Original Chaos

Been awhile. It's been... something... since I last posted. I woke up one horrible morning after everyone was sure we would have the first woman US President to hear NPR reporting a buffoonish clown had won instead. Even the staid NPR sounded in shock. Then, after dismissing & dismantling most of the health infrastructure, an opportunistic virus swept thru and unlike 2006 it was not contained upon arrival. We all know what happened next.

It's déjà vu all over again. I hope to wake up to hear we have the first woman US President... unless a buffoonish clown wins... again. 

Here's my bottle of original Donna Karan Chaos. It was gifted to me by Mom upon asking for it for Christmas many years ago (for once she listened and didn't buy me a blue sweater). Its fougere base has kept its age and not degraded, so I know it's really oakmoss-derived unlike the fake stuff that ages into a smell not unlike spoiled milk (giving you the stinkeye, Issey Fire!) in the thin, non-robust reissue of Chaos, which I also have a sample of for comparison.

If I wake up tomorrow and it's 2016 all over again, I might have to auction off this almost-full bottle to the highest bidder to finance my flight from the country. Not a joke.