What Is It About Perfumes?

What is it about perfumes that make people willing to open their wallets to spend considerable sums of money? I guess as with all things, we each have our own motivation. For me, it would be largely two things. One would be to smell ALLURING (lolz) and the second would be to put myself in a good mood. The first reason is self explanatory and as for the second... when you keep smelling something you find nice, you feel uplifted. If you point a pistol at me and ask me to tell you exactly what I like or dislike, I still might not be able to satisfy you. Likes and dislikes are often very hard to pinpoint - you need to be faced with something and you will instinctively know whether you love it or you hate it. Generally, I like scents that are unique and which linger but must not be overpowering. I have encountered people who frequently spray a HECK OF A LOT of perfume on themselves day in day out. At first sniff, it may be a nice smell (and they might have spent a bomb on it). But too much simply ruins the smell and after being OVERPOWERED each time, you begin to actually HATE the smell. I know it has happened to me. So make sure that when you spray perfume, keep the amount decently reasonable. :P As for what scents I do not like, I generally prefer to keep food on the dining table. That means if the perfume smells of food, that is a big NO for me. And if I may digress, this extends to other toiletry items like soap or even toothpaste. I do not have any particular brand of perfume that I like. When I walk around departmental stores, I tend to be OVERPOWERED and that puts me off. I guess when competitors are all trying to sell the same category of products in the same place, the only logical thing for them would be to turn up the intensity of the smell... I half suspect that the promoters' sense of smell are all long ruined already. Poor them! Anyway if you are intending to check out new perfumes, there is a new perfume blog that has just been launched. Since you are spending good money on a tiny bottle, reading some reviews or chit-chatting with perfume lovers sure wouldn't hurt. :-) * This is a sponsored post.

Visual Talking -- Put Images Where Your Mouth Is!

A Visual Talking contest ... $1,500 total ... we want you to win!! Mark Grace, founder of Visual Talking, thanks all dNeero-ites for their suggestions and comments. Because of you, Visual Talking has redesigned their site and added features. They're not done, so please keep those suggestions and comments coming. The main purpose of this convo is build up the inventory of standard sentences - these are sentences that we use often - think of those texting abbreviations like OMG, LOL, CMON, WU?, GAL. We'd like you to create standard sentences ... create as many as you wish. And to encourage you to do that, we are going to run a contest. We'll choose the top 20 standard sentences in each category (Greetings, Questions, Answers, Love, Action), and then run another convo in which you'll choose your favorite sentences. The top five in each category will share a $300 purse ($150, $75, $35, $25, $15) ... and you may win in multiple categories!! How do we choose the top 20? It's up to you ... your answer to question 7 below will help determine the five criteria our judges will use.