You Smell Good I Like You

I like things that smell nice. Who doesn't right?

When I was in primary school, we kids loved to buy this tube of sweet smelling tiny coloured pearls and leave a few pearls here and there to fragrant up our pencil boxes and bags. We also bought pens whose inks had fragrances. It was a popular choice for one who wishes to doodle in someone's autograph book to enhance their personal entries, or simply to write in his or her exercise book for the sake of doing so.

I just love things that smell really really nice.

I liked it when my dad would put air refresherner in my mum's car. The cool air from the aircond would carry the fresh Ambi Pur smell and fill the entire car with it. My dad also has a can of Ambi Pur in his car. Occasionally, when he's not in the car, I would spray the car once only, careful not to let the overpowering smell intoxicate everyone else in the car. Besides, my mum would scold me for disturbing my dad's stuff anyway.

Here in PJ, I have a can of Ambi Pur that has a pleasant green apple smell. Kinda makes me miss the ice blended green apple that they sell at Asia Cool (or whatever the name is) in Kuching. When I feel like it, I would spray my room and bathroom with it, and it smells good...

I also love scented candles. Especially the ones from Ikea, specifically the vanilla scented candles. I would love to own a cupboard full of those candles and place them all over my house. They have this soothing vanilla smell that reminds you of ice-cream. Yummy... The only downside to this candle is that it does not carry the vanilla smell when you light the wick. Too bad though...

I also have this Nivea lip balm that has a sweet smell. I think it smells of raspberry, I am not sure though. I can't quite put my finger to it. It smells so nice and sweet that you just feel like eating the entire thing up like candy. Kautsar and Ma Li Ya agrees with me on this one. Hehe

Even my hair products have this sweet strong sweet smell that makes you want to eat my hair up (please don't). No Yvonne, it does not smell like popcorn...

I use the complete set from Sunsilk. The shampoo, conditioner and mouse for my curly hair. They all contain beeswax and have a sweet fruity smell to it. I love it.

My favourite fragranted stuff are perfumes. They are the ultimate. They not only define you, but they give you this sense of confidence as well.

Everyone has their own scent. My mum's is J'dore. Alep is Bvlgari. Derek and his Ferrari.

I remember my very first perfume had Spice Girls on it, which was the main reason I bought it before my teenage years. It is still sitting in my cupboard back home in Kuching.

After that came Perfume Generics: a knock-off all the originals. They are very close to the originals though, and cost less than RM10, so we had bottles and bottles of them.

I had many perfumes from Perfume Generics. Guess, Escape, Poison etc. My mum also had her own collection of them. Beyond Paradiese, Beautiful and so on. We both had different taste in them, but there was one that we both agreed on. Burberry Touch.

Even though I had many different types of perfume from Generics, Burberry Touch was the ultimate. It had this mild sweet woody scent that just pulls the corners of your mouth into a wide smile. It was signature Burberry, even though it was a fake.

That was just the tip of the iceberg.

My very first original perfume was Beyond Paradise by Estee Lauder. Mimi gave me a tiny bottle of it when she bought the promotional package from Parkson years ago, and I only wore it for special occasions.

Beyond Paradise has this unique smell. While many other perfumes have a strong sharp smell that suffocates you, Beyond Paradise has a strong and sweet yet gentle smell that makes you feel as though you are on some sort of paradise island and the world is full of peace and joy. Haha

This year, she gave me three bottle of Estee Lauder's Pleasures.

Pleasures is completely different from Beyond Paradise. This one has a strong sharp smell that sort of invades your nostrils and leaves a dry sting till you can taste it in your mouth. Its not my favourite, but I still wear it because it reminds me of Mimi.

The first time I wore it, Yvonne kept sniffing me like a vampire that wants to suck my blood because she liked it and reminded her of her teacher. Hehe

After that, I decided to splurge a little on myself and buy an original perfume. Problem was, I did not know which one to buy. Then I remember one particular scent that I loved years back. Burberry Touch. Coincidentally, while looking for nail polish in Sasa with Jeslyn, I saw a few perfumes from Burberry and decided to play with them.

I blindly sprayed them onto my wrist until I made a concoction of smells that was unidentifiable, but it smelt really nice. I think it was because I also mixed JLo's Glow into it.

Days after that, I decided that the perfume I wanted was something from Burberry. But I could not find Burberry Touch. Until one day, I met her. The new fragrant from Burberry. The Beat.

It was love at first smell. You can ask Jeslyn about my fetish for it. Everytime we walked into Sasa or Parkson, I would walk out sniffing one of those thin paper strips that has been sprayed on until I get light headed. Lolz.

Ridiculous, I know. But I wanted it so bad, I even told my mum that I was going to spend RM250+ to buy a 50ml bottle. It is very expensive, yes, and very crazy. But I was crazy for it and I knew that it will be worth it in the end.

Before I even took out a single sen from my wallet, my dad offered to buy it for me. Then it was MINE!!! ALL MINE!!! Hahaha

I love Burberry's The Beat. It makes me feel happy, confident and special. The Beat has a young, posh, sophisticated, sexy, gentle, sweet, pleasant and woody smell. Somewhat soothing. It was very Burberry.

It is milder compared to Beyond Paradise, and is not suffocating at all, unlike Pleasures. I love it. Every time the scent diffuses into my nostrils, I would be launched into a state of euphoria.

It feels as though Burberry came up with this scent especially for me :)

The Beat is by far the best perfume ever, IMHO. I have found my signature smell XD

Yes, I love things that smells nice.

But there are also some not-so-nice smelling things that I love too...

Hehehehehe...

What??? They make me feel like a little girl again. Don't judge me!! Shut up and go away!!
:p