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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:21 PM (Eastern)
This is the last remnant of my beloved Givenchy Organza eau de parfum spray. Here it was back in early 2004 (that or late 2003), hale and hearty and full of...well, perfume:
UEU is a term coined on our own forums btw; it stands for "use everything up."
In this case of course I am not using everything up: I am using up a single bottle of perfume. The term has evolved to mean a fairly generic cosmetic experience...how to get your money's worth out of your products by...using them up.
Organza is still one of my favorite scents. It doesn't fall under "exotic" or even "unusual" (although I have yet to smell it on anyone else), yet it is something that I want to always possess. It's rather like a gold bracelet or diamond earrings. Prosaic enough, yet always right for every occasion.
Going back to the UEU...Organza does not keep forever. The smaller bottle in the pic above, in fact, turned on me toward the end, after I'd hoarded it for some time. Hence it is well to coordinate the size of your bottle with your actual usage (and avoid hoarding). The ginormous bottle of Organza that I'm currently UEU'ing was too big...as much as I loathe to think it, much less say it...and I had to step up my application of it, foregoing other perfumes in the stash.
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