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i collect odd and off-putting perfumes which is lovely however it's not when you grab a random one for the day and you end up in class covered in glitter (for another reason) scented like sex, champagne, and cat piss.
i promise it's a lovely perfume but it has its spot and class isn't it
Feb 23, 2024
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Obsessed with perfume. For a while I was searching for a signature scent, but then the hunt just became too much fun, and now I’ve ended up with a full on vanity tray in my bathroom piled with a different smell for every mood. I used to wear only China Rain, a rollerball scent my mom got me in high school from a perfumery in LA called Spiritbody. I still have a bottle of that, but when I wear it I’m transported to a more insecure time lol. Right now I love Shadow in the Water from Diptyque for when I want to smell clean and romantic. I wear Smudge by Heretic almost every day because it’s colder out and it makes me feel so warm and cozy, like i’ve been sitting by a fire all day, and like I give good advice and paint landscapes. Perfume is definitely a splurge, but it lasts for so long, and I think it’s really special to have a beautiful scent that people can recognize you by. I am going to gatekeep my secret combination of Byredo perfumes that I wear constantly, and I’m sorry about that. It’s just too good and too me.
Dec 20, 2022
Although I have a pretty extensive perfume collection — around 200 bottles, plus hundreds of samples and decants — for the last several years I've only worn a handful of them on a regular basis. Lately I've found myself gravitating to older and vintage scents, particularly classic Guerlains (Jicky, Mitsouko, Shalimar) and Caron (Yatagan, Caron pour Homme). Often dismissed as "old lady perfumes" (which is both ageist and misogynist!) they're the best examples of perfumery as high art I know. There are decades-old vintage samples out there if you know where to look or get lucky at an estate sale, but even the contemporary reformulated versions are more interesting and intricate than 99% of what you'll find at Sephora or even a niche shop like Luckyscent. I'd much rather smell of something that would have been familiar to Proust (that would be Jicky, a spiced lavender-vanilla considered to be the first "modern" perfume and one that has been in continuous production since it was released in 1889) than Santal 33 or whatever Maison Francis Kurkdjian everyone else is wearing.
Apr 6, 2024
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why not add an extra layer of chaos to your day by choosing a different perfume every morning to set your mood? eo1 by Ensar Oud is good for smelling like a freshly cured piece of leather that people have been smoking cigars aroound all day, perfect for collecting gambling debts, Yatagan by Caron smells like woods, celery and pollen, perfect for cosplaying as an old lumberjack while walking around the mini-Dubai of the Williamsburg waterfront, and pure Laotian Oud, out of the vial, smells like baby diarrhea in an old diaper but in a nice way, perfect for keeping your loved ones at arm’s distance
Jan 11, 2024
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its raining and the worms are out on their merry trips! they don't get out too often, let them traverse to where they may they deserve the peace
Mar 28, 2024
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hate your friends? feel like you picked the wrong life path? tempted to break up with your partner? breaking out? play tetris.
Tetris is known to override your brain or something and therefore it's the perfect way to cope with any and all issues!
Jan 6, 2024
it's the best it's layered it's easy to maintain its easy to style. plus my mom cut it for me so it's special to me (it's in my pfp but here's Samantha)
Feb 23, 2024