Every year 45% of Americans make at least one New Year's Resolution. Studies show that most are broken within six weeks. Perfumistas are different, we are a deteremined lot, so the Team at CaFleureBon have compiled our own.
In 2011 I was drowning in the sea of samples. Manufacturer’s samples. Tiny dab vials. Lucky Scent sample packs (every single one of them in 2011!). Small atomizers filled by my friends’ loving hands. Sampling groups and sampling circles. Assortments of fragrances based on my favorite notes. “You just have to try these, Olga!”. Winter favorites, Spring favorites, Summer favorites, Fall favorites. Full line samples to get introduced to the old and new players of the fine smelling world. And I bought full bottles, too.
The two oars are Desire and Curiosity. Call it a whim, call it a craving, but some days I wake up and a fragrance is calling my name. In 2011 I stifled that little voice a lot and went with whatever I planned to wear on that day. I will listen to it in 2012. But some days the little voice is silent. I don’t wake up wanting a particular scent to wear. So it’s time to get into a sample pile then. Two ores take their turns, one works while the other is idle, and together they will push me further into the Scented Waters from which not one sailor has ever come back
Tama Blough, Editor
I will finish my sample before running out to buy a bottle. Sometimes that instant love dies out by the third wearing. Best to be sure.
I will not let a list of notes cause me to buy a bottle unsniffed, but a decant or discount bottle under $25 is okay. So far I have been fairly lucky, but I have taken a few big-bucks risks.
I will not let snobbery take control of me, and will give a fair shake to all perfumes, no matter what. Sometimes niche ain’t all that, and a $45 bottle of some little celebuscent can be a winner
Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief
I will dab more and spritz less. I will wear my vintage fragrances (not just stare at them).
Any new sample vials I receive will be labeled by date placed in bubble envelopes (then put into brightly colored boxes marked 2012)…
I will buy decanting supplies.
As Bertand Duchaufour once told me, "The lines between niche and commercial are increasingly blurred". Explore more mainstream fragrances.
When there are off days and the words don't come easily, deadlines are looming and I am feeling overwhelmed, I will remember it is just perfume.
Ida Meister, Sr. Editor
As I prepare to push up daisies –fast approaching the Sunny Side of Sixty-
I frequently find New Year’s resolutions to be an exercise in futility 😉
Like all frail mortals, I hope to constantly improve with age!
1.) I resolve to continue to nourish, support and encourage fragrant talent, wherever I find it.
2.) I resolve to participate in as many perfumed projects as I can manage! 😉
3.) I resolve to exercise my own creative abilities, and create more perfumes.
May YOUR New Year be as sweet and healthy as can be-
Full of adventure and good will.
You are dear to me- all of you.
Mark Behnke, Managing Editor
When it comes to New Year’s resolutions I think many of these get broken before bread is broken on New Year’s Day. I think they’re good as aspirational notes to one’s self and so here are three things I hope to do in 2012.
I hope to finally visit Grasse.
I hope to finally have a real room to myself as an office/perfume vault in our new house.
I hope to finally meet some of my favorite perfumers in person this year.
What are YOUR perfume resolutions? Enter our constant craving contest. Leave a comment on site and the most creative or interesting resolution will win a wonderful gift bag of niche, natural and other perfume surprises . Contest ends January 3, 2012 at 10 am EST
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