The damage so far: fourth quarter 2025 buying poll :: Now Smell This

2025 is over, but we can’t wipe the slate clean just yet. Donatella Versace, Our Lady of Fragranced Forgiveness,¹ has a few free moments after recovering from her New Year party at Claridge’s, and she wants to help you move into 2026 with a clean conscience. Do confess — Donatella always forgives.

Tell us about your purchases for the fourth quarter (October, November and December) of 2025 in the comments. You can just tell us the number of bottles, or you can list your acquisitions, whatever you like.

My purchases…

…I don’t think I bought anything all year? Am I forgetting a decant? Who knows! Anyway Donatella has long since given up on me. 

As always, we don’t include samples or gifts, and you can count miniatures, decants and bottle-splits howsoever you like (I usually count them as half bottles). Samples don’t generally count at all, even though some of us spend considerable sums obtaining them.

1. Why does Donatella host (against her will, mind you) the damage polls? There is no real reason other than the picture of her perfume collection, which shows that she indulges regularly at the perfume counter. The image, by the way, is originally from Allure magazine and appears here courtesy of Blogdorf Goodman.