Some perfumes smell like flowers. Some smell like the ocean.
Some smell like a grandmother drinking gin out of a teacup at 10 am.
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Smells that are Places
Smells that are People
Smells that are Places
Olfactory Vacation
This was the first full-size luxury bottle of a scent I purchased for myself. Wear this if you need rich people to believe you belong in the same room as them. Wear this to remind you that you deserve to be in that room. Wear this for yourself. You could lose yourself in this fragrance. It's a warm day, fresh cut grass after a rainstorm kind of feeling.
Un Jardin Sur Le Nil Hermes 3.3 oz EDT
Standing under a bridge by dark brackish water. Salt air, stone, and the feeling of wandering somewhere quiet after everyone else has gone home..
ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE Sous le pont Mirabeau
The edge of the ocean on a gray day. Salt air, Rosehips, distant water, and the feeling of looking out toward somewhere you'll probably never visit. I keep coming back to this one.
ETAT LIBRE D'ORANGE Above the Waves
You walk into the woods. Take a wrong turn. Have to fend for yourself for a few days. Light a fire, listen to the trees. Once you finally find yourself, you smell of smoke and dried flowers. You are the woods.
Aesop Hwyl Eau de Parfum 1.6 oz Unisex
This is one I wish I could spray on my pillow every night before i go to sleep. It's how it feels to come home after a long day and just curl up with a blanket and a nice book. hot cup of green tea, little honey. Quiet. Soft. Calm.
The Matcha 26 by Le Labo Unisex 1.7oz EDP
A damp shower room at a public pool that almost certainly has moss or mold growing in the darker corners somewhere. Muggy and metallic. I would never wear this, but I appreciate both the specificity of the aroma and the talent it took to make somethi...
Steamed Rainbow Eau de Parfum - D.S. & Durga
The first warm morning after a long winter when you open a window just because you can.
Etat Libre d'Orange The Ghost In The Shell EDP
The kind of dry heat that makes you look for shade. A nap in some tall grass.
Cowboy Grass Eau de Parfum - D.S. & Durga
Smells that are People
An older woman sitting alone in a corner booth, sipping a gimlet, watching but looking through the room; dissociating into memories of her youth.
Putain des Palaces - Eau de Parfum - Etat Libre d'Orange
Sharing the last cigarette of the night with a total stranger.
Jasmin et Cigarette EDP
Etat Libre d'Orange
there's an openness to this one. like something is missing. which i like because that means they didn't fill the void and just left it. Feels like a friend who left the party and you're still looking around to see if they're there.