Foreverpurple

I’m a self avowed perfume addict. I love so many perfumes and every year I would ask for new scent for my birthday or Christmas. Often because the price of the perfume made it a splurge so I wouldn’t buy it for myself.

During the year I would pull pages from magazines when I found a new perfume that I loved. I always used those sample rub on things too! Then if it smelled good on me I would save that to remember what I liked for my Christmas list.

Rather quickly my perfume collection began to grow to 20 bottles at least! The problem was that at my job it was pointless to wear perfume because I smelled like TAR no matter what. So it was a waste to even put it on.

Even before I went to work at Reilly, I was given a bottle of Pink Peony perfume by Perle. It was oil based instead of alcohol so a little bit lasted all day. I fell in love with it and then discovered it was discontinued. I still have that bottle though I’m using it regularly now and it’s still only half gone. It still smells great too which is surprise. I did finally find another bottle, though much smaller, on eBay.

So at some point I said enough and decided no new perfume until I started using up some of my current inventory. I wear perfume almost daily now and have whittled the stock down to maybe 10 bottles. To be fair though, I have received bottles of perfume that I didn’t actually ask for. I also have a bottle that I was paid to wear for a survey. Year before last my sister bought me a bottle of J’Adore by Christian Dior that is hands down my favorite. I only wear it on the weekends when I got out or on Fridays to work. Yes that’s retarded I know but its the newest bottle and I want to use up the others first!

Somewhere along the way I picked up my mother’s habit of ’saving’ things for special occasions. Her bathroom is jam packed with health and beauty products. She is always buying and tucking things away. I tell her to stop saving shit and use it and enjoy it. Life is too short! I still catch myself doing it too and that’s part of the perfume problem. No more! I’m wearing it whenever I want because it makes me happy!

The goal is to get down to just 2 or 3 bottles of perfume. At this rate its going to take a few more years.