Miss Dior Original and Other Stuff

 

It's been a strange couple weeks for me. My mother spent a week with her friend when I was on vacation and has been in the hospital for a week and half and mucked up quite a few things.

As it stands, I have broken up with Bath and Body Works and candles. In regards to Bath and Body Works, they have gotten too expensive and the quality has gone down. I pretty much have stopped burning candles for a few reasons. I do still like burning candles but it has led to too many arguments with others in my household cans killed a lot of the love that I had for making the house I live in good. Even my liking has diminished at this point. It has gotten to the point of seriously just selling off at least 90% of my candle collection. I am none to wealthy and I would rather try to make some of that money back instead of donating or throwing it out.

It just seems like my love for smelling good and making my general area has been diminished. It's everything is too strong or smells strange. So the joy of a lot of things has been taken out and I am having a hard time with that. Reading doesn't hold my attention like it used to and I kind of blame the internet for that. So I am trying to get back into video games at least.

But I was rummaging around my extensive perfume collection, trying to find what I haven't worn in a while and found my vintage bottles of the original Miss Dior. One is a splash bottle of the edt and the other is a spray bottle of the edc. I was starting to flip out a little bit when I unscrewed the cap of the edt. It smelled like straight up alcohol and nothing else. So I wasn't so interested in wearing that since I was about to go and visit my mother and I put on some of the edc. The edc hasn't gone off and maybe it is because it is a spray bottle and when I bought it, and that means it will be less likely to be tampered with. But when I came home, I put a q-tip in and the q tip sit out for a couple minutes, hoping that the perfume hadn't gone bad. And the good news is that the perfume hasn't gone bad, it just needs a few minutes.

I don't have a bottle of the original Miss Dior and I am kicking myself for not getting a bottle when times were better. There are a few perfumes that I am kicking myself for not getting a bottle when I had the chance. I did have a close shave with L'Heure de Nuit though, even though I haven't opened the bottle yet. I just love looking at the bee bottle with the blue juice in it.

Miss Dior Vintage EDC Review

For some odd reason, I have a few bottles of vintage Miss Dior waiting to be worn and reviewed. Now is the perfect time to be reviewing it. On one bottle I scored a pretty awesome deal for the version of Miss Dior. Got the vintage version of Miss Dior EDC and vintage Diorissimo along with it. Both in box and sealed. On both of the hounds tooth boxes, there is no bar code and the price tag says $6.50. That is how vintage my bottles are. They were made back in the day where perfume was a very expensive luxury and most didn't buy perfume let alone wear it. So the lucky few that were not millionaires, had only one bottle of perfume and wore it sparingly. I think that after WWII, when this was released, $6.50 on a bottle of perfume took a healthy chunk out of what most make in a week. Now, times have changed and perfume has become more affordable.

Now, onto Miss Dior. In the beginning of my perfume journey, I did have a bit of a hard time with chypres. I couldn't really understand them, let alone enjoy them but I was intrigued by them. Then Deneuve and Diorling came along and then I understood. It was the chypre structure that I really loved and learned to really love oakmoss. The beginning of Miss Dior is a little tough and I am thinking that it's because of the aldehydes are either too harsh for Miss Dior or they are starting to go off. Then the galbanum and jasmine come in with the oakmoss comes through. I smell the other notes but can't pick out what they are. What did surprise me is that there is a animalic note that hits right about 15 minutes into wearing. I do love a skank note in perfume but not quite sure if this example is something I like. A few more wearings will tell. I really liked that this was a vintage version of an EDC because I get at least 5 hours of wear on skin. With any modern EDC, I am lucky if I get an hour or two of wear. I do think that I might get another bottle of vintage to make sure I am stocked up a little bit.