Notes on Perfume and Primitive Acquisition

I've always found it a bit worrying when collectors try to rationalize their acquisitive tendencies with passionate accounts of the real market value of the things they crave.  We've all seen how this goes, right? Those television shows featuring hoarders who claim that their collections of baseball cards, Beanie Babies, and action figures are actually a college fund for their children or investments to secure their retirement? 

Every so often, my perfume-obsessed brain  marches down this slippery slope.  I see a vintage perfume on That Auction Site, and I am thinking..."I am not really interested in that perfume...I don't like the bottle...Those notes all wrong for me"  BUT then..."I could get it for a good price and swap it" or "It would be a good subject for a blog post."  I try not to act on these impulses, but I don't always succeed.

Eventually, the perfume collector realizes that she already has more perfume than she will ever be able to use in her lifetime.  I tell myself that this is perfectly fine.  The bottles I leave behind will just go back into The Vintage Perfume Circle of Life, to be rediscovered again by another collector.

My Vintage Perfume Obsession

Blogging seems to be one of the best ways to deal with a vintage perfume obsession. Non-perfume obsessed family and friends can tolerate only so much of the perfume fanatic's incessant burbling about notes, drydowns, bottle forms, and fatal dates of reformulation.  Time spent blogging about perfume directly reduces the time spent trawling the Internets to learn even more perfume arcana or to find more vintage perfumes.

Online perfume communities and perfume blogs were my gateway into vintage perfumes, and I hope that readers may find this blog entertaining and informative, too.  I welcome comments, questions, and discussion!