Smells Like Money Saved
Money smells. No, really. It’s a pee-yoo stink to high heaven of sweaty palms and B.O. I always wash my hands after counting wads of the stuff. $10K of cash really overpowers in the small back office of our gas station. At least I was working there in the winter when it stank less.
Recently I was peering into the bathroom of a friend. There were several bottles of perfume there. I commented on the vanity or paranoia my friend must have to spritz themselves with posh perfume all the time. The reply was that every single bottle was a gift from a family member. Honestly, I couldn’t see the point of such a useless gift unless they were trying to say something about personal hygiene.
Do you wear CK One? JLo’s perfume? That godawful stench of Paris Hilton? (ick, I can’t believe I just mentioned that hideous crow in my blog.) Why?
Sure I love nothing better than sniffing my friend’s shirt on the escalators in the Boston subway on the way to church Easter morning. He was wearing Polo Crest that day and I will never forget it. (Especially since I went to a Harvard Law party the night before and actually HAD FUN.)
I prefer fresh flowery scents. In fact the cheapest perfume is one I make myself. It’s easier than mixing a cocktail.
Order essential oils from some place like Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs or Tenzing Momo. Get a spritzer/atomizer, a small funnel and distilled water. Fill the spritzer with a little bit of oil, and fill the rest of it with water. Spritz away. I use a small cobalt glass bottle instead of a spritzer.
There are more complicated kinds of ways of doing this involving oils and alcohol. But the nice people at Tenzing Momo explained to me that really all you need is a bit of water to thin out the oil.
Lately I’m wearing violets and vanilla. I shake up the bottle and dab a little behind the ears and on the wrists on my way out the door. All in all, it cost me $20.18 at Tenzing Momo for all the supplies. I went with true vanilla oil, which is more expensive than other vanilla oils, violet oil, a cobalt glass bottle and special funnel top. The good thing is that when I run out of oil, I will have two more perfume bottles I can fill with anything I want. Oh, that is also the price without shipping since I was at Pike Place Market in person last year. I will easily have enough perfume for two years. Not too shabby when you see that most perfumes at the mall are 40 bucks.
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