i was worried i’d lose smell with the ol rona but it seems mostly ok? my lil toothpaste tabs hit the back of my nose like a cigarette rather than peppermint for a couple days there but that seems to be a hydration thing more than anything. my nose dreams aren’t dead yet…
recent sampling of CdG ERL Sunscreen, literally the lime in the fucking coconut
it’s on the list
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lately been loving dirty hinoki, which they describe as ‘the smell of forest-bathing’, and yeah it smells like a good whiff of cedar forest
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i once received hinoki incense as a gift from a friend visiting japan, smelled so gooood
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it’s the aroma of horrible bastards but i really have a lot of time for tom ford’s tuscan leather after all
at least I only bought 35ml of it
I still need to find a thing that’s violin rosin, and a rose that isn’t insipid
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EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS – US Etat Libre d'Orange this is a good rose vibe
Legend has it that an apple from a tree fell on Newton’s head – and thus, the theory of universal gravitation was born. But then let’s imagine a different scene – Newton, asleep under a rose bush. And instead of an apple, a flower falls, an enormous rose, a fully scented, fleshy rose. Would he have felt it? Would he have plunged his face into the heart of the flower? And what would this mean for his theory?
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My wife is obsessed with incense, perfume, candles, etc. I should get her to create an account just to post in this thread.
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my go-to is one called ‘I Am Music’ by some guys in Sydney called Amacyn but i think i’ll have to wear it again before i can describe it, it’s just like right in the middle of all the more mundane fragrances i enjoy
got old mate CDG2 for his last birthday and he wears it great. that concrete one sounds pretty interesting – i love cumin – but i haven’t gotten to sniff a sample yet
(oh also the copper one sounds fun too… alas)
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Anyone have a good beginner’s guide to fragrances? I need to learn the terms and figure out what would go with my fashion “aesthetic” (ivy and Japanese workwear I guess)
oh no this was horrible on me, like a powdery chanel thing but stinkier, rotting lilies
the quest continues
Rose 31 and Damascus Rose both sound interesting, but I haven’t tried either. I generally avoid florals because they tend to be too sweet / powdery, these sound low on both
fragrantica is a database that I think is initially overwhelming but quite useful overall (https://www.fragrantica.com/notes/, https://www.fragrantica.com/groups/)
I think some of the perfume monthly services like Scentbird have really useful descriptions of scents, and might work better as a primer. Just takes a bit of clicking to get to the useful stuff without making an account (https://www.scentbird.com/fragrance-families)
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a funny article about perfumia
selectbutton
a website that’s so refreshingly useless
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