Hi!

My name is Spicy. Well, not really, that’s what’s called an alias. It matches my moustache and glasses.

Anyway, for a while now I’ve been writing for Just Be, but I’ve never properly introduced myself. How rude. Apologies.

So, hello! Nice to meet you. My, that’s a very flattering top you’re wearing. You should keep that one on high-rotation.

Now we’ve been properly introduced, I thought you might like to know how I came to be sitting here, in your computer.

Well, it all started with my mate, Maria.

You see, one day Maria went perfume shopping. She had twenty minutes to choose a scent, purchase it and get back to her car. Forty-five minutes later, Maria was still in the store, empty handed and more confused than Paris Hilton at a university lecture.

Poor Maria got bogged down with all the talk of top notes, eau de whatevers, the perks of musk versus florals, sweet verses woody and that word ‘olfactory’.

“Help me Spicy!” she squealed down the phone to me. “Get me out of this sweet smelling mess!”

And so I did. And then it occurred to me that perhaps there are other Maria’s out there who want a little help with perfume purchases. And that’s how the blog came to be.

Every few days I’ll be writing down pearls of wisdom (according to me) that relate to anything and everything that smells – from how to pick your scent, how to get the most from it and anything else that I think you’ll find useful or entertaining.

But you know, I find watching ants pick up tiny morsels of food extraordinarily entertaining (how do they manage to carry such a large bread crumb on such a small back?) so our ideas of what’s interesting might differ. That’s why I’d really appreciate your feedback. Be sure to tell me what you love, what’s boring you, or if you have a question, ask me and I’ll try my hardest to get the answer for you.

So make sure log in every now and again. That way, you’ll avoid doing what Maria did on her fateful shopping trip and dipping your fingers in the bowl of coffee beans the sales assistant offered you. You know she was offering you those coffee beans for you to smell right? To cleanse your olfactory palate before sniffing the next perfume. Yes, thought you did.

I’ll see you on the blog guys!

Love, Spicy.

The street name for heroin…a west end club in London… let’s just say china white is open to interpretation.

I have always loved reading about artists, designers, and pop culture legends. The captivating power of the Arts perplexes me. I can’t quite put my finger on the essence of why we love music, poetry or paintings. Why pictures need no explanation. Why music leaves us speechless. Why poetry intrigues.

What draws us to view an exhibition or buy a magazine?

Curiosity.

The alluring power of the unknown.

Exotic destinations, bazaar fashion trends,  foreign cultures and the avant garde music scene.

Hopefully a little curiosity will be alleviated by the Just Be bloggers. Drop by for a little fashion, style, fragrance and beauty news.

“If you keep living for tomorrow, you just end up with a lot of empty yesterdays”

China White