Perfume / Cologne

Suitable replacements for the Chaos are either the Comme des Garcons red or Corso Como 1010 and I will get one of these on my next trip to Liberty, or when a fashion friend goes through Milanese duty free. Whichever comes first.

Ramon wears Pi, that smells pretty good. Nicole, what does the new Mugler one smell like? Is it that Angel Men one?

It is nice though, very fresh

For guys, I like Christian Dior Higher (airy, floral) or Farenheit (to me, it smells like SEX!, it's just raw appeal), or Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio (light, transparent, oceanic). I don't like old-man- smelling stuff, and I don't want my guy to smell like a girl, either.

Someone I knew wore vanilla essence, but stopped after a strange man approached her and said that she smelt good enough to eat.

Just plain soap and water works fine for some people, but I have noticed that there are some people who just smell off like sour dough even if they bathe and/or shower regularly. Which is why the "no scent" option is sometimes dud.

I like Marc Jacob's new cologne. Except I don't like that it's advertised by pictures of Sofia Coppola.

People do have very distintive smells, whether they clean themselves a lot or not. I do remember another girl I knew who just smelled like a goat. It's not like she was dirty, it was her body chemistry.

Sofia Coppola is a complete dud, and it pains me to want to buy Marc Jacobs when I feel I am supporting Sofia Coppola by doing it.

Just kidding. I've never said "just kidding" in a post before, ever.

I'm wearing something called Croquembouche by Demeter. I don't know what a Croquembouche is, but it smells like caramel, which is a bit odd. WHy do I want to smell like food?

Otherwise, I prefer shampoo/soap/fabric softener/candle odors than perfume/cologne... I'd rather take a dip in baby powder than spend large dollars on little bottles of excess.

For men, I liked Vetiver by Guerlain (vetiver, tobacco, line), which I bought once on the recommendation of the nice man with a waxed moustache at Colonial Drug for an ex-boyfriend who smoked. I doubt I'd like Vetiver any more now than I like Chanel's Coco which I wore when I was 16 and thought I was chic. Now I think it smells like whore.

Has anybody else read the very gothy Perfume by Patrick Suskind? THE UNDETECTABLE YET ALL- POWERFUL SCENT OF YOUNG FRENCH VIRGINS hehehe

I hate when people wear so much cologne that it's almost visible (especially because then I sometimes have slight allergic reactions), but I hate even more when people smell as if they haven't had a shower in the last decade (one of the many reasons I hate DC public transportation).

I'm bored with the fashion for fruit (especially citrus) scents, and thankful that the vanilla fad seems to have peaked.

what’s the consensus on DS & durga’s new “debaser in bloom”? smelled v petrol-y on me initially then dries down to iris or lilies. can def still smell the debaser green fig

idk— I’m not a huge fan of Debaser but I’ll check it out. I adore DS Durga’s Eucalyptus, a favourite around here

for some reason gen z youtube has determined that fahrenheit is a horrible fragrance, and i wholeheartedly agree. it's a lot. also, the adventures of baron munchausen is a terrible film, what is that even about? buffalo stance? who likes that? fuck 1988.

you have no context for any of this, is my opinion. it's not for you, apparently. no style rookie, better watch, don't mess with me. you go over there and i'll stay over here.

i also got the dua fragrances clones of vc & a tsar and muugler pure havane, so 1989 and 2011 are crossed off on my list. tsar always gets me sneakily: it starts so shiny and generic like a drugstore scent but once the dihydo oiliness fades there's a bitter green that i assume is artemesia and i'm lovin' every minute of ot (loverboy reference). bitter greens is my whatever the invese of bete noire is; recommend me some atremesia frags pleeze. mugler seems to have disappeared from the retail environment: i used to be able to go to macu's and all the muglers would be there and i'd say so what. now they're not there anymore and alla sudden nostalgic for the disappeared recent past. not really fond of all the fucking gourmands out the but this one seems old-school by comparison. not my go-to but in the pocket. i am old and have old opinions, if 15 years old is old, which seems to be nowadays.

i also got an old bottle of dior dune pour homme. a perfectly ordinary 1997 scent that doesn't really translate into modern times, so i really dig it. sunny came home, indeed. not as fig-leaf-forward as i hoped, but so low-grade sandalwood in the late 90's way it's so then. cassia, yes. malls still had the warner bros store and the museum store and the nature company and everything was so MMMbop. plant a seed and see what grows. no one knows, but it's dior dune. it's so ordinary; it's exquisite. plain but pretty; the perfect girlfriend. one of everything but yours alone.

then i went back to the mall kiosk and got another 1.7 oz. of the paco rabanne xs french formula xs and a 3.4 oz. of the spanish formulation. i think i'm al set. the spanish reformulation is supposed to be lesser bobka to the og and the latest reformulation even lesser but i dunno/ i'm in normie heaven. this couldn't be more ordinary, and i've been using that word a lot. so beautifully ordinary.