[perfume] in which I go ...
Apr. 5th, 2022 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettA week or two ago, in a confluence of unfortunate events, I ended up smashing a perfume vial by standing on it (in its cardboard sleeve, no Alexes were harmed in the making of this anecdote, etc).
It was an Etat Libre d'Orange vial, but it was, at least, not that Etat Libre d'Orange perfume.
Nope: it was Fils de Dieu, which now appears -- to my disgruntlement -- to be available only in bottles not in samples (not even, as far as I can tell, on eBay, unless I buy the entire sample pack, lots of which I don't want because allergies, though I suppose -- I realise, as I type this -- that I could see if any of you lot might be interested in splitting one up...). I am not currently wearing enough perfume to justify another entire bottle of the stuff, especially not given that I look at the difference in price-per-ml for the 50ml and the 100ml bottles and immediately resolve in Outrage that there is no point buying the 50ml.
In the process of establishing all that, I discovered two things that delighted me: the first is that ELdO now has its own formal UK presence (as linked above), and the second is another perfume I am not going to buy, but Oh No.
I also discovered some outrage, in the form of You Or Someone Like You, for which the notes read:
To which my response is, obviously, ACTUALLY, MY GOOD BRO, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AT LEAST A GUESS AS TO WHETHER I'M ALLERGIC TO IT BEFORE I EVEN BEGIN TO CONSIDER SPENDING £128 ON IT, CHANDLER.
On the upside, Frangantica, as usual, has me covered, and it turns out that while I might have been interested, I am now blissfully not. So there's that!
It was an Etat Libre d'Orange vial, but it was, at least, not that Etat Libre d'Orange perfume.
Nope: it was Fils de Dieu, which now appears -- to my disgruntlement -- to be available only in bottles not in samples (not even, as far as I can tell, on eBay, unless I buy the entire sample pack, lots of which I don't want because allergies, though I suppose -- I realise, as I type this -- that I could see if any of you lot might be interested in splitting one up...). I am not currently wearing enough perfume to justify another entire bottle of the stuff, especially not given that I look at the difference in price-per-ml for the 50ml and the 100ml bottles and immediately resolve in Outrage that there is no point buying the 50ml.
In the process of establishing all that, I discovered two things that delighted me: the first is that ELdO now has its own formal UK presence (as linked above), and the second is another perfume I am not going to buy, but Oh No.
I also discovered some outrage, in the form of You Or Someone Like You, for which the notes read:
“The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; You is not for you.”
— Chandler Burr
To which my response is, obviously, ACTUALLY, MY GOOD BRO, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AT LEAST A GUESS AS TO WHETHER I'M ALLERGIC TO IT BEFORE I EVEN BEGIN TO CONSIDER SPENDING £128 ON IT, CHANDLER.
On the upside, Frangantica, as usual, has me covered, and it turns out that while I might have been interested, I am now blissfully not. So there's that!
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Date: 2022-04-05 11:41 pm (UTC)Always reassuring to hear!
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Date: 2022-04-06 08:00 am (UTC)I'm so happy that seven years later, my experience is still haunting other people's memories; that is extremely right and proper and justified!
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Date: 2022-04-06 10:49 pm (UTC)Chandler, however, can step on a molded ABS plastic brick and have it embed in his foot.