Old Spice

I love the smell of the original Old Spice. It's so manly.

Does anyone wear it anymore? Can you even get the original scent? From what I've read it seems that the fragrance has been rebranded.

There's a great question on the site's FAQ section:

Where's Soap-on-a-Rope, Shaving Mug refills, and the Talc Powder?
Sorry to break it to you, but all these products were discontinued about 10 years ago.

Ah...Soap-on-a-Rope.

I think I bought that for my dad for about seven consecutive Father's Days.

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.

Perfume and Pregnancy

I had my baby eight months ago and for most of my pregnancy, I could not wear my usual perfumes. They do say that the pregnancy hormones can make your scent smell different and I found this with the fragrances I was wearing in rotation during that time - Dior Addict, Boudoir by Vivienne Westwood, Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker and Hiris by Hermes. In fact, wearing them, especially Boudoir, which can be quite sickly, made me want to heave.

The American Pregnancy Association says of wearing perfume during pregnancy:

'...Though it's safe to use perfume during pregnancy, you may be more sensitive to perfumes and find that some scents make you nauseated, light-headed, agitated, or more prone to headaches...'

Has anyone else found this to be true?

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.