#on perfume

[stargir1z]

how to make sense of scents by rachel syme

[mothprincess]

if you are looking for perfumes and don't know where to start, you can go to fragrantica, it classified a lot of perfumes based on their profiles (floral, fruity, aromatic, etc), their notes (rose, vanilla, etc), longevity, brand and so on. I used it to find a perfume to gift my mom, who loves patchouli but wanted something a bit more sophisticated and fitting for her age, but within my budget because I don't have the budget for something too fancy

as someone who loves screenshots of the (sometimes chaotic) comments from fragrantica but has never used it, thank you! 💓 that would help so much.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

never wanted something so badly

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique 1920's Rat Perfume Figural Bottle from Germany ebay Diane's Clearinghouse

[carouselfawn]

solid perfume necklace in the shape of a mussel from estée lauder, 1974

[honeyymoony]

🌬️ perfume pngs!!

[hyacinth7clover]

he is practicing self love, looking into a vintage avon perfume bottle…

[applebugg]

Vintage perfume bottles

[koenji]

victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

[vorpalfae]

༺𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠༻

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Scent Bottle.

Place of origin: Bohemia, Czech Republic

Date: ca. 1830-1850

Medium: Glass, Gilt metal

[dozydawn]

[zegalba]

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[monstrousproductions]

So, I responded to a post over on my personal blog about people behaving "weird" in public and mentioned that being a bit smelly is not, in fact, a moral failure. And I just looked at the comments and feel deeply moved to reiterate:

Smelling bad in public is not a moral failure.

In fact, I'll go one step further:

There is no moral dimension to cleanliness.

There are all sorts of reasons a person might be dirty in public. They might not have access to the facilities or products they need to stay clean, they might be coming home from a dirty activity, they might have mental or physical conditions that make it hard for them to maintain their personal hygiene, they might be dependent on other people for their hygiene needs and those needs aren't being met.

Also, with smells in particular, "bad" is subjective. I'm personally extremely sensitive to perfumes and aftershaves, and while I can sit quite peacefully in a crowded bus that smells of BO, I often have to leave shops or get off buses because someone's perfume, which they no doubt think makes them smell lovely, is actually making me gag.

You don't have to go and huff great, gusting lungfuls of air around the next smelly person you bump into in the corner shop. By all means, breathe through your mouth, change your seat, open the window, wish the situation were different.

But you do need to let go of this idea that a smelly or dirty person is also a bad person. They're literally just a person - just another human animal living in their animal body, trying to get from one day to the next. Sometimes, people are dirty. Sometimes, they smell bad. If that's not something you can encounter without taking personal offence, you need to seriously reassess your own expectations of being in public.