Acquisitions, both olfactory and residential

A couple quick updates.

I just wanted to share with you, dear readers, that I found a bottle of lovely Teo Cabanel Oha on sale and have snatched it up! It will soon be winging its way to me from Germany, a gift to myself for finding a job and braving a 1000+ mile move on my own.

Also, I could not be more excited about the pending release of L’Artisan’s Vanille Havana, which will be released in October. It seems like everyone in the perfume blogging world has tried it by now but me. The press release description is that Vanille Havana is “aged rum and sweet air of Cuba.”

I would practically give my right hand for a bottle of Guerlain's Spiritueuse Double Vanilla, which I have a tragically small sample of. Spiritueuse Double Vanilla was a limited edition that is now basically impossible to find, which of course means it is the most wonderful vanilla I have ever smelled in my life. Reviews of Vanille Havana have been comparing it to Spiritueuse Double Vanilla, so I am hoping that my unceasing heartache over missing Guerlain’s masterpiece will be satiated to some degree.

I hear you can try Vanille Havana in Bendels but since I live at literally the opposite end of the country and have not won the lottery lately, that means a trek to NYC to get a sniff is out of the question. If any of you readers know of a place in the greater southern California area where I can try it, please comment below. I have a car and a three day weekend starting tomorrow and nothing says Labor Day celebration to me like the labor of love it takes to drive across the greater LA metro area to get to a beloved perfume.

Incidentally I am also moving this weekend, so I may not be posting/replying to comments Sunday/Monday for want of internet access. (I have scheduled my posts for tomorrow and Saturday, though, to round out my week of accessible scents.) I apologize for the break, but take heart, dear reader. I’ll see you all bright and early Tuesday morning.

Until then, love from the burnination nation,

Diana

If I could leave my burning skin,
that has been used up in your skin.
Is there a tiny part of me,
untouched -- unsoiled by misery!
Be mine, sister salvation.
Juke Joint Jezebel is coming for my cremation!
- "Juke Joint Jezebel," KMFDM

Photos courtsey of the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, respectively. All rights reserved.