Casual, inoffensive, work hard, plays harder.
Glossier You.
What’s the tag line? It’s You but better? Or is it just you? You? Perfume that smells like You. Today it smells like ME.
This is clean, soapy perfume. A bit of neroli, a bit of iris, but mostly a clean warm shower finish. It’s very subtle, easy to wear, and a very affordable scent if you don’t mind buying it online. Ambrette in its finest form. Do you have this? Have you tried it?
Now a Glossier classic. Perfumer: Frank Voelkl.
My Lutens via outfits.
Datura Noir – white linen, beachy vibes.
La Fille de Berlin – all black, no frills.
Santal Majuscule – soft slippers, paisley silks.
Tubereuse Criminelle – sharp shoulders, pointy toes.
What would you wear?
Gorgeous Gardenia builds on the Gucci Flora white floral with the addition of sweet juicy pear as a top note, and gardenia added to the jasmine. It really is on the sweet side and I think you have to enjoy pear to enjoy this perfume.
This Ilia Beauty Limitless Lash mascara is very long-wearing but it doesn’t really build volume. Great for long lashes but it does leave them looking kind of spidery. Not my favourite look but points for it lasting a long time and no smudging whatsoever.
Scent of the night: Serge Lutens Santal Majuscule. I had a busy day today, I had some friends over, we smelled perfume, chatted, and now that I’ve had some distance from all that other perfume in the air, the day is done, I am wearing something for myself, and Santal Majuscule is perfect. It’s a Rose Sandalwood, and I don’t think it can get any better. It’s such a calming but vibrant scent, the rose sweet and mouth-watering, the sandalwood is creamy.
This morning I opened a mask my mom gave me, and immediately the air was filled with the scent of sandalwood. I hadn’t read what the mask was, but it turns out that the main ingredient in it is actual ground-up sandalwood and it smells just like the sandalwood in Santal Majuscule. The word “chandan” means sandalwood, and the reddish colour of the mask is the colour of some kinds of sandalwood.
I’m on a Lutens kick right now, so tell me what your favourite from the brand is.
Under a spell with Gucci A Winter Melody.
Even though I’m not a winter person, I can’t help but find brightness in the dark, like warmer temperatures when it’s been bitterly cold, the treats someone left next to the I love the crispness in the air, the feeling of freshness, a new start just around the corner. The burying of the hatchet, forgiveness of the tiny hurts, being in a cloud of my own perfume.
Cypress and rose in an apothecary bottle and a fine mist.
It’s almost all I need right now.
Scents mentioned:
Belle Ame by Les Abstraits
Diaghilev by Roja Perfumes
Musc Ravageur by Frederic Malle
Meharees by L’Erbolario
Iris de Gris by L’Artisan Parfumeur
The Charlotte Tilbury Brightening Finishing Powder is new. I have it in the shade fair/medium and as you can see it looks white in the pan. It does apply clear but it definitely brightens skin. I like it under my eyes.
In my search for a cheaper dupe of Chanel Coromandel, I came across Prada Amber as a comparison, and from far away, I can see it, but close up, it’s not true, not even in the slightest.
Have you smelled these?
I’ve had Prada Amber forever, and I’m so familiar with its scent that it’s hard for me to describe it. It’s a soft sandalwood-dominant amber that’s not sweet. It’s comforting and calm.
Last work day of the year, and I wore Ambre Extreme by L’Artisan Parfumeur. It’s a vintage bottle, and as much as it’s nice to say “they don’t make them like they used to”, actually, they make them just fine, and there’s a plethora of beautiful ambers out there so you don’t need to go hunting for the vintage bottle. Of course, the bottle is gorgeous and so is the perfume, but it had barely any sillage so that mouth-watering cardamom just sat on my skin. Then again, this is Jean-Claude Ellena working with what was there at the time, and I find that it’s pretty difficult to overdo any of the old L’Artisans and that’s also what I like about them. I know that I’m not going to end up with a headache, so maybe next time I’ll just spray it in my hair and I’ll get a whiff of it every time I turn around. Of course, that cozy vanilla-benzoin-patchouli combo is just right, and maybe this leans a little powdery and a little old-fashioned for some, but I like it, it’s cozy like a big warm scarf.
What I’m really saying is that I wouldn’t mind a gallon of this and I’m keeping it in rotation, but once it’s done I’m not hunting down another bottle until I am, and then maybe I’ll photograph it and show it to you but only once I’m sure you’ve forgotten about this.
