I love sweet smells. Vanilla based perfumes are always my favorite. What can I say…I just enjoy smelling like baked goods. And the best part? Men are always attracted to women who smell like cookies. It’s a fact. Everywhere I go, men are always telling me how good I smell, right after they comment, “who’s got cookies?” Not that I’m trying to attract men. I’m very happy with Mr. Shimmerfairy. BTW, don’t ever tell my husband that I refer to him on my blog as “Mr. Shimmerfairy.” Something tells me he may not find that very amusing.
OK so anyway, I recently went through a bit of an existential crisis where I decided that I wanted to be “more sophisticated.” After all, I’m 34 years old now; maybe it’s time to stop shopping at Forever 21 and smelling like a stripper. The glitter eyeshadow stays though. I’ll never give that up. Even though Courteney Cox recently remarked in InStyle magazine that glitter eyeshadow is for 12 year olds. I disagree Ms. Cox. I strongly disagree. But perhaps, just maybe, I need to make a few tweaks to my image, you know…now that I’m a LADY (cue Tom Jones “She’s a Lady! Woahohoh she’s a Lady!”)
So, I’ve made a commitment to shopping at more age-appropriate stores (unfortunately they cost a lot more than the Junior’s department at Macy’s) and I’ve been looking for a more sophisticated scent. So far, I’m really liking Chanel Chance. Unfortunately, it’s also a lot more pricey than my stripperesque Victoria’s secret body spray, but it does smell awful purdy. Like a real lady.
However, all of this started to make me a bit sad. I mean, how did I get this old? And why do I think I’m so old when I’m only 34? That’s not really all that old is it? I can still have fun, right? I can still smell like baked goods, right? And then Philosophy answered my prayers by putting out their Everything’s Coming Up Rainbows set. Yay! Each item in here smells like rainbow sherbet. The smell of this set makes me so happy. How can I not be happy when I smell like ice cream? It’s a perfect, light summer scent. It comes with a delicious and very moisturizing lip balm, a lovely lotion, and a shampoo/body wash (which incidentally, I’d never use as a shampoo because it contains sodium lauryl sulfate which is bad, bad, bad for hair and fairly questionable for skin and health, but because it smells so nice, I’m letting it slide here and I’m using it as a body wash). It’s $28 and exclusive to Sephora. All three items just smell like sweet memories of summer, happiness, sunshine…and maybe a little like strippers and/or 12 year olds, but that’s OK. I’m still-just for now-OK with being a little immature in my style. Little changes are OK, but let’s not get carried away here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go listen to the Jonas Brothers and paint my toenails with purple glitter. But I’m going to do all of that while I drink a martini. Because I’m a grown up lady.
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