Trying new perfume and jewellery and jeans shopping!

I tried the new Jimmy Choo fragrance, Blossom today.

It is really fruity. It reminds me of one of Escada's summer fragrances. To me it has quite a tropical scent. The fragrance notes include red fruits, but it reminds me of passion fruit.

I think this fragrance will appeal to younger women.

I am in no rush to add this fragrance to my collection.

I also tried out Chloe Love Story, which I really like.

This fragrance has a similar scent to the original Chloe fragrance and has joined my list of perfumes to add to my collection.

It has notes of neroli, orange blossom and stephanotis (jasmine from Madagascar).


I have been loving jewellery this month and this is one of the rings that I have picked up. I love how detailed it is.

I also bought these gorgeous earrings from H Samuel. I love them and managed to get them in the sale for just £20.00.

I also bought some new jeans. I bought some from New Look not long ago and found them a bit uncomfortable so I ordered these jeans in black and in dark blue by The Collection from Debenhams.

I wore the blue ones today and they have been really comfortable so I'm pleased with these purchases.

Hopefully February will be a cheaper month, but I say that all of the time and I still keep spending!

Oh My Love!

I've seen lots of lovely clothes that I'd like in the sales and on the Topshop website a few dresses caught my eye that were by Oh My Love so I decided to go onto Oh My Love's website and not only did I find that the dresses were a bit cheaper on their website I found lots of other lovely clothes.

I ended up ordering two dresses and a skirt and I didn't end up buying the Oh My Love dress that was also on Topshop's website.

This is the dress I liked:

It is £39.00 from Topshop, but it is in the sale for £25.00 at ohmylovelondon.com. I didn't buy it because I liked the others that I found better.

I ended up purchasing another dress I saw, which I liked even better, but it is still velvet.
I love this one with the detailed collar and short sleeves. It was £22.00 in the sale. 

I don't usually buy anything velvet, but I also found a lovely velvet skirt that I liked so bought that for just £11.00 reduced from £22.00. I absolutely love it. It's my bargain of the year so far, but it has since gone down to only £8.00!

I ordered one more item, which wasn't as I expected it to be. I genuinely thought it was going to be a shiny satin type material because of the shine shown on the photos, but it is actually another velvet dress! Haha! I still really like it all the same. I paid £22.00 for this one, but looking on the website it has since gone down to just £8.00, which is rather annoying!

Jimmy Choo Love and DKNY Delicious Delights

I'm feeling rather annoyed at the minute because I adore Jimmy Choo fragrances and I noticed that they have announced a 'new' fragrance they are calling, Jimmy Choo Love.
The fragrance notes are exactly the same as the notes in the original Jimmy Choo eau de parfum and looking at the photo of the 'new' version all they are doing is taking bottles of the original Jimmy Choo eau de parfum and sliding a limited edition sleeve over the top of the normal packaging.

The fragrance will only be available in the smaller 40ml bottles.

This is going to make collectors look like mugs. It's not a new fragrance and they couldn't even be bothered to put it in a new box, yet they think it's ok to give it a different name and justify it by putting it in a cardboard sleeve.

I think it's misleading giving a perfume more than one name.


In other news I have heard there are three new DKNY fragrances coming out this year.
I must admit this is another example of a company that take the mick a bit releasing new Delicious fragrances three at a time trying to make as much money as possible in the shortest space of time possible.
At least they change the bottles and scents.
I have bought quite a lot of different fragrances from the Delicious rang and I look forward to trying these too.
Once these three are released there will be a total of 46 Delicious fragrances that have been released since the original Be Delicious kicked it all off back in 2004 and that's just the women's range. There are also Delicious fragrances for men.

So these Delicious Delights are:

Delicious Delights Cool Swirl, which has notes of black cranberry, violet leaf, coconut water, magnolia, jasmine, creamy pistachio sorbet, heliotrope, musk and patchouli.
This one comes in a green and yellow bottle.

Delicious Delights Fruity Rooty, which has notes of mandarin, raspberry, blueberry, rose, violet, candied apple sorbet, lily and vanilla.
This Delight comes in a pink and purple coloured bottle.

Finally there is Delicious Delights Dreamsicle, which has notes of mandarin, raspberry, blueberry, green apple, peach nectar, apricot sorbet, cedar, sandalwood and vanilla.
This comes in an orange and pink bottle.

More Sales Purchases 2015

Happy New Year! I have broken one of my New Year's resolutions already! I was going to try to make planned purchases instead of impulse buying, but I've been off work today, having a lazy day, browsing the internet and I have ended up making a few purchases.


Since Boxing Day I have found myself shopping online in the sales and have ended up spending a fortune on things that I didn't necessarily need, but would have cost a fortune more!

I wanted to buy some new boots because at the end of November I bought these amazing boots from New Look for just £14.00 reduced from £27.99 and I haven't stopped wearing them since.

They look even better in real life and they go with everything and they are unbelievably comfortable. I was going to buy them again so that when they wear out I have a spare pair, but they sold out quite quickly and there are loads of New Look boots I've had my eye on so I decided to buy a few more pairs of boots a few days ago:

I ordered this pair for just £15.00 reduced from £34.99.

I'm hoping these flat boots will be really comfortable. I love the look of them. They cost £15.00 reduced from £29.99. 

I bought these 'dark red' boots with the contrast sole for £18.00 reduced from £59.99.

These tan boots also have a lighter coloured sole and I thought they'd look really nice with a good pair of jeans and again I'm hoping they'll be comfortable. These cost £18.00 reduced from £59.99.

Finally I bought these black boots for £20.00 reduced from £44.99.

They haven't arrived yet, but I'm hoping they'll all be ok. I never know whether or not to go a size up for boots. I'm usually a size 4 in heels  and a size 5 in flats and I thought I'd bought my lovely brown New Look boots in a size 4, but when I looked they are actually a size 5 and I've ordered all of the heeled boots in a size 4 this time so hopefully they will still fit ok and I won't have to take them back to attempt to change them as I'll be lucky if the shops will have any left in size 5.

Yesterday I found another fabulous offer from Boots. I bought Yves Saint Laurent's Dare To Be gift set, which has a 30ml bottle of Opium eau de toilette, a lipstick and a nail polish, both in very wearable colours. The gift set was an amazing £25.00 reduced from £50.00. The lipstick on its own costs £25.00 so it's as if you're getting the fragrance and nail polish for free!
I was really chuffed with that purchase, but they have now sold out and I'm worried that they will send an email saying it was out of stock. I always think that is going to happen, but to be fair sometimes it does. Look at my first blog post from December when my Elizabeth Arden lipstick gift set was unavailable at Debenhams. I was really disappointed, but managed to get the same set at House Of Fraser.

This morning I remembered that when I'd tried to buy the Elizabeth Arden gift set from Debenhams I found that I had £15.00 of beauty points to spend there, but they were refunded when they couldn't fulfil the order so I had a look at their website to see if there was anything nice I could spend them on.

I decided on Marc Jacobs Dot gift set containing the eau de parfum, a 75ml shower gel and a 75ml body lotion.

The website suggests that this is a 125ml fragrance, but I'm pretty sure the largest bottle of Dot is only 100ml so yet another screw up by Debenhams.
It was only £35.35 reduced from £53.00, but I got it for £20.35 as I had £15 of beauty points.

This afternoon I found myself on Topshop's website where I ordered this pretty, pink, lace collar top, which was £8.00 reduced from £16.00.

I also bought 2 plain black vest tops both the same. I like Topshop's vest tops. They were £6 each or 2 for £10 so I bought 2.

I then put in another order with New Look.
I bought a pair of light blue canvas shoes, which will be great for spring and summer. I think these shoes will be quite easy to wear as well; they will go with a lot of outfits. These were only £4.00 and they were only £7.99 before they were reduced.

I also bought these burgundy patent heels. I feel bad for buying these as I have so many pairs of heels and I have loads of pairs I have never worn, but they were only £7.00 down from £14.99.
They are a sensible height so I should get plenty of wear out of them.

I also bought some jeans. I have been thinking of getting a new pair of jeans for a while. I really don't think I've bought a normal pair of every day jeans since 2010!
I have bought a few coloured pairs of jeans and one or two pairs of skinny jeans, but I have hardly worn them.
I used to be in skirts and dresses all of the time, but the last year I have found myself wearing more and more smart trousers and occasionally old pairs of jeans.
I was planning to buy an expensive pair, but thought I'd start out with these ones from New Look. I had heard about New Look doing a great range of jeans at a good price and these were just £12.99 and that is there full price so I'll have to see how I find them.

So that concludes my sales spending for now. Hopefully the rest of the year won't be quite so expensive!