A polarizing fragrance if there ever was one.
Some say it’s too 70’s and it reminds them of their grandfather or a “dad”. I get the station wagon with wooden panels, corduroy, and bell-bottoms but I don’t think any of those are bad things. There’s also a dampness that reminds me of home and makes this totally worth the $20 I spent on it.
Finally officially reviewing these two Talika products, both containing peptides to nourish your lashes so they grow.
I threw some major shade at the mascara in my stories a while ago because it’s so smudgy. It basically feels like a black lash cream rather than a mascara, that’s how bad this formula is.
The eyeliner is way better and it’s one I can use daily. It works well without primer but with primer it’s even better.
Have you tried these?
I’ve been in a funk.
Not really, but I have been wanting to smell more animalic scents and these Dusita samples delivered. Tell me your favourite from the brand!
Things I’ve finished and loved.
Cantu Beauty Skin Therapy lotion – omg I went back and forth about this one a lot. I didn’t like the smell, but then I liked it. It’s a sweet coconut candy. I didn’t like the texture and then I did. Honestly, this would be an amazing summer lotion because it’s light, sets quickly, and is not greasy at all. But it’s also not that moisturizing, so it’s not my favourite for the winter time.
Bliss Vitamin C. I loved this vitamin C. It was light and stable and I’ll always like a pump better than those little dropper bottles. ⠀
Naturally Serious Sleep Over Retin-Oil. Adored this oil, it was super gentle on my skin.
Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream. This is a mini. Smells tropical but I like the texture of the original Bum Bum Cream better.
Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Lip Balm. Thick and waxy, this lasted a long time.
YSL The Shock mascara. I bought this in a blue colour and it never smudged or flaked. This is an amazing formula.
Blistex lip balm. It is winter and I’ve been running out of every lip balm I have. This one has spf 25 and I liked that. I’ve gone through lots of tubes of this and it’s great.
I wear this when I’m craving warm skin and wet weather.
Jo Malone Black Cedarwood and Juniper has a wet warmth thanks to a heavy dose of cumin. It’s the same as Le Labo’s Rose31, and as I write this, I’m thinking I want to try those together.
This is a LE bottle of a scent that they then made permanent but then phased out. It was part of a group of scents created (2014) around the idea of rain, not petrichor exactly but rainy weather.
I love rainy weather, it actually puts me in a good mood.
Samsara EDT… for your most glamorous friend, the one with the lipgloss, big earrings, loud laugh. She’s not shy about wearing something with intensity. Jasmine and Sandalwood (more real sandalwood if you’ve got an older bottle), projection and sillage. This is not a skin scent. Swoon-worthy.
Three fragrances that smell like the outdoors in their own way.
Colorado by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. This is one that smells like you’re deep in a dark wood – pine trees and dried sap is what you’ll get this.
Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn. Literally freshly cut grass in the summer, wet and bitter.
St. Clair Scents Gardener’s Glove. Fruits, florals, soil, and the soft leather of a gardening glove, it’s all in there. I like to wear these when I’m stuck inside or when I know I’m going to be inside. They’re good weekday scents for that. I think my favourite thing about perfumes is that they can really take you somewhere else.
Do you have a favourite fragrance that takes you somewhere else?
I’m ready for anything…skincare-related. Just a bit of my skincare while it was organized nicely. The update is that I’m actually really liking the Charlotte Tilbury Magic Serum and Magic Cream. The serum has niacinamide in it but it’s also moisturizing. The cream is a very rich and thick moisturizer. It leaves your skin glossy and dewy, I prefer to use it at night and it’s actually my favourite night time moisturizer right now.
Hi, I’m Henna and I am not a perfume snob. I know a lot of my perfumes are discontinued, vintage, hard to sample or impossible to find, but this one is not. I was even able to spray it in store a couple of times before actually buying it.
This is the perfume I smell the most on other people (I know for sure because I always comment and ask) and it makes me so happy to smell it. Creamy coconut whipped cream on a bed of ambroxan just makes this an easy-to-wear scent that’s one of my most complimented. It’s the nachos to my kale, the McCafe to my flat white, the canned tuna to my fresh salmon. I love them all.
It’s a coconut caramel steamer in whole milk from Starbucks. Like all things Starbucks it’s accessible, very sweet, not terrible, not sophisticated or complex, not cheap but affordable.
Lasting power on me is amazing. I can still smell it 12 hours later and it has decent sillage even with 1 spray. It is an eau de parfum so maybe that’s why it’s so strong. The opening is definitely a juicy sweetness with a sugary sweetness in the middle and a musky sweetness in the final few hours of wear. Yes, it’s sweet but likeable I would say.
It’s definitely not my usual kind of scent but I like it! I don’t own it yet but I’m looking around for a 30ml of it. Also comes in a body mist.
100mL for $65 or 30mL for $40. Get it here.
My mom: oh! Unisex! (Her way of saying, it’s not pretty, feminine, floral, are you sure you want to smell like that?)
My sister: you smell really nice today.It’s gotta be the yummy top notes because I sprayed this again and again so that I could keep smelling them.
Today’s scent of the day was Camel by Zoologist, and this is the travel size.
I’m so glad I kept the box because I actually did end up traveling with this! I bought this a while ago and at that time it was the only scent from this brand that I had smelled. Since then I’ve smelled a few more but I still love Camel the most and have worn it a lot. Dates, frankincense, a little bit skanky all the way through thanks to a synthetic civet, but you smell it for a bit and then it’s gone.
Perfect for crisp weather.The longevity of this is pretty great because I can smell two sprays for about 6 hours.
Sillage is great too, so if that’s something that matters to you, you might like this.
