Unopened Perfumes

Hiya Posse. One of my perfume mates Michael was here last week. As always we got to talking perfume. He would ask about a brand or a perfume and I’d bring the box of all that brand and we would go through them. It’s a nice, free ranging way to have a catch up and keep the perfume talk focussed. On this occasion he was laughing at me a bit because every box has a few unopened perfumes, brand new in cellophane. A couple of boxes only one or two of the packages have ever been opened. So it was kinda funny. It got me thinking though, am I the only one?

Unopened Perfumes

If you answered “Yes Portia, that is crazy shit and so are you.” Then you’re probably not the only one. I’ll try and explain it.

I have well over a thousand bottles of open perfume (yeah, I know). There are things here I absolutely adore that may never get worn again because there are other things I adore that pop into my mind and I wear them. There are also a bunch of things that I like, easy wear, no drama spritzes that often get the spritz because I want to smell nice but don’t want to overload my mind with fabulousness, skunk people or lose the enjoyment of a true love because I’m super focussed on getting something done. It’s always a pisser to me if I get out the unicorn, spritz it lavishly and then get so wrapped up in doing something I miss out and then have super sized regret and lived FOMO.

You might also remember how hard I tried to get my sample/decant numbers down in New Idea 2023?

There are a few particular reasons they might not be opened.

1. They are a backup bottle and I’m still using the open one.
2. I have a decant and want to finish it first.
3. I bought it and had a decant to finish but then forgot I had both the decant and subsequently it.
4. It came with six other perfumes, got put away for later and either forgotten or saved for a rainy day when I need something new and exciting to brighten my mood.
5. I was packing up the room so I could vacuum, go away, sew or fill it will stuff when visitors come and forgot where I put it.
6. Owning a bottle, pristine and untouched of a unicorn is more exciting to me than opening it and wearing it a few times over then next few years.
7. It’s too precious
8. It’s too pretty
9. The unopened box is the happy memory, the scent secondary
10. I’m a hoarder

There’s also the fact that I’m a child and have internal tantrums about such things.

So do you have unopened perfumes? Do you have any reasons other than my slew of verbal typer-rhea?

Let me know about yours in the comments, or you can tell me I’m a bit La La.
Portia xx