This was so good! I love perfume and I adore reading your tributes to the world of fragrance. I enjoyed your line about how memorizing notes was inconsequential; instead it’s best to choose a scent based on how the perfume sparks something in our bodies (I agree!) Speaking of NYC fragrance studios, have you tried the brand Marble and Milkweed by Briar Winters? (She’s originally from PNW. In nyc she worked in culinary arts at a Scandinavian pasty kitchen. Later she moved on to creating perfume. full transparency: I don’t know her and this isn’t an add. I just love her scents!) i tend to be fairly sensitive to synthetic perfume, but this brand feels like magic. Fragrance #2 has saffron, vanilla, and orange blossom. Fragrance #1 is full of jasmine and tea. Forest is wood like and soothing; the tree scent reminds me of home in the pnw. Ellitaria feels warm and comforting, rich with cardamom. The Rains smells like the sky right before a thunderstorm. I’ve only bought her formulas online; she offers tiny samples to test out her scents before committing to a whole bottle. Her studio is in nyc, I think. Funny thing about indie perfume: they seem to run out of the spray caps often! Anyhow I love reading your thoughtful perfume reviews. Awhile back, I also enjoyed the way you connected the personality of perfumes to various characters in D&D! Thank you for sharing your love of perfume with readers!
Oh I haven’t heard of Marble & Milkweed and will def try to smell their fragrances. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks so much for your kind words and for reading!
This was so good! I love perfume and I adore reading your tributes to the world of fragrance. I enjoyed your line about how memorizing notes was inconsequential; instead it’s best to choose a scent based on how the perfume sparks something in our bodies (I agree!) Speaking of NYC fragrance studios, have you tried the brand Marble and Milkweed by Briar Winters? (She’s originally from PNW. In nyc she worked in culinary arts at a Scandinavian pasty kitchen. Later she moved on to creating perfume. full transparency: I don’t know her and this isn’t an add. I just love her scents!) i tend to be fairly sensitive to synthetic perfume, but this brand feels like magic. Fragrance #2 has saffron, vanilla, and orange blossom. Fragrance #1 is full of jasmine and tea. Forest is wood like and soothing; the tree scent reminds me of home in the pnw. Ellitaria feels warm and comforting, rich with cardamom. The Rains smells like the sky right before a thunderstorm. I’ve only bought her formulas online; she offers tiny samples to test out her scents before committing to a whole bottle. Her studio is in nyc, I think. Funny thing about indie perfume: they seem to run out of the spray caps often! Anyhow I love reading your thoughtful perfume reviews. Awhile back, I also enjoyed the way you connected the personality of perfumes to various characters in D&D! Thank you for sharing your love of perfume with readers!
Oh I haven’t heard of Marble & Milkweed and will def try to smell their fragrances. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks so much for your kind words and for reading!
Might have to give that Sicilian scent a try♥️
Thanks k you for sharing! Love their shop fit, those.marble.tables are chic