Rec | DONT TIE YOURSELF TO JUST ONE SCENT

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Rec'd on 😃 Any tips for choosing your favorite scent?

from gemini to gemini. figure out which notes you enjoy and try to pinpoint what notes you don’t like. you’re not already on fragrantica or the sniff app, making an account will help you immensely with this! i kind of relate it to when i eat the same thing over and over and i get sick from it. change up your smells day to day and don’t commit to huge bottles. i learned recently that there are people on etsy who will sell tiny little vials from their personal perfume collections, so maybe accumulate an array of samplers like that? when i untethered myself from the search for a signature scent, it found me! almost like how they say don't force romantic relationships lol.

@deardoveswings

Oct 12, 2024

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...or those smaller boxes of different tiny perfumes. Got a Gemini rising and I have multiple tiny bottles in different bags or around the place, so I smell different everyday. Sometimes I forget to put anything on, and that's fine as well. It's also a fast way to go through different perfumes and figure out what combos you like.

@thisismoy

Oct 13, 2024

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getting into perfume

echoing a lot of what has already been said… 1. Try on a ton of perfumes. Sephora, department stores, etc have testers. Don’t spray it onto the paper, spray it on your skin and pay attention to how it fades or stays through the day. 2. Think about what you like. Both in general and on you! As you try perfumes you will start to figure out that some notes work and some don’t. I love citrus smells in my house but not on my skin, for example. Gardenia smells awful on me and now I can avoid all those perfumes! Think too about other scents you already like to wear— maybe in hair care or deodorant for example. Looking at the notes in my fave old spice deodorant helped me pick my first perfume! 3. think about the effect you want to have. Do you want the scent to show up when you walk in the room? Do you want it to be a more intimate smell? are there people In your life or workplace with sensitivity you’ll want to pay attention to? Some scents are more piercing, and some have higher sillage Which will make them more noticeable. 4. Dip into social media but don’t take it too seriously. There are tons of perfume tiktokers with huge collections and lots of advice. This can be helpful but ultimately, fragrance is so individualized and you can’t smell it on you nor do most of us have influencer budgets for enormous fragrance collections (also, it’s just not practical imo). 5. If you can afford it, consider buying a discovery set from an independent or niche perfume house. This is a good way to try a bunch of scents and support smaller businesses! if you are interested in more designer mainstream scents, there are a ton of discounted name brand perfumes at tj maxx/marshalls type places, or you can get a rollerball/travel size at sephora to see if a perfume is one you will like wearing daily. most importantly, have fun with it!! Enjoy!!

@lynnnnie

Apr 17, 2024

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PERFUME

it all started with my aunt who has a friend that works at bloomingdale’s and contrabands bottle of testers and pass it on to her to do the trafficking. i’m talking niche fancy stuff for $100 or less. that’s how i ended up with an incredible collection and an addiction that i’m not proud of… but once you get into perfume, it’s like a whole universe unveils in front of your eyes (nose) and there is so much to experience, so much to taste, so much to learn about yourself, your brain and the strangeness of human olfaction. and the association of smell and memory is one of my favorite things, every single perfume i have triggers memories and feelings in a very deep and intense way. i have no interest in having a “signature scent”, life is too short. hop on!