No 5 Eau Premiere and Other Things

I've been wearing boatloads of Chanel recently and already bought boatloads in the past year and I am taking a little bit of a break from the house of Chanel. It's the fact that I have seemed to neglect so many of my other perfumes. Amouage, vintage BaV and a few others have been seriously neglected.

Initially, when I bought that travel spray set of no 5 Eau Premiere, it didn't smell like it had been tinkered with. Eau Premiere has been tinkered with. I mentioned before that the current edp smells quite a bit different than what I had gotten 6 years previously. My full bottle of Eau Premiere was procured when Eau Premiere made it's debut. The Eau Premiere tinkering is more along the lines of what happened with the current no 5 proper edp. The reformulation is slightly noticeable but not something huge. I still love Eau Premiere but hate reformulations. I get that reformulations happen for many reasons but there is no reason to screw up a perfume, especially if it is a classic.

We have barely started fall and Bath and Body Works has started to drop their winter line up. This is just insanity, it was maybe mid July, that Bath and Body Works started to drop their fall line up. It seems like seasonal line ups are released earlier and earlier. Especially this year though. Not sure if it is because the pandemic is still going on or what is going to be happening with the whole Christmas season and the American postal service. Every time that I watch the news, the news people seem to be asking store owners about the Christmas season. The answer always seems to be the same, they don't know what they will be getting in their shipments or even if they will get anything. I am about 2/3's done with my Christmas shopping but with the postal service, I will probably need to order things earlier than I really want to.

Yes, the Winter candle from Bath and Body Works has just come out and I did order 3 of them. I wasn't able to really stock up on them due to a poorly planned out Bath and Body Works Candle Day sale. I'm still trying to use up or get rid of candles but yet, I still end up getting more. I have half a mind to see if there is one consignment shop near me that will off load some of these candles or maybe I could donate some. I'm all set on apple candles though.
 

Tom Ford Lost Cherry Review

I never really paid too much attention to Tom Ford's perfume line. The ads were a big turn off for me and some of the names of whatever was being sold got my attention but wasn't making me run out to test anything, let alone buy. Just a little too crude for me. The last reason on why I never paid a whole lot of attention is the price tag. An Amouage price for a 1 ounce bottle is not really in the cards. But I am happy that there are some travel sprays available.

I've always liked Tobacco Vanille and did nab a 10ml travel spray and then recently had gotten a travel spray of Lost Cherry. As a general rule of thumb, it's not the greatest idea to buy a perfume blind but I got the travel spray of Lost Cherry blind. I wasn't sure how much I would like it but I was looking for another transitional perfume.

Lost Cherry starts out with a blast of cherries. The sour, candied type of cherries followed by almonds. The cherry note kind of fades when the almonds come on to the scene but is never out of the picture. Tonka bean comes in shortly after the almonds and kind of takes over the whole thing. I have always been kind of on the fence if I like tonka bean in a perfume. It always kind of overwhelms a perfume. I think that I would have liked no tonka bean or far less tonka bean than what was put into Lost Cherry. Lost Cherry would have probably been a better perfume and I would have seriously looked at saving for a full bottle. I really enjoyed the sour cherries and almonds. Lost Cherry lasted about 8 hours on my skin and had some decent projection.

 

End of Vacation and Bombay Bling

It's the end of my 3rd vacation and I go back to work tomorrow. I always hate the 1st day back at work after vacation. The getting back to the daily grind is what always trips me up. I really didn't do too much really. What I did manage is to use up 3 candles and I am happy with that. And before I know it, I will probably be stocking up on the Winter candles from Bath and Body Works but before that happens, I seriously need to get going on using up some of the candles that I already have. I do have a game plan set out and another vacation coming up to really use up more.

I kept meaning to review Neela Vermeire's Bombay Bling for a couple weeks now but now is the time to do it. Fruity perfumes were never quite my thing with the exception of very few (Courtesan and Theorema). I was hoping for something along the lines of Courtesan but Bombay Bling wasn't even close to Courtesan. When I wore Bombay Bling for the first time, it smelled familiar to something that I have already tried before and it took all of the 1st wearing and part of the 2nd to figure out which perfume that it reminded me of. It was Frapin's 1697 but it was probably no accident that both of them smelled so similar. Bertrand Duchafour created both. Bombay Bling is a little more stripped down version. The fruity aspect isn't a cooked smell or a fully ripened type of thing. The fruit is almost ripe but not quite there. Bombay Bling isn't booze soaked like 1697 but in so many ways Bombay Bling is like 1697. Bombay Bling sits closer to skin, closer than I am used to but that's not such a bad thing though. I found that Bombay Bling didn't exactly last too long on my skin. The longest that it seemed to last on my skin was about 5 hours.

Luckyscent has full bottles and a travel spray available and I think that I would probably go for the travel spray. Yes, I would like to add this to my stable but I seriously am done with perfume buying at the moment. My bank account can't sustain anymore perfume purchases right now and I really need to start finishing off some bottles.
 

Essential Parfums The Musc Review

I do enjoy slutty perfumes and do have a love for musk in perfume. While shopping on Luckyscent for that Viktoria Minya Hedonist sample set, I picked up a 10 ml travel spray of Essential Parfums The Musc. I figured that the price point for 10mls was pretty good.

What I thought it might be like and what did happen were two seperate things. When I see anything musk in a title of a perfume, I expect something more in the vein of MKK or Kiehl's Original Musk. Or maybe along the lines of even vintage BaV or Tigress Musk. Yeah, I do expect at least something sensual to outright skank. Musc was a whole lot of nothing. Shit, I didn't get any kind of musk until the very end. The musk at the tail end was more of a generic, non-offensive type of musk. I want my musk to do something, have some kind of growl or hint of something more. Musc was more of a lavender and a few things that I can't identify. I find it to be more of a functional perfume or a maybe your skin but better type of perfume. 

I found Musc to be pretty annoying due to the fact that it was neither hear nor there and definitely wasn't all that musky. This seemed to be more of what my sister my like. The type of perfume that is you don't want people to know that you wear perfume but are wearing perfume. The whole composition did annoy me because it just sat there doing nothing. The lasting power was about 6 hours on skin with little projection. I think I might pull this out at a later date to see if it smells a little different.

It's Vacation Time...Again

 

So it's vacation time for me again. Since I punched out on Friday, I am been doing nothing but lounge around. I did a couple odd cleaning jobs but nothing truly major. I don't have anything planned even though tomorrow is my birthday. I just haven't had much motivation to do many things or plan things. It's the thought of doing some things at my own pace and not having to plan many things around my work schedule that excites me.

I had initially set a goal of using four candles but from what it looks like, I might get through two and might start a third before I have to head back to work. While I was poking around the internet, to see if there were people who did have large candle collections and there are. There was one interview/artical about someone who has around 500 candles. This woman always seems to have 4 or 5 going at once either at home or in her office. I'm the idiot who has trouble finishing one or two a week and I have around 70. I swear that I am trying but I think I've just have had enough of candles and will have to start using them 2 at a time. I might get a couple Winter (actual title) candles when Bath and Body Works has their candle day sale. But I have to find a way to use up or get rid of some candles to make space. I just need some damn space. I think that I have no other choice but to burn 2 at a time.

For the past few months, I seemed to have been buying quite a bit of perfume. It just seems like this past year has been the year for a flurry of perfume buying. I always seem to do the Now Smell This quarterly damage polls, even if I don't buy anything, I still participate. Mostly go to see what other people indulged in and that does give me some joy to know that there are other people that enjoy getting new bottles of stuff, even if it's a back up bottle of something that they love. And that brings me to my love of Chanel.

I do own and enjoy many Chanel products and a decent chunk of my collection is about Chanel. Yes, I still love my Amouage bottles, Andy Tauer offerings and Guerlain but I find Chanel to be a little more accessible when it comes to how easily I can get their products. Guerlain's new stuff might be easily accessible but not the older stuff. My style is not hiking all the way to an upscale place to get a bottle of Mitsouko or LBH. Chanel no 5 is something that I can kind of get anywhere and not go out of my way to get a bottle but Coromandel is a little different though.

If you are not by a proper Chanel boutique, Coromandel and the entire exclusive line is readily available, most of the time. I am going to have to admit to the fact that I impulsively bought the extrait version of Coromandel. Spending over $240 for a half an ounce of perfume is one of things that I'd never thought I'd do again but it will be quite a while before I can do anything like that again. I just can't keep going frivolously doing it and at this point, just don't really want to. I will admit that I did enjoy getting those bottles of perfume.

Living Dangerously

Fall is quickly coming to Ohio and I have already started rotating some of my collection. I am starting to put away the more summery perfumes and getting out some of the fall stuff. When fall starts to arrive, that means county fairs come and that means that I have to start rotating stuff. Not all of my summer stuff has been put away though. We still might get a heat wave or two and I would still need a lighter perfume to wear.

When I went to my county fair yesterday, I wore LADDM. I wasn't about to waste no 5 or anything fancy really. LADDM seems to suit fall pretty good and does suit a county fair. I think that fall suits LADDM the best. LADDM congers up bonfires, clam bakes and just about anything fall.

For the past few days. I've seemed to have been living dangerously. For me at least. A while back, I did some bonehead things and got into some trouble with credit cards. I've gotten it about half way paid off and haven't even tried to apply for anything new. Until about Saturday when I was poking around the Ulta and Sephora websites. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular but did impulsively applied for their credit cards and got approved. Low limits but having the chance of things growing as things improve but it's nice to have some new credit. Sephora has a couple Chanel things and sizes that I can't find at Ulta but the Sephora card probably won't be used all that much but it will be a great tool to have in the future. I did use both cards and took advantage of the discounts. Had my eye of no 5 extrait and the full sized Coco Mademoiselle travel sprays. But I am making a point not to charge very much on both of them and in ways those two new credit cards are serving a purpose. One reason is utilization and the other is that they are places I both shop, even though I mostly shop at Ulta. I am just going to pay them off in a couple months and probably not going to use them for a couple months afterwards. Not like I really needed those two new perfumes and credit cards but it's nice to have a little back up in terms of credit.