Shhh ... don't tell!

I love perfume.

My sense of smell is very very acute to the point where I actually dream smells. There was one time I dreamt of a scent so BEAUTIFUL, I'm not joking I think I was actually smelling Heaven or something. Upon breathing it in it was as though every negative emotion and thought evaporated, all stress relinquished ... it was like feeling intense relief and relaxation. It was like breathing in pure love, the purest love you could possibly imagine - it just filled your heart with warmth and calmness. It was some dream! All that from a fragrance??? When I woke up the fragrance wasn't there and I felt robbed. I even tried to get back to sleep again. "Bring that dream back!!!!" I was so disappointed. The smell was just pure ecstacy. It really was. If I could revisit a dream again it would be that one, just to smell it ONE more time.

Anyhow, enough of my crazy scent fuelled dreams.

You know what I have a particular thing for? I LOOOVVVE men who smell good. And by 'good' I don't mean someone who has drenched themselves in cologne - that just kind of destroys my nasal cavities. By good I mean someone who smells clean with a hint of a secret fragrance. Mmmmmm yum!! I could be there nuzzled next to them all day.

Over the years I have indulged in many scents. I mean, I don't have many vices, don't smoke, don't drink .... but I DO get a big headrush when I smell a gorgeous fragrance. I have to have it!! Fragrances are my vice. I also love to buy fragrances for people as gifts. I think about their personality and what kind of scent would suit them, and added to that it's just so much fun trying out so many wonderful aromas.

Someone brought some perfume oil from Egypt for me recently when they returned from their travels, and I have to say it smells DIVINE! And such a big bottle too - it'll last me forever!

I would really love to design a fragrance like the one in my dream. I just don't believe there is any way anyone could dislike it, because it wasn't really about the fragrance itself, it was more about the way the fragrance made you feel once you'll inhaled it.

Mmmmmmm ....

One day perhaps.

The company I workefor recently moved to brand new offices in the heart of London. The new office is AMAZING. The area, not so amazing - it's TOO expensive. There's nowhere to eat except the usual coprorate places i.e. Nandos, pizza express, Wetherspoons, Gastro pubs, ALL outrageously priced. Yeah, I know I could bring in my own lunch. I do sometimes. But at lunch time I like to escape the office. And this leads me to my other gripe.

It's WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too cold in there!!! I have to dress for winter in order not to be frozen to death by the killer air conditioning in there. We didn't have proper air conditioning in our last place. So it's like they've gone to the extreme with the air conditioning just because it actually works. I have complained. Actually it's not just me who's complained, a few others have too. But they just don't seem to be listening.

I need to get a thermometer just to see how cold it really is. When you have to sit an office with a fleece, a coat AND a scarf on in JUNE then you know something isn't quite right.