Perfume Posting Challenge

[lunabee34]

If any of you are like me, you've been thinking about some New Year's Resolutions, things you'd like to do differently or better (or maybe even stop doing!) in 2015.

One of the things I decided to do was commit to making one perfume post a week. I want to do this for a couple reasons: 1) I want to talk to you, my fellow perfume aficionados, more frequently. I've had some great interactions through perfume fandom and met some awesome people it's been fun getting to know over the past eight months. I haven't had a "home" fandom in awhile, and I feel disconnected from fandom at large to a certain degree; I'd like to combat that if I can. 2) I don't write as much as I'd like to anymore, and I really enjoy the creativity of writing up perfume reviews.

I'm posting this bit of navel-gazing here because I was wondering if any of you would like to join me in some sort of perfume posting challenge. It doesn't have to be anything formal (or as frequent as the once a week I've chosen); I'm just wondering if anyone else is interested in starting off the new year with a flurry of perfume posts for January.

Thoughts?

Comments

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

One a week sounds perfectly doable and fun to me. :)

I never test more than one a day; more than one at a time really confuses me. LOL

[sathari]

Thanks! On reading my previous post, I was like, "LOL@me, really you're stressed about THIS?!", but the thing is I do not like to try new scents during the workweek because of the possibility of allergy on the part of self-or-others (if I find I'm allergic I may not be able to get the testing-skin washed off and treated while I'm at work, if someone else is allergic I may not know about it and may cause them distress all unawares, not to mention that some oils cling to my skin even after washing), so BPAL's generosity with frimps, while nice in the abstract, kind of loads me down when I get behind in testing, especially because I have to look up the frimps to see if they have notes I know are allergens for me or others I know I'll be near. So I only have a couple days a week to try new things, and I don't always want to spend my weekends risking smelling nasty-to-me, since some scents cling to my skin and since washing my skin enough to get some scents off can leave it too sensitive to risk testing a new scent, sometimes for days. (Also it's the season when I'm covered up a lot and I don't want my favorite sweaters/gloves/etc. absorbing scents that I don't like or things I'm allergic to.)

....ahahahah, I am kind of the definition of overthinking-it, aren't I?

Anyway, yeah, I think I can swing once a week though honestly I think I have like six months' worth of tests at that rate, ooops! And I don't know what BPAL's Lupercalia update will bring, either.

In the warmer months I can try two a day, one on each wrist, but right now I'm trying to avoid getting possibly-washing-resistant scents all over gloves and sweaters and such. (Also, my skin allergies mean I have to keep careful track of which is which.)

[lunabee34]

I completely and totally understand everything you're saying here.

I never test anything before I have to go to work. I do not want to be trapped wearing something I hate all day. :( I only test at night or on the weekends.

I don't work in close quarters with anyone or with people who have said they have perfume allergies, so I'm not as worried about that, but I hear you re: smelling up all the scarves and suchlike. :) I got a Vivofit at Christmas, and I have been very carefully avoiding scenting that wrist so I don't permeate the plastic with scent.