Not a Secret Obsession: I *love* perfume!

My house used to have bottles upon bottles of perfume. I bought perfume to get perfume mini bottles at those Macy's counters.

My obession took a detour when I got hitched. But it's been around lately. And as I read the new Lucky Magazine (ANOTHER obsession of mine) I came across the new Calvin Klein fragance: SECRET OBSESSION

So I read about it first. One of my favorite blogs is "Now Smell This", a girl after my heart who has a blog reviewing perfumes. You go girl! In her article, Secret Obsession, she says, "The dry down is a sweet floral (the notes: exotic plum, mace, rose de damas, jasmine, orange flower, tuberose, cashmere woods, burnt amber, vanilla and sandalwood)." I've bolded the parts that intrigued me. They intrigued me so much that I'm actually disregarding that I hate vanilla in anything!

So I'm at Macy's buying my BIL some Franz Chocolates and just had to go try this perfume on. MAN! It's strong, and yet feminine. At first it's so thick that I think it's more meant for a mature lady (say my mom) instead of Eva Mendes whom obviously loves it so much she looks about to O over it.

After the inital nostral shock, it grows on me, it makes me feel confident, and want to dress up and be the center of attention!

And well, I'm looking for a new Autumn fragrance. And I think this hits it. It has a deep smell that has lasted all day. I think it can hold up to the layering of the PNW in Winter. It smells empowering, like a "go getter" business woman who knows how to be sexy! GRRROWL! Sounds so me - right?

Maybe I'll buy it when offical Autumn hits...It's definitely gotten my attention. I bet I'll be thinking about it until I get it!