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Dec. 29th, 2023 09:29 pmI've entered a perfume hyperfixation. Started reading a book Snek got me called Scent and Subversion that details popular modern perfumes. I wish it went more into the history of scents, where ingredients were sourced and how/why they were used, but I'm sure I can find other books for that.
I'd ordered a bunch of new decanted samples right before Christmas. Lamb recommended Dioramour and Parfums de Marly's Delina. I got those along with Oriana, Meliora, and Valaya by Marly, Versace's Bright Crystal, Bvlgari's Omnia Crystalline, and Guerlain's Insolence.
Delina is a current perfume community darling (my hyperfixations usually come with plenty of Youtube content) and it smells like the beautiful, powdered pink princess crown it's said to. Not saccharine, but very delicate, sweet, and doll-like. It's a sweetness that's neither gourmand nor fruit, which I'm always looking for. Call me uncouth, it's a little reminiscent of VS' Lovespell—but grown-up and sophisticated. If Lovespell were a wine instead of fruit juice.
Marly's Valaya and Oriana were much more intriguing to me, though. Oriana is sweet, rich, and velvety. Gourmandish but it doesn't smell like a straight-up dessert. I'm really not about smelling like food right now.
Valaya is ethereal and alluring. It's clean, softly musky/ambery, a touch floral. I find that all this brand's scents round out and blend smoothly together in a way that makes them smell abstract, like their own little self-contained universes. I don't want to smell like food or a flower, or like any thing, apparently. I want to smell like a mood, a feeling, an aura.
Insolence and Dioramour are nice, authentic florals. I like florals, I don't love them. They make me want to lie down in a cloud of them and daydream, but they don't feel like "me" and I don't feel compelled to wear those scents. I keep buying floral samples mostly because want to get better at telling florals apart. I know I can identify honeysuckle and rose, but everything else just smells like A Flower to me, especially when there's more than one.
I bought Oriana and Delina from a Canadian wholesaler that had them for a great price and in a Boxing Day sale. I probably shouldn't have spent it because I'm still drowning in car repair payments and my LEEP medical bills, but I did have a little Christmas money leftover.
I'd ordered a bunch of new decanted samples right before Christmas. Lamb recommended Dioramour and Parfums de Marly's Delina. I got those along with Oriana, Meliora, and Valaya by Marly, Versace's Bright Crystal, Bvlgari's Omnia Crystalline, and Guerlain's Insolence.
Delina is a current perfume community darling (my hyperfixations usually come with plenty of Youtube content) and it smells like the beautiful, powdered pink princess crown it's said to. Not saccharine, but very delicate, sweet, and doll-like. It's a sweetness that's neither gourmand nor fruit, which I'm always looking for. Call me uncouth, it's a little reminiscent of VS' Lovespell—but grown-up and sophisticated. If Lovespell were a wine instead of fruit juice.
Marly's Valaya and Oriana were much more intriguing to me, though. Oriana is sweet, rich, and velvety. Gourmandish but it doesn't smell like a straight-up dessert. I'm really not about smelling like food right now.
Valaya is ethereal and alluring. It's clean, softly musky/ambery, a touch floral. I find that all this brand's scents round out and blend smoothly together in a way that makes them smell abstract, like their own little self-contained universes. I don't want to smell like food or a flower, or like any thing, apparently. I want to smell like a mood, a feeling, an aura.
Insolence and Dioramour are nice, authentic florals. I like florals, I don't love them. They make me want to lie down in a cloud of them and daydream, but they don't feel like "me" and I don't feel compelled to wear those scents. I keep buying floral samples mostly because want to get better at telling florals apart. I know I can identify honeysuckle and rose, but everything else just smells like A Flower to me, especially when there's more than one.
I bought Oriana and Delina from a Canadian wholesaler that had them for a great price and in a Boxing Day sale. I probably shouldn't have spent it because I'm still drowning in car repair payments and my LEEP medical bills, but I did have a little Christmas money leftover.