I blame Claudia Kishi

When I was in high school, I used to wear a different body and body work or victoria secret body splash like every week. At one point I brought every single body splash thing I owned to a school trip and people were amazed at the sheer collection of the bottles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that you should test out different scents with your skin to make sure everything works out. I guess it’s a good thing that stuff smells uniformly on everyone.

Alas, that is why Stella McCartney’s Stella will never work out for me. I love the scent, but I just can’t get it to work with me. I once made Sofie smell it in a mad dash of hope that she would approve (she is usually pretty pro-things for me) and she was like “oh…no…just…it doesn’t…no.” Someone suggested the body lotion which I happily bought. It smelled like ‘Stella’ and it smelled great. The thing is every time I use it, I can see the lotion go down and down…since I am not a lotto winner, I use the lotion sparingly, like on special occasions and even then just trace amounts are applied. One time, Chester applied some and aside from my screams of pain, he smelled very pretty. I did joke that some larry the cable guy type was going to come up to him and be like “You smell purrty, boy!” Sadly, I never had to defend Chester’s honor and he never touched the lotion ever again.

Anyway, Stella McCartney introduced Stella Sheer. The clouds parted for I could wear the scent and have it smell nice. I’m pretty sure I did a jig in the aisle of Sephora. The problem is that was two years ago so now I’m in search of a more summery scent to wear. The nice thing about buying body splash is the fact that it’s pretty cheap. Perfume — not so much. So I don’t have much of a perfume collection because I have become picky about what I like and don’t like and I spend all my money before I can get to the perfume counter.

That might change with Marc Jacobs Splash - Orange. I was a little wary at first since MJ and I haven’t had the best luck with each other, but I think I freaking love it. I kept smelling my wrist at work and probably freaked a coworker or a customer out. It’s cool though because it smells that good.