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✨🌼💦 perfumes 💦🌼✨
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items some of my favorite perfumes! my takes, the actual descriptive notes, and my opinion on when best to wear them 🫧✨
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🍦🍯 gourmands 🍯✨
🌿🌞 summer faves 🌞🌿
🧊❄️ winter faves ❄️🧊
🍁🍎 fall faves 🍎🍁
🌿🌼 spring faves 🌼🌿
⚡️🫧 others 🫧⚡️
🍦🍯 gourmands 🍯✨
Of course I first saw this on TikTok but it truly lives up to the hype. It’s my signature scent; sweet but complex and still a little dark & bitter. It lasts forever and I get so many compliments on it!
top notes: cinnamon, rum, bitter chocolate...
Calle Ocho
Beautiful light summer scent. It really does smell like honeyed salted cantaloupe. It’s probably my most realistic gourmand, and my go to for warmer months. Only available as a special order now ☹️ but definitely worth it
Notes: Salted cantaloupe, a...
Sit For A Spell
This is a really lovely, sugary cola scent. It’s very sweet, almost cotton candy like but with a strong cola note.
SMELLS LIKE: FIZZY LIME • CINNAMON • SECRET COLA ACCORD • JASMINE • CARAMEL • VANILLA
Soda Snob Fragrance | Secret Menu
I love Moonmilk for its cardamom scent in the opening. The dry down is a little heavy on the sandalwood for me, but that’s a personal dislike of sandalwood that I have.
Top notes: black tea, lime
Mid notes: cardamom, lily of the valley, mandarin, bl...
Moonmilk
Sweet, sugary, warm, and spicy
NOTES:
Spicy. Pepper. Incense. Rum. Ambery.
Suave. Sandalwood. Warm. Woody.
GUEULE DE BOIS
🌿🌞 summer faves 🌞🌿
Perfect for the summer. It’s light and salty, with light marine undertones. Leans slightly more masculine, but it does feel like something I could wear out on a boat.
Top Notes: Guatemala Cardamom, Fennel, Ambrette Absolute
Heart Notes: Clary Sage,...
Zoologist Seahorse Deluxe Bottle
It’s a classic for a reason. Super light, a little floral but not overpowering.
Top notes: pink pepper
Heart notes: iris
Base notes: ambrette & ambrox
Glossier You
A juicy, sweet, apple shampoo
NOTES:
Top: Sage, Apple
Mid: Milk, Lily of the Valley, Heliotrope, Violet, Jasmine
Base: Cedarwood, Vetiver, Benzoin, Musks*, Amber
Zoologist Cow Deluxe Bottle
Light coconut milk, but with subtle spice and very subtle florals
NOTES:
Top: bergamot, green leaf, pear stem
Mid: fig, coconut milk, iris
Base: blonde woods, tonka bean, moss
Debaser
🧊❄️ winter faves ❄️🧊
The perfect winter scent. Smells like someone dipped a piece of leather in bourbon vanilla extract and lit it on fire. It’s warm, smoky, spicy, and sweet.
Top Notes: Bergamot, Apple Peel & White Musk
Mid Notes: Tobacco Leaf, Lily of the Valley &...
Sterling Extrait de Parfum
To be fair, I bought this one before the rebrand. But I love it for winter, it’s smokey, green, and warm.
NOTES:
Top: cardamom, pear
Mid: cedarwood, hinoki
Base: oakmoss, smoked amber
HINOKI FANTÔME
🍁🍎 fall faves 🍎🍁
A beautiful, sweet fall scent. Honey spiced apple cider and falls leaves.
Notes: hay, oatmeal, hazelnut, bergamot, lavender, herbal tea, westfarthing leaf (tobacco), seed cake, jasmine, orris, and honey*.
SHIRE
I know this is a controversial house (and specifically this perfume) but it’s also so lovely and it’s one of my favorites that I can’t let go of. What can I say I’m a sucker for vetiver. Spicy, but sweet and creamy.
Top notes: Black Pepper, Elemi Re...
FAT ELECTRICIAN
La Curie makes some of the most hyper realistic scents I’ve experienced, and they’re beautiful. This feels like you’re walking through a dark, damp, mossy, green forest: but there’s a hint of dark chocolate sweetness that rounds it out.
Black Hemlo...
Geist — La Curie
Azalai is sweet and subtly spicy, almost like a panettone. There’s a bit of powdery-ness to it that makes it cozy for the fall.
NOTES:
Top: blood orange, mint
Mid: saffron, dried fruit
Base: amber incense, gum acacia, velvione
Azalai
🌿🌼 spring faves 🌼🌿
Lots of light white florals, but a little more interesting. Like smelling a bouquet of flowers and someone is burning incense in the background.
NOTES:
Orris root, wilted violets, incense, iris, palo santo, silence & reverence
Ossuary — La Curie
Jammy florals, but with more spice and smoke than you would expect.
NOTES:
Top: lavender bloom, blueberry jam
Mid: chocolate, almond, denim
Base: amyris, tonka bean absolute, vetiver
Sheep Meadow | Thin Wild Mercury | Fine Fragrance
⚡️🫧 others 🫧⚡️
I wouldn’t call this an every day wearable perfume, but it’s really interesting and I do still wear it. It feels sterile and sweet and styrofoamy.
Liquidambar, astroid sap, purified air, white vinyl, nostalgia, utopian dreams
Odyssey — La Curie
Not sure where to categorize this one, but it’s another of my top favorites. Smells like sweet, old dusty drapes in the best way possible.
Top notes: immortelle, bergamot
Mid notes: fig leaf, pine, ozone
Base notes: smoke, vetiver, malt sugar, cypr...
Mistpouffer
Super sharp and heavy on the vetiver, but that’s what I like.
NOTES:
Top: rosewood, wild thyme, bergamot
Mid: sagebrush, rose otto, basil
Base: vetiver, grass, ambergris
Cowboy Grass