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8 Feb

Smells right: Why fragrance is the following step within

Smells right: Why fragrance is the following step within
Because of demand from savvy Gen Z consumers, major luxury brands like Gucci, Fendi, and Louis Vuitton at the moment are creating perfumes they’re marketing as genderless – but who does it actually profit? Recently, fragrances that don’t subscribe to traditional gender labels have been on the rise, with brands offering perfumes that deal with elevating the ability of scents as an alternative. For instance, in August 2019, Harry Styles teamed up with Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele to launch the brand’s gender-neutral fragrance, Mémoire d’une Odeur. With notes of chamomile and jasmine, the fragrance is available in a green glass bottle while the campaign also featured Harris Reed, a young designer who identifies...
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19 Dec

This candle smells like my vagina… or does it?

This candle smells like my vagina… or does it?
Guys, Goop is selling a hilarious recent candle and it’s c-LIT (get it!).  From fragrance brand Heretic Parfum, the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle is a mix of geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette (that's what your vagina smells like, right?). Based on Goop, the candle began as a joke between Heretic perfumer Douglas Little and Gwyneth Paltrow. The 2 were developing a fragrance together when Paltrow got here out with: “Uhhh… this smells like a vagina.” It then evolved right into a candle that costs $75 and is described by the brand as a beautifully unexpected scent that “puts us in mind of fantasy, seduction, and a classy warmth.” Warmth indeed.  This candle really taps...
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28 Nov

This fragrance smells like tripping and falling on the

This fragrance smells like tripping and falling on the
Australian brand Ramp Tramp Tramp Stamp has a recent fragrance that captures the exhilaration, adrenaline and stillness that you simply experience whenever you trip and fall to the bottom Close your eyes and movie the experience of a fall. Feel it in your body – the shock and sudden jolt of that first moment whenever you trip, the short intake of breath and heart swoop, the adrenaline pumping as you hit the bottom. Then the calm stillness as you lie there; taking stock of your limbs and extremities. Now take into consideration what that smells like. It’s probably not something you’ve considered before – how one might represent the act of falling down...
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12 Dec

Smells like teen spirit: Basenote Bitch’s nostalgic world of

Smells like teen spirit: Basenote Bitch’s nostalgic world of
These fragrance reviews will make you want you were a 90s teen wearing dELiA*s and calling your crush on the landline The primary ever fragrance I purchased for myself by Glow by JLo, bought with money given to me earlier that day by my step-grandmother. Britney Spears Fantasy, Vera Wang Princess and Gucci Rush followed over the subsequent few years as I participated wholeheartedly within the age-old teen girl tradition of smelling like a candy shop.   Like your first kiss, it’s hard to forget your first scent. Each occur during those heady, hormone-filled teenage years when every part is recent and exciting and terrible. Today, a single whiff of the scents I used to...
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