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currently in my fragrance decant cart 🌹🛒

18 items

khareef

everything currently sitting in my ScentSplit fragrance sample wish list ✨

i’m a huge believer in sampling before committing to a full bottle, so this is where i’m keeping all the perfumes i want to smell next—from niche fragrance and gourmands to tea, coffee, woods and whatever other oddly specific thing i’ve decided i wan...

let me know in the comments what you've already tried and follow me @heykhareef on TikTok and Instagram for fragrance reviews as I work my way through the list 👃

the ones I love enough to recommend graduate to my other Benable list → “Smell Like an Experience”

Sections

J-Scent

d'Annam

Nishane

J-Scent

Japanese perfumery based around everyday memories, places, foods and little pieces of Japanese culture? yeah they got me. i love how oddly specific some of these concepts are—from roasted green tea and coffee shops to ramune and traditional sweets. t...

i’m hoping this is the cozy, nutty green tea fragrance of my dreams—roasted tea, peanut, jasmine and vanilla with a woody drydown. i need redemption after my last green tea perfume experience 😂

Roasted Green Tea - J-Scent

YSL Black Opium was a signature scent of mine at one point, and i’m hoping this is its more sophisticated cousin who lives in Kyoto 😂 give me warm coffee-shop energy without the florals taking over.

Cafe - J-Scent

cinnamon, vetiver, amber, musk and woods sounded like such a beautiful combination. i’m hoping for soft, spicy woods and expensive Japanese-incense energy—i'm just proceeding cautiously around that patchouli 👀

Agarwood - J-Scent

honestly, I read Rakugan as Rasengan at first and that’s why we’re here 😂 but now I genuinely want to know if this gives fruity vanilla cookie without the maple getting funky or the iris getting too powdery.

Rakugan - J-Scent

i love Ramune and immediately needed to know how that fizzy Japanese soda experience translates into perfume. i’m hoping for something light, sweet, fruity and sparkling that still feels wearable.

Ramune - J-Scent

d'Annam

d’Annam basically looked at food, memory and everyday life in Vietnam and said “what if you could wear that?” and unfortunately for my wallet, that is exactly the kind of thing i LOVE in a fragrance. rice, pandan, Vietnamese coffee, mango sticky rice...

matcha and soft serve in the same fragrance was enough to get this into my cart, immediately craving a cone from Bumsan Organic Milk Bar 😂 i'm hoping for creamy, slightly bitter matcha with a milky vanilla sweetness that actually smells like the des...

Matcha Soft Serve - d'Annam

PANDAN! i was already intrigued by the idea of a soft, starchy rice fragrance, but the creamy aromatic smell of pandan completely sold me. i’m hoping for warm steamed rice, gentle sweetness and creamy pandan.

White Rice - d'Annam

i LOVE sticky rice—the taste, the smell, the whole experience—so obviously i need to know what happens when you turn it into perfume. i’m hoping for creamy mango + warm starchy sticky rice that makes me want to order Thai food for dinner 😂

Mango Sticky - d'Annam

rice straw? literally that’s what got me 😂 i have no idea what I expect it to smell like, but i’m imagining something dry, softly spicy and floral—and hoping the patchouli + florals don't commit crimes against my olfactory system.

Harvest Season - d'Annam

Robusta coffee and condensed milk sounds so decadent and perfect for cold weather. i’m hoping this smells like being handed a fresh, creamy cup of Vietnamese coffee without the coffee going burnt or overly bitter.

Vietnamese Coffee - d'Annam

Nishane

i came for the perfume and somehow ended up reading stories about ancient cities, Rumi, time, transformation and taking up space 😂 Nishane is exactly why i love fragrance as an experience—not just “this smells good,” but trying to translate a place,...

the story behind this one got me—the medieval Armenian city of Ani, its ruins, borders, conflict and abandonment. this idea of shared memory and rebuilding connection through scent. the fragrance itself, a complex oriental floral, sounds gorgeous too...

Ani - Nishane

i was immediately intrigued by the concept of time flow and how we experience the passage of time. i love fragrances that are trying to capture something abstract like a feeling, place or moment, so naturally i need to know what “time” smells like, w...

Tempfluo - Nishane

the concept of reclaiming visibility and allowing yourself to take up space is what caught me here (something happening in my life currently). i love that the fragrance is built around presence and being seen rather than hiding yourself—it made this ...

Meant To Be Seen - Nishane

this description was INSANE to me 😂 Petra, thorns becoming roses, and the whole imagery of transformation through difficult conditions immediately sold me. this is exactly the kind of fragrance where i want to smell whether the actual scent, a lusci...

Thorns Become Roses - Nishane

this one was the exception where I think the scent itself was doing more of the work for me: salted caramel, spice and woods sounded ridiculously good and right in your rich-gourmand-but-not-basic-dessert lane. it's supposed to represent the connecti...

Tero - Nishane

this got me with the Rumi-inspired idea of surrounding yourself with people who fan your flames rather than diminish them. then they went and paired that concept with coconut, rum, tobacco and woods, which sounds dark and boozy instead of tropical co...

Fan Your Flames - Nishane

this one was almost entirely because of the Rumi inspiration: “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” the idea of communicating love and desire without words is BEAUTIFUL, and then peach, vanilla and creamy florals made me even...

Hundred Silent Ways - Nishane

the whole progression sounded beautiful to me: bright Calabrian citrus and green leaves with jasmine and coriander transforming into sweet amber, musk and vanilla. it sounds like a Mediterranean afternoon slowly getting warmer and softer as the day g...

Ambra Calabria - Nishane