Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
There are many places you can find perfume oil on the internet. Sometimes they have exotic and sexy names and sometimes they have names that are familiar to you. How are you to determine what the sent actually smells like? What is sweet to you may be bitter to me. You can try to compare it to fruits or flowers, but what does musk actually smell like?
I have taken a few scents that stand out and tried to summarize what the smell like.
I have taken a few scents that stand out and tried to summarize what the smell like.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Here are 3 of my top tips to help you find discontinued and vintage perfumes.
1. Ebay - On Ebay.com, you can find just about anything. That is good and bad. The good thing is that it has hundreds of listings of discontinued and vintage perfume. The bad thing is the seller knows that and may jack the price up due to its limited availability. I lucked out a few months ago when I bought a lot of six vintage fragrances for a very reasonable price. At least three of them, I had never even heard of and smelled very vintage and floral and different from the candy-apple-vanilla-floral collage of fragrances that are available now. There is a richness about a vintage scent due to the age and the time its sat in the bottle that makes it a gem among rocks.
2. Estate Sales - Go to the right estate sale and you can find really good quality, well preserved vintage and discontinued fragrances. I like to go to estates in rural areas that get less traffic in order to spend my dollars. You can find these sales in your local paper as well as on the internet. Be careful, some sites may require you pay for a list that if you search hard enough is available for free. Save that money for your next perfume.
3. Friends and Family - You would be surprised by how much a simple question can get you, "do you want that?" Many people buy perfume or receive it as a gift, wear it once and never open the bottle again. These people are also your relatives and friends. Try swapping something of yours for something of theirs. I have found many a bottle that my aunts or cousins don't use and don't want, and they were more than happy to give it to me.
Three tips you can use to find that long lost scent. Please feel free to share some of your vintage and discontinued fragrance finding tactics in the comments, I would love to hear about them.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
And what if your sick? We are all familiar with how when your body is malfunctioning your body will release the toxins through your skin, and sometimes, it stinks. Will you smell like some sort of conflagration of vomit and roses? Forget all that ease of use, they will try to sell you on, the most important thing is will I smell good and is it safe, of course.
Australian ballerina Lucy McRae is the visionary and force behind the concept of a swallowable perfume, below is her description for how it works;
"Fragrance molecules are excreted through the skin's surface during perspiration, leaving tiny droplets on the skin that emanate a unique odour. The potency of scent is determined by each individual's acclimatisation to temperature, stress, exercise or sexual arousal."
Ritual vs. Ease?
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