CK One

CK One

Oh loyal reader, I know you’re getting a plethora of knowledge from reading this blog and I know this is the last week of Christmas shopping and you’re thinking “Erica, what am I going to buy my mother/friend/lover/dog walker?” Well have no fear because I have the one gift that will please everyone on your gift list.

This'll bring all the boys to the yard

 Back in middle school when I was super poor, my mother couldn’t afford to buy me perfume from the department stores and up until that point I was under the impression Baby Soft was the premier perfume on the market. So when I was in 8^th grade I was officially a teenager. I thought being 13 meant I was going to be an adult and finally get my period (hint: nope, I’m still prepubescent to this day), but one thing I knew for sure was that I was going to be “sexy” and that meant getting rid of the ole Baby Soft. I knew I needed something sophisticated that would showcase how mature I was, so I went to Phar-Mor and started smelling the luscious fragrances such as Charlie and Joop. Then I came across CK One.

You may recall that CK One is a very forgettable fragrance. I don’t really recall what it smelled like but I know it smelled like what I thought perfume should smell like, basically alcohol. It’s good that it’s called One because I think for a lot of girls in the 90s, it was their first real fragrance. I used to ration it because I was poor and couldn’t afford to just buy another bottle all willy nilly, so I only wore it on “special” occasions such as the first day of school, a school dance, picture day and when I was trying to get into R rated movies.

The ads for the perfume were even better:

SEE?! This perfume was supposed to make me so awesome!
And I was supposed to look like Kate Moss.

And there you have it, the best gift you could ever give! Everyone will thank you for it and not run out to the Wal-Mart to return it for $10 and curse your name for thinking they’re only worth $10 at the Wal-Mart.