Saturday, January 30, 2021

Very Impatient for Spring

 It's the end of January and I am very sick of winter. I am getting sick of the cold, the snow, long sleeved shirts and hoodies. Dry skin, the snow storms are getting incredibly old and fast. There is another storm front moving in but it doesn't exactly look like it will be as bad as the previous storm but I can never be sure about how accurate the forecast is going to be. I am mainly hoping that I don't lose electricity. Yeah, I have a ton of candles but don't exactly want to go through them all in one sitting. Speaking of candles and being sick of winter, I want to be able to open my windows and have a candle going for longer than a couple hours.

When I was at work, I smelled Coco Mademoiselle on someone today. Quite frankly, it was a welcome scent since I have been smelling so many perfumes on people that just plain don't smell good. This made me wonder about my relationship with Coco Mademoiselle. When it first came out, I was one of many that owned a bottle and wore the snot out of it like everyone else. Then, I started to hate it and hated Mademoiselle for the longest time. I think it's because everyone else wore it and doused themselves in it. Then things slowly changed. Women didn't seem to wear Mademoiselle too often and if they did, the mass quantities of it wasn't as prevalent as it once was. I am happy about the fact that Mademoiselle isn't as worn so widely as it once was.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Candles and Chanel no 5

 

It looks like Blogger is going to let me upload different pictures again instead of recycling the same old pictures. Don't ask me how it was fixed but it was fixed. There is no point in looking a gift horse in the mouth.

I swore to myself that I would not get anymore candles because I had 40 something candles to use. That didn't happen since I am up to over 50 right now. Now I have to get moving on burning candles. Especially since I hadn't really had a candle going since two days before Christmas. I started a candle on Sunday but haven't had it going since then. For a few weeks, it was almost like perfume decants, they kept multiplying at an alarming rate. It's gotten to the point of enough is enough with candles and I have to whittle this collection down to something more manageable.


My latest perfume fixation seems to  be on Chanel no 5 right now. I have a fairly healthy stock of no 5 and for quite a while, my preferred version was the EDP. Could never really afford the parfum version on a regular basis and dabber bottles seem to really evaporate quickly so what's the point of spending that kind of money? Seems like lately that I am wanting the EDT version. Little softer, little more luminous and just a little easier to wear. I have been looking at the 1.2 ounce bottle of the EDT that I have and it's a little less than half full but not more than that. I figure that since I have a fairly healthy stock of no 5, why not finish the bottle? I have tons of perfume already so finishing a bottle would be quite a feat for me. So I think that I will be wearing the shit out of no 5 to finish the EDT bottle and probably will finish off the EDP bottle that I have going on as well. I do have that mini travel spray and some vintage parfum but why do I need to?