Mar 30, 2025
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You can’t all be writers. Some of you must become blue collar workers. My blue collar bf made me a coffee table and now I get to think fondly of him when I look at it in my living room (I was likely thinking fondly of him before that anyways).
He has no idea I brag about him and that table at least 3 times a week.
Sep 18, 2024
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What’s That? Oh, we both love steely dan and hate cyclists that wear the little outfits ? (Not bc we hate the fit- we do, we just hate that they give you a dirty look when they roll through a stop sign and it‘s your turn to drive more)
it starts with you liking one of my recs (obviously), then, feeling generous, I like one of yours that’s either a micro-complaint or link to a specific, hard-to-find performance of an ethereal 70s jazz singer.
We follow each other back and… the rest is history as they say…
And by history I mean we dm on Instagram nightly until eventually we meet people that live on our own coasts and our flirtation becomes merely a memory
But a beautiful one at that
Jan 26, 2024
One of the first things my current boyfriend and I (we met on Hinge), talked about is how much we love Aphex Twin. We talked for hours after that, best first date of my life.
May 15, 2025
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Mar 23, 2025
First one is Chloé eau de parfum: This is how I wish my girlhood smelled like: innocent and naive and angelic and knows no malice. a world before being interested in being perceived by men, just carefree and sweet and soft. a young rose, gentle, powdery and almost rose-watery. dries down with a bit of honey suckle.
This scent brings me back to my frequent trips to a gift store near my house when i was 13, which had spools over spools of gift ribbons. I’d rotate the carousel rack with scientific precision, hypnotised by the shades of pastel pinks. I didn’t grow up going to museums, but what those pastel pinks did to me is probably why people go to museums for an emotional experience. i grew my ribbon collection and life was softer around the edges.
Second layer is L’Occitane Neroli and Orchidée: There’s something about neroli that smells like a WOMAN. This is a classic white flower scent, with a whiff of nectar that feels like a cinematic cut of being on the backseat of a Vespa, with your dress being caught by the sticky summer wind. It dries down like brown sugar on my skin. A restrained sweetness, not saccharine. It’s elegant, romantic, self-assured. If this scent was a movie character, she would be Madame Gina from Porco Rosso.
I imagine our little Chloe girl has grown up and finished her master’s degree and is earning her own money. She’s got her life together. She buys herself a bouquet of tulips and sets it at the sunniest part of her living room. She’s intelligent, but never let go of her lightheartedness. She listens to Chet Baker and dreams of summering in Ischia or somewhere in the Peloponnese.
When layered together, we have the sweet innocence of girlhood to the refinement of self-assured adulthood. They’re an olfactory journey from the naivety I wish I had, to the quiet sophistication I wish to embody. And I’m just a girl with an office job.
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