Ooh, You Smell Nice (What I Wear)

Perfumes, colognes, and scented lotions are things I own but I don't invest in. I like fragrances that have fruity, vanilla, and chocolate notes in them. I know it's cliche' with being plus size for me to totally smell like food. I just like notes of it mixed in with other smells like amber, bergamot, nuts and a few flowers. I'm not a big floral person. Gardenia and Plumeria make me smell older. I act old enough as it is, no needing to had an elderly smell to my personality.

Fragrance is like makeup, it depends on my mood. So just like I am face naked most days, I'm not perfumed up most days either.

Most days, if I smell like anything, I smell like one of these scents, Original Jergens (Cherry Vanilla), Almond & Milk by Avon or Palmers Cocoa Butter (only one that doesn't smell like coconut or plain lotion).

Now in the warm weather time, one may notice my skin has a hint of this fragrance. I have a painful allergy to mosquitos so I must wear Off or some kind of insect repellent. I used to be cute and not wear it going out but with the rise of the West Nile virus I stopped that. The smell of insect repellant is better than painful welts and catching a preventable disease anyday. Even my plain Suave lotion has insect repellent added to it, just in case I forget.

Most of the scents I wear are economical. If I wear a more pricier perfumes, I have smell and worn them prior to buying them.
It is nothing for me to wear a sample. I don't have money to wear stuff I don't end up liking in the long run. So if a company is giving away samples of their newest scent, I sign up for some of them. When Macy's & Dillard's put samples in the Sunday newspaper during holiday, I check them out. Oh I like when a magazine put a cologne sample of something I sign up for.

It's like I get to sample a sample. I don't get to do that often, magazines don't put perfume samples in their magazine like they used to. I keep my samples in a zip top bag like this one, so I can keep up with them. And yeah I actually do buy some of the stuff I sample. My favorite company to sample is Escada.
Sometime their newest scents smells either too floral or too fruity. So sampling them is a must for me.

Yeah, I'm a little sucker to try out celebrity endorsed scents.

Not a fan of the music of Beyonce or Jennifer Lopez but their colognes smell delightful. I love Outspoken by Fergie of the Black Eye Peas. But my absolute favorite celebrity endorsed scent is endorsed by Lamman Rucker.
The Passion scent of his ForPlai is delicious. I always get compliments when I wear this. It's like chocolate married cotton candy. Yumminess for the skin.

Okay there is nothing wrong with body sprays. I can't afford to wear my eau de toilette & oils daily. I have to save those for special occasions.

I own a few scents of Bath and Body Works. I wear the classic Country Apple and Pear Berry. I have few bottles of different vanillas from them. Summer is over so Berry Vanilla will put away but Warm Vanilla Sugar is there to take it's place. I wish they had not discontinued my favorite scent Vanilla NoirI loved that scent. I don't want to smell like Pumpkin Waffles. It makes think of breakfast. Madagascar vanilla with black plum, bergamot and seductive musk that is call Vanilla Noir makes me smell glamorous. I have to use it sparingly, this is my last bottle. Maybe I should start a petition to make Bath and Body Work put Vanilla Noir back in the rotation.


Scented Lotions are use for layering for me. I rarely wear scented lotion by itself. Using the lotions intensify the the fragrance and makes it last longer.

Who likes perfume that doesn't last long? Who likes having to respray the scent constantly. I don't like that at all. So, I put a little scent cream on my skin, spritz on the scent, and Viola, Smell Good Time!!!

So, is what I wear to smell good. Nothing special. What are your favorite scents? I bet it smell good on you. LoL

Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms