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Especially Elegantly Tokyo. One girl in the friendship group started wearing it and then we all started wearing it. Now we move around as an obnoxious scent bubble.
I’ve never had as many compliments on literally anything as I have with this perfume. And so cheap.
They discontinued it for 6 months and I went to a perfumery to get them to create an exact match (at vast expense).
Sep 6, 2024
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i love zara perfume so much. their scents are not too much and too artificial, and it’s very much affordable. i used to obsess over their signature gardenia scent, but recently just switched to golden decade. it has a subtle scent with notes of white florals and vanilla. i also love my dad’s perfume! it got a hint of tobacco in it, and it’s so subtle and not as strong, but also lasted for a long time with only a few sprays. you could also try l’eau d’issey by issey miyake if you like a more subtle and natural fragrance. though i gotta say, it’s pretty pricey, and doesn’t last as long.
Jan 1, 2025
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Obsessed with perfume. For a while I was searching for a signature scent, but then the hunt just became too much fun, and now I’ve ended up with a full on vanity tray in my bathroom piled with a different smell for every mood. I used to wear only China Rain, a rollerball scent my mom got me in high school from a perfumery in LA called Spiritbody. I still have a bottle of that, but when I wear it I’m transported to a more insecure time lol. Right now I love Shadow in the Water from Diptyque for when I want to smell clean and romantic. I wear Smudge by Heretic almost every day because it’s colder out and it makes me feel so warm and cozy, like i’ve been sitting by a fire all day, and like I give good advice and paint landscapes. Perfume is definitely a splurge, but it lasts for so long, and I think it’s really special to have a beautiful scent that people can recognize you by. I am going to gatekeep my secret combination of Byredo perfumes that I wear constantly, and I’m sorry about that. It’s just too good and too me.
Dec 20, 2022
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When I finally got on antidepressants and stopped self-medicating my depression with an life-consuming addiction to amphetamines, I bought, like, 200 bottles of perfume. It wasn’t that before I got on proper medication, I couldn’t smell. It was just that when I was in the thick my depression, smelling something lovely just didn’t bring me any joy. It was too slight a pleasure—like listening to rain or baking cakes—to affect me. The only way I was able to afford 200 bottles of perfume was Dossier. They make dupes of iconic scents at price points of $29, $39 and $49. Their candles are great, too! My favorites are the Diptyque Do Son dupe, the Baccarat Rouge 540 dupe, the Love, Don’t Be Shy dupe (it’s Rihanna’s signature scent!) and, since I live in Florida now, I also love the Le Labo Santal 33 dupe because people chase me down the street to ask me what it is. It’s so sweet and heartwarming watching Floridians smell Santal 33 for the first time. But obviously I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that perfume back in New York. Being seen as an offbeat and eccentric weird is too essential my fragile sense of self.
Jun 22, 2023
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put a hell of a lot of pressure on your siblings having kids. All the fun none of the pressure. Lotta love.
Dec 10, 2024
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Watched with two of my best girls in the IMAX in the Science Museum in South Kensington.
Literally levitated out of my seat. Especially in the black and white BDSM planet.
Dec 10, 2024
I loved gymnastics and horse riding. I should’ve stayed the course. Would’ve been sick.
Feb 7, 2025