Eau Premiere Thoughts

For a good, long while, I couldn't get enough of no 5 Eau Premiere or any version of no 5. The only version of no 5 that I can't get into is L'Eau, to my nose, it bears no resemblance of no 5. But for some reason, any no 5 variation had dropped off my radar. I think that I was sidetracked by other things, especially MAC lipsticks and my recent tuberose love.

But when I couldn't get enough of no 5, I was more obsessed with the EDT and extrait version and it was to the point of ignoring my first no 5 love, Eau Premiere.

When Eau Premiere first came out, I was a little hesitant to try it. My dislike of no 5 came from when I was at a perfume counter. My hands were horribly dry and didn't have any hand lotion on me. So I figured that I would give the no 5 hand cream a try. It was either the hand lotion was old and gone off or the lights from the counter itself made the lotion go bad and then I had a dislike for no 5.

Fast forward a few years when Eau Premiere came out, I had ordered an eye shadow from Chanel and for some odd reason, I picked out a sample of Eau Premiere to try. But when I did, my opinion of no 5 had started to change to maybe no 5 isn't so bad. What really changed my opinion of no 5 is the Sensual Elixer. When I was at the mall, I bought the Sensual Elixer instead of Eau Premire. The Sensual Elixer is long gone and if you can find it, it's stupid expensive and stupid expensive isn't my thing right now. When I realized my mistake, I went over to the Chanel website and ordered myself a bottle. At the time, Eau Premiere wasn't sold in the traditional Chanel bottles and there were many sizes. Today, I think that I probably should have gotten the 5 ounce bottle of Eau Premiere when it was being offered but that was then, tI don't know when Chanel did away with some of their larger sized bottles of Eau Premiere and the old bottle that it used to come in but it did happen. There is very little in the Chanel line up that is over 100ml. Most people are not seeking out the Les Exclusifs line.Outside of the Les Exclusifs line, the 200ml bottles are either no 5 edp or Coco Madamoiselle. But I was pleased to see that Eau Premiere has a travel spray and when that happened, I snapped that up. Currently, my travel spray set is MIA but I have a general idea of where it might be but I am not quite ready to tear apart a room or two to try and find it.his is now. I am trying to save some money and not spend it.

 

Sephora Spring Sale and Chanel No 5

So it's the Sephora annual spring sale and it runs until the 14th. I had initally planned to give this one a miss. For me, April can be a lean month or a flush month. This April is a lean month for me in terms of money. Can't always control how things go in terms of money and I did forget that Sephora has a spring and fall sale.

What I do like about Sephora's spring and fall sale is that you are not limited on which brands are whatever percentage off. If Ulta is having a percentage off sale or a really good coupon, some brands are off limits. I have never been able to use a coupon on MAC or Chanel. Urban Decay and Too Faced can be hit or miss. But I have taken advantage of the Sephora sales to get some Chanel perfumes for less. You have no idea on how happy I was to nab a bottle of no 5 extrait and the 200ml bottle of Coco Mademoiselle Intense.

So replentishing my supply of no 5 extrait isn't in the cards right now. And you know what, I am okay with that. The only things that I am getting from the Sephora sale are two inexpensive hand lotions, well, inexpensive for Sephora. I am trying to keep the grand total to be under $20. I work in retail and I go through hand lotion like no tomorrow and I would like to think that I would spoil myself a little bit. One of those hand lotions is going to my mother for Mother's day and the other is going into my work coat. I am not wasting my Amouage or Chanel lotions on my place of employment.

I am hoping that the next Sephora sale I will be able to get that bottle of no 5 extrait. My no 5 collection might be fairly large but I don't want to start to really tear into my vintage no 5 extrait collection just yet. My vintage no 5 collection is nowhere near as extensive as my vintage Mitsouko collection so I don't exactly want to wear it quite as freely as Mitsouko. But now is not the time I want to go spending money like a drunken sailor, I spent enough on my cellphone bills and dog food for the past two or three months.
 

Rogue Perfumery Tuberose and Moss (short review) and Other Things

Things are not going so well here. Somehow, my mother ended up breaking her brand new cellphone. You have no idea on how happy I was to have insurance on our cellphones. When we headed up to the Verizon store, I figured that it would be just filling out a claim and she would walk out with a new phone. Well I was qrong about walking out with the new cellphone thing. I did have to fill out a claim but the issue that I did have was that a new cellphone would be shipped to our house. We did expect it to arrive by Friday but somehow, there was "severe weather" and there is a scheduled delivery for that phone to arrive tomorrow and this was the notification that I got on Friday. The stupid package is only a half an hour away from where I live. A coworker of mine who lives near that area had said that things were fine over there. So I am none to thrilled with UPS. I am wondering what the real issue with the late delivery is since I don't have issues with UPS deliveries. So when my package comes, the guys at the Verizon store will see what they can do with data from the old phone to her new phone and make this phone function better for my mother.

Same family member somehow scheduled something the same day and time as my dentist appointment for getting the rest of my back teeth pulled. So that meant that I had to reschedule my dentist appointment for later this month. I was not happy and it was a whole week of April Fools. I just wanted to get all of this done and over with and move on. I want my busted teeth out because I am tired of not being able to eat well, I am tired of the threat of an infection or I have some kind of tooth infection. I am tired of being in some sort of pain due to my teeth. Health conditions like this drain energy like it's nothing.

I am still testing out more of Rogue Perfumery's line up and this time around, it's Tuberose and Moss. I wasn't expecting too much. There is a whopping tuberose opening with vintage Mitsouko oakmoss. The oakmoss did die off a little bit but remained pretty steady as the tuberose. I did detect a little bit of a whipped cream smell but the whole thing reminded me of Amouage Jubilation 25, maybe a little less rich and a little less dense. I do like Tuberose and Moss but what keeps me from really loving it is that it is so similar to Jubilation 25. So if Jubilation 25 is out of your price range or just a little too much for you, Tuberose and Moss would be an excellent substitute for Jubilation 25. But I do think that eventually I will end up with a bottle of this, even though I have a bottle of Jubilation 25.

I do have to admit that with the three Rogue Perfumery offerings that I have tried thus far, I find the execution of the perfumes are very good. I think that whomever owns Rogue Perfumery has a vison of to make perfumes like they used to and give mainstream perfume houses the middle finger. I think that I made a wise move to buy the discovery set because I like the concepts of this perfume house I do love the Art Deco vibe of the packaging.