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Shopping… my rant and my discovery!

by SPBragg on October 16th, 2006

You know how much I love shopping, well on Saturday, gave me enough material to rant about. It was nearly closing time and Britt and I were relatively exhausted. Okay, my feet were killing me, but that is parr for the course if you have been shopping all day long. And for the most part it was a good day. Until a “perfume guy” decided that I simply had to test out the latest fragrance. And he wasn’t about to take no for an answer. I hate pushy salespeople. He spritzed it onto a tiny piece of cardboard and when I didn’t look impressed, he decided that I needed to wear the stuff. Okay, at least he knew that the cardboard bookmark becomes just that, or I use it to scent my purse. I certainly wouldn’t buy a scent based on how it smelled on paper.

Well, I should have left well enough alone. It did not agree with me. I expected it to be “heady” when first applied, but as it develops, it usually softens. Not this one. It simply wouldn’t go away. On the way home, I tried to keep my coat sleeve tight around my wrist so that I wouldn’t give Britt a headache. Yes, it was that strong. Did it work… hardly. Now my coat smells like the perfume. I can only hope that it calms down after a few days.

So, was it a bad perfume. Not necessarily. It could have just been me. First of all, my skin is oily so that tends to hold onto the scent longer, and then there is my high blood pressure medication. Sometimes that can cause a scent to react badly as well. (And he didn’t help my blood pressure either.) And it is a known fact that if you are in the perimenopausal years, your hormones can affect the scent as well. Or it could simply be that it was too harst for my liking. But I did find one that I liked and I was really surprised. I’m not usually drawn to celebrity fragrances.

While browsing the perfume counter (at the beginning of our shopping day), a sales person came over with a gorgeous bottle and handed me the little card spritzed with scent and then suggested that I try it. I offered my wrist and I immediately liked the scent. And as Britt and I wandered around the mall, the fragrance simply got better and better. And who would have guessed. It was by Hilary Duff! If you haven’t checked it out, I suggest you sample it. You just might be as surprised as I was.

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