Perfume Time! - Story 1

Sharing my perfume stories - one experience after another.

So I have been planning on writing stuff about my perfume collection but I just couldn't come up with something. Until I got my latest PMS where I saw how I liked the smell of one perfume I blind-bought that I particularly did not like.

It all starter with a fraghead friend influencing me to but perfumes because I needed a new hobby. Another friend then gave me suggestions on the scents he likes that he said I may like as well. Weird as it may sound but yes, because I am a newbie when it comes to fragrance, I decided to blind-buy some stuff which resulted to 1. liking some of them, 2. not liking some of them but keeping them, and 3. not liking them so gave them to my parents and my partner.

So there's this one particular scent I did not like - Jo Malone's English Pear and Freesia. Not that I don't like it at all but it is one of my least used perfumes because the scent gives me headache.

As a malfunctioning girlie woman who has period pains and other symptoms, I tend to hate and crave some taste and smell I don't like or I like and it has become a cycle. I like beef bistek but I hate it's smell and it when I get my period, and other things like this.

Going back, I bought a decant of three Jo Malone scents just to try get the idea on the craze they have. One of them is English Pear and Freesia - don't get me wrong, it smells nice, my partner likes it but I don't like it much that I almost don't use it. Until I started PMS'ing this month.

I woke up craving for something I can't come up with. I was thinking food, so I ate almost everything my mind can think of, but to no avail, it just wasn't it. So I took a bath and cleaned up my room just so I can move around and not get stuck in bed. Then I reached the spot where my Perfume bottles are placed and I started rearranging them based on what I usually wear and the least worn. I smelled each of them as I lifted them and put them in place. I started getting a bit dizzy because I have smelled a number by then. I disregarded the headache and continued what I was doing, until I reached for the three JM decants I don't usually wear.

As I smell them one by one, I realized I'm starting to know what my craving was. it was a scent! I finally reached for the EPAF bottle and smelled it - and OMG it was it! It was what I was craving for. Weirdly I sprayed it on my hair and my neck and my arm - I know it is too much but as part of my PMS, I do weird things and that's completely okay. I started to feel comfort and satisfaction as I was spraying and continually smell it. Until I started to feel relaxed and I fell asleep on my bed and felt well-rested when I woke up.

It has been a week since my PMS started and I also got my period and I'm still using this perfume, I'm even starting to question my decisions because again, I don't particularly like this perfume but I grew a liking on it in the weirdest way possible, but I have no regrets knowing I did not waste my money blind-buying this. The only problem I have is I might end up buying a bottle if this craziness doesn't end.

I don't know how many times I have said this is weird but, oh, well. This is my first perfume story. More of them to come, I guess?

How about you, have you had this kind of PMS experience?

Which perfume do you not like but sometimes feel like using?