Headspace Rose Review

 

I don't know if anyone remembers (but I do) that a few months ago, Portia from Perfume Posse did a giveaway for Headspace's newest perfume called Rose. Well, I won the giveaway and I hardly win anything. For what seemed like the longest time, I waited and waited for the bottle to arrive at my doorstep and it finally arrived. And it took me even longer to actually wear it and review it.

I don't think I ever heard much about Headspace but then again, it's hard to keep up with all the niche brands and releases. So this is my first foray into Headspace.

I certainly didn't expect to be sent a 100ml bottle of perfume. I would have been happy with a 30ml bottle or travel spray. The bottle feels substantial like the Amouage 100ml bottles but even the 50ml Amouage bottles feel heavy. I am not exactly liking the round shape of the bottle even though I do like plain bottles and labels. Round bottles don't quite fit my ascetic even though I like the bell jars from Serge Lutens. Maybe the cap isn't my style. Maybe I am not a fan of the industrial look of it. But that's not the most important thing, I want to know now it smells, so I gave it a go last night.

The first thing to hit my nose is either a black currant or cassis not. I kind of do like a black currant but haven't tried too many, so I can't exactly know now much I like it. Them I get the whopping dose of rose and geranium. There is something about that combination that isn't doing it for me. It smells dated to my nose and this is someone who will wear Mitsouko an many of its iterations. I am thinking that the rose geranium combination reminds me of an old school lotion that women who came of age on the 60's or 70's and that was the style back then. So there is something that is working for me.

I am a little disappointed that this was a no go for me. Normally I do like roses in my perfume. I am hoping that maybe I could pass this along to someone who does lime it.

Getting Sick of Some Shit

Have you worn a handful of perfumes so much that you have gotten sick of them? I am currently going through that right now.

I own tons of perfume and I have probably more than two that are work safe but have been way to lazy to look for them. So I have been wearing a shit ton of Infusion d'Iris and Cheirosa 62 on days that I have to work and have started to get sick of them. So at this time, I added Chanel no 19 edt to the mix. It is a vintage ish travel spray with not a whole lot left in the bottle. When I finish that bottle, I can work on the vintage ish no 19 edp bottle. So I am still trying to finish samples and bottles and mostly failing.

I am a retail worker that works part time due to disability. So I work 3 days a week. What has gotten me pretty annoyed right now is one of my co-workers. Apparently, they didn't get paid for a vacation that they took last year and didn't notice. How can one not notice that stuff until higher ups caught it. They were probably given a choice of either adding that vacation pay to a paycheck or take another vacation, so that coworker took an extra week. And so I end up working extra shifts and while I want the extra money, I am not thrilled with working more days but shorter shifts. It might help with my California trip nut would have liked a little more of a heads up.

But earlier tonight, I was wasting time on Luckyscent and was thinking of another bottle of Number One Intense. I saw that a one ounce bottle jumped from $80 something to $115. So it was around a $30 price hike. But I wasn't poking around too much and it was a good thing that I looked at the pricing before I did anything in terms of buying. The whole fact that everything has gone up in price. I bought the same amount of groceries that I normally do for the week has gone up by at least $20. So it is imperative that I show some serious restraint in terms of buying anything fun.

Organizing and Can't Find Shit

Don't you hate it when you can't find something? You have a hankering for something specific in your collection but just can't find the sample or bottle of it? Right now, I am going through that. My hankering is foe Amouage Memoir and I am searching for my one ounce bottle of Narciso Rodriguez edt. I know that I just got a five ounce bottle of the edp but I want the edt right now.

This is my problem right now. I am having trouble finding some bottles of perfume that I have a craving for and just can't find right now. So far, I have organized 2 boxes of perfume. I threw away decants of things that either have completely evaporated or just about. A few bottles are going to be donated to a women's shelter. What I have for donations is a healthy amount of Bath and Body Works stuff. So those two boxes became one and a quarter full boxes. But haven't found my bottle of Memoir yet. So for today, I have ended my search for my bottle Memoir. Maybe tomorrow afternoon I will get a move on with the rest of my collection. I know damn well that I haven't thrown away my bottle of Memoir. But Memoir and Narciso Rodriguez for her edt are not the only things that are missing that I can't easily find. I seem to be missing that travel spray of Eau Premiere. I have the two refills but missing the spray mechanism that still has some juice. But I am asking myself is that why I am looking for two black bottles of perfume? It's just so oddly specific to be.

At this point, I am kind of amazed with the little I have done is how much no 5 I currently have just by going through those two boxes. I am not fully sure on why I have so many bottles of Chanel no 5 but all I know is that I better get serious about wearing no 5 to free up some space. That extra space can be just extra space and not automatically filled with a new perfume.
 

Pulling Out the Old Stuff

So I am starting to pull out some of my older stuff. It's not always the vintage stuff. Some of what I have been pulling out is the stuff that I have had since the beginning of my perfume obsession or pretty close to it. Today was the original Lolita Lempicka and yesterday was vintage Mitsouko.

It took me a while to get into the original Lolita Lempicka. It was the licorice or anise that I wasn't used to, probably because whatever I might have tried or smelled that was very anise dominant, I wasn't a fan of. Now the the original became Mon Premier, the original scent is getting harder to find and hard to find at a decent price. I still think that the Mon Premier bottle sucks because I think it is too crude compared to the original. The Mon Premier is a little thinner and has been tinkered with. I would rather have the original bottle and juice but I will keep searching. Or just might bite the bullet and order a bottle, even though I have made a resolution to not buy anymore perfume for the next six or seven months.

But I have been flirting with the idea of pulling out and wearing Mitsouko.. As much as I love Mitsouko, I find that Mitsouko is a challenge to wear. Mitsouko is a bossy perfume, even in the best of circumstances, Mitsouko can run you over. So, I don't wear Mitsouko all that often.

There was a time were I couldn't get enough of Mitsouko. When I first got into perfume, I wasn't thinking about vintage perfumes or looking for vintage. Then a few years later, I did get into vintage perfume and started shopping on Ebay for vintage. I was snapping up vintage bottles of not only vintage Mitsouko but vintage bottles of Bal a Versailles. Let's just say that vintage Bal a Versailles seemed to be a little cheaper. Since finances are a little on the tight side, I don't have the income to prowl Ebay let alone too many bottles of anything as much as I would like. Let's just say that I am hoping that tight finances and saving up for a trip will force me to make a bigger effort to use up what I have.

 

I Tried and Failed

You know how I said that I wouldn't imbibe in getting anything new in terms of perfume? Yeah, four days in, I caved and ordered a Rose Jam shower and body kit. It was the debate of a one ounce bottle of Narciso Rodriguez for her bottle or the That's My Jam kit. I could have used my $25 credit on Fragrance net and gotten the Narciso Rodriguez for just about free. I also was starting to use the justification of if I want to start reclaiming my diamond status at Ulta, I needed to get a move on. After I made the purchase, I called myself a dumbass and said I have all damn year to level up with Ulta rewards. So now it's back to square one. Now I have to make a bigger and better effort into achieving the no new perfume for at least 6 months. It is going to be tough to do. The only thing that I am holding firm on is my breakup with Bath and Body Works. I guess I have to take my wins where I can since it's been a month or a little over since I made a Bath and Body Works purchase.

I already have some Rose Jam body wash and some of that "conditioner" but haven't given it a try yet. But when I smell the conditioner, I am reminded of Andy Tauer's  Rose de Kandahar perfume. So I am thinking that I am going to see if I can layer the Rose Jam body stuff and Rose de Kandahar. But I want to give the Rose Jam stuff a go before I go layering stuff. But let's hope that I can keep my resolutions for right now.
 

Out With the Old and in With the New

Technically, it's New Year's Eve and I am debating on setting resolutions or goals for myself for the new year. Every year, I say that I am going to finish some bottles, save money, only get one bottle of perfume. But that shit never happens.

This year, I have a little more motivation for some of this shit. I am planning on taking a trip to California to see my sister and nephews. As it stands right now, it looks like it is going to happen some time in June. So that means is that I have to take care of Afterpay, Zip, Klarna and Sezzle. That means that there will be no more candles to be bought, no more perfume buying and saving money like crazy. The upside is that this might force me to actually start using up some perfume for the sake of creating space and not adding to my collection.

The biggest challenge for me is when I file my taxes. I know that I will be getting a refund and I will be tempted to spend that money on frivolous things. But I can't exactly do that. So I have to cut expenses somewhere. The candle thing will probably be the easiest thing to cut since I am a little bored with it and since I live with people who don't really want me to have a lit candle around, the luster has gone off. I am going to have an issue with staying off of perfume discounters, Sephora, Ulta and Luckyscent. I did blog about how I probably shouldn't have bought that big bottle of Narciso Rodriguez for her. I did get more stuff than I probably should have in the past couple weeks. At this point, I have to buckle down and get moving on the saving part. So I am looking at where I can make the cuts. I am not holding my breath on any kind of stimulus payments that our current administration has been talking about/promising since their campaign. I am going to get moving on getting my hands on that abandoned bank account check to give myself a buffer.

But since I am planning on a trip to California, I am thinking of which perfumes to take. I know that I am only limited to 3.4 ounces but I do want to take two perfumes. The one that is really sticking out is Chanel no 19 and I have no idea on the other one. Maybe Nasomatto Nuda would be another great idea for the second bottles. I would rather take two bottles of perfume and not one.

 

Post Christmas and Estee Lauder

Christmas day has come and gone and now we are heading into the new year. For Christmas day, I just decided to wear Lyric. There were a number of ways that I could have gone with perfume. I could have gone with my backup choice of Feminite du Bois or I could have gone on to wear Shalimar as well but Lyric seemed to appeal to me more.

The last perfume that I was gifted was way before I was really into perfume was Ralph Lauren Pure Turquoise. I still have the perfume and I do remember not really liking it all that much and it was my sister who gave me that and she said it smelled good. So I am going to have to dig that one out and give it another go. I think that I was wearing a different Ralph Lauren perfume called Gorgeous or something like that. But this Christmas, I was gifted a Estee Lauder Pleasures gift set. One of my friends had sent me the tracking link and I did see that it was the hand lotion and a 1 ounce bottle of Pleasures. I do still love Pleasures after all these years and have been wearing it off and on since it was released. But my sister sent me a tracking link to what she got me for Christmas. It was a set of Estee Lauder Pleasures. It was the hand cream and a 1 ounce bottle of the perfume. Now I just wait until it arrives tomorrow. Then I have to wait until I get off work tomorrow to open the package.

The one thing that is kind of funny with bottles of Pleasures. Around two or three years ago, a 5 ounce bottle of Pleasures was available for sale and apparently it was so popular that it would sell out as soon as it hit the Estee Lauder website but I haven't seen it since. I am thinking that while it might have been incredibly popular, it either might have been too costly to make or people not spending the money like they used to to warrant consistent production. Now if they made the intense version in a smaller size and a smidgen more affordable, I would get a bottle.

While Bath and Body Works is having their semi annual sale, I am not biting. One, I want to work on paying off the Christmas present shopping, two, I am just not all that interested. I have enough candles and I am not interested in buying more of the same old thing. There are so many Winter, Frozen Lake and Pink Lavender and Espresso candles can own. I should have gotten more plain old Lavender candles when Bath and Body Works was having their Candle Day sale. I noticed that after Candle Day, I just wasn't so interested in Bath and Body Works. I made one purchase after Candle Day, it was too redeem my reward. So my breaking up with Bath and Body Works is going a little easier than I thought. Let's see if I can keep that momentum going.