it’s been a minute since a fragrance i’ve tried had me emotional, excited, and in dire need for it, but Protean Desire by Syd is just that. #perfumesky

i’m so glad that The Maker released Alias II because i saw it on someone’s story the other day from an event but then couldn’t find anything about it and was convinced i fucking lucid dreamed it🫠

been in this airport long enough now to hear the corporate holiday playlist repeat itself

wearing Virginal by Amphora today and mannnn i love this one so much and i’m so excited to smell the reformulation in the spring! #perfumesky

eternally grateful for this community, especially here on bluesky, where i first felt comfortable finding other perfume folks🖤 #perfumesky

SOTD: Bloody Wood - Liquides Imaginaires; a ride or die red wine aged in a wooden cask for years scent. #perfumesky

SOTD: Amber Kiso - D.S. & Durga; a veryyyy slightly animalic ambery leather that i can’t believe i’ve overlooked for so long and am quite smitten with currently. a perfect example of why you can’t always judge a scent by notes alone🙂‍↔️ #perfumesky

i haven’t really been present online the last few weeks (oops?) but i promise the scented nonsense is very much alive #perfumesky

SOTD: Blood Spider Orchids - RDF; starts off like mulled wine and dries down to a sultry, spicy floral. i fear i am incredibly into this one. #perfumesky

SOTD: Girl of the Year - Thin Wild Mercury; the dent i’ve put in the bottle already is WILDDDD. musky fur coat thrifted from the estate of a glamorous chain smoker, worn out to an underground cocktail bar with red leather seating. #perfumesky

SOTD: Moth - Zoologist; dusty, dying florals and old antique furniture. if you were lurking around an old house that was abandoned in the 1930s and came upon a dusty vanity table with an ornate bottle of perfume that was left open, this is what i imagine it would smell like (i love it✨🕸️) #perfumesky

SOTD: Vampire Husband - Sorce; impressed af with this one as i tend to find Sorce’s offerings too sweet for my taste, but this is smoking a clove cigarette in a foggy, mossy cemetery at night #perfumesky

the folks with me on a party bus with an entire wedding party: who has any song requests? me, reading the room (for once): hm probs not the best time for A Letter to Elise

SOTD: Bloody Wood - Liquides Imaginaires; one of the first niche fragrances that made me reframe how i looked at scent as a personal extension of myself #perfumesky

SOTD: Ching Shih - Marissa Zappas; a light, almost aquatic incense. i used up my sample of this today, but someone remind me in 10 months that this will be a lovely late summer incense scent #perfumesky

SOTD: Girl of the Year - Thin Wild Mercury; a cool girl scent to mingle with other cool folks at Stéle later today! #perfumesky

finallyyyy feeling like myself again today; anyway SOTD is Byronic Hero - Serviette and i just love this industrial dark rose so much🙂‍↔️ #perfumesky

my sense of smell is still kinda shit but i think Duomo from @cirrusparfum.bsky.social might be my new favorite incense fragrance?? #perfumesky

as a Sinus Problem Girlie™️, today is the first day where i don’t feel sick, but it also means that i knew this cold was coming on a week ago when my nasal passages were irritated and now i’ll likely be congested for another week🙃

SOTD: Purple Afternoon - Universal Flowering; soft, powdery, woody, and oddly comforting. much needed after going extremely hard in the pit at a show last night at my big age. #perfumesky

went to stéle, walked out with a bottle of byronic hero and a longer wish list 🙃

SOTD: Shalimar L’Essence - Guerlain; a vintage vanilla that makes me feel like a bad bitch tbh. like someone who is organized and precise and professional and basically the exact opposite of me. #perfumesky

SOTD: Wednesday’s Nevermore - d.grayi; just a lovely, light, golden incense. smells like fall dusk right after golden hour ends. #perfumesky

SOTM(?): 34 Bohemian Cafes - Thin Wild Mercury; dank, sticky, old wood in a basement dive bar. i unironically love this tbh #perfumesky

fuckkkk, a new cherry has possibly taken the top spot for me: Old Fashioned - Parfums Obim; syrupy luxardo cherries, an aged wooden bar, and someone whose hair smells really good #perfumesky

me: i don’t have a perfume problem also me: finds a random sample on my work desk

SOTD: Cherry Leather - Bianco Profumo; despite cherry in the name, this is a brown leather jacket worn by someone wearing a spicy cologne. the cherry adds a slight fruity touch, but in a deep stone fruit way and less cough syrup. on the fence about upgrading this in the future. #perfumesky

got to smell Cognac Reign from D.S. & Durga and it’s sweet, woody, and spicy. to me, it’s extremely reminiscent of Milk+ from Commodity, but replace the lactonic notes with more wood. overall, it’s a really nice scent going into fall/winter! #perfumesky

SOTD: Tome - Pineward; leather, paper, and the smell of all things aged. addictive and lovely and will absolutely be upgrading in a few days! #perfumesky

lmao we have walkie-talkies for the property and my friends gave me the codename “Warm Bulb” 😭

yesterday i was reminded of the importance of skin testing fragrance because i tried a wishlist scent and ended up really disliking the drydown and saved myself like $300 down the road lmao

morning views from the cabin✨

SOTD: Delhi - Astier de Villatte; spicy, warm but not sweet, perfect for transitional weather, and has inadvertently become my road trip scent? #perfumesky

i’m going upstate this weekend with some friends and i’m already stressing about what scents to pack 🙃

SOTD: Copal de Terre - Le Monde Gourmand; a brand i don’t usually care about as someone who don’t like sweet gourmands, but this earthy, coniferous, incense fragrance by Rodrigo Flores-Roux is an unexpected stunner from this house! #perfumesky

SOTD: Voyeur Verde - Maya Njie; to anyone who recommended this to me in my search for leathers, i love you and owe you my lifeeeee; this is so gooddddd #perfumesky

SOTD: Rhapsody in Mauve - Universal Flowering; another ambery, resinous, spicy rose, which is how i find myself really loving rose in fragrance and this mightttt be my favorite iteration of this profile #perfumesky

i’m so excited that i got the remaining Pearfat samples i needed to try so that i can FINALLY pick my 3 baby pears 😈 #perfumesky

SOTD: Kissa Kitty - KST Scent; a slightly unsettling but undeniably cool leather and lipstick fragrance that i’m already so in love with✨ #perfumesky

SOTD: Hera - OSM; a chewed up piece of strawberry bubblegum wearing a feather boa and velvet robe and she’s sloshing her champagne everywhere and knows that she’s the life of the party #perfumesky

the thrift gods have been so good to me this week omfg

SOTD: Oh L’Amour - OSM; finally digging into my disco set from them (a crazy good perfume swap score!) and if this is what i’m to expect from this house, i’m in troubleeeeee💸💸💸 #perfumesky

i’m trying not to get excited about the weather right now because i sure as shit know better as a lifelong new yorker, but it being 66° right now has my serotonin spikingggg

that new Shalimar dropped and i fear i will have to make another uptown pilgrimage again to smell it🥲 #perfumesky

am i…a bit chilly this morning???🤩

went to Saks on my lunch and went a little crazy skin testing things so i guess my SOTD is Molecule 01+Iris (Escentric Molecules), The Voice of the Snake (Gucci), and Mitsouko (Guerlain)🙂‍↔️ #perfumesky

SOTD: Enforced Modesty - @cirrusparfum.bsky.social; something about this grey, post-storm, humid weather had me reaching for this cool, spicy fig without a second thought this morning. #perfumesky

SOTD: Hypnotic Nectar - Alloy Studio; another magical banger from them and i’m obsessed with how this starts off almost too fresh and herbaceous, then goes a bit vegetal for a sec before settling into the most addictive anise on me. #perfumesky

jumpscaring my friends by inviting them over in mid-august when my apartment currently looks like this

tried another scent on my skin on a whim because it was fine enough in paper but on my skin it went burnt popcorn?? now i smell like kettle corn and pine aftershave and i wanna end my shit lmao