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classic fresh floral that i've had my eye on for ages and when i had the chance to snag it duty free at the airport, i took it ofc. quite citrusy but doesn't have that element of cleaning supply citrus. the fir balsam rounds it out and gives it a bit more body than your typical citrus floral scent. and ofc the packaging is sooo fucking cute. longevity is kind of whatever but at the very least everything else about it makes me very happy.

white florals with fruit again? groundbreaking. also purchased while transiting via metro lmao, my fragrance acquisitions have been so spontaneous as of late...this one has a mild metallic(?) tinge sometimes but i honestly don't mind it. musky jasmine scents will always get me. afterblow has so many sugary florals but as a gourmand hater it really wasn't my vibe, despite the cuter packaging for their signature scents.

veryyyy girly fruity floral. not super unique or remarkable but it's very good at what it does, which is being a safe inoffensive fragrance that says i am a girl who loves fruity florals. yummy and delicious fruits. beautiful florals.

latest addition to my body spray collection, pure wonder is a icy clean skin scent and carries a bit of a fruity note despite not really having fruit in it. perhaps frozen pears. and of course jasmine is there. i keep this in my car to liberally douse myself in in case i've forgotten to apply perfume before leaving home lol.

a classic fruity floral, sometimes this pulls a little too sweet but generally a safe choice imo. it's really versatile and i like this one the most out of the famous chanel fragrances, i think no. 5 and coco mademoiselle both skew more powdery and cloying... old lady scents etc etc. i prefer the edt over the edp even though the difference is quite miniscule, i just think the edt is slightly fruitier while the edp is sharper in terms of the florals, but both drydown to a floral musk. overall just a very uncomplicated fruity floral for summer or spring. this doesn't last the longest, but i still get decent wear out of it.

ouai successfully suckered me in with the beautiful fruity floral fragrances in their products... first the heat protectant spray (rue st. honore), and then their dry shampoo (melrose place). i honestly can't speak to the efficacy of the dry shampoo i feel like i have yet to find any dry shampoo that truly works for me but this smells sooo nice and does an okay job. i will truly forgive anything as long as it smells nice and is not actively making my skin/hair/etc worse... i love the freesia rose peony trifecta in addition to jasmine my beloved, it's a very airy floral blend that i would also consider a safe choice. longevity again isn't amazing, but it's a good fresh out the shower scent. used to be my go-to.

the largest sized fragrance in my collection to date--it was gifted to me and i was obsessed with it at one point but ummm now i have 100ml and no idea what to do with all of it i literally use it as room spray at this point...i think i liked it at the time for the white florals and brightness, it's an extremely fresh scent. but overtime it's gotten a little too sharp and powdery for me, the drydown skews more cleaning product-y than i initially remember... :'( always a sad day when you fall out of love with ur perfumes. and are stuck with 100ml of it. maybe i'll fall in love with it again someday... who could say.

it girl scent, one of my first niche fragrances... she is That Girl! i honestly don't remember if i got this before ningning revealed she wore it or after.. maybe it was at the same time perhaps i subconsciously gravitated towards it despite not having smelled it in person before acquiring it.. i just knew it was going to be good. and it was! can't really even begin to describe how it smells but this is very amber + violet heavy, which is really really nice... the little peek of magnolia makes it the perfect balance of woody and floral To Me... like it's just so distinctive and a really effortlessly cool girl fragrance to me.

so fucking sad i lost this omg.. the very fragrance that put me on to pear scents i miss her dearly. i do think jhag is kind of fucked up for making their travel sizes 7ml instead of the normal 10ml for the same price as other travel sized scents like way to be stingy as fuck...but this is one of my favorite perfumes from them nonetheless. extremely simple, but that's the charm of it imo. i think it's pretty suitable for any season due to the drydown being primarily musk--i honestly would love to repurchase this in the near future.

immediately after discovering my newfound love for pear my beloved chloe put me on to ocean di gioia, which is acqua di gioia's lesser known cousin. it's marketed as an aquatic scent, which it is, but i find that the fruity florals come through pretty strongly. undeniably a summer scent, the sparkling pear and citruses make the opening sooo pleasant to me. the longetivity on this isn't bad tbh, if sprayed on my clothes i can smell it for days.

bought this as a little milestone gift to myself... this is another scent that i fell in love with at the counter but don't reach for as much because it's pretty strong and leans more mature. the opening notes are quite citrusy, though not as citrusy as mfk's 724 which literally smells like sprite to me, and the drydown is balmy, mostly from the vetiver. i think amryis femme is best suited for winter/spring as the blend of iris and amyris with the woody notes can get a bit much if you're very active. this is probably my most woody floral to date, i tend to stay away from fragrances that lean too woody but mfk's blend makes it work.

gaiac 10 is a tokyo exclusive from le labo and it's one of those fragrances that seems to be quite polarizing. to me it's a very clean wood scent, subtle and skin-scent adjacent if not for the indolic hit of cedar-gaiac. some people get a meaty bbq smell but i personally haven't had that experience; i could see the savouriness of the gaiac leaning into that scent for others though. it does turn a little soapy for me but not in a bad way... it's just a very interesting scent overall, almost incense-like due to the olibanum but not in an overly spiced way. the projection is pretty terrible but the longevity is decent, i like the simple musk drydown. if i loved it more i'd probably be more upset about the price tag not agreeing with my budgeting sensibilities lol.

honestly wasn't sure where to stick this as i first got a travel size ages ago and then recently acquired the full size last month… one of the scents of all time, thé vanille is The vanilla perfume for guys who hate (stereotypical ubersweet gourmand) vanilla perfume. it's a green, clean smelling vanilla that leans a bit mineral. the earthy notes from the orris and cardamom complement the clean green tea so nicely, and the drydown is a mellow spiced vanilla. i know i've made it exceedingly clear how much i hate spicy notes but thé vanille almost feels like a skin scent with how inoffensive it is. just a very perfectly balanced and complex scent overall with decent longevity as well, i reach for this one a lot.

MY IDEAL CITRUS/ORANGE/MANDARIN PERFUME she is the wave she is the moment. i decidedly do not like most spicy/woody notes but the star anise is really lowkey and works so beautiful with the rest of the scent layers... literally my number one summer scent of all time she is so perfect to me. it's not an overly realistic "plant"-y orange scent that smells too green, nor does it veer into smelling like cleaning product (which i don't automatically hate, but not what i usually look for in perfume). the drydown is strong on the vetiver, but not in a cloying overbearing way... decent longevity as well, i love smelling this on myself hours after initial application.

i got this first not knowing about the existence of delina la rosee, which i later smelled and immediately was besotted by... but regular delina is good too. it's quite strong, definitely a winter scent for me and not something i would go heavy on the application. i definitely prefer la roseé's more watery, aquatic lean; it's like delina's younger sister. it just skews more fresh and wearable for me, while delina itself is a more mature rose scent with a creamy musk drydown. the incense note is probably what's making it not as good as la roseé in my personal ranking, but it's still a solid feminine rose-forward pretty girl scent.

theeee skin scent of skin scents TO ME. another 13 has that je ne sais quoi. literally the ideal pear tinged skin scent, complex in a way that's hard to describe in words. one of those extremely polarizing scents, i know quite a few people who are anosmic to it and to them i can only say i am so sorry u cannot be smelling what i am smelling. it's in the same family of "true" skin scents as juliette has a gun not a perfume and escentric molecules 01 due to the prominent cetalox and iso e super. i'm obsessed with smelling this on my clothes and myself after a whole day of wearing it... the longevity is quite nice and the subtle amber musky drydown is a dream.