Fragrance update.
Piecing together the various suggestions below, I have figured out this much.
I took the spray bottle of eau-de-musk-ox which the very lovely and terribly gracious Poppy gave me for Christmas, and disassembled the spray mechanism as far as I could without breaking anything. Which wasn't very far, because all that's there is the atomizer button (the thingy you push to produce a fine mist with a 10'/3m scatter pattern) and this spouty thing that goes up the aforementioned button.
Now, if you push down on the unbuttoned spouty thing you get a semi-healthy squirt of manly fragrance. The problem is that I see no way (thus far) of pushing down the spouty thingy without blocking the spouty thingy. That is, I wind up with several fluid ounces of manly fragrance dribbling down my arm.
Putting the bottle upside down to push against something, besides potentially blocking the spouty thingy, produces nothing, because the feeder tube is then nestling in a pocket of air.
My intentions therefore are to find some sort of thin, flexible-ish but rigid-ish tube (the sort used in fish tanks suggests itself), that will affix SNUGLY (so I can't type, Poppy, sue me) over the spouty thing that I may push down without blocking the spouty thingy and which will prove a conduit to the manly fragrance, to be decanted into the little sterling flask. (Which I think -- I'm not sure -- Poppy also gave me several years prior.)
Details to ensue,
-J.
I took the spray bottle of eau-de-musk-ox which the very lovely and terribly gracious Poppy gave me for Christmas, and disassembled the spray mechanism as far as I could without breaking anything. Which wasn't very far, because all that's there is the atomizer button (the thingy you push to produce a fine mist with a 10'/3m scatter pattern) and this spouty thing that goes up the aforementioned button.
Now, if you push down on the unbuttoned spouty thing you get a semi-healthy squirt of manly fragrance. The problem is that I see no way (thus far) of pushing down the spouty thingy without blocking the spouty thingy. That is, I wind up with several fluid ounces of manly fragrance dribbling down my arm.
Putting the bottle upside down to push against something, besides potentially blocking the spouty thingy, produces nothing, because the feeder tube is then nestling in a pocket of air.
My intentions therefore are to find some sort of thin, flexible-ish but rigid-ish tube (the sort used in fish tanks suggests itself), that will affix SNUGLY (so I can't type, Poppy, sue me) over the spouty thing that I may push down without blocking the spouty thingy and which will prove a conduit to the manly fragrance, to be decanted into the little sterling flask. (Which I think -- I'm not sure -- Poppy also gave me several years prior.)
Details to ensue,
-J.
Comments
Poppy's Husband: How did it go at choir rehearsal?
Poppy: Oh--it went simply SUNGLY!
I wouldn't put it past blackbird, for example. She never stops talking about you, so if you're getting anonymous mash emails--check the IP. It's probably her.
Or badger.
Kim is another possibility.
Alas, it was at "your deluxe apartment in the sky" where you very kindly gave me the Eau de Musk Ox.
Let me know if you'd like for me to refresh your memory further.
-J.
And Stomper Girl sent you the wee flaskie.
-J.
P.S. The bottle of Eau de Musk Ox, came from the Ox Lauren flagship store on Musk Avenue; with a "Tester - Not For Retail Sale" sticker underneath.
Of course, if shaving (see post above) is that big of a problem....
Jess, who has all the skin on her legs intact
I mean, GEESUS, don't you have washing to do, dinner to make, school fence mums to beguile?
I can almost hear Mrs J's eyes rolling from here.
(ps - I don't even buy my own husband these kinds of concoctions, so I'm hardly going to be purchasing them for others...)
-J.
He probably sold me the tester and kept the last, for-retail-sale bottle for his own bad self. To wear to impress the ghost of C. Z. Guest.
Kim: I have to buy eau-de-musk-ox for Joke because my husband won't let me buy fragrances, manly or otherwise, for him.
Or, find some needle-nosed pliers and pry off the metal top that must be on the Eau de Musk Ox and decant into said sterling flask.