White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor

I bought a bottle of White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor last week and ever since I started wearing it, about five people have asked what I was wearing.

I'm really liking it.

The fragrance was created in 1991, making it one of the original "celebrity" fragrances of recent times. It is the result of the following top fragrance Notes: neroli, lily and tuberose. The middle notes are: orris, narcissce and amber and the base of the fragrance is: sandalwood, patchouli and oakmoss.

DKNY Be Delicious

I travelled out to Melbourne a few weeks ahead of my husband in september this year. My duty-free shopping experience a few weeks prior was disastrous (crying baby, bleeding heel after he rammed the luggage trolly into the back of it and tearfulness after my lipstick was taken off me due to security and an unnanounced visit to the airport from my mum-in-law!) so when he called me from Heathrow airport to ask what perfume I wanted, I really didn't know.

I had had a few sprays of a few perfumes and in my hasted I said "the DKNY perfume in the apple bottle."

He bought it for me and I really don't like it. It doesn't smell right on me. I think I actually tried on the Be Delicious men's fragrance and liked it and was getting confused!

The fragrance notes are: Grapefruit, Cucumber, Magnolia, Apple, Tuberose, White Muguet, Rose, Violet, White Amber, Woods.

My first mistake was that I really don't like apple or grapefruit (or cucumber for that matter) so why I chose this, I do not know. I think it was the bottle design and the New York affiliation (my most favourite city.)

(I am still learning all about fragrance notes etc. and am in awe and admiration for the wonderful knowledge other perfume bloggers possess!)

So, I will perservere because it's not totally hideous on me but it is certainly not a favourite.

Vanilla Fields

Vanilla Fields by Coty represents my first great love. I had been given a deodorant body spray of this scent and I was wearing it when I got together with my him when I was 20 (it was at a Christmas party and I had a fair bit to drink and I smoked as well so it shows that the scent lingers, despite the smell of alcohol and cigarettes!). He loved the smell and bought me a bottle of the perfume. I can't smell this and not recall the headiness of first love and the feeling that I had arrived.

I am not usually a fan of vanilla but it is the jasmine in this scent that drew me to it. Of course now, I can't wear the stuff because it make me remember him and even though I am now married with a baby, I still have very loving, fond memories of this man. (Boo hoo...get out the violins! Or is it my postnatal hormones?)