Comfort scents and strange mixes.

I'm one of those who's always been affected by female types of pain, and today I was lying in my bed, not sure if I even felt good enough to get up and take some pain medication.

I did, however, get up and put on my ultimate comforting perfume, Diptyque's Volutes. Volutes is a sweet, Oriental-type perfume, with honey, tobacco, iris, dried fruit, benzoin and other resins. It doesn't feature vanilla, but it smells like it could. Tobacco is a note that, when used in perfumery, is not at all like cigarette smoke, but is sweet and earthy. It is often used with honey and/or amber to make beautiful "golden-smelling" perfumes.

I have used this perfume successfully when I've been depressed, sad, and in physical pain. It also helped me to feel better when I received news that my very good friend's husband had been in a terrible accident, and I was stuck at work and couldn't just go home and cry.  (Note to self, I should probably decant some for her, with instructions that it is a comfort scent, once I figure out how to decant.)

Back to today's adventure, I lay back down. Meanwhile, Andrea was playing Mix Master with the perfumes on the small table that I leave out for her. She sprayed Britney Spears's Curious, Madonna's Truth or Dare Naked, Unforgettable Moments's Promise, and I think Liz Claiborne's Curve into a small plastic lid. Looks like I need to take decanting lessons from Andrea. All these are fairly light, clean florals, except the Madonna, which I don't really care for. I only had it out so it could be accessible so I can sell it soon.

I kept getting my soft cocoon of Volutes interrupted by sharp spikes of floral perfumes, and not altogether harmonious, too. I told her not to spray any more. Still not sure what she did with the lid, but I wasn't in any mood to care. She probably only wasted a total of 1.5 milliliters, anyway. Then we had to get up for Andrea's checkup at the doctor's office and I'm in the exam room at this moment waiting for the doctor to walk in.

Footnote: I'm wearing the Eau de toilette version of Volutes; I haven't smelled the Eau de Parfum, and they're said to be somewhat different. Apparently the EDT is sweeter and lighter, of course. The EDP is said to be smokier, and I'd love to add it to my collection, but it is quite expensive. I'm patient, though, and I thoroughly expect a good deal to come around at some point.