Celine Black Tie and some other bits

I had most of this post written and was looking forward to talking about my optician appointment, after Musette’s post on cataracts. But, best laid plans. I gave myself half an hour to drive what usually takes 10 minutes. Unsigned road works. So, took me 50 minute to get there and appointment had to be rescheduled. Not a happy bunny. Two fingers up to the electricity company.

It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US and the second May bank holiday here as this post goes up. And this coming week is school hols. Which means I will venture out early and late, and take the train rather than using the car much. It’s a madness out there.

Anyway, we’ll still start with the Celine.

From 2019, Black Tie is the last of my samples from alytike. A big thank you to her.

In any case, this gets a brief commentary because … it’s stay on me was incredibly brief. Like it mostly disappeared around a half hour after application.

In that time, though, it made its mark. Per Fragrantica, this is orris butter, cedar, tree moss, vanilla and musk, and the marketing guff is “A couturier’s perfume, the exact olfactory interpretation of his style in relation to fashion”. I had to look up Celine because it’s not a luxury brand I’m familiar with. Does that mean it’s ‘quiet luxury’, that weirdly overused influencer phrase to denote it’s just not an ‘It’ brand? On me, the brand’s perfume is muted ethyl maltol. I’m guessing the orris butter, vanilla and cedar somehow, and I’m guessing that wasn’t the perfumer’s intension.

Thankfully, that disappeared fast (sorry alytike) and for the brief period after the EM I got powdery vanilla.

Onward to other bits.

I had a tooth out a week and a half ago in anticipation of braces on the lower teeth come June. I didn’t need braces as a kid. But, around three years ago my lower teeth started … shifting. No clue why. According to dentist, “It happens sometimes”. But it got worse, and one of the incisors got pushed forward, so that it was actually at an angle and I started to bite the inside of my lower lip sometimes. Long story short you need that tooth out, according to orthodontist. I grred and grumbled to myself for eight months before deciding to get with the programme.

So, tooth came out.

I am not squeamish, I don’t mind jabs and can manage the needle during blood taking.

But I detest dentisty. Yes, we need to look after our teeth, but for the life of me I don’t understand how anyone would want to do this job. I like my dentist as much as one can like someone who scrapes and pokes and pulls for a living. The extraction was fairly quick. The worst thing about it was the dental sedation – the 16 million small jabs she did below my lower jaw and behind the tooth.

I really think there was a residual effect for over a week, lingering much more than any of the pain associated with the tooth pull itself, which was gone in a day. And, it changed day to day. “Now, your left ear is twitchy (associated nerve effect?), now it’s the right ear; now, it’s on the neck below jaw; not we’re settling in the left side of your jaw for a few days”.

Anyway, as a reward for being brave I bought a new lipstick (I thought I could justify this within the no buy – a Merit one / I think Merit got mentioned a couple of times in comments on my last post – a ‘clean beauty’ brand that has recently landed in the UK). I read an article recently about the ‘importance’ of small treats/luxuries – how they provide an endorphin hit and keep us from spending bigger. Mebbe, Mebbe not.

I’m still waiting for a lipstick post – I am looking at you, March. Years ago, I bought a Nars lip paint untested based on one of your posts.

So. Have you tried the Celine, know the brand? Have thoughts on dentistry? Bought any interesting small treats recently you think we should know about?

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