Travel Turtle

When I was in seventh grade I had to do a science project. After much thinking I settled on my hypothesis that was something along the lines of: “Which perfume lasts the longest?” I sprayed different scents in different price points on a cotton ball and then put each ball in it’s own ziploc bag and put the bags in a drawer in my room. When I remembered I would sniff each cotton ball and write down my conclusions. My findings were pretty inconclusive. One did seem to have as strong a scent as it did when I first put it in the bag, but to be honest, I probably just said that about the most expensive perfume anyway. I do remember writing that the results would be different if the perfume was on skin, because it would react differently to skin than it does to cotton balls in bags.

I realized two things about this experiment. One, which I realized as I was giving my presentation to my class, was that I am not a scientist. The second realization came just five minutes ago. Perfume stays on cotton balls for a long time > cotton balls take up very little room > cotton balls aren’t heavy (even when soaked with perfume)> cotton balls don’t break. All these conclusions lead to the result that I would think someone who is as obsessed with packing lightly and doing scientific projects on perfume and cotton balls should have realized years ago. But, I had to go to one of my favorite blogs to find this out. Soak cotton balls in perfume and pack the cotton balls for your trip. So simple (the tip). So clueless (me).

Oh and this post is my 200th.