Posse, my darlings! Time flies! This Halloween, it’ll be 4 years since I got bounced from my horrible situation with El O. FOUR YEARS! And while there are a few things I miss (all related to business and/or handyman stuff around the house) one of the things I don’t miss? Having to police my bedtime fragrance. Now… I’mo be fair about this: it’s not really his fault, nor is it his problem – sleeping with a perfumista, especially one with a penchant for heavy (HEAVY) hitters, can be problematic. And … okay…. maaayybe 42 sprays of Mitsouko was, perhaps, about 39 sprays too many.
It’s the bedtime version of Office Wear – when you’re sleeping with someone, what you wear (or how much) can require some consideration. But now? Now that I tend to sleep (actually SLEEP) alone?
Katy, bar the damb door! Musette is going for it! As you know, I’m a huge fan of BWFs and attars and I also love the Total Experience. Nothing I love more than a shower gel, body cream and a few spritzes of some glamorama perfume. I have been known to bomb my entire house with Carnal Flower! Fracas? Add the powder and stand back! No5 which, normally, isn’t that overwhelming, becomes nuclear level, when you put on all the stuffs! (and I’ve got ALL THE STUFFS!)
And I do it on the regular. Mostly. There are a couple that do not play well with sleep. Amouage Lyric? Entirely too distracting – it’s actually given me nightmares, if you can believe it (believe it)! No22, one of my Summertime favorites (the heat brings out the fattiness of that powderbomb, like when you taste a bit of cooled-down funnel cake. Icky to taste but intriguing to smell)…. wearing it in cooler weather for bedtime slides allll the way into the powder and makes me cough. A lot.
But the tropical glam of Alberto Morillas’s Ines de la Fressange? I will spritz that on my pillows, my sheets, the fan blades…. and me… and happily go to the Land of Nod, dreaming of driving from Paris to Marseilles in July, in a vintage convertible.
So…. do you indulge at bedtime? Which ones do you love most? If you sleep with another, do you have to police your application? Your actual perfume? Which ones? (omg. I remember riding with my sister – in her truck, in Summer, with all the windows down… and she was yelling at me because she hated April Aromatics so damb much! With the windows down! (I may have already mentioned that – but…. really? THE WINDOWS WERE DOWN!)
Spill the tea (but not the perfume, like when I spilled Aromatics Elixir on that leather chair and had to move out of the house for a few days) – I’m gone this week (staying with family and friends so I will play Perfume Nice) – when I get back I’ll poke one of my newly manicured paws and send some fun to the winner!
And KATHLEEN! I still need you to gmail me – I don’t have your deets.