i was inspired by this guy on youtube...he had a collection of more than 100 bottles of perfumes...and his favourites are the creed collection...i can safely say unless i sell my firstborn (not that i am close to conceiving a baby) or sell my house from under me (not that i even own a miniature model of a house), i can't afford a creed anytime soon...i am not rich by any means...i am a scholarship-supported full time student who is living on a student budget aka practically the minimum...but i do have my guilty pleasures...i love romance (yup this is the 1000th time i've admitted this particular fact), so i spent an inordinately excessive amount of time on reading romance novels...no i don't feel i'm wasting time unless i'm out of time (test/exam periods, assignment due dates, sleep deprivation due to excessive reading)...okay, this whole romance-addict thing got nothing what-so-ever to do with my budget and guilty-spending-pleasure....my other secret vice is yup, not so secret anymore since i've mentioned it before, perfumes...i love perfumes...to date i have used (and still using) a lot of different perfumes...my first perfume was bought when i was 15...yup, i still remember...i didn't get a lot of allowance from my parents so i had to save up a lot of my weekly allowance and eid's gift money to buy my perfumes then...my first perfume was bodyshop's strawberry (if i'm not mistaken...it could be peach or or dewberry or white musk or vanilla...)...this may not be impressive to most people but i love it...after that i bought a successive numbers of bodyshop perfumes as they are the most affordable and longer lasting...i've used white musk, vanilla, peach, dewberry, strawberry and the latest one that i still have (bought 3-4 years ago and there is still about 10% left) is neroli jasmin (picture courtesy of bodyshop)...i'm pretty sure i'll keep buying a bodyshop oil in the future...what can i say, i'm a sucker for affordability and quality..
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i've also used versace versus and red jeans before (just finished with the last bottle of versace versus a few weeks ago, kinda sad seeing an old favourite go)...i have bought these 2 versaces a lot of times...i love their fragrance...my usual favs are the fruity smell, fresh (u know shower gel/soap mixed with clean water, fresh after shower, kind of smell) smell or sweet smell...these 2 versaces hit the spot with the fruity smell (okay, i don't know much about the base note, top note kinda description so i'll stick to the basics that i know)...i sometimes buy perfume coz i like the smell of it when someone i know of wears it...i remember my bedmate (not lover, u blue-minded devil!hahaha...this term oft used by sspians, ssp girls, describing the person whose bed is next to urs) when i was in form 5, yaya, used this perfume daily...i fell in love with it and bought it when i graduated from high school (to those who still don't get it, ssp is a high school...it stands for sekolah seri puteri)...i don't want people to associate my smell with yaya's coz we were using the same perfume so i waited patiently to buy until graduation...i bought the perfume twice (and i still miss it's fresh smell)...ah surprise, surprise the perfume is ralph lauren's ralph...i don't have it now as i've finished up all of my supply of ralph lauren's ralph...
the same thing happens to my current (and most likely all-time) favourite, lolita lempicka...i love it so i'm very prudent in using it...it's still half full...the smell is really feminine, sexy and strong so i don't have to spray a lot...the bottle is also very attractive with purple apple-shaped glass and gold sprayed leaves on the bottle's surface and gold spritzer...kinda reminds me of the forbidden apple in garden of eden, no?very subtle and tres sexy!it's more expensive than the rest of my perfume collection, not as expensive as luxury perfumes such as creed mind you, but still cost me my arms and legs to purchase one bottle of lolita lempicka...adding the all-time favourite factor, i am using it sparingly to make this current bottle last longer...
my other perfumes are salvatore ferragamo incanto shine (i bought the same one for jaja and incanto charms for mama, and paris hilton heiress for gegel and britney spears fantasy for alin...all bought in japan about a year and a half ago), davidoff echo (pink's favourite, got influenced by pink when we were browsing around at a perfume shop in rotorua 2 years ago) and kate moss kate (bought on trademe about 2 months ago)...all of them, as again, are my favourites (i love all of my perfumes, why bother buying them if i hate them?)...nowadays i wear kate moss kate for my everyday use...i'm thinking i should revert back to bodyshop for my daily use...what do u think?mama's all time favourite is estee lauder beautiful...i love mama's smell as it reminds me of mama...she has been using estee lauder beautiful for so long it's nostalgic...even her clothes have her smell (estee lauder beautiful mixed with mama's own essence)...jaja, on the other hand, have been using christian dior forever and ever for so long, she has her own smell now...ah but she kinda developed a reaction to forever and ever so mama is now the proud owner of her latest bottle...i think she is currently using incanto shine...gegel is currently wearing her paris hilton hieress and versace red jeans that is switch with her (switched with her versace versus)...alin is still using her britney spears fantasy sparingly (she steals spritz of perfume from others especially jaja's or mama's)...
as for aboy, he doesn't wear a perfume...yet...i kinda predict that he will grab a bottle soon...he's fast becoming a metrosexual guy, errr, boy...but i'm hoping he doesn't turn out too metrosexual and become more high maintanance than good-ole-moi (i'm relatively low maintainance compared to a lot of my girl friends...i don't wear make-up except for my baby lotion, sunblock, and face powder....i wear make-up, like lip gloss and eye shadow on special occasion...i only use one facial cleanser, my neutrogena, and that's it)...i will kill him if he suddenly buys facepack (or not, it's his own money, i don't care)...baba, on the other hand, never runs out of perfume compared to the female population in our household...it's due to the fact that mama keeps buying his perfumes, or 'suggested' us to buy baba perfumes for his birthday or for father's day...i don't even remember his perfumes coz we bought him a lot of different ones...i think the latest one that he's using is bvlgari blv notte...for a person who changes perfume like he changes his shirt, my dad is oblivious to his perfumes...why?coz he just doesn't care...all of his perfumes are sprayed on his shirts and t-shirts by mama so he doesn't actually spray it himself..
.nenek maridah (my favourite granny, she's wise and she listens), loves christian dior dolce vita (the perfume she wore before her current one)...she fell in love when jaja gave her a sample bottle of dior dolce vita years ago and she still loves it...now she's using burberry's burberry...she said it smells like papaya (i laughed when i heard that, nenek maridah loves papaya!)...
my latest acquisitions are ysl baby doll (the limited edition) and christian dior addict 2...ysl baby doll used to be nura's favourite (i don't know what her current one is but she used to wear this in college back then) and christian dior addict is a perfume that i really really like but has yet to purchase (maybe coz it's pricey and i was always almost broke when i want to buy it)...so buying christian addict 2 is the closest that i get to acquiring chrisian dior addict, not that the smell is similar...i bought both from trademe...the jury is still out there on these 2...we'll see whether they make it into my favourites list...the perfumes in my most-wanted list are christian dior addict, hmmm,...., can't think of anything else (of course i wish i can get my hands on more perfumes, regardless of brand or price but alas, the demand is unlimited while the resources are scarce...the market ain't perfect)...i am not even close to 10, much less 100 bottles of perfume, but i love and cherish what i have...okay, this is a non-subtle hint, i will love a bottle of perfume as a present...do u want me to make it clearer?i want perfumes for present!
perfume pictures courtesy of salvatore ferragamo, bodyshop, versace, ralph lauren, lolita lempicka, estee lauder, ysl and last but not least, bvlgari....i hope i don't violate any copyright infringement law or something!
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