Found It and Cuir de Russie

 

A few hours after I wrote about my missing no 22 bottle and my bottle of L'Heure Bleue, I found my bottle of no 22 edt. It was in a place where I don't normally place any perfume. I have no idea on why I set it there and what I was doing. I am still missing the L'Heure Bleue though.

Since we are well into fall and winter is right around the corner, I pulled out my family sized bottle of Cuir de Russie. I used to have the extrait but there was a bottle incident and the bottle was knocked over and lost most of it. At least my bedroom smelled good for a while.

So Cuir de Russie was my first serious perfume that made me fall down the rabbit hole. I don't know what possessed me to open that email all those years ago that Chanel sent me about the Les Exclusifs line and this was at least 18 years ago. I don't even know how or why I was signed up for Chanel emails. At that time, I liked perfume but I wasn't a perfume nerd then. 

Back then, the Les Exclusifs line was sold in 200ml bottles for around $200. They were only in the edt formulation. Eventually, there was a 2.5 ounce bottle and then there was the conversation to the edp formulation. I remember trying the edp version and hating it but I can't exactly remember why. I only remember it being on the harsh side. So I still have a really good amount left and I figured that I should start wearing it. At this point, I should be spending more time with my other Chanel offerings besides no 5.

In other news, I picked up watching the show Granchester. I did start binge watching it a few weeks ago but had to stop. I got really riled about the vicar and his no good love interest. That sub plot carried on for far too long and I think that should have been wrapped up in 3 or 4 episodes but it had to last almost 4 seasons. Now I am on the 2nd vicar and I am going to see what is his annoying sub plot.

Missing Bottles

So I just started the Outlander series (the books, not the show). I know that is not very interesting but I decided that I wanted to get started on my list of what I want to read for the winter. I am hoping that I will be able to get the Granchester series but that will be down the road. I am a few pages in Outlander and I am seeing all of these references to L'Heure Bleue and we to look for my bottle.

So I go to hunt down my bottle of LBH and I am not finding it. I found my vintage bottle of LBH (cologne bottle) but not the more current EDP. Every time I think I might have found the bottle, it's another bottle of Mitsouko. Let's just say that I still haven't found it, I have always known where my bottle of L'Heure de Nuit is but I can't find L'Heure Bleue and I think some of the reason is that it is something that I haven't pulled out often enough to wear. So it's MIA. 

Another one of my perfumes that is MIA is Chanel no 22 edt. While I have always known where my parfum version of no 22 is, for the life of me, I can't find my edt bottle and don't get me started on my travel spray of Eau Premiere (still can't find it). I might not have worn no 22 in a while, I still would like to know where it is.

Let's face it, I do have lots of back ups for many of my perfumes. I have tons of no 5 in various concentrations, I have many bottles of vintage Bal a Versailles, all kinds of Mitsouko and I should be able to find one bottle of LHB or one bottle of no 22. It just irks me to not being able to find those things. I did a cursory online search for a bottle of LBH, I wasn't able to find anything at the discounters but found some bottles from the Guerlain website. I am not talking about the new LBH that has the blue bottle, I am looking for the L'Heure Bleue proper, the one that came out in 1912. So unless or until Ulta sells LBH proper and I can use points for it, a new bottle is going to have to wait. And I know that no 22 will never be sold at Ulta.
 

Ulta, the New Sephora?

 Don't know what is up with Blogger and my Kindle but it is not letting me upload pictures for some reason. But I am not in the mood to try and fix it right now but some strange things are happening.

In late September, I had one of the anchor teeth for my bottom partial break apart. The soonest that I would have been able to be seen to get it fixed would have been October 13th but it was recommended that I call every day to see if there was a cancellation. I was able to get in a few days before the 13th. My dentist was able to fix it up but the tooth would need a crown. I just got a letter from my health insurance saying that my claim was denied. So that means that I am going to have to fight my health insurance to get that crown paid for. I wish that I didn't have to fight so much just to get basic care and dental care to not be treated as a cosmetic thing/luxury.

We are coming up on the Sephora fall sale. I do have $30ish saved for it and not exactly willing to spend more. I already have enough Chanel no 5 and Coco Mademoiselle and I have some major Ulta rewards saved up. So the Ulta points are going to be spent but I am not going to do that now.

But Ulta sent me this whole gift guide thing in the mail and I was looking at the sample bags. You know the ones, the ones stuffed with minis and all of that. When I looked at one of them, I saw that there was a sample of Infusion d'Iris. For the longest time, the only the only Prada perfume that Ulta has sold was Paradox and whatever the most popular men's offering for Prada. So I never really looked often enough at the Prada offerings at Ulta. I have mostly gotten my Infusion d'Iris from Sephora or Fragrance net. So this got me to asking the question. Is Ulta becoming the new Sephora?

Sephora has always focused on the higher end or high end stuff. Ulta has always been focused to the drug store stuff or medium priced stuff. In the some time around 2008 or 2009, I wasn't so into Sephora. It was just to expensive and it took me forever to warm up to Ulta. I honestly think that Ulta is probably trying to step it up, at least a little bit.

For the Sephora sale, it's a choice of getting a lipstick or two or another travel spray of Infusion d'iris. Or I could poke around to see what kind of inexpensive gift sets that are available. I am sure that Sephora will come out with more gift sets before the sale happens.