#Eau de Toilettes

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

BBW Luxuries Coconut Lime Verbena EDT

early 2000s I think?

Found on Ebay, user ladyver

[zegalba]

Flower by Kenzo Eau de Toilette (2000)

[tmiegrl]

hello kitty perfume ﹒ 𐙚 ˚ ﹒⟢

[sweetbunnytears]

[waugh-bao]

Keith Richards’ library desk (1995)

[yassssifiedhistory]

This packaging is literally so good

[barbielore]

Apart from the 12 Days of Christmas sets from the last few years, and the Barbie book advent calendar I snapped up last year, there are any number of Barbie advent calendars or similar products on the market.

The Colour Reveal and Cutie Reveal advent calendars were probably the least surprising of these to me, as these lines were already associated with the blind-box gimmick.

It seems like a natural fit.

But some of them are a little more unexpected. I was inspired to write this post by seeing a Barbie eau de toilette advent calendar for sale at a local pharmacy.

"Advent calendar" is being kind of pushed to breaking point here, with only seven bottles inside.

It did inspire me to look to see if there were other ones with less... expected products inside. For example; this one, also branded around the Colour Reveal range, and featuring bath bombs.

If not for the fact that I find baths intolerable, I think this is really cool.

But my personal favourite, I think, was this Barbie themed 12 days of cocoa mix calendar.

[tom-at-the-farm]

How I unintentionally became a perfume hoarder in 2024: an olfactory journey [I originally wrote this January 1st and immediately forgot about it]

So I have both chronic sinusitis that impairs my sense of smell and a raging insecurity about whether I smell good, which together make me obsessed with fragrances. I'm like Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from Perfume but instead of murdering women to create the perfect scent I will say things like "Curious by Britney Spears is the best olfactory experience ever" and to some people who hate the truth that's on par with murder.

Anyway!

So this is obscenely overpriced, although you can get it for half the cost on fragrancenet. I am forever obsessed with cherry and I treated myself this year. It's definitely heavy and intense, slightly smoky and sweet, a 2-spray maximum. Base notes of sandalwood and regret. I got complimented by zero people whilst wearing Lost Cherry by Tom Ford and by at least five people while wearing Curious by Britney Spears, a ratio inversely proportional to their pricing

Jo Malone is lit AF, I have recently run out of my Wild Bluebell bottle and got this, English Pear & Sweet Pea, which is amazing. It's an improvement on their older scent, English Pear and Freesia. Also the chief complaint I've heard about JM is that the scent has no staying power and that was definitely true of the Wild Bluebell I bought in England, but this latest purchase from a Bloomingdale's in New Jersey is both delicate and robustly American

These two are my daily wear. I have to say I get the most compliments on Tommy Girl. Clean, floral, nostalgic. Bitches love it! Bitches is me, but also many other people. The Clinique Happy Heart is a more floral twist on the citrusy original Happy, and it too is generally beloved by bitches

One time while I was doing a clinical rotation at a hospital I heard a man getting wheeled away on a gurney say to no one in particular, "You know what the best smell is for women? Woman by Ralph Lauren." Like literally he could have been being taken to a head trauma ward for all I know, because that's how mediocre this scent is. But I had to find out, right? Maybe there was method to his madness, some folksy American Everyman wisdom? There wasn't, and I'm a damn fool. Although for what it's worth, I was complimented once while wearing it, which is one more time than Lost Cherry by Tom Ford

I inherited this from my mom and keep it for the vintage prestige, but Shalimar has always smelled like stale whiskey to me. It still does! Maybe I, a person most frequently smelling of cigarettes and Tommy Girl, just lack the pedigree to appreciate the opulence? It's like bergamot, jasmine and vanilla, all great things individually, but in combination they just smell like a sad grandma party. Come to think of it, a lot of Tom Ford scents are just Shalimar and Chanel No 5 ripoffs with edgy names and unisex marketing

These were all presents and I wish so badly they smelled better than they do. I wish they smelled half as good as Curious by Britney Spears. The only Hermes I like is Le Jardin de Monsieur Li tbh

Also featuring such duds as Cacharel's Anais Anais and such resounding successes as Bath & Body Works' "Fresh Cut Lilacs"

[dozydawn]

Cocaína by Leoniero Galleani, 1989.

Model: Fernanda Barbosa.

[smbhax]

"»Jules« de Dior, 1980 »Jules« von Dior, 1980 Christian Dior, »Jules«, 1980"

Illustration by René Gruau

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[scented--whispers]

Supreme Vanilla Eau De Parfum: Dark Academia Perfection

Imagine being in the most beautiful old library reading a book that smells of paper and ink, the place is full of wooden tables and bookcases and you have fresh vanilla biscuits with you. This is how this perfume smells.

Zara perfumes are so good and even better if we consider how affordable they are and this one is by far my favorite. It doesn't have an olfactory pyramid, the notes are linear, something that makes every note have pretty much the same intensity throughout its run.

Notes: Tonka beans, cedarwood, Madagascar vanilla, and pink sugar with inky notes.

As the name suggests, it is a vanilla perfume at its core and is the main note, everything else is to add more character to it. The second most prominent note is by far the ink. In a lot of reviews, I have seen people describe the smell as "wet ashtray" and even though I understand where this is coming from I do not agree exactly. Yes, there is something that resembles an ashtray, but in a good way? I don't know how to explain it, but the smell is almost comforting. The ink smells exactly like an ink pad my grandfather had and along with the velvety almost tobacco-like/almondy smell of the tonka beans gives a kick that personally I find soooo good. It is a mysterious, sophisticated, and dark vanilla and I love an interesting vanilla. The cedarwood and the sugar are supporting roles here, I cannot identify that is cedar I smell but with time there is an aromatic woodiness that lingers on my skin and the sugar adds sweetness all around, which this perfume needs imo.

It is a juggernaut as far as longevity goes and even more as sillage goes. This thing smells A LOT, and for days on my clothes, but it isn't clogging at all. To explain how impressed I am with it, I was wearing it in a bar I go to quite often and the place is very small, more often than not extremely crowded, and people can smoke inside, and I still got questions on what perfume I wear because those around me could smell it, something that is not a thing in that place.

Something that I also didn't expect (bc the reviews I had read were a mixed bag) is how much of a people's pleaser it is, especially men. Every time I wear it I get questions on what I wear, bc they like it yes, but also bc they want to get it, so at least the people around me find it as unisex as they come, something that I also agree with. I can see everyone wearing it and even all day, just not in summer. I haven't tried it on very warm/hot days yet, but the vibe doesn't give summer at all.

[zegalba]

Comme des Garcons: Odeur 53 Eau De Toilette (1998)

[moratoirenoir]

[chromet]

MAN by COMME des GARÇONS Perfumes

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Avon Natural Reactions In the Clouds Eau de Toilette Spray

1999

Found on Ebay, user Bubberred