{"id":90,"date":"2007-10-12T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-10-12T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:39:23","slug":"whats-in-a-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI don&#8217;t smell, and to be frank I am rather disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should explain further&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am a girl (I hope that didn&#8217;t come as a surprise), and like most girls I am partial to the odd splash of perfume every once in a while and very much enjoy buying\/receiving little containers of unnaturally coloured liquid that promises to make me smell of a spring meadow, or clean linen, or a bowl of rose petals or something else that is equally fluffy sounding and heart warming. The problem I find however, is that having applied these substances to my person, it doesn&#8217;t take long until the scent of &#8216;fresh morning dew&#8217; or &#8216;woodland glen whisper&#8217; has worn off, and I go back to smelling of Fairy non-biological and quite often tea that I appear to spill with great frequency.<\/p>\n<p>So I put to you the question &#8211; what is the secret to smelling good for longer? I have tried almost every technique of using a little bit and a lot, spritzing behind the ears, the wrists, the collar bone, and have taken advice that perfume squirted about your knee pit is a sure place for giving off an alluring waft, but that doesn&#8217;t work. I have tried putting &#8216;smell&#8217; on my clothes, in my hair, on my eyebrows  &#8211; and once I even tried to make it last by applying it in layers over the period of an hour, but this dried in a sort of shiny film and made me appear as if I was laminated.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So really, if anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it, as I too dearly want to be one of those ladies that occasionally you pass by in the street who smell delicious, I want to just for once in my life smell as good as a branch of Interflora, I would love to actually feel like I am making a worthwhile investment in the duty free shop when buying scent, when really I&#8217;d be better off with a bottle of Grouse and a novelty biro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just have excessively soaky uppy skin that likes to eat nice smell?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe.. could it be possible? Indeed, perhaps (as my friend Helen has just suggested&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Am I pointing the nozzle the wrong way&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a thought&#8230;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t smell, and to be frank I am rather disappointed. Perhaps I should explain further&#8230;. I am a girl (I hope that didn&#8217;t come as a surprise), and like most girls I am partial to the odd splash of perfume every once in a while and very much enjoy buying\/receiving little containers of unnaturally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}