Why Miriam doesn't own perfume

[3rdragon]

Suppose that someone gives you a bottle of perfume for your birthday. And you thank them politely, sniff it and decide that it could be worse, and stick it on the shelf with your books and other random things, because you only have two little shelves and a closet flat-area, and pretty much forget about it. Later, you acquire more books.
One night, preparatory to going to bed, you scoop up your dictionary and stick it back on the shelf. You don't do this particularly well, and some of the other books fall over. And knock over the bottle of perfume. The glass bottle of perfume. Which falls five feet to the floor and shatters into tiny pieces.

I watched the bottle of perfume plunge to the floor, perfectly aware of what was about to happen, and completely unable to do anything about it (in my defense, I was still holding the dictionary). So I had glass and perfume all over my floor. We swept up the glass and mopped the floor, but my room still smelled strongly of perfume. I had the window open and my pillow over my head all night, and I still smelled it. And now I can't go barefoot in my own bedroom.

I guess that it's a good thing that I found the scent somewhat acceptable to begin with? And now I don't have to consider whether or not to bring it home, and worry about it breaking in my luggage.

. . . I still have the deodorant that came with it, though. And I'm really not going to use it now. Aside from the fact that I'm under the impression that certain kinds of spray bottles are environmentally undesirable (CFCs? Decline of the peregrine falcon population? Something like that. And I don't know if you need to spray them or not for them to be undesirable, or if it's already undesirable . . .), I'm thoroughly tired of the scent already, and am sure that I will be much more tired of it before it gets around to going away.

Comments

[animangel.livejournal.com]

What kind of floor is it?
Have you tried A) Baking Soda or B) Hydrogen Peroxide.
Both tend to clean up odors fairly well.

And if those don't do it, have you tried dirt? (Seriously. I haven't tried it, but it's an old old remedy for smells like onion, and usually those kind of handed-down remedies do tend to work)

[3rdragon]

It's a tile floor. We only tried soap and water; it was 11:30 at night, and I was literally just about to get into bed. I'll probably poke at it some more tonight.
I haven't seen any baking soda here, but I haven't looked very hard (and don't actually know what it would look like here). Everyone has to have baking soda, right?

[vorindi]

Even if they don't, baking powder is baking soda + cornstarch. They must have one of them, right?