Monday, October 7, 2013

Confession: I Wear Paris Hilton Perfume, And I LOVE It


Zooey Purdy, an Innovation Engineer in the R29 tech department, has something she'd like to get off her chest. Prepare to deal with it.

Judge me all you want, but I wear Paris Hilton perfume, and I smell great.

Actually, the celebutante’s namesake fragrance has been my signature scent since college. See, one day, someone put a bunch of boxes of unwanted stuff out in the dormitory hallway — one with a collection of various perfumes in it. While my friend rifled through the box of books, I started testing out each perfume. One particular scent caught my nose — a blend of frozen apple, peach nectar, freesia, mimosa, jasmine, sandalwood, ylang ylang, and oak moss. I was entranced.

Even though I tend to dress on the minimalist, androgynous side, I have this soft spot for girly, fruity scents. I like to think they give everyone a whiff of my bubbly, sweet, girlish inner self. (Who knew that existed?)

After inhaling the scent of a lifetime, I made a closer inspection of the bottle and, in particular, its shiny, metallic, hot-pink box. With silver lines roaming all over it, it came with its own cardboard sleeve featuring a large photo of a certain provocatively posed semi-celebrity and her name embossed in large silver script in about six different places — Paris Hilton.

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