When I was younger I dreamed of smelling nice, not that I didn’t smell nice, but with a specific scent. A scent that was all my own, unique, luxurious, and beautiful. It seemed to me that adults wore perfume. But my mom is allergic to perfume scents. So it was something that I looked upon with envy.
I did experiment with floral scents, all preapproved, that faded quite quickly and were purchased at Bath and Body Works.
But as soon as I went to college, I bought a perfume. It was, and is, a DKNY Golden Apple. My best friend had a series of these apples and I smelled one and thought, this. This is fruity and fun and it comes in an apple. What other questions could I have?
But now that I’m more mature and mellow, I find myself thinking, it’s not always what I want to smell like a golden apple. I want to find something more mature, more deep.
So I am on a scent hunt, a hunt to find my new scent. One that I can identify more with as I am older, and realize that, while I love apples, I want some more complexity, new notes, differing concentrations.
I want it to be sophisticated, complicated, sweet, but also spicy. I want to smell it and fall in love with myself every time I smell it. I want to be excited to wear it.
I want my perfume to reflect the person I am, not the person I want to be.