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* Coty Dark Vanilla—so simple but so good. The heady floral and musky notes keep it from being a cheap saccharine desserty gourmand vanilla it’s just really sexy and mature. It’s discontinued so it’s pretty pricy at about $50 for a 1.7 oz bottle considering that you used to be able to buy it at the drugstore for like 20 bucks
* Fracas by Robert Piguet—classic fragrance for divas only, like Madonna, Courtney Love, and Marlene Dietrich. I still have the same bottle I got in high school after buying a perfume book and painstakingly researching to decide what I really wanted in my perfect perfume and saving money and birthday money for a whole school year. I wear it on happy days I want to remember forever so the association I have with it of pure joy becomes stronger every time. It smells like carefree summer to me!
* I actually love tuberose so much that I’ve been using Alba Botanica’s tuberose body wash it’s soooo good
* I’ve also recently been wearing the bottle of Juicy Couture my grandmother gave me forever ago when she was still alive which was her signature scent simply because it had a schnauzer on the bottle—her favorite dog. It’s also extremely tuberose heavy and that may be why I fell in love with it in the first place. It’s grown on me i weirdly like it a lot
* I wear kuumba made amber and sandalwood perfume oil as a daily scent which matches my sandalwood sandal deodorant (rec coming about this soon…) for a nice crunchy hippie vibe
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May 23, 2025
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@DEARDOVESWINGS you get it!!!!!! Someone asked me my favorite flower recently and first I said Mexican bird of paradise and it took me such a long time to realize I had disrespected Ms. Tuberose and Ms. jasmine
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Yesterday at the farmer‘s market I smelled a butterfly bush plant for sale and childhood memories came flooding back. Juicy Couture by Juicy Couture was my grandmother's signature scent because she liked the Schnauzers on the bottle so Tuberose always reminds me of her + the smell of face powder. I could go on forever…
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it’s my bad bitch fragrance. i feel like my best self when i wear it.
sometimes i’ll apply it on top of the Salt & Stone hand cream in black rose & oud for a richer profile — literally had an uber driver full body inhale and say it was the best thing he’s ever smelled. 10/10 creepy but you get the point!
to ur recs: light blue was once my daily scent!
it’s my bad bitch fragrance. i feel like my best self when i wear it.
sometimes i’ll apply it on top of the Salt & Stone hand cream in black rose & oud for a richer profile — literally had an uber driver full body inhale and say it was the best thing he’s ever smelled. 10/10 creepy but you get the point!
to ur recs: light blue was once my daily scent!
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