I'm so excited to be writing this post. For a while now I've been trying to find my 'signature scent'. I read somewhere a while a go that being associated with a beautiful and familiar scent is really comforting to those you know. The more I thought about it the more I loved the idea of having a signature scent, it sounds so chic! I've hunted high and low for the perfect perfume. I really loved the Stella McCartney perfume but it reminds me too much of going out a lot when I was younger (and being ill the next day), and obviously Chanel No. 5 is a favourite but I felt that everybody wears that.

This led me to purchasing my very first Jo Malone fragrance (for myself). I've bought a few bottles as gifts, and they really are a lovely gift if you can fork out on one. I think the favourite scent is Pomegranate Noir which does smell absolutely fantastic, but like the Chanel perfume I didn't just want to follow the crowd. I wanted my absolute favourite fragrance. I never actually thought I'd buy a Jo Malone perfume for myself, it seemed too luxury. But then, one fateful day in Selfridges, London, the encouraging words of "go on, treat yourself" (in my head sounding like Donna and Tom from Parks and Recreation) led me to my favourite perfume to date: Amber and Lavender.

At the counter I was favouring light floral smells or more citrus-y/fresh smells. Don't even talk to me about "woody" smells, I do not want to smell like the bark of an elm tree thanks. I never ever would have normally picked up a 'spicy' scent. In my head this would smell to winter-y in the summer, but this is absolutely beautiful an all-year-round smell, very wearable for everyday, but also a beautifully luxurious fragrance. Jo Malone describes it as: French lavender and petitgrain bring a fresh luminosity to precious amber. Cultivated and cosmopolitan. There is literally no better description than this.

There's no denying that Jo Malone is incredibly expensive, but really all perfume is... isn't it? It was £42 for 30ml- scary I know, but also extremely justified. I think, if you really have found your signature scent like I have it's definitely worth it. I love Jo Malone because of the huge amount of choice and matching products (body cream, bubble bath, candles...) and more than anything the lasting power. It's enough to use 2 sprays in the morning and you'll be set for the day. The smell is so incredibly powerful that you don't need much and it wears absolutely beautifully through the day. So £42 doesn't seem so much any more. I only bought the 30ml because I wanted to make sure that I wear it enough (which I'm sure I will). That way I can either repurchase a larger bottle or try a new fragrance! Either way, I'm definitely on my way to finding my signature scent. I'd love to know what your favourite perfumes are to see if there's anything I need to try. Please let me know in the comments below. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed.

So it's been a while. In fact I haven't posted anything this year, not since November 2014.I have thought about it, but I've never quite got round to it or I haven't felt up to it. There's a few reasons why. First of all, I got fed up of it, not bored or anything but I guess my interest changed. I didn't quite know what I wanted to write about, I haven't found my niche. Also, I stopped reading blogs. I still watched vlogs, but I just stopped reading and so I sort of felt out of the loop and not quite with everything.
I'm just going to come out and say it. For the past couple of months I haven't felt myself and to be honest it's been really hard. I'm not saying it as some big sob story but it's something I wanted to get off my chest. I've always had pretty bad anxiety through life it's just the type of person I am but this year it's really got on top of me and made me not want to do anything. I've really pushed myself to still be myself, but it's just made me so miserable. In more recent weeks I haven't wanted to do anything. Anxiety through the roof, panic attacks and bad moods. It really hasn't been great. But I think more than anything I need to just get myself back into the things I used to enjoy, blogging being one of them.
Anxiety just made the little things a lot harder: going to lectures, assignments, working on weekends, weekly shopping, driving home. So anything extra just seemed to be really difficult, there was no way I could push myself more than I felt comfortable. In my head, my daily life had just seems to grow. Like everything that I had to do was a much bigger deal than before, and I found myself making myself worry because it felt normal. I had a very difficult relationship with the anxiety, but now I feel like I'm getting back on top of it.
To make me feel a bit more inspired I've decided to give this space a bit of re-vamp. I have a new interactive design which has taken me absolutely ages to install and personalise. It's still not quite done, but I'm incredibly proud of it so far (since I had to learn about all the codes and design graphic-y stuff myself) so I was too excited not to share it with you now! Eventually everything will look clearer and run a lot smoother, but for now this will do.
I'm not committing to this completely. I'm only going to post when I get time and when I feel like it. But I think trying to get some posts down might help me to distract myself. So, if there's any suggestions for posts I would love to hear them. What's your favourite thing to read on a blog? I personally love baking posts, organisation posts and short stories or poetry because I can be a bit of a nerd sometimes.
I really hope I can post some more soon, and I hope you will all enjoy reading them again.