One of the great joys of collecting, reviewing, and thinking about perfume is finding something that smells different than anything else you know. When you find something different, years into the hobby, it comes as a revelation, as a new way to go through life. Now, you’re going to go through and smell like “this”. “This” will scent all my new memories, I think to myself, “this” will be the smell of my vacation, my tough days, my joyful moments, it’s going to be “this”. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
That’s how I felt when I wore Clue Warm Bulb, more evocative of a hazy Instagram filter than an actual thing, capturing that moment in time when you turn on a lamp and smell the dust burning on it as you search through an old photo box. It’s right before the moment you find what you’re looking for, even before the moment that you’re about to give up and move on. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Dandelion Butter is something else – and kudos to the perfume, Laura Oberwetter, for giving us what Gap Grass doesn’t. This is an ideal childhood moment in a bottle. It’s running through grassy fields, dandelion crowns, lying under a tree, catching your breath, letting a caterpillar crawl onto your finger so that you can put it in a jar and feed it leaves. There’s a sappyness that reminds me of tearing low-hanging branches off trees, swatting at flies that got into my way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In smelling these, I’m letting the nostalgia come over me in waves and enjoying every second of it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
