Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ summer vacation, edition 10 :: Now Smell This

Next year’s summer vacation — and my birthday trip, and our 40th-anniversary trip — is in the planning stages: August 2027, a 28-day cruise that hopscotches around northern Europe, heads over to Iceland and Greenland, and then scoots over to eastern Canada and the US. We took our first cruise just last year and we are hooked, bad. The perfume that matches this is the thirty or so vials that I am going to bring with me so I don’t have to repeat myself.

Today I’m in Mugler A*Men Pure Malt, which does not smell particularly whiskey-ish to me, but it is a terrific variant of the original, warm and heady.

OH! And! I was hoping to see the Mrs. Meyer’s summer limited-edition collection and it finally showed up. The Blueberry is not to be seen — the cardboard displayer mentions only three scents — and I did not try the Tomato Vine because I’m sure it isn’t for me, but the Fresh Cut Grass smells astonishingly like its namesake, much more so than Demeter Grass, and the Dandelion is a sunshiny bright-yellow floral that I couldn’t resist, so I put one each of the liquid hand soaps in my cart. And then had second thoughts as I was wheeling around the store, because I currently have four hand soaps on the go*, which is ridiculous, so I returned to the display, put them back, and got the multi-purpose cleaners instead.** You can always use cleaner, right?

* Two in the kitchen, Rose and Lilac from the Mrs. Meyers spring limited-edition collection, and two in the bathroom, Method Brown Butter and Vanilla and Live Clean Vanilla Peppermint, both Christmas limited editions, because I guess I am a sucker for that sort of ticking-clock promotion.

** Might still get the soaps if they go on sale — it isn’t as if they go bad….