#perfume talks

[greeneyezblackheart]

Shells rambles 💬…

So one of the things I like to collect are expensive perfumes. One of my absolute favorites is Someday by Justin Bieber 🫣🤫 which is so fucking embarrassing, but I swear to all that is holy that it smells soooo good, y’all.

Anyway. It’s discontinued but I found a full size bottle and a purse spray on eBay and I’m SO FUCKING TICKLED and I wanted to share it with my tumblr fam. 🖤🥰

[openingadoor]

Berlin, City Smell Research. Sissel Tolaas (Norwegian, born 1962) 2004.

Glass and smell simulation

Each bottle: 5 7/8 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/8" (15 x 18 x 6 cm)

“Smell immediately locates you in a space,” says artist, designer, chemist, and odor theorist Sissel Tolaas. “It gives you new tools to perceive your surroundings.” Throughout her career Tolaas has worked provocatively with smell, applying headspace technology—used in the perfume industry to capture and synthesize natural scents—to render essences ranging from the objectionable (sweat, rotten fish, dog feces) to the everyday (fresh laundry, kebabs, shoe shop) and put them into an archive of more than seven thousand scents. From this archive she has created fragrances that do not adhere to the usual definitions of what smells good or desirable; instead, her aim is to stimulate emotional responses, evoke memories, and recreate places in all their chaos and specificity. While conducting her City Smell Research, which was presented at the Berlin Biennale in 2004, Tolaasworked in various Berlin districts to distill an essential scent for each one, creating an olfactory map of the city. The scents are contained in bottles that physically recall the city map and compass points. This work is not simply the charting of a landscape of smell; it also explores the potential of smell as information that enhances and subverts the physical and symbolic boundaries of the urban ecosystem.

found via Talk to Me curated by Paola Antonelli

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: Purse Essentials For Day & Night (or Any Activity In Between)

Daytime Handbag Essentials:

Keys

Wallet/cardholder (ID[s], credit/debit cards, spare cash – enough for an emergency cab/train ticket, a bottle of water, and a cheap snack plus a little extra is my formula)

Phone/phone charger

Airpods/headphones

Mini sunscreen

Hand lotion

Floss picks in a travel floss dispenser

Mini disposable toothbrushes

Breath mints

Portable stain remover wipes

Hand sanitizer

Lip balm/your everyday lip color

Eyeliner

Brow pencil

Power foundation

Contour/blush stick

Oil blotting sheets

Roll-on perfume

Hair ties

Foldable mini hair brush

Feminine hygiene wipes

Panty liners/pads/tampons

Travel case bandaids

Condoms (not in a wallet, please)

A pen or two

Portable sticky notes

Travel pack of tissues

Spare glasses/contacts & contact solution

Sunglasses

OTC pain relief medicine

Water bottle

Non-perishable snacks (I recommend Larabars, Lupini beans/roasted chickpeas/edamame, roasted nuts/trail mix snack packs, Lupii/Raw Rev vegan protein bars, and freeze-dried fruit)

Nighttime Handbag Essentials:

Keys

Wallet/cardholder (ID[s], credit/debit cards, spare cash – enough for an emergency cab/train ticket, a bottle of water, and a cheap snack plus a little extra is my formula)

Phone/portable phone charger

Mini sunscreen

Hand lotion

Floss picks in a travel floss dispenser

Mini disposable toothbrushes

Breath mints

Portable stain remover wipes

Hand sanitizer

Lip balm/your everyday lip color

Eyeliner

Brow pencil

Mini power foundation

Roll-on perfume

Hair ties

Foldable mini hair brush

Feminine hygiene wipes

Panty liner (and maybe a pad/tampon, depending on the time of the month)

Portable makeup remover wipe (or two)

Portable cleansing towelette (or two)

Travel case bandaids

Condoms (at least two – not in a wallet, please)

Disposable foot socks

OTC pain relief medicine

Vitamin B-complex, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D supplement (one of each – for after or the morning after drinking)

Necessary Edit: This list is meant to be a comprehensive guide, designed to be personalized. If you don't think you need some of these items, [pick and choose at your discretion].

[kc5rings]

We’ve got a new member of the aromatherapy squad

And we know who’s in charge of Landship cleaning duty!

[ink-the-artist]

“Social media has made this generation so narcissistic and self centered everyone’s always posting selfies and posting about everything they do during the day” shut up. The human desire to show you exist and you were here is innate and we’ve been doing it since the days we were leaving hand prints on cave walls

[stuckinapril]

By God I am never consuming any celebrity product ever in my life. Never

[cruell-summers]

if i had a nickel for every FUCKING TIME a guy had a banger song that meant so much to me and then he turned out to be a FUCKING ASSHOLE I'D HAVE TWO NICKELS WHICH IS MORE THAN FUCKING ENOUGH.

[breadandblankets]

duke, known perfume head, bringing bruce, chemistry nerd, along with him to check out this fancy rich person perfume boutique cause duke has bruce's credit card now and bruce is like yeah sure go ham

theyre like smelling things and rating them and bruce just turns like, you know this is all chemistry and we have a lab...

duke does the kombucha girl face journey and smash cut to them both bursting out of the batcave coughing and hacking, the oppressive smell of cherries following them

[bottomsonlybar]

randomly remembered this last night and i thought. here's an idea for phil's 40th birthday cake

Phil Lester twink de 40 anos

[121231212i]

THESE ARE SO CUTE

[greeneyezblackheart]

Hi, Shells! I was just wondering what your favorite perfumes are? I’ve been looking into buying one since my old one is out, and I know you like to collect them. Hope you’ve been doing well! ❤️

Hi!!! 🖤

Omg, I love this question. I can talk perfumes all day.

Ok, so these are my faves. From left to right: Narciso Rodriguez For Her, LaVanila Vanilla Lavender, Chloe L’Eau, Aerin Mediterranean Honeysuckle, and Sarah Jessica Parker Lovely. The one by itself in the second pic is Caudalie Thé des Vignes. I love all of these so much. If I had to choose just one, I’d pick the LaVanila Vanilla Lavender. Oh, and one more, not pictured bcs I’m currently out of it, is Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy. Actually that one is probably my SECOND favorite after the LaVanila.

What is/are your favorite perfume(s)?

Love youuuu. 🥰

[valyrfia]

https://x.com/leclercsletters/status/1797698519093895243?t=JTR2sH1DYMJ2_KpiX3R8lg&s=19

she's glowing, beautiful, the white stilleto and jeans combo eats

he's JUST got out of bed, he might not have taken a shower the night before by the fucking looks of it (...for legal reasons this is... a joke)

i need men to leave beautiful women alone

She’s effortlessly beautiful, the epitome of grace and class and style, a mother to a beautiful son. He’s there….I guess. Is he even house trained? Who knows.

“I need men to leave beautiful women alone” it truly is a plague.

[mysicklove]

i have worn the same perfume (for 3+ years?) to the point that i have had multiple ppl tell me that they could recognize me in a crowd based on scent alone LOL. anyways point is i basically have alpha pheromones 💅💅💅

[peachyiskeen]

Savouring the allure and elegance of golden and beige. ✨

[geniousbh]

o pipe todo de branco e o enzo parecendo um príncipe EU NAO AGUENTOOOOOOO

eu vou falar pra eles o que vai ficar arriba jaja...🫦🫦 e de verdade o felipe com esse combo de roupas brancas + correntinha (que ele nao tira por nada) ainda vai me dar sérios problemas mentais porque ele fica delicioso

[azotho]

This was one of my favorite scents and I got to love it more after Gale showed my Tav the beautiful aurora…🌌 Now the autumn is coming and finally I can wear it, yay!