My Perfume Collection!
Lately, I've gotten really into perfumes. I currently have five perfumes (three that I bought on my own, one that ended up with me by pure craziness, and one free sample), and I'm hoping to buy more once I save up the money to do so.
Here are the perfumes I own:
Left to right: Sweet Like Candy (Ariana Grande), Ari (Ariana Grande), Fantasy Intimate Edition (Britney Spears), Green Tea Scent Spray (Elizabeth Arden), Daisy Love Eau So Sweet *sample* (Marc Jacobs)
I will now tell you a little about each fragrance (packaging, how I bought it, scent).
The first fragrance I ever owned was the Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Scent Spray. The origins of how this came into my family's possession are still hazy. We can presume it originally belonged to my mother, either as something she bought or more likely as a gift. My mom never used it much or cared for it. By the time it ended up in my bathroom, she had barely used it. She'd only used about two sprays. When I told her I had it, she couldn't care less that she had given it up.
The bottle is quite plain, but the colour is very nice. This probably did come in a box, but the box is long lost. As for the scent, the most important part, it smells just like the name implies (green tea) and is a very gentle scent great for everyday use. Not particularly strong, but nice and soothing, not something too outlandish.
This next perfume has a very special place in my heart, as it is the first one I purchased myself. This is "Fantasy: Intimate Edition" by Britney Spears, one of multiple versions of this fragrance. Being a pretty big fan of Britney, I wanted to try one of her many fragrances. I initially purchased it thinking I had bought the OG Fantasy, but realized once I got home that I'd actually bought a flanker. The box it came in was very sweet, pink and white with lace images. The bottle, as you can see, is also white and pink, and is very cute. All the Fantasy bottles follow this basic design, but with different colour schemes to match the theme of the specific version. When I first smelled it, it smelled of lemons and acid, but this eventually dies down into a soft and creamy scent, made up of vanilla, brown sugar and a slight powdery scent (baby powder)?
A few days later, I decided to buy another fragrance. With a lot of choices, I ended up picking this one: "Ari" by Ariana Grande. While I am not a big fan of Ariana's recent work, I did love her old music and figured giving one of her perfumes a try wouldn't kill me. The box was lavender with her signature and cute black and white pictures of her. I ADORE this bottle design! It's a clear bottle with pink liquid that you can see on the inside, and comes with a detachable white puff. The puff is certainly very cute, but the bottle is nice with or without it. Sometimes the puff gets annoying when you are trying to spray the perfume on, but it doesn't wreck the product. In fact, after a few sprays, the puff picks up the scent, so eventually you have a DIY puff scented just like the perfume! The perfume itself smells very fruity and sweet, like raspberry marshmallow goodness!
My final two perfumes were actually purchased on the same day. When I went to pick up another fragrance, the saleswoman (who had become very familiar with me) told me that a new product would be coming in and she wanted to give me a free sample. This product happened to be "Daisy Love: Eau So Sweet" by Marc Jacobs. This is just the latest in the long dynasty of "Daisy", the most famous of Marc Jacobs' fragrances and one of the most popular women's fragrances out there, with the OG and its many flankers regularly raking in a lot of money. Obviously, this is just a sample, so there wasn't much packaging except for a small holder that described the notes of the fragrance and stated that this was a sample and not for sale. This perfume is very floral and musky, just like a daisy (ain't that surprising), but with a sweetness to it (the sample said it was raspberries, but smelled kinda like cotton candy to me). Hopefully once I have more money, I can buy the full version when it's released!
As I mentioned, I bought another perfume on the same day I got the free Daisy Love Eau So Sweet Sample. And this is it! After trying many, I ended up deciding on another Ariana Grande fragrance: "Sweet Like Candy". Along with "Ari", this fragrance is one of her most popular. The box was coloured light pink, with Ariana's signature and lipstick imagery, bold lettering, and a picture of Ariana on one side. It is a very nice box. As you can see, the bottle was similar to the bottle for Ari (actually, most of the bottles for Ariana's perfumes match each other with minor differences). This time, the bottle was a matte opaque pastel pink, and the puff matched the bottle colour. Scent-wise, it is similar to Ari, but unlike the former which is more fruity sweet, this one is more sugary sweet, just like the name suggests. The main notes I smell are blackberry, marshmallows (again) and sugar. It kinda smells like cotton candy to me, but apparently that's not one of the notes so that's probably just the sugar, haha!
I won't be buying more perfumes until closer to the end of the school year, but I do have a wish list, which is as follows:
- Heat by Beyoncé
- Heat Rush by Beyoncé
- Heat Wild Orchid by Beyoncé
- Fantasy by Britney Spears
- Midnight Fantasy by Britney Spears
- Fantasy In Bloom by Britney Spears
- Circus Fantasy by Britney Spears
- Curious by Britney Spears
- Daisy by Marc Jacobs
- Daisy Love by Marc Jacobs
- Daisy Eau So Fresh by Marc Jacobs
- Honey by Marc Jacobs
- Our Moment by One Direction
- You and I by One Direction
- One of the Chloé fragrances
- One of the Burberry fragrances
- Purr by Katy Perry
- Meow! by Katy Perry
- Killer Queen by Katy Perry
- Reb'l Fleur by Rihanna
- RiRi by Rihanna
- Glow by Jennifer Lopez
- White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor (though this one I might give to one of my grandmas, as she wore it when she was younger, it's a very "mature" scent, and also extremely strong... lol)