Perfume.com

You should know that my love of perfume is not a new affair. Throughout my life, I ALWAYS saved EVERY penny I could for fragrances (ok and shoes). So diligently in fact that my mother, and later my roommates, (and today the Beau) would lecture me on my gravitation toward the day I would have no roof over my head or food in my belly, but still enough in the closet to fill my own department store.
(I know they MEAN this to be a bad thing, but…)

I have worked hard for every pair of strappy sandals in there though, regardless: which is why I’m outraged at the news of the recent scandals in the perfume world that just take advantage of the detailed elegance that goes into the art of perfuming. Not only did thieves in Miami recently steal $100,000 worth of fine Chanel perfumes, as I’m sure you’ve heard, but a man was also just arrested in Spain, selling thousands of bottles of fake perfumes disguised as real designer olfactory masterpieces.

What were they? Guerlains L’Heure Bleue disguised as a teenagers blueberry body mist? Chanel No. 5 as just another drugstore cologne cocktail? I couldn’t imagine how many people had shelled out dollars and euros for bottles of bliss, only to have their nasal passages assaulted by chemical impostors. And worse yet—- imagine someone not knowing the difference and unknowingly sporting the fake version, boasting about it?

I’m not feeling well. I’m going to pour myself a glass of wine, call my girl pal KK, and buy some perfume online. Restore some balance to the world.