The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Grabbed my box of Meo Fusciuni perfume samples/decants courtesy of Runa @stinkdaemon.bsky.social after a break. Last Season: Gently leathery, woody, and smoky, a touch of green, a touch of spice. Almost tar, almost peat, without stretching too far conceptually to render it tricky to wear. A love 🖤

Aaaaaand it’s here! Need a Discovery Set? I gotchoo! #clstperfumes #perfumesky #indieperfumes #discoveryset

In the office first thing on a Monday made brighter with a gift of flowers from a kind coworker.

SOTD: Cap Néroli by Nicolaï. This gorgeous fragrance has a permanent spot in my collection.

Been on a fragrance no-buy while I turn my attention to building a new wardrobe. I’ve had a significant and intentional change in body composition and it was time. Decided to buy a style guide from Fashivly @fashivly.bsky.social and had a great experience. Here are my favorite looks from the guide!

The Discovery Set drops Monday, Sept 22nd. #clstperfumes #perfumesky #discoveryset #indieperfume #newrelease

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Coffee shop kind of Sunday morning. Reading anything fun lately?

Wondering if #FragranceSky could help me out with recommendations for patchouli-forward perfumes from North American indie/artisan perfumers. I’ve been having an odd patchouli moment for a couple of months now, and it’s a huge gap in my collection.

It’s my birthday, and I treated myself to a delivery of pastries this morning. I would have shared a photo of how beautiful they were, but I inhaled them too fast. It’s hot as Hades outside as per usual, so I’m staying holed up in my air conditioned house playing with perfume. Could be worse :)

When my late Buzz needed surgery a few years ago, after putting myself through 6 months of chemo and after spending $10K already toward his healthcare, I had to cave and ask people to help. Returning the favor and wondering if someone out there could do the same, or perhaps pay it forward.

Spent the weekend in Nashville to smell perfumes with Runa @stinkdaemon.bsky.social. We visited La Jetée, Diptyque, and Refinery Fragrances. The pinnacle experience though was JK Robbins’s home studio for @clstprfms.bsky.social. I came home with a bottle of Marginalia! #perfume #fragrance

Celebrating a few notable things over here: • It’s Friday • Dew point is below 70 (finally) • August Leo season has arrived Few fragrances are more Leo coded than a big solar floral. Wearing Baliflora by Laboratorio Olfattivo today, beautiful white floral musk. #perfume #fragrance #sotd

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you attempt to get a COVID vaccine this fall and are denied, ask your doctor to write you a script so that the pharmacy has to give you one.

Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A heart-filled recounting of this year’s Golden Pineapple Fragrance Awards penned by @alexpearl.bsky.social #perfume #fragrance

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...

There’s nothing notable or exceptional about today, or July, or this time of year. In fact, across the history of my life, summer is more or less neutral as far as big events go. However, I started sinking into grief over the weekend, and it’s on the surface today. 1/2 🧵

Why sharing casual moments from our lives on social media doesn’t seem to make sense the way it used to.

Setting up to record little reviews of my current @filigreeandshadow.co stash. Three pieces of news: 1) These are beautiful, but that’s not really news, 2) Filigree & Shadow will close soon and reopen in 2026 in Belgium, and 3) I rejoined TikTok and will dust off my YouTube channel soon! More… 🧵

Wearing Pho-gere by d.grayi, a gorgeous salty-spicy and aromatic concoction with animalic and woody touches. The perfumer, James Nguyen, often draws inspiration from his Viet-American experience for his perfumes, and this is a gorgeous example. #SOTD #perfume #fragrance

William and May Morris, a father-daughter pair of textile artists, were constantly engaged in lively discussions of politics, design, and often, a combination of the two, as Morris Sr. viewed an increase of respect for artisanal craft workers as a key part of his socialism.

Wednesday morning mood: I can’t personally “support” everyone and everything I care about by paying a monthly subscription to all of them. It’s not sustainable to expect working people to do this. How might we build collectives to attract supporters where advertising dollars aren’t working?

It’s not too frequently I lament opting for a travel bottle of #perfume before going for the full size. I am, however, in this specific mood over my little bottle of Suspended Water Lily by SYD @sydbotanica.bsky.social this morning. #SOTD #fragrance #pondfairyvibes

My #fragrance acquisitions for June 2025. Perfume houses that found their way into my house: - d.grayi - Zernell Gillie - Chris Collins - Filigree & Shadow - Brown Girl Jane - Ourside - SYD Botanica - Hoshi Gato - KST Scent - Treading Water

The final Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week is Pink: Porter Sa Peau by Rodrigo Flores-Roux for Roberto Greco. This is best appreciated in liminal mental-emotional spaces like with a morning coffee or before bed. Narcissus, aldehydes, an intimate salty skin impression. #pride #perfume

Continuing the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Purple: Euphoria by Calvin Klein, my signature scent of the aughts. I wear this maybe 2, 3 times a year anymore, and every time I’m guaranteed a compliment in the wild 💜 #pride #perfume

Please contact your representatives to convey your disapproval. This is not the kind of thing that could later be undone. Oligarchs are conspiring to take everything from us, and they must be stopped.

As you may have gathered, I indulged in some Juneteenth-inspired shopping earlier this week. The first of three deliveries came this morning: the discovery set from Ourside. The current collection stands at three fragrances. My quick reviews follow. 🧵 #perfume #fragrance

Continuing the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Blue: The Point by Clue Perfumery, a beautiful, briny jasmine, more salt marsh than the sea; a decidedly moody white floral. What’s your favorite on this theme? #pride #perfume

Continuing the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Green: Who guessed it would be Meloncholy by Hoshi Gato? Of course, this has been the green MVP of my spring rotation. This should be back in stock in September! (And I’ll be repurchasing.) #pride #perfume

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

Another catchup post for the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Yellow: Ochre by Chris Rusak, of course! A recent acquisition, I’ve been looking forward to hot, sunny days to make this unique metallic woody tobacco fragrance shine. #pride #perfume

Catching up one more time on the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Orange, featuring the orangest-colored juice in my collection: Anima Dulcis by Arquiste, a Mexican spiced cocoa gourmand with a chypre accord in the base.This is my second bottle! #pride #perfume

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Catching up on the Pride and Perfume fragrance challenge this week with my submission for Red, the gateway for many 21st century niche perfume enthusiasts: Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 extrait de parfum. Would love to see yours! #pride #perfume

It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it. People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist. my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history

Thursday is Juneteenth and the perfect occasion to support Black-owned businesses in our communities. For those of us in the fragrance community, I’m reposting this list of brands from Josh. Do you have others to recommended? Let us know in the comments!

This Pride Month, I committed to building out my fragrance collection from my favorite independent artisan perfumers in the community. Here are my treasures from three favorites, including SYD Botanica @sydbotanica.bsky.social , Treading Water, and Hoshi Gato @hoshigato.bsky.social 🧵 #perfume #pride

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

Empire weaponizes perfectionism to stoke fear and condition people into inaction. We then take those messages and internalize them to think it is we who are not enough. There is no such thing as a perfect way to show up. There is no one way to show up.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.

After I watched those people storm the capitol on January 6, I vowed to never again be shocked on behalf of this country. It’s a struggle to hold that line as I watch L.A.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

25 Years of Basenotes (but we might not make it to 26)

May 2025 fragrances were all purchased at a discount and/or second-hand as health was prioritized: - The Violetear | Wit & West - The Point | Clue Perfumery - Eau Chic | Parfums de Nicolaï - Les Indémodables discovery set - Bon Parfumeur mini set of extracts - Select samples from Parfum d’Empire

Hoshi Gato is offering discounts on their inventory with a donation to select organizations. All three chosen for support are amazing, and I’ve given to every one of them in the past. Wonderful to see them taking this opportunity to amplify community support!