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2 years ago - 07/01/2023
Why do you collect?
Before I drift off to sleep, I often spend those precious moments in between prayer and semi-consciousness, thinking about and evaluating the day that has gone by, or the motives behind my recent decisions. Lately, I have found myself reflecting on my perfume collecting habits and was inspired to write this blog after reading a recent comment left by a fragrance lover in one of my earlier blog posts.
"Lotte," I asked myself a few weeks ago, "why do you collect? Why do you own more fragrances than you need or can use up within a sensible time period... Can you really justify your decision to spend what you could have saved?"
The answer is always the same: I collect for enjoyment, for pleasure, to satisfy my curiousity, and to experience a scent I'd never known. I own more fragrances than I need in the same way I own more watches than I have hands, and dresses than I have the occasion to wear- for variety, for diverseness and to satisfy my polarising preferences. And can I justify choosing to purchase five new minatures when I have unopened full bottles in my collection? Yes, fragrance collecting is not a side hustle to earn cash on the side. It loses money, it is a hobby, and I have it on full authority that hobbies do not have to make financial sense... for the most part.
And with that, my conscience is always satisfied, enough to permit sweet sleep and slumber into the safety of my bed.
Why do you collect? Why do you own more perfume bottles than you may ever be able to use up?
6 Comments
Lieselotte
Trying perfumes is a deep experience and perhaps the cheapest voyage or trip you can get. For perfumes are like expertise guides ,they know every little corner of every little backstreet they are taking u to.
More recently I kind of came to senses. Now I am keeping a strict "one out, one in" policy, so I'm no longer hoarding but sort of balancing out my collection. Like, no more than one of a kind. Or two. Or thee. But no more, really :)