Today I want to tell you about my perfumes and all the events that connect us. Although a lot has passed through my hand, and my mother's collection needs two drawers, I am the kind of person faithful to a single perfume 🙂
I received my first perfume when I turned 14 from a classmate. He gave it to me Rykiel Rose by Sonia Rykiel, a sweet-floral scent that I enjoyed for a while, but that I felt did not represent me. I still have it today, I couldn't give it up, even if the bottle doesn't have a particularly beautiful shape, it evokes memories so dear to me that I can't part with it.
I received the following perfume from my father. He was in Paris and asked me what perfume I wanted and I wanted Very Irresistible by Givenchy because his image was my favorite actress of that time - Liv Tyler. Indeed, I had smelled it and liked it, but I was more attracted to the huge advertisement on a building on Bdul. Magheru with Liv in which he looked phenomenal. My mother always asked my father to bring her the latest perfumes launched, so out of too much zeal she bought me the newly launched perfume. Very Irresistible Sensual. When I saw it, I turned green with anger and I didn't open the perfume for a few good days. In the end, curiosity overcame and followed the moment when I smelled the sweetest and most beautiful aroma of my life. You can't imagine the feelings and sensations that this perfume gives me: it seduces me, makes me dizzy, gives me confidence and completes me. From 2005 until now he has been with me in important moments and has accompanied me everywhere, and in time he has become my smell. Yes he is my perfume. I don't even know how many bottles I finished ... I lost their string for a long time, but I had a habit: I always had two bottles in the house to feel ready for the moment when I will finish one of them.
The next perfume that became a character in my story is PINK by Victoria's Secret who conquered me through the packaging. In fact, I didn't even smell this perfume and I knew I wanted it. It has a fresh, slightly floral aroma that I enjoyed in the summer. I like it because it radiates optimism and fits my way of being, but it's not a scent that will make its mark on me.
Another scent that filled my summers, because every summer I break up with my boyfriend Very Irresistible Sensual because it's too hard and I wouldn't want to suffocate people on the bus, is Sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden. Its aroma is floral-fruity and is easy to wear. I consider it a chameleon perfume that can cover the skin of many types of characters, but with which you cannot have a long-term relationship because it cannot keep the flame of seduction alive for too long. At least in my case he couldn't. We had fun in the summer after Bac and I would recognize the aroma of a thousand.
Another perfume that occupies a special place in my olfactory memory is Coco Mademoiselle. I remember that my mother bought it for me at the end of 2006 and because I was extremely indignant that she didn't give it to me. my perfume, he told me in a calm tone "Every young lady must have a Chanel, and what could be more appropriate than Mademoiselle? ”. Over time, I began to love him and wear him more and more often. It all culminated in a reply from my then-boyfriend:You smell like your mother, are you dating Mademoiselle? ” Yes, it seems that his mother and I wore the same perfume and it gave him a state of comfort. When I smell it, I remember the end of the 12th grade and the time when I had fun and met a lot of interesting people. Is not my perfume, but it certainly suits me and we have a special relationship.
And the latest love is Dahlia Noir by Givenchy, a creation launched last year and about which I wrote here. My relationship with this perfume started in a game, but here it came to catch me in the game of flavors and put it aside a little he. At the moment I reach for Dahlia Noir more often and already in the autumn I finished a bottle and I'm on my second.
Dahlia Noir and Very Irresistible Sensual have many things in common: patchouli, rose and vanilla. In fact, you'll notice that all of my favorite fragrances have vanilla in common. It's something I've noticed for many years. In addition to those accords, the two perfumes also have in common those pungent notes that make me love them. Dahlia Noir is a more complex perfume, maybe that's why I prefer it more lately, maybe it suits my personality better now or maybe not. And I wonder. I haven't answered yet, but I still love him my perfume, although sometimes I feel I'm cheating on him.
I didn't want to mention transient relationships here, but I discovered special and cheerful flavors among the latest releases that I would like to tell you more about another time. Now I'm waiting for your stories 😀
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Superb article; it goes straight to my heart because I am, forever, in love with perfumes.
At this moment I have a relationship, I say lasting, with Dahlia Noir. I discovered this perfume relatively recently and I adore it. It smells of childhood and dreamed. It has something supeb in it, I don't know what, but it conquered me.
I also like Verry Irresistible. I probably have a penchant for Givenchy.
And now, recently, I discovered, Flash from Jimmy Choo. It is a beautiful floral perfume, it seems to me that it brings royal accords, that it tells stories with princes and princesses. It is wonderful!
The beautiful story of the first perfume struck me a lot, especially since it has an example: not to have preconceived ideas and to test something new that may be a delight, as in this case. I think you love perfume a lot! 🙂
I enjoyed this post. I really like perfumes, I would say; who doesn't like them?
I think I all went through various phases in terms of my favorite perfume. Many times the choice was related to an event, a person, a memory. I found the right range relatively quickly. I simply felt that some perfumes don't suit me.
The first perfume that I liked very much and that suited me was Madame from Rochas. I understood that very fresh perfumes do not suit me and I went on the range: Poison and Dune from Dior, Charlie from Revlon, Opium of the Yves Saint Laurent.
Now I use Nina Ricci. Nina for when it's not very hot and Eau de Fleurs for summer outfits.
I also use Wish from Chopard and Naf-Naf in summer.
But I tried many perfumes….
Many years ago I received as a gift a perfume that I would not have bought. We consider it inappropriate. Emeralds from Coty. Too sweet for me. But, as I am sentimental, I said that I will find opportunities to And I found an outfit that, I said, that this perfume is the ideal complement. Everything was fine until one morning, when, entering the office in the morning, without raising his head between the papers, a colleague exclaimed: cake , someone made cake !.
Well, I was the cake!
But I still have a nice incident this year. I had to do a car overhaul and something to change. The master kept spinning next to me. At one point he says: you smell so beautiful that I make the installation for free, gift .
I was really surprised, I thought that someone who stays so long between strong smells that gasoline, adhesives and other chemicals, will not notice….
Wow, how cute of him! But you definitely made her day more beautiful. As you said, sitting in those toxic smells for so long, it certainly made him happy to smell a beautiful aroma 😀
I also have a beautiful incident with my perfume: a college colleague and a very good friend had a boss who made her life an ordeal and wanted to hit her with all the walls, but she gave herself the same perfume as me and me. -he said it calms down instantly..because it smelled like me :))
Thank you Valentina for sharing your story with me <3
And what was the perfume in question? All the "cake"?
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Chanel Chance, I've been loyal to him for about 1 year and I adore him! however, I'm thinking of looking for something new for this summer
I really like Coco Mademoiselle too :). I like how you told about every perfume… .I once declared myself obsessed with perfumes and I am happy when I see stories about these wonders of cosmetics :).
a story with a refined scent, the perfumes are very strong, especially coco channel, my personal favorite
Wonderful perfumes, beautiful stories and a special article!
My first perfume was from my husband many, many years ago when there were not so many wonders on the market. It was a perfume of lilies of the valley!
Of all the perfumes presented in this article, my favorite is Chanel Coco Mademoiselle. It is a wonderful intense perfume and I am glad that the people from Chanel also turned their attention to the ladies.
Perfumes will always be a part of women's lives. Jealous of the colors of the flowers, they ordered the make-up to be invented. Jealous of the so personal smells of flowers, they ordered them to be wrapped in bottles. And when women command, men obey And create them or bring them from where they carol. Let someone else say that the world does not move just because that is what His Majesty wants!
What a beautiful story! I like lighter, fresher perfumes!
My soul perfume is Very Irresistible (the classic one). I have been using it for about 4 years and I love it enormously. Next in order of preference, is J`adore from Dior, it is my first original perfume that I used (this many years ago), and it is full of memories.
you write very nicely, I really like your blog!
Thank you!
Mademoiselle is a sensational perfume, it is one of my favorites!