Fall Has Arrived

According to the calendar,summer is over and now it is fall in the Northern Hemisphere. That means that I have to start rotating out some of my summer stuff and adding some of my fall stuff. With cooler temps, the days getting shorter and leaves changing colors, summer friendly perfumes don't cut it. But it's not cold enough to pull out my winter perfumes. 

I want things that are a little more substantial but not too substantial. I am looking for some kind of transition between seasons. I don't have a whole lot in terms of transitional perfumes and I am not seeking more of them. My collection is large enough as it is. Well, I'm not really seeking out a whole lot in terms of perfume right now. I'm still trying to see if I can actually finish a full bottle or two before year's end.

I find that a good many Tauer offerings are great for fall. Au Couer du Desert and L'Air du Desert do come to mind for fall, along with Lonestar Memories. I find that Shalimar and Memoir are great for the fall as well. The original Chanel Coco is probably going to be pulled out of storage a little later. I find the original Coco more of a later fall, early winter type of perfume.

I've just pulled out my massive bottle of Cuir de Russie. After years of not really wearing too much of it, it's time that I started wearing it a little more. When I first fell down the rabbit hole, Chanel's Cuir de Russie was my first purchase. At that time, there wasn't a huge Les Exclusifs line and the bottles only came in a 200ml bottle. When the Les Exclusifs line was only in EDT form and it was $200 for 200ml. Looking at the whole line again, I am amazed about how expensive perfume has gotten in the past 10-15 years. I'm just amazed about how many big perfume names now have an exclusive line and some of the prices of those things. But while I am at it, I should think about pulling out that bottle of Sycomore and start wearing that as well.
 

Vacation and Candles

My cold has cleared up but I am still dealing with all of the nasal swelling and post nasal drip. I found myself in the ER last night after having a hard time with my asthma. It took a grand total of 4 and a half hours and a set of x-rays to determine that I don't have pneumonia or bronchitis and my cold has cleared up. It's just some swelling that hasn't resolved and now I am on steroids to make that swelling go down.

Even though I have been sick, I still have been wearing perfume. I might be only wearing perfume to bed and bed only, I am still wearing it. It's whatever is on the light side and whatever can be dabbed on. So with the steroids, I think that I can probably start wearing some stronger things but I don't exactly want to really push it though.

But I am still washing my hands a million times a day and quickly depleting that foaming hand wash stash. I guess all of the Bath and Body Works hand soap deal did pay off and now we have a little more room. So one collection is vanishing but the other collection isn't. And that is my candle collection.

Every vacation I set some kind of goal to use some candles and I don't always get to meet that goal. Since I have been sick, I haven't even touched my candle collection. I am thinking that Thursday I might be able to get going again on using my candles. There is a Lavender Cedarwood candle that I would like to finish off. The only good thing is that even though I am not using up my candles, I am not adding more to my collection right now. Let's hope that I won't be adding anymore candles to my collection until Black Thursday or when Candle Day comes around again.
 

Perfume and Being Sick

 Somehow, I got some kind of summer crud that is going around work. I've had this garbage since Friday and I sick and tired of not being able to sleep due to all of the coughing. It's got to be all of the post nasal drip. No matter how many nedulizer treatments, blowing my nose or coughing up crap I do, I still end up coughing the night away. It's the wheeze when I am not coughing that really annoys me. I also am doing the cough suppressant stuff and sleeping with two pillows to no avail.

Even though I am getting my sense of smell back, I still don't really want to wear perfume. Most of the time, the only perfume that I want to wear and can wear is Chanel no 5 edt but I don't even want to wear that. My asthma doesn't seem to want to behave to well so I shouldn't even attempt any kind of perfume. I have already taken a couple days off from work that I probably shouldn't have but I don't really want to end up in the ER due to my stupid asthma.

With my birthday coming up in a few days, I'm really holding off on another full bottle of perfume. I put a freeze on Afterpay and is going to remain that way until it's paid off. I am probably get a few decants from STC or TPC. I haven't made decisions yet, I'm just trying to kick this whole cold bushiness.