OOPS! Sorry | Perfume Posse Melbourne adventures with friends

OOPS! Sorry Posse, I missed this morning, and was down in Melbourne so didn’t get to scramble something together.

OOPS! Sorry

Anna Maria and I flew down on the 8.10am, got the bus to Melbourne, met Margeaux and Rob D Blandford for brunch.

The four of us headed over to the newly opened MEGA Mecca. The largest beauty store on earth and wandered around. Fab U Lous. I retried two on my list Diptyque L’Eau Papier and original Comme des Garcons pebble bottle. LOVE! Didn’t buy. We also spent a little time with the Dries Van Notten offerings. They’re good but I’m NOT paying that kind of money for them.

I was just thinking, my last Melbourne perfume purchase was Cuba Intense by Nicolai.

Rob left and we hit the National Gallery of Visctoria for the French Impressionists from Boston. WOW! I’d only seen one of the paintings before and was totally blown away. We had a guided tour and the insights we were offered by our guide gave depth and structure to what we saw. SO MUCH new information. I was so mesmerized that there are only three pictures, plus a Yayoi in the entrance. Taken for Jin because he wasn’t there. Two Pissarro’s and a picture of Monet in the garden at Giverny. WOW!

We met up with Alice and wandered to my favourite Melbourne fast food pub where we met a coterie of Melbourne’s perfumista crew. Always nice to spend some quality time with the heavy duffers down there. We talked perfume, life, olive oil, politics and art. It was a wonderful give and take, and no one got offended or snarky. Real grown up chatter.

Then it was time to catch the bus back to the airport. I was so stuffed that I lay out and slept for 20 or 30 minutes.

Flight home with Anna Maria. She took a cab and I jumped a train, then light rail, then walked the final leg in beautiful spitting rain.

Slept like dead people.

How was your day? Hope yours wasn’t an OOPS! Sorry.
Portia xx

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