#fraghead

[macbxth-pdf]

Femmes who like perfume: What’s your favorite perfume or cologne? Cause not for nothing, Choco Musk has me and my butch in a chokehold. It’s cheap, it’s easy to layer, it last long on clothes and there’s a perfume oil roll on version of it. Of course there are other perfumes I love but I always add Choco Musk to it.

[joshleyson]

Smell ME! 👀

I think it's true: the older you become, the more fragrances you need in rotation. Sign of aging? Maybe 😂! I usually hoard perfumes at the end of the year because they’re relatively cheaper and there’s a lot of sale going on and these are the ones I’m gonna use all year-round. I don’t know about you but I’m the kind of person who assigns fragrances on specific moments because wherever I am in my life, if I get a whiff of a scent that I once used in that certain occasion or moment, my brain would automatically transport me back to that moment in time.

So here I am sharing some of the fragrances in my cabinet that I personally use that also I recommend to anyone where you don't need to break the bank. This video is from my ‘Tok as I promised to break the tedium of this blogosphere with my beach and travel photos. I want to know your favorites!

And yeah, I finally surrendered to the TikTok gods and I’ve been browsing that app mindlessly sometimes.

TikTok: joshleyson

[hreog-like-frog]

Serge Lutens, Un Bois Vanille smells faintly of smoke, a lot of ink (a broken BIC ballpoint pen from college comes to mind), and a sliced carrot. Dog butler joked that it smelled like gasoline, but very nice gasoline.

Then I spray it on the jugular to go out for a dog walk on a chilly October afternoon, no sun, and it warms up on my skin and sends gust of the most intoxicatingly beautiful, classy vanilla ever that I want to swoon--in the STREET.

lovely stuff, Serge Lutens, you nutters. always a weird experience.

[lilac-and-goosberry]

“My office is fragrance free join me in shaming them” folks please remember that not everyone enjoys fragrance in the same way. Not everyone enjoys fragrance. Fragrance is not benign to everyone. If your office has a no fragrance policy and you’re trying to find a loophole, you’re being selfish.

[perduevertex]

Once you get into perfume, you conveniently forget that you used to have a slight sensitivity to scent (like 10% allergic, which you ignore to enjoy the smelling experience). Only it flares up again when your sinuses are under attack, a la dirty rotten cold.

So, in an attempt to save a blind buy fail, I spritzed my work corner with Avon Rare Pearls (it was so inexpensive!). On skin it's an instant scrubber for me (dirty jasmine, blech), but in the air, it smells like Dior Pure Poison (at 1/10 the price). A bargain and it's also good? Magic!

Only, what with the throat cold migrating to clogged sinuses with a headache avalanche building up, all that perfume in the air decides to join the enemy and kick the stuffing out of me while I'm curled up sniveling in the gutter, wishing I were dead.

But hey, i made the cheapie work, so it's a win! Yay?

[missanthropicprinciple]

"It’s 1995. I’m by the poolside at our rich friends’ house. My brother is visiting from the UK. I’ve already choked on pool water twice. I’m having a blast diving for rings because I can swim under water but not tread water. I’ve got my multicolored one piece speedo on. Scents of sunscreen and expensive perfume fill the air. The adults are downing margaritas and asti spumante. My parents are wearing silver jewelry and their friends are wearing gold. Neons. Speckled beige. Stripes. Triangles. Sunglasses are the height of fashion. We’re in the Midwest but it might as well be a tropical island resort. We’ll probably be eating hotdogs for dinner. I’ll go hunt for frogs later. I’m shivering in the cool house as I peel off my soaking wet swimsuit to wee. Now where’s the cat? Meow."

[squidificati0n]

If you are a fragrance company and you don't have a discovery set

Fuck you

[aromatherapre]

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[ninsiana0]

Rainy days are made even better by getting a Darling Clandestine order 😊

Falchion is a dirty, dusty, musky chocolate, and an old favorite.

Vardogr is perfect for goblins & gremlins & gollems & all manner of swamp beast. 13/10 genders. Also an old favorite.

Serpentina is new to me, but is a scent I've longed to try for ages. Fresh out the bottle it is FRESH & TEA, and I'm excited to play with it.

[thesoftclubstoic]

Gucci Rush Advert (1999)

[macbxth-pdf]

My bread and butter. The first perfume I think to pickup. My love 🍪🍫

[mollyringle]

Lava Red Feather Blue: the perfume list

(I mention in the afterword of Lava Red Feather Blue that I can recommend perfumes to go with those described in the book. For my fellow perfumistas out there, here is that list, which is also on my website and is subject to change as I think of more.) For all of the scents listed here, or for any perfume at all, I highly recommend starting with a sample and not springing for a blind buy of a full bottle. Scents vary a great deal on each person’s skin, and to each person’s nose, and should be test-driven before one commits to a larger purchase. Some reliable sites where I’ve bought perfume samples include Luckyscent, Surrender to Chance, Olfactif, and The Perfumed Court. For Solstice Scents fragrances, though, you’ll likely only find them at the Solstice Scents site itself.

If you know of a perfume you think would fit well into this list, let me know! We can keep adding to the list. True perfume fanatics always want to try more scents!

Sia Fia’s realm: for Silver and Lunacy, described as island-harvested rose, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, patchouli, incense, musk, and honey:

One of the top contenders that comes to mind for me is Absolue Pour le Soir by Maison Francis Kurkdjian…but it’s been discontinued! If you CAN find any to sample, I warn you that a fair number of people who smell it think it’s disgusting. The rest of us, however, find it highly sexy. This is often the case with the most carnal scents! MFK describes its notes as rose honey from Bulgaria, incense absolute, cumin, benzoin from Siam, and sandalwood.

Another possibility I love, heavy on the honey, is Bee by Zoologist Perfumes. It starts out like a freshly opened jar of orange blossom honey, then deepens into facets of mimosa, benzoin, sandalwood, incense, ginger, heliotrope, labdanum, tonka, and musk.

Yet another, more floral and hay-like but still rich with honey and carnality, is Tabac Tabou by Parfum d’Empire, which is advertised as having notes of immortelle, tobacco, narcissus, honey, grass, and musk.

If you want to go old-school carnal, look on eBay for a vintage bottle of Bal a Versailles by Jean Desprez. It’s usually easy to find, and is a yummy, powdery concoction of civet, resins, balsam, amber, vanilla, musk, sandalwood, orris root, rose, orange blossom, jasmine, ylang-ylang, and more.

For old-school carnal on the macho side, I love Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent (white bottle, not Body Kouros in the black bottle). A small dab will do—it’s potent! On my skin it’s both shower-clean and sexy-dirty, a mix I love. It’s got civet, honey, patchouli, aldehydes, leather, carnation, coriander, musk, oakmoss, artemisia, and other spices and florals.

And one more beauty, which is less about the honey and more about the rose, but still has a very “sexy boudoir” feel, is Salome by Papillon, a huge fan favorite in the indie perfume fandom, featuring jasmine, musks, Turkish rose, carnation, cumin, mosses, and tobacco.

Arlanuk’s realm: for Hunter’s Night, described as earth, stone, oakmoss, island redwood, cedar, vetiver, and a hint of wood smoke:

I suggest Runestone by Solstice Scents, which, according to the fragrance creator, contains aged patchouli, dirt, oakmoss, cedar, muhuhu, violet leaf absolute, leaves, vetiver, sandalwood, cypress, spruce, pine and very faint hints of lavender absolute, rosewood, rosemary, hinoki, spikenard and more. It has that “potting soil” feel that comes with patchouli, but is nicely tempered by greenery and stone, and when I smelled it, I thought, “This is what the forest in the fae realm smells like.”

Another good one worth trying is Fille en Aiguilles by Serge Lutens, as a tribute to the pines that delineate Arlanuk’s territory. Its notes are pine needles, vetiver, sugary sap, laurel, fir balsam, frankincense, candied fruit, and spice.

Vowri’s realm: for Melancholia, notes of cold flowers in rain, iris, lilac, and the sadness of vintage perfume on old clothes:

Clearly the ideal choice here is a vintage perfume, especially the mega-classic L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain. Guerlain describes it as containing aniseed, bergamot, carnation, neroli, iris, violet, vanilla, benzoin, and tonka beans, but to the perfumistas of the world it is famous for its melancholy feel. Its name, after all, means “the blue hour.”

See also Après l'Ondée from the same house, which has similar notes to L’Heure Bleue but with more of a feel of rain on a garden—again, as its name suggests.

Another lovely vintage-based scent, which in my opinion would fit the bill for this section, is Pourpre d’Automne by Maison Violet. It has cool violet and iris at center stage, supported by rose, plum, peach, musk, benzoin, and oakmoss, all with an early-1900s powdery cosmetic atmosphere.

For the quest in general:

I’d feel remiss if I didn’t include Enchanted Forest by The Vagabond Prince. I mean, could its name get any more fitting? But its actual scent is ideal too, a chilly forest smell, mysterious and lovely and fairy-tale-ready, featuring blackcurrant, fir, red wine, wet green branches, pine needles, woods, and mosses.

Dryad by Papillon is another beautiful take on an enchanted forest, perhaps one in late summer, full of warm golden sunlight between the trees. It has notes of galbanum, bergamot, narcissus, clary sage, orris root, oakmoss, fruits, herbs, and vetiver.

Larkin remembers walking through the lemon orchard at the palace with his lover, back in the late 1700s. And citrus blossom scents were indeed popular in that century, in the perfumes of that time. (Perfume options were more limited then in general, as chemistry practices weren’t nearly as advanced as they are now—but on Eidolonia, who knows?) Therefore I think for nostalgia reasons he might like Fleurs de Citronnier by Serge Lutens, a lovely, gentle lemon blossom scent that also includes neroli, tuberose, and musk.

Larkin notices Merrick (and his car) smelling of leather and sweet spice early in their acquaintance. We can assume this is a Mirage Isle Perfumes scent he and Cassidy created. I haven’t given it a name, but I had in mind something like Cuir Ottoman by Parfum d’Empire. It’s a deliciously smooth, sweet leather scent, which also includes incense, jasmine, iris, benzoin, balsams, and resin.

[nipplesnipplesnipples]

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[intricatedreamz]

Two of my favorite fragrances from the house of Parfums De Marly. Layton and Herod. One is great all year around (Layton) with a spiced apple aroma and one is a tobacco laced vanilla compliment monster which shines in the winter months.

[nostaligastore]

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[mynamesdrstuff]

I'm going to get a good grade in smelling, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve