My #sotd yesterday was Cutting Rain. It’s beautiful and one of the most difficult to define in my collection. It has a beautiful lightness and freshness that isn’t obvious from the notes. I love it.

Reading Bluesky live feeds instead of watching scotus hearing because my head would explode and I have to do work but my god I have a smidge of hope.

The fact that the court is even hearing this ridiculous, racist case is a disgrace. Every new breach defies credulity and yet.

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

Sometimes I just need to write something and save it in my drafts and that alone lifts a little weight. I need to journal more.

I refuse to let one stressful call throw off my whole day

Someone blocked me on Mercari. I know because I went to like one of their items and I was told transactions with me are restricted. I’m offended? My money isn’t good enough for you? I’m having an insane reaction and need to go to bed.

When this is all over and we’ve had the trials and the sentencing this sacred bit of cardboard should be framed and mounted in the National Gallery of Art

In remembrance of the 165 murdered school girls, of our soldiers, our fallen citizens, our missing citizens and missing immigrants. I march for the silenced, the hidden, the tortured, the murdered. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. #NOKINGS

How You Love by Jazmin Sarai is my latest acquisition and the most gorgeous scent. It’s the fresher side of cardamom and still the most comforting, soul enriching hug of a scent. It gives me the warm fuzzies. I hope you get to try it if you haven’t.

Sometimes on Mercari I see something I like but maybe am not obsessed with and I feel the urge but then I severely under bid. If it’s successful then it was meant to be and if not it was not. I under bid today on Chai Fleur by Belnu. Didn’t get it and I’m very ok with that.

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

I had high hopes for Fumed, and it’s absolutely delivering! So many gorgeous smells, so many big hugs, a couple of happy tears, and even some new connections. The event is full of generosity and excitement, exactly what the indie perfume community needed in this moment 💜 fumedexpo.com

WHO says attacks in southern Lebanon kill nine paramedics reut.rs/4bFHYyk

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed two prominent Lebanese television journalists and a cameraman, according to their news organizations and Lebanese officials. The attack was condemned by the country’s president and rights groups.

Tried Power of You EDP by Armani b/c I’m a sucker for passionfruit and it smells great. Dries down to a pretty vanilla. But it reminded me of something and I figured it out: In Dreams and Fairy Tales: Passionfruit by Sorce! The Sorce is more punchy and pungent and I like that. Fully recommend.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

You never really hear panicked stories about cops being exposed to fentanyl anymore. Almost like it was a completely fake crisis invented by law enforcement and perpetuated by the media while Biden was in office.

Was it a giant horse made of wood? Because if it was a giant horse made of wood, I have some news for you.

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m so happily exhausted. We pulled off a really fun & memorable party for my 7 year old that included a bounce house, a reptile show & tell & pet, rainbow cake, a snake piñata, and the exact right number of gift bags (just barely). I have a very exhausted & happy kiddo

I notice that ‘straight’ news reporters and White House correspondents are all posting Trump’s ‘I’m glad he’s dead’ reaction to Mueller’s death with just a ‘here is the president’s response’. Very few acknowledgements of how insane and inappropriate it is for the president to respond like this.

On our way to do a family photo shoot with my husband, girls, mom, brother and best friend. Wearing Quelque Part by Racyne for a sense of calm.

And if something Claude generates includes a mistake that ruins you, you can just type in “What recourse do I have?” and you will get the helpful and factually correct response “lololololol”

Just did my first Botox treatment. I’m excited about this and the possibilities

my kid came home from kindergarten today and announced she was setting a trap to catch a leprechaun. apparently other kids at school always end up with candy and treats in their annual leprechaun traps, so she’s pretty stoked to see what she gets. I am begging other parents to fucking cool it

Just went through most of my perfume bottles with my brother and he and I have very different taste. Ha. But he found several he interested in trying: Soft Focus by Andrea Maack, Orris Tattoo by Parle Moi, Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona, L’Affaire by Octavia Morgan, Galone by Gabar, Rebel by Leier 1/2

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

#Oscars Red Carpet: We noted last year that Timothee Chalamet took his promotional cues from rock stars and sports stars rather than actors and it turns out the Academy doesn't go for that shit tomandlorenzo.com/2026/03/osca...

I know I’m not saying anything new but more and more it’s so evident how climate change is going to fully disrupt how we live. Crazier weather is already making flying anywhere so much more unpredictable and dangerous. It’s also going to impact kids’ schooling and our daily lives.

I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago

With the removal of FDA warning labels, hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause has grown in popularity. Now some patients are reporting delays in filling prescriptions for estrogen patches.

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

On an emotional level, I can’t get past that billionaires exist and they don’t immediately think of COOL STUFF to do with effectively unlimited resources (like funding art projects, building free theme parks, libraries, indie TV shows, ending world hunger, ending our reliance on oil so…)

There was some talk of a giveaway but I think I need at least 100 followers on here before I even consider doing that. Bluesky needs to be a sky full of people praising Arshan Persia

I am generally a (very) critical person when it comes to legacy news media. Having said that, what is otherwise one of their worst qualities—their oppositional defiance disorder in the face of criticism—is likely gonna kick in hard in response to this threat & make them push Iran coverage even more

I’m having a very good perfume day. First, a blind buy that I thought was a fail is actually absolutely stunning on skin and I’m so happy I’ve given it another try (Dialma By Corel). Second, I found one of the scents I’d been searching for on Mercari (Mellow Musks by Mith).

Wearing this again. Still in love. Feeling very enriched by this scent.

Nobody has ever needed to pay for a lot of what this guy wants people to pay for, because they can do it themselves. So these people have to decay that functioning by force, and then they can sell people a sorry substitute for it.

Do you ever do some late night making of offers on Mercari and then wake up the next morning hoping they’ve all been declined because they’d all be blind buys of expensive niche perfumes? Yeah, me too and this morning everyone declined! Best outcome: I pretended to spend money and then I didn’t!

I bought a perfume I’d only really smelled on someone else and sprayed it on. It was sort of sour in the opening and I thought it was a fail but my kiddo was on my lap so I didn’t run to wash it off and it gets really gorgeous in the dry down. I need to do a full wear but would you keep it?

SOTD: Oud Mangifera by Rahasya. I smell so damn good today. I’m definitely in my oud era right now because this and Notte d’Oro make me so damn happy right now.

Arsenic Osman by LM is a close sister to Bibliotheque by Byredo. Therefore, I like it very much.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Wearing teapot Sonder by ode Ona and burning the Circe candle by Lemuria after doing some journaling this morning has me really feeling a sense of calm (is it calm or am I just overwhelmed?)

I love my kids. But the insistence on waking me up at ungodly hours after I’ve had a hard time sleeping is killing me.

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

It looks like the generational divide is moreso younger people not remembering customer service before the great data reckoning and attaching morality to the surveys. If you accept these fundamentally anti-worker surveys/reviews as morally good then the system has won, my friend.