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Portia
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Hello Fellow Fumies,
At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.
Saturday Question: What Is Your Guilty Fragrant Pleasure?
Over 100 responses I will draw a Scent Sample Pack (from my collection)
This week:
Niche Sample Pack
- Parfum d’Empire Yuzu Fou
- Fort & Manlé Charlatan
- Frederic Malle Geranium Pour Monsieur
- Tauer Eau d’Epices
- Le Galion Aesthete
Last Weeks Winner: Diana
eMail me at (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with your address please
Saturday Question: What Is Your Guilty Pleasure?
Guilty Pleasures! I have a few fragrant guilty pleasures. Now we can be talking ANYTHING fragrance related here. Maybe you collect your empty bottles or the lids? It could be a penchant for drug store cheapies. Do you need to have the whole set of something? Maybe your secretly a niche snob or have a secret way you apply? Is there a stash of soaps and body washes at your house? Anything can be your guilty pleasure and I think it’s time you shared…….
My Answer:
HA! This could take a while…….
- I am a rampant sample and decant buyer. Can’t help myself. Spend a LOT of money on them, and always 3, 5 or 10ml so it comes in a sprayer. From decanting stores, sample swaps, splits and anywhere you can get them. I’m in. There are literally HUNDREDS of them in this apartment. I try to move as many as I can on in one way or another but it is ridiculous.
- Backups! If I love something and it’s Dcd then you can be sure there is at least one backup of it around here. My Shalimar, Mitsouko, Miss Dior, Liberté, Blonde, Oriental Brulant, Madonna Truth or Dare and Niki de Saint Phalle collections might make you weep.
- I LOVE to troll the internet late at night while in my tracksuit. Reading blogs and FB boards, cross referencing info, looking up availability, checking prices and generally losing hours of my life in the search and hunt. It’s thrilling and fun.
I do have a large bin of backups, which I may never get to, but if I find a good deal on something I love I can’t help myself. I also love variety and have hundreds of bottles of perfume. Definitely more than I can wear. But I just love the pretty bottles and smells. Decants and samples don’t do it for me, I only buy them to decide I want a full bottle, then I pass them on.
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Ditto on the backups and variety (I’m on my first hundred, though, but there’s no method to this madness, I think).
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WOW! TaraC,
You and Ainslie Walker are the only two people I know that prefer bottles.
A bargain will push me over the edge every time too.
Portia xx
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I love pretty bottles as well and there are times when I think the bottles sway me as much as the juice itself.
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Will go with a drugstore guilty pleasure, namely Anais Anais.
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That’s one hell of a guilty pleasure, though. It was my mother’s regular frag and I have a bottle that I just spray into the air so I can have a cloud of remembrance. Don’t wear it myself, mind you.
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Love that one…it’s a classic!!!!
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My Mum used to wear this AnnieA and the rest of us would mock her, calling it Anus Anus.
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Still makes me laugh. She was suitably unimpressed by us, of course.
Portia xx
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naughty but hysterical 😉
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Ha Ha Ha ha
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Cruel, cruel Portia :D!
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I love bath stuff…I can label it therapeutic and is therefore justifiable! But it has to smell great, I am often disappointed to find baths products do not smell of much nor linger on the skin. Lush used to, but they have dumbed them down. Any ideas gratefully received APJers!
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The one and only shower gel I obsessed over because it lingered on my skin well after the shower was Bath and Body Works Brown Sugar and Fig …I bought it deeply discounted one summer only to find out it was limited edition and then obsessed over it until they brought it back the following summer. It was both sweet and figgy and I could smell it hours later. Not sure if B &BW still carries it though.
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Sounds yummy, have never seen this brand here in Oz though.
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Hey JackieB,
We do have B&BW in Oz now. Look online.
Best value body wash. I think mine is imported from USA. Tabac Original. Sm,ells freaking amazing and leaves a pretty scent stain.
Portia xx
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That is good to know that they are available for Australians online. I would also recommend waiting for a good sale if you are going to purchase. I know here in the States they often do buy three get three free which is a very good deal. And they really do linger on the skin scent wise.
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Oh Gawd where would I even start on an answer here? I’m guilty of every fragrance misdemeanour I think. Several backups, piles of samples and decants, several unopened bottles still pooched here and there, and when I buy decants it’s never less than 5ml and often it’s 10. But in my own defence if I don’t like it I give it away.
I have a thing for handmade soaps and arrived back from holidays with about 10 bars to add to the pile I already had. I seek out matching body products for perfumes. And I seem to be involving others in my obsession as I make samples for people to try stuff, and this is without them asking me to do so. But that’s just sharing the love, right?
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No “j’accuse” from me, darling 🙂
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Sorry not sorry😉
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je n’ai pas de regrets
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HA! We are twins Cassieflower. ALL the guilty pleasures.
Portia xx
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I just sorted my samples and set aside many to give away – I did go through several years of buying tons of samples so I could try everything…. trying to “no buy” at the moment. I have about a years supply of shower gels from Yves Rocher stocked up (enjoyable in the shower but they don’t linger).
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I love YR shower gels. My biggest favourite is Brazilian coffee, I can’t stop buying backups in case they discontinue it.
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YAY! I have some Yves Rocher stockpiled too MMKinPA.
We can’t get it in Oz so I buy up when OS and then rarely use it because it’s PRECIOUS!
Portia xx
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I don’t really have a guilty perfume pleasure because at my age I just wear what takes my fancy.
A lot of people can be guilty of being perfume snobs (not any of you lovely people).e.g. Avon perfumes. When Avon bring out something new, if I like the sound of the notes,I will buy it when it’s on offer.Some of the noses behind some Avon perfumes are well known e.g. Oliver Cresp..
I Scent you a Day blogger is a fan of Avon and does good reviews. I always take note of her Avon opinions.
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My first bottle of perfume was an Avon (back in 1970). I wore some pretty high end fragrances in my youth but always had a mix of high end houses (Chanel, Dior , Guerlain), Avon and drugstore beauties in my fragrance collection. I think I have owned upwards of 30 or more Avons over the past 40 years. They make beautiful fragrances that are highly affordable. I also agree that Samantha does an excellent job of reviewing them and I too enjoy reading what she has to say about the Avons. And I also love that none of us are perfume snobs at APJ (not even Val even if she thinks she is one!)
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I’m like you,Brigitte. I have a mix of high end, Avon. Discount stores eg TK Maxx.and the like. Then of course my perfume oil dupes from PP.
Today one of my Grandaughters gave me 3 samples
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud
Juliette has a gun Moon Dance
Juliette has a gun Midnight Oud
Love them all.
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Wow! That is nice! I love an eclectic collection.
I also love that your granddaughters share perfume samples with you!
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I really love all my Guerlains.
My grandaughters and daughter are fab. I’ve mentioned them before. They buy me lovley perfumes for Christmas and my birthday…..Chance..Samsara….Shalimar…and others I can’t remember at the moment.
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HA! Spot on Brigitte.
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I am a total snob. No guilt.
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Snob Pride! Represent! 😉
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Me too. Although I can’t say everything I have is genius, I have no problem with my own snobbishness!
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I spend a lot of my spare time reading perfume blogs, reviews, online window shopping, and have recently taken over the tv to watch YouTube perfume videos. I find it relaxing, but sometimes I think I should be using this time to read a book, or to exercise.
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I too feel as though my time would be better spent exercising, doing yoga, meditating, reading or knitting rather than laying in bed watching perfume youtube videos or reading blogs on my phone 🙂 …they are very addictive, right?
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Ditto everything you said.
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I do the same except for the YouTube videos: I usually watch a film or a TV show while I’m reading, besides, I prefer the written word 🙂
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Ok, the doing exercise bit I get. We could all probably put an extra hour aside a day for it.
Everything else? Skip it for frag hunting. It’s our passion.
Portia x
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You are such an enabler, P! Maybe the solution is to park my exercise bike in front of the tv and cycle and watch perfume youtubes simultaneously?
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OMG! Sounds fabulous. That might even make ME exercise.
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LOL. I will let you know if I implement it 😈😇
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Who can you recommend I watch on you tube?
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I’ll jump in and recommend Persolaise.
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Oh yes I have seen one or two of his vids….Sexy looking boy ,with an ..omg….REALLY SEXY accent.
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My guilty pleasure is my bottle of Eternal Crescent by Ajmal. The crystal bottle is a work of art, and the delicate yet confident aroma of the perfume is indescribable and just exquisite. Every time I open the bottle, I feel like a princess!
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I reckon my worst guilty pleasure has to be blind buying. It has cost me a pile over the years, but on the other hand, it has also landed me some real beauties. I’m currently wearing Nobile 1942 Sandalwood Nobile – a blind buy which is a lush fruity sandalwood/cedar.
My greatest blind-buying recklessness is my eBay vintage ‘fume habit. There’s no way of knowing if the juice is going to be any good, let alone whether it’s going to be something I’ll like, but I still do it. I must be nuts.
On the other hand, every once in a while I land a gem like the vintage bundle of bottles of Floris Malmaison I bought for a song this year, and which is a stunning carnation perfume with a touch of powder, and which was all in perfect condition. Bliss!!!
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We all know that wise approach to buying new perfumes: finish a sample/decant > if you still like that perfume, look for a good deal > buy a FB and enjoy. I do all that but in the wrong order! As soon as I think I would like to have more of perfume (sometimes during the first or second time I test it), I start looking for a deal and pounce as soon as I find it. And then my new bottle stays in its original packaging, unopened, while I’m finishing the sample/decant from which it all started. Right now I have, I think, two such bottles (I do not count back-ups 😉 ).
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Time to open those bottles Undina and just thunk the decants!!!
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I’m working on it! 🙂
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If I’ve bought the full bottle, I usually pass my sample or decant on so I can share the love!
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Nope, doesn’t work like that for me. I have to finish it myself, then open a bottle – and only after that I can make samples/decants from that bottle to share 🙂
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Yeah. I hear you Undina.
Portia x
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I do a lot of reading and have also started watching some youtube reviews. But I find that I have much less longing to try things based solely on the notes or everyones praise of it. After almost five decades of daily perfume wearing and thousands of samples , decants and bottles drained I think I would like to focus on what I really like/love. My latest guilty pleasure is a brand new bottle of Heaven which I paid next to nothing for but will wear with great pleasure.
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oh and forgot to add that for a while I was also obsessed with essential oils and amassed a relatively large amount of samples and bottles of those as well. I have pretty much whittled down my collection and won’t be adding to it for a very long while as they do actually have expiration dates.
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I’d loved using essential oils long before I became interested in perfume. Still have a dozen of bottles. I like dropping a few drops on a piece of paper and put it next to my laptop’s ventilator, it diffuses the aroma quite well.
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Oh that’s a great idea! I should take some of my oils to work.
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“a brand new bottle of Heaven” sounds interesting 🙂
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You talked me into it…as a “momento” 😉
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And I have no regrets!!!
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I know! And I’m wearing my pin proudly 🙂 I even thought asking if you’d wanted to do a guest post and tell your story there – so it stays somewhere more organized and discoverable than in comments. Would you?
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Let me think about it. You already know that I gave up writing years ago 😉
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No pressure. But I just loved that story (and the development).
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Brigitte is a very gifted writer Undina,
We lost a star when she stopped. It would be lovely to see you in print again over on Undina’s Looking Glass B.
Portia xx
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Thank you, Portia! Please don’t enter me in the draw 🙂
My guilty pleasure is blind-buys and reading everything there is to know about a perfume before I commit to buy it. It’s very time-consuming and at times annoying. I rarely buy decants because I find it hard to finish them quickly, – the Thunk movement has been very helpful but I’m not there yet. Since decants sometimes evaporate with time, I prefer going with a used bottle instead.
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Congrats on your win!
and that is a very good point, Diana, about the decants evaporating. Lots of folks seem to be mentioning that these days. One more reason for me to Use it Up 🙂
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Thank you!!
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“Gonna use it up, gonna wear it out”💃🏼 🎶
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Haha, indeed!
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Hey Diana,
Nice win. I’ll get that out to you.
How do your blind buys pan out? What’s your win ration? Mines probably less than 50% I love, no matter how much I research.
Portia xx
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Hey Portia! Thanks XX! Blind buys tend to work out surprisingly well for me, I believe, the success rate is about 80% or even more. I don’t often blind-buy fragrances that have some of the risky notes: tuberose, jasmin or guaiac wood, thus limiting my chances to get a bottle of something spectacular. Today I’ve decided not to BB a bottle of TDC’s Un parfum d’ailleurs et fleurs. Perhaps, I’m wrong.
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LOVE The Different Company Diana, I like to blind buy their travel sprays. I figure 10ml, what’s the harm?
Portia xx
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That’s a great idea!
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The little ones are much harder to find and more expensive here. I’ll get them anyway, by hook or by crook 🙂
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HA! You go Diana.
I get them sent direct from TDC France. they ship to almost anywhere and I think they have a Free Shipping thing if you spend enough.
Portia xx
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Parafilm or electrical tape might help with decants evaporation.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I knew about parafilm but it’s difficult to reuse it. Electrical tape, on the other hand, will do just fine, I’m going to give it a try.
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I buy lot of backups of my favorite perfumes even though someone inside me tells its already enough for lifetime but i still get scared maybe its not in case i live too long 🙂
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Same here. I try not to let myself buy backups nowadays (so far so good, but it’s hard!).
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So I’m not alone in my thinking then.
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O M G! Me too Fazal.
Portia xx
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I think that it’s actually wise to buy back-up bottles for one’s favorites if budget allows: not using them up won’t upset us as much as the regret we didn’t buy them when we could if we ever run out of them.
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Absolutely. The early batches fall into the same “must-have-backups” category.
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Agree completely. And you can always trade or sell them on if tastes change.
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Everyone is on-point. Sometimes I actually do that for a first version of perfume I love even if it is still being made in a slightly different formula. Going forward, the regulations and restrictions on materials will only get worse.
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Oh yes. It is a problem.
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Can you name a few of your faves that you own back ups of, please, Fazal?
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I do feel a little guilty about a backup bottle purchased early on. It is my first and only BUB because I realized that “limited edition” means “every summer” and I take years to get through 100 ml of anything.
Most guilt comes from untested samples that sit and wait. I’ve not accumulated hundreds, but it’s enough that it makes me uncomfortable though I still buy more, enough is never too much, rinse and repeat. I feel better when I spend time organizing and sorting samples every so often. Gives them a chance to see the sunshine. I put a dozen or so on my desk so that I will see them every day. And the samples I can part with get passed along to friends.
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Oh yes! This is a fairly common perfumista problem. I try to pass as many on as possible but they still accumulate. CRAZY!
I’m digging this THUNK thing and will try and incorporate it more
Portia xx
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Yes, P!!! Please THUNK with us!!!
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HA! Might even do a post about it.
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😁😁😁
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Don’t feel guilty about that back-up bottle! Do you want to bet that by the time you finish your first bottle the current summer re-release will not be the same as perfume you love?
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you’re right, Undina! Things change, especially with perfume. 🙂
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When you are on backup bottle number 10 you can start to feel guilty-LOL!
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I too am guilty of having many many samples. They are all mostly organised and all live in a spreadsheet as well. So I am meticulous about making sure I remember what I’ve tested. What makes it all a guilty pleasure is that I don’t enjoy actually wearing samples. So if I am testing something its usually a spray on my arm to sniff while I’m at my computer…or I will wear one to brunch on the weekend but likely change it up later anyway.
Guilty pleasure number 2: I love cheapies…..but again, I don’t wear them that often. I think its the thrill of the ‘bargain’….and they are something to douse myself in when I am bored at home. I don’t wear them out of the house much at all.
Which ties into number 3: I’m a bit of a niche snob – my work makes me want to wear stand out scents every day so I am really partial to my niche collection.
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WOW! That is a pretty cool trilogy of guilt Kittymeow84,
I LOVE CHEAPIES too. Rarely get to wear them.
Portia xx
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I’m with you on #1 and #3 (though I went even further and created a relational database for storing perfumes and their usage information).
I love your avatar!
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Thanks Undina!! That hat is my favourite hat. I made a dress to match it and everything. Then I wore it to the Dior exhibition at which my group of vintage addicts probably got just as much attention as the Dior dresses! People were taking videos of us and everything lol.
I like your idea of making a perfume database! I use the online sites for that like Fragrantica and Parfumo but they are lacking in some specifics sometimes. At least with Parfumo I can identify if its a decant or a miniature which you cant with Fragrantica
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Most of my friends aren’t into perfume, or at most are the kind of people to have a “signature” and nothing else. So my guilty pleasure is introducing them to more perfume, and hopefully opening them up to the concept of daily perfume as opposed to “perfume for special occasions only”, which is where 90% of my friends lie.
My absolute favourite is when someone tells me they don’t like perfume at all, because this is a cute challenge. As long as they’re willing to at least sniff some things, I’ve never had someone leave without finding at least one thing they love, either from my bottles or from my samples.
I try not to be obnoxious about all of this. If someone isn’t interested, I don’t press them. But most people know at this stage that if they visit my home they’re probably going to end up smelling great. 😉
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That’s not a guilty pleasure M, that’s ENABLING!! You should be loud and proud about it. Congratulations.
Portia xx
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Good job! 🙂
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That’s actually quite noble of you, M. Perfume adds joy into our lives, and you help people to find what could make them a little happier, there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Wow I love how you are spreading the love and creating new perfumistas!
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I guess I see it as a guilty pleasure because I know it garners some slightly exasperated sighs from my friends, haha. And you know, I’ve asked friends to act as testing strips a few times, soooooo not totally innocent. ^_^
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Guilty pleasures! How topical for me, I’m the type to be very satisfied with a nice spreadsheet, so I just spent an hour organising my thoughts/ratings of all my decants into the fragrance comparison spreadsheet I’ve been working on.
I would say that this spreadsheet saves me a lot of money because it means I’ve got an easy visual comparison on my thoughts on all my fragrances, but it also helps me justify buying more decants so… 50/50!
Other than decants and spreadsheets, I love locally made soaps – I bought one yesterday that smells exactly like Earl Grey tea! Soaps are so inexpensive that they’re hard to pass up really…
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WOW! Undina loves a spreadsheet too Shannon,
SOAP! That smells like Earl Grey tea? Where do I get this?
Portia xx
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I love spreadsheets! Entering a new perfume into my document definitely extends the new bottle jollies. I don’t keep ratings on mine, I do that via Parfumo, but I do have a tab for my wishlist and my almost-wishlist.
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I love soaps too but have cut back because they can multiple like bunnies.
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My guilty pleasure is: not feeling in the slightest bit guilty for impulse purchases, slightly risky blind buys, and the occasional what-the-hell bid on ebay.
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That sounds so inspiring!
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It’s a bit dangerous in terms of ending up with duds, bores, or fakes, but I’ve been phenomenally lucky… One nail-polishy old Miss Dior, one suspect vintage mitsouko EDT that smells diluted to about 20% of its original strength, and a bottle of Aura that just isn’t right for me but oooh shiny bottle!
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Are these Miss Dior and Mitsouko in splash bottles? I remember us having a talk about MD smelling differently in a splash and a spray bottle. It’s a huge disappointment to see a favourite perfume go bad, to say nothing of a diluted Mitsouko (wtf?). Aura’s bottle is stunning but I’m only ready to accept it as a gift, not to buy one myself since it doesn’t do much for me.
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HA! Good for you Crikey.
Portia x
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And it’s turned up some real treasures! I’ve been a lucky duck. 🦆
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Backups, pretty bottles, and bargains! I love my samples too – but I don’t hoard, I share.
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Pretty bottles is a really good one Lifeonabluemoon. Does it matter what the perfume smells like or do you expressly buy for the bottle?
Portia xx
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I confess I’ve purchased pretty bottles full of fume I wasn’t IN LOVE with, just sorta nice. They have to be wearable though. Mostly…
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I bought at least one bottle knowing that I wouldn’t wear perfume – I just wanted to use that bottle on my dresser display (I do not keep there perfumes that I actually wear).
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I’m curious, please tell me what was that bottle?
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Diana, it was VC&A Feerie EdT. You can see a picture of that project in the end of this post: Thinking outside the Box.
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Ooh, Feerie does look great on that tray as do the others (Chamade probably has one of the most beautiful bottles ever made).
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HA! Now there’s a good confession. I can feel how hard it was to type.
Excellent work Lifeonabluemoon.
Portia xx
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You have reminded me that I also fall prey to pretty bottles. Usually I need to like the fragrance too but I think my subconscious mind gets swayed at times by the look of the bottle.
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Yup – me too. [shame face]
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Another one: when I walk into a group of people and someone says, “who smells great?” I smugly assume it’s me. Spending more time now amongst fellow fragrance people, I cannot assume that so much anymore! 😉
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😂😂😂
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Ha!!
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HA! Me too!
Sadly it’s usually Scott or Jin that smells amazing.
Portia xx
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I doubt that you can possibly leave home smelling anything less than fabulous, Portia.
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HA! You are kindness itself Diana.
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😆
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I do love having bottles my friends haven’t even heard about, so I guess I’m a snob, sometimes at least.
Ialso like wearing Prada Candy to bed, which doesn’t really match the wish to wear niche or high-end scents! Plus, compared to my energy levels, I do spend too much time on the net reading blogs.
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YAY! Excellent confessions Ingeborg,
I too like having things no one has ever heard of. It’s a happy illness.
Portia xx
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Guilty pleasure? Using up bottles I can’t get anymore, things lost to history that are irreplaceable really. I know perfumes were made to be worn and enjoyed, but I feel sad sometimes that such beautiful scents will vanish forever. I will happily wear Amouage and Chanel through to Charlie and celebuscents, so no traditional guilty pleasures for me! 🙂
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Oh yes Scottycti,
Using up the irreplaceable is a VERY guilty pleasure, but so worth it.
Portia xx
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Absolutely. What’s the point of having it but not wearing it?
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Late to the party, maybe because I don’t feel guilty about my indulgences! I do feel badly about my proclivity for perfumes no one has ever heard of when very nice-seeming strangers ask what I am wearing. I tell them and if they are really curious, write it down with info on how to obtain. But sometimes in these circumstances I am a little embarrassed about how much some of these treasures cost, knowing not everyone has the disposable cash or would want to spend it this way if they did.
I also save decants when I buy bottles to carry with me and a few have been handed to people who like them. So a little playing it forward!
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HA! Oh yes. “What are you wearing?” Mumble mumble mumble, because it’s in french and who knows HOW it’s supposed to be said. “Where did you get it? What does it cost?” Oh My Gawd!!!
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Rinse and repeat.
Portia xx
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Oh dear. So much guilt, so little time! I spend more time and money on fragrance than I probably should, but even my husband has noted that I’m not into shoes, I rarely get nails done because I’m a gardener and that ruins nice nail polish (I own gloves but rarely use them), and I can go for months without getting anything done to my hair. So fragrance is my vice! Do I feel guilty about dragging family members to perfumeries when we travel? Sometimes yes, often no. If I feel guilty and am getting organized resistance, I don’t press the issue! But we’ve also seen some very interesting parts of various cities in pursuit of my hobby, so there’s that …
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Oh yes, the international perfume finding expeditions. They take us to very interesting parts of cities we’d never find otherwise. Such a good point OH.
Portia xx
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I adore perfume. Do not feel guilty about anything. Although I am careful not to spend the mortage money. I love buying full bottles. I inherited heaps of treasures from my mum; gave many away. Too many Lutens & Guerlains. I used to buy every attar at the bazaars in India. Too much time online reading blogs and adding bottles into my cart (even though I can’t buy them).
I am in love with you all- I have imaginary conversations with perfumistas and famous perfumiers. Sigh. So much beauty.
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Well Jyotsna,
Here you don’t have to imagine the conversations. They’re real.
Portia x
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I know! Isn’t it awesome! I so look forward to reading the comments here everyday. And yes, I’m still chatting away in my head.
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Okay. Okay. I should probably confess to buying another bottle of Chergui today.
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