Patron Saint of Perfume

Do you all remember when I posted some wedding beauty questions awhile back, and one of them was about perfume? And then it turned out that the lovely Jonniker was a perfume critic, and when I found this out I emailed her for advice and she sent me 35 different perfume samples that she thought I might like?

Well, you might not remember that, but I certainly do, because it was an incredibly nice, generous, and thoughtful thing to do. But of course, I couldn't stop there. I painstakingly tried out those samples, one after the other, until I came across the perfect one (it's this, by the way, if you're interested).

Of course, I did what I always do and fell in love with the scent before looking up the price, and then I wanted to cry because it was, shall we say, a tad out of my price range. So, I sent Jonna ANOTHER email, ignoring the fact that she was, you know, pregnant and SICK AS A DOG and and was generally not in a condition to be hunting down bargain perfume on my behalf. But I asked her if she had a way of using her connections to find me a cheaper bottle, and she said that she did.

But of course, OF COURSE, because she is amazing and wonderful and beyond belief, she went WAY beyond swinging me a discount, and instead sent me a bottle of that stuff as a wedding gift. A beautiful, pristine, gorgeous bottle of what is, thanks to her, my new favorite perfume.

And OH YEAH, she did it while pregnant and trying to find a tenant for her house and also trying to find a new house for herself and then move, and dealing with her ceiling caving in, and COYOTES, and also, you know, PREPARING FOR HER BABY. Or trying to, anyway, amongst all the shit that has been thrown at her recently.

And not only that? But when there was some sort of delay in the shipping, she actually found the time to make a call, complain about the problem, and demand 2-day shipping to make up for it. While sitting in the rubble of her ceiling next to the gaping hole in her bedroom wall, I can only presume.

This woman? She is a saint. And this perfume? It is heavenly.

Jonna, thank you.