Quadrille Balenciaga perfume – a fragrance for women 1955

too bad that a: quadrille isn’t a guy and b: i’ve sworn off marriage anyway.

if i ever run into a guy whose last name is Quadrille, i may have to take it as a sign from God, and try again.

there are at LEAST 250 perfumes living in my house. tho’ fickle, by no means have i loved every single one. i have had my favorites, and i think i have mentioned that x is my favorite on this very blog site.

quadrille moved in just over 2 months ago. they haven’t stayed long, and i’ve had to buy 5 bottles in that short time.

i suffer the curse of favoring the discontinued and hard to find. in the OFFICIAL PERFUME DICTIONARY, when you look up discontinued there is a one word definition: expensive.

as quadrille is not as plentiful as many other discontinueds, it’s pricey. naturally smaller bottles are less expensive, but sellers of rare perfumes are, in general, a delusional lot. i’ve seen 2 oz (it’s an edt) listed for 69, and the same amount listed for 299. (i wrote to that seller, suggesting rehab and a reality seminar.)

none the less, i’ve dropped over 500 dollars on quadrille in just over 2 months. with bottle 5 dwindling at the same rate as my meager bank account, i decided to take action. so i contracted to sell a kidney.

and then, heaven descended from the sky, and landed, of all places, on ebay.

at this very moment i am bidding on a one quart (as in “a quart of milk, please) of quadrille. i can barely count, even using my fingers, but intuition tells my that that’s one hell of a lot of ounces.

we are 4 days into the auction. the starting price was 50 something. i bid first. another gal was up for the challenge, but retired from the field in short order. that quart is currently standing at 117. there has been no further activity for 2 days.

unless there are at least 2 people who are crazy for a perfume, huge bottles of perfume never bring in what they are worth. even if you’re crazy about a fragrance, there aren’t many people out there as eccentric and over the top as i am. even i must admit that saturating my skin and clothing every 2 or so hours is, um, exessive? compulsive? let’s get real – i have a serious problem. as life’s problems go, it just isn’t serious enough to make the fix it list. and face it, kids, pets and brothers are all problems, too. brothers in particular are HUGE problems, so i’ve been told. but we don’t try to get rid of them. mostly.

we maniacs are a small minority. a normal person might love a perfume but figure they won’t live long enough to use a whole quart.

so i’ll get it, and probably for under 200 dollars – but even if it goes much higher, when you consider my expenditure to date, it’s worth my while to pay up.

so, for now, i think i’ll have a good week or two of quadrille before i have to think about selling my body parts. i wonder if anyone needs an earlobe transplant.