I stood in the perfume aisle and lightly spritzed my wrist with the flowered pink bottle.
“Young Lady, you better make sure you are not spraying that all around in the air. You could give anyone walking by a severe allergy attack! You could cause someone to DIE spraying that around like that!” an older woman scolded me, shaking her finger at me.
“Um, I didn’t. I just sprayed it right on my wrist, ma’am.” I replied, holding up the offending arm for her to see. She scowled at me and stormed off in a huff. I’m not really sure what that was all about, except that maybe she thought I was a teenager on account of how I was spraying myself with a bottle of Justin Beiber’s “Girlfriend” while singing “Baby, Baby, Baby OH!” to myself in the middle of Wal-Mart. She must be one of those people who assume all teenagers are miscreants and worried that at any moment I might aim a bottle of Taylor Swift Wonderstruck at unassuming passerbyers and start drenching them all with the scent of berries and vanilla.
Seriously, this is the sort of thing that occurs when I attempt to be in public. I was literally minding my own business, checking out the new fragrances at Walmart as part of a sponsored shop which is, you know, my actual job and I got reprimanded by a random stranger for…smelling things?
(Also, if you want my personal opinion, if someone is so allergic to perfume that they could have a severe allergy attack then maybe they should stay out of the PERFUME TESTING AISLE, that is what I am saying.)
And if you want more of my personal opinions, here is what I think about perfumes:
I typically like a very light floral perfume, something airy, clean and beachy. I’ve been in the market for a new perfume and so when I was invited to shop some of the celebrity perfumes that are offered at WalMart for much lower prices than department stores I was all “Yes please!” And that is the story of how this thirty year old woman ended up spraying herself with Justin Bieber perfume, y’all.
I tried the Jennifer Aniston perfume because it’s description sounded just like what I was looking for but it was a bit too lavender-ish for me. I wanted to smell more sexy, less fresh-load-of-laundry. So I moved on to the Taylor Swift perfumes because we all know that I am only slightly obsessed with all things Taylor Swift. That girl can just do no wrong.
I ended up with a bottle of Taylor Swift Wonderstruck Enchanted.
It is definitely a hard left from the types of scents that I normally wear but I was pretty sure that my husband would love it. It is a deeper, sweet scent that reminds me of a body splash that I wore in college, it smells a lot like berries and vanilla. I have a lotion that smells sort of like that and whenever I wear it Jeff is all “You smell really good!” so I figured this would make a good date night perfume. I’ll probably still wear something lighter for the daytime but at the bargain price of $29.99 for a bottle I figured my husband would appreciate the switch for romantic evenings out (or, you know, date nights on the couch watching Netflix. Same thing.)
Maybe he’ll end up wonderstruck by my enchanting new scent. See what I did there? I crack myself up.
The bottle is cute (I love a beautiful perfume bottle) but I did notice that the WalMart edition of the perfume does not have the charm bracelet ornament on it.
So I’m still on the search for an airy fragrance for things like meetings and those times I leave my house in something other than yoga pants but if you like a stronger scent, this one is worth sniffing out. I think it’s a bit of a younger scent so it might make a good gift for the Taylor Swift fan in your life (even if she DID just turn thirty ;))
