Coming Up On 4 Years

Next month Andy & I will celebrate our 4-year wedding anniversary.  It REALLY doesn't seem possible that it has been 4 years already, but as they say, time flies when you're having fun. 

When we got married, we decided to do cologne/perfume as our wedding gifts for each other, and then to pick out a new cologne/perfume each year on our anniversaries.  I know a lot of people don't wear scent or wear only one scent EVER, but we've really had a good time with this. I wish we could get the same salesperson year after year, because it always takes us a while to explain to the salesclerks that we aren't looking to buy one that we already have--that seems to stump them.  Maybe the idea of only wearing one scent for one's entire life is more common than I thought, but eventually we get things straightened out. 

We're getting nice little collections.  This is me

The Guess perfume was for our wedding--and came with a watch for unknown reasons.  The plaid bottle is our first anniversary & came with a REALLY large bag, which is too big for a purse and I can only assume is meant to be luggage, which is always what I'm looking for in the perfume department.  The short one was second anniversary, and came with a purse and lots of samples of stuff I've never used, and the one on the right is a Mariah Carey perfume and came with nothing--I guess just the bond between Mariah Carey and myself is supposed to be enough.  I'm always amused by the "gifts" that come with scents.  Usually Andy gets some sort of shampoo, aftershave, deodorant combo-thing, and once in a while he gets little travel bottles, which seems much more reasonable than cheap luggage, though Andy has gotten at least one bag with his collection.  We have NO idea what he's supposed to do with it as there's a pretty big gap between "being comfortable enough with one's masculinity to wear cologne" and "being comfortable enough with one's masculinity to carry a purse."  But I am accumulating a really nice collection of bags for knitting, I must admit. 

This is Andy's collection so far (in order):

The first two I picked out by myself, but in the last 2 years we've started making a real outing of our scent shopping.  Technically, I think it's the only time either of us set foot in the mall all year as neither of us are big shoppers.  For our first anniversary, we didn't go together.  Before going shopping, Andy went through all my existing perfumes, making a list of what he liked & didn't like, then went to the store and had a long discussion with the salesclerk about women's perfumes and what types of scents are considered tropical, or romantic.  I, on the other hand, found a cologne insert in a magazine, thought it smelled great, and walked in to the store and said "I want this."  At least it wasn't "Mmmmm, smell good.  Me like," but it sort of felt like that once Andy described his process.  Since then we've gone shopping together as I'm just not sure I could live up to Andy Standards on my own.........

:)