#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

[hai7ani]

also applies to Chifuyu & Shinichiro.......i think

It's late but I can't seem to think about anything other than the boyfriends who smell a lot like you. I think this applies very well to Rindou like. You're just together so often. His friends have already registered the smell as his own, and even though he sprays on his cologne before he leaves he still manages to smell like you for the rest of the day somehow.

A few have asked what his cologne or perfume is and he says the brand and then they go and compare it in-store but it legit smells nothing like him at all. Around his circle of friends he is notoriously known as the perfume gatekeeper and he doesn't understand it at all 一 has no clue what the big deal is around his perfume, because that's literally the brand he uses, what the hell more do you want from him? Not his fault the in-store oxidised-or-whatever samples don't smell like him. (He literally doesn't smell you on him because he's so used to it already. Like cat owners not knowing how their home smells like to a stranger. Yeah. You're the cat and he's the owner in this case.)

His friends can't quite place and recognise what exactly the smell is 一 especially the people he just met, and it always surprises them a little somehow during first impressions. It's just not very........common for a guy to smell like this. Especially not for a guy who looks like him 一 tall, tatted up, and eyes so fierce it could possibly kill 一 to smell a lot like flowers and bedsheets. The kinda scent that makes you feel at ease and you just want to fall asleep. A comforting one.

And I think that kind of explains why the elderly love speaking to him. Young kids like going up to him for help. The ladies holding their babies likes asking him to help with their stroller. All of that happens regularly despite the tattoos and chunky rings and dyed hair. He often wonders what the hell's so alluring about him that always attracts all these people in public especially when he's alone, but he does find himself doing kind, mundane things for them way too frequently. Not a single complaint on his mind, but just a thought. His girlfriend is usually the magnet attracting people all the time 一 he's more of the dog you'd walk when alone at night. But honestly it's just really his distinct smell from the rest that immediately makes him a safe zone to approach, but he doesn't know that of course.

Shion was over at his place one time to hide from the rain after dinner and he wasn't aware that anyone was home other than him and Rindou alone. The familiar scent of his friend suddenly lingers around in the air and he's quick to ask. "Yo, you got any beer in your fridge? I'm kinda thirsty." He doesn't look up from his phone the entire time 一 they're best buddies, he's been over a few times, and he just really wants something to drink.

A while later, a can of ice cold beer appears in his view next to his device and he grabs it swiftly. "Thanks."

And then he sees long nails and bracelets and fingers a lot more nimbler than his friend's一

Suddenly the smell of fresh flowers 一 something pretty famous from Armani, he recalls 一 floods his nostrils all at once and his brain short circuits. His friend fucking smells like you 一 your scent is just a lot more stronger and distinguishable.

"You're welcome." You have a nice smile on your face while he looks up in horror. "He's in the toilet by the way." You point to the door behind you.

"Oh. My bad."

[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].

[brutally-loving]

'Nother selfship reblog game just dropped

Uhh hear me out: I make your f/o a custom cologne or perfume smell headcanon because I'm a fucking freak and I think you should let me

PRIORITY for my mutuals OR people who share fandoms with me (One Piece, JJBA, Borderlands, DB) because I don't want to overwhelm myself 🙏 BUT REBLOG OR COMMENT IF YOU WANT ME TO MAKE YOU AN IDEA FOR A FRAGRANCE FOR YOUR F/O!!! Up to 2 characters. You may give me an input as to what you think they smell like if you'd like, to sway how I craft the smell... 💪🔥

Anyone who isn't in my DNI is welcome 💞 GIVE ME SOME STUFF TO DO GUYS!

[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

[idontmindifuforgetme]

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

[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. 🥰

[121231212i]

THESE ARE SO CUTE

[bunnys-lil-hideout]

does anyone else have an f/o that they're so in love with that they shamefully make you wanna have a white girls pinterest romance novel type of relationship with them. 2014 lana del rey style. booktok freak kind of way.

even though you're likely one of those people that usually the most romantic thing to you is getting to sit down with them and watch old youtube videos or to go outside and throw rocks at each other.

[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 💅💅💅