A very fragrant Christmas

I got lots of lovely, smelly gifts for Christmas.

My brother and his girlfriend gave me another bottle of Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker. I had never owned a "celebrity" fragrance before (unless you count my Strawberry Shortcake eau de toilette when I was about seven!) and I was reluctant to do so as I thought they were all cheap and nasty and too popular. (I actually joined the masses this year and bought Kylie Minogue's Darling for my mum - it was one of the top-selling fragrances in the UK and Australia this Christmas. My brother also bought it for his girlfriend. I don't mind it.)

However, I tried this scent on in our local Debenham's department store and got my husband to buy it for me last year when we were still living in the London. (I am also a massive fan of Sex and the City so I was pleased that I could get into this scent, although I don't think a Carrie Bradshaw-inspired fragrance would be as "pretty" a smell as Lovely is.)

The sheer fact that I could get into a "pretty" scent was a revelation as well - I had always been a Calvin Klein Obsession, Hermes and Arpege kind of girl and I never thought I could carry off a scent that was a bit "girly".

I was also given a Jurlique voucher for a facial and massage.

Bliss.