What perfume have you bought recently?

Sigh..... one of these days I hope to have this.

Thanks to some tips from Diane1953 and Cryptic, I managed to find my mother Gardenia Passion for Mother's Day, and Fracas for her birthday in July.

Thanks to Cryptic for the Gardenia Passion and Fracas Tip, and to Diane1953 for steering me away from the current Shalimar.

Today I did it!!! I purchased a bottle of Guerlain Gourmand Cocquin! FINALLY!!!

Congratulations, feels good doesn't it?

Yes it does!! I have wanted this one for a long time and after I used up my decant, I decided to just go for it! I am so thrilled!

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I picked up a few minis yesterday (some not pictured)
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and a few I left at the store
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I plan to go back for the Samsara and Shalimar

I might have finally found the perfume I have been searching for the past 2 years. I bought a 1.7 oz bottle of Les Belles de Ricci Belle de Minuit off of a seller on eCrater. They said specialize in finding hard to find perfumes as well as making decants. So we'll see. But I'm pretty excited as this will complete my Les Belles de Ricci collection.

I have bought quite a few over the past month, a couple standouts were vintage bottles of Cravache by Robert Piguet and Monsieur Carven ... and my final purchase of March, Supercilium by O'driù.

I did not buy, but I won a perfume from PK perfumes, Violet Chocolatier. I haven't tried it yet, but from the sprayer it smells like gardenia.

Guerlain Idylle Duet Rose & Patchouli

Also picked up samples of Mugler's Angel le Gout du Parfum and Alien le Gout du Parfum. A little goes a long way.

Fan-cy! Enjoy your new little treasure.

(and as to why I ever fell asleep, can't say) I purchased an extra bottle of Rive Gauche (we can't get it here in the states unless you shop online) when I was in Zurich over Christmas, and in January went for some new ones: Chanel No.19 Poudree and Hermes Jardin en Mediterranee. The latter I discovered maybe 5 years ago, when checking out a small perfume shop in New York City. I was looking for Rive Gauche and saw that Hermes had some new perfumes and liked the Jardin series.

More recently after reading the advice of all here on how to shop on eBay, I successfully obtained two vintage perfumes. Fifi by de Nivel and Hermes Caleche. Both in great shape and reasonable prices.

(Oh yes I know what happened. When I stopped participating in the wage based economy, I was going out less often and so dramatically slowed in my perfume usage. Would still ask for the occasional bottle of Rive Gauche if a family member was in France. I guess I have a lifetime supply of RG.

Can you tell that I love RG?)

Yes, I can NSku, enjoy what you love!

Estate sale.... Lalique Homme unopened.

Vintage L'inlerdit Givency

Vintage 6 oz. Charbert Eau Toillette Breathless

Discontinued "Fragile"

by Jean Paul Gaultier

I was keeping this to myself but I might as well fess up.
I finally got myself a bottle of Tauer 2 and Chanel Coromandel with hopes of ordering Montale Red Aoud today.
No more for me after the Montale, for sure!

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