with Cuir de Lancome and Lancome Climat - they're all ladylike in a similar warm, elegant, Myrna Loy sort of way.
Ahhh. Perfume gluttony.
So jealous!
ReplyDeleteHowdy, kj! I was bad and evil and wrong. And I'm quite incorrectly pleased about it.
ReplyDeleteI may have written off Bas de Soie before even smelling it... but Climat and Cuir de Lancome and No. 19 could lunch with it?
ReplyDeleteClearly I must sample.
Mals! Yes yes yes. Now, it could be my nose and my skin, but I am getting that ultra-classic-but-with-a-sense-of-humor vibe. Well, I suppose No. 19 doesn't have the sense of humor, but she's gorgeous enough to get away without one.
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