I was lucky a week ago. I was looking around on a website, where people sell and buy things. An item caught my eyes: a round, black bottle shaped a bit like a hand grenade with a golden top. I knew exactly what I was looking at. I just could not believe it, so I looked back and forth from picture to price. Seven Euro. Seven?! I wrote to the lady and asked her some questions: was the bottle empty? Was it the photo she sold and not the real bottle? Was the bottle or the perfume ruined it some way? We wrote back and forth a bit and I finally told her, I would be delighted to buy it. She was in the middle of moving, though, so she did not know where the bottle was at the moment. It took her a week to locate it in one of her boxes. Eventually, she found it and wrote to me, happily, that she was to send it the next day.
When I received the package I was so thrilled. I have a purse bottle of this beautiful fragrance, originally 10ml, and all of a sudden I also had a more than half full 100ml bottle! It has lost its charming tag ribbon on its journey through time, but the juice inside is unspoiled. Unharmed. Just as it was meant to be back in November 1997, when my ‘new’ bottle is from. Twenty-eight years it took it to come to me. It smells utterly divine.
There are so many registered notes in this. All I can say is, that it smells soapy/powdery with a fruity trace underneath. Spicy, creamy with a magical sandalwood note as the base. This is so warm, comforting and amazing. This is a must have - for me at least.
Sometimes Luck happens. And sometimes Luck hunts you down, puts you in a leg lock and asks you, politely but firmly, to pay attention. So - pay attention. You might miss out on something important if you do not.
Year 2, 216/365
