Lazy weekend poll ~ three quick questions, episode 2 :: Now Smell This

Everyone here has such a great memory! Y’all are leaving me in the dust.

1) The first legit perfume I remember buying was Liz Claiborne Realities at the old Maas Brothers Department Store in downtown St Petersburg, sometime in the early 90’s. I loved the architectural bottle of frosted glass squares set on top of reach other with a square gold lid over the spritzer. The store is gone and so is the fragrance (although it looks like some bottles are available on the Bay), but I’m still standing! What’s strikes me now is that it’s a predominantly floral perfume, most of which I can’t jive with now. There is a new Realities which is totally different from the original and very generic, according reviews. Here’s lé original:

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Liz-Claiborne/Realities-Original-1854.html

2) I don’t really identify as a perfumista. I’ve nowhere near the knowledge base or deep diving interest so many of you fine fragrant folks have. I’ve no experience with classic perfumes as my mom was not into perfumes and would have killed me if I asked for an “expensive” perfume for my birthday or Christmas. Although, she did love Opium and went through several bottles in her lifetime. Generally, fragrance was nice occasionally, but not essential to everyday life. Now, if I likes it, and I can affords it, I buys it. My mother would be horrified. 😀

3) The last fragrance I bought was Bois des Iles extrait in the cute little (but very esssspensive) 15ml bottle. I felt cornered since they are no longer offering them (Chanel, have you lost your MIND?!) and I’ve wanted to buy a bottle (which I’ve planned to buy for years but just never got around to) and the price, once they hit the Bay, will be twice as much, if not more. The good news is that the bottle arrived at my mail forwarding service yesterday, right AFTER I had my monthly mail forwarded to me. So now I have to wait another month! 😭 (As an aside, I AM wondering if Chanel plans on selling off all the current stock of the extraits and then come out with a newly formulated, more expensive version? If so, will surely be a shadow of its former self.)

SOTD is Omnia, le Original.
Looking forward to reading everyone’s answers! Smell well y’all!