I love, love, love perfume. I am addicted. I truly am. I dare not calculate the amount of money I've spent on perfume over the last four or five years. I don't really know how it started for me. I blame Luckyscent.com. Somehow I stumbled upon their website and just loved reading their descriptions of perfumes and imagining how they would smell. Then I started ordering the sample vials and experimenting. I'd receive my pouch of vials in the mail and rush home to try them. I'd go back and read the descriptions and try to pick out the notes. Some would smell fantastic and some would smell horrible! Some would last only 10 beautiful minutes and others you couldn't wash away fast enough. I believe the first full bottle I purchased was Botrytis by Ginestet. I LOVED it! It was so unusual and delicious and I had never smelled anything like it on another human being, ever! It was perfect. I bought it and so began my journey. I actually just finished that bottle yesterday. I'm really sad about that, but it was time. Not to mention I have many other bottles that need attention.
I wish I could explain to those who don't go crazy for perfumes what the addiction is like. Is it the need to constantly be different? Wear a scent that no one else has ever heard of much less worn? Or do I just get bored easily? I'd like to say that it has something to do with how each different perfume makes me feel. I've tried to explain to my wonderful boyfriend (for the purpose of this blog, I will call him "Handsome") how some scents make me feel happy, or mischievous, or sexy, or comforted, or energetic, or lovely. He now recognizes some of my scents that way. I tell him I'm grumpy so I need to wear my happy scent (Falling in Love by Philosophy.) Sometimes I let him choose what I'll wear. He ALWAYS reaches for Sweet Oriental Dream by Montale. He loves it! It makes him crazy. I love that! Thanks Montale.
Okay, I could go on and on, but I must move on to my purpose for this blog. My mission, so to speak. I have, thanks to Luckyscent, probably hundreds of perfume sample vials at home in dark corners and it is time to get them out and formally review them all. This will take a while, but I figure I can do one review a day, maybe more. I will also throw in other beauty products, etc. from time to time. Possibly a rant here and there. Hope you don't mind.
Okay, so here I go. Enjoy everyone and please, please post your thoughts, comments, etc.
Love,
Heather
