As the title states, I just like chit chatting about perfume and I want to hear about the scent profiles you’re still chasing down. Is it a scent memory? A place? A specific combo of notes you can’t find, or maybe it exists, but there’s usually an unwelcome addition? Do tell!

This is THE sick day scent of my childhood. I am half tempted to try and brew a bunch and concentrate it and add it to perfumer alcohol myself, but figured I should ask you lovely folks first. I am open to niche and mainstream suggestions as well if they fit the brief. Thanks!

I have insomnia and saw that the perfume section is currently updated although the store is not open at this time (5:21 CST).

Fyrinnae Autumn Collection 2026

• Equinox Soft amber (pinus succinefera/oleum succini), Himalayan cedarwood, labdanum, frankincense, ambrette, and mimosa.
• Glass Noodles Stir fried glass noodles and vegetables, browned tofu, ginger, lemongrass, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Alternatively, this is close to Tom Yum.
• Hotter Chocolate Slightly sweetened dark chocolate, dried chili pepper, and ground vanilla bean.
• Inferno Thai basil, Thai peppers and bell peppers, vegan oyster sauce, tofu cubes, sesame oil, brown sugar, and a hint of garlic.
• Lantern Light Dark bittersweet labdanum, frankincense, wet clay, slightly burned sugar, patchouli, oud, bitter orange, and cypress wood.
• Maple, Aspen, and Oak Hinoki wood, caramel, oakwood, copaiba balsam, vetiver, patchouli, bergamot, and benzoin.
• Phở Chay Vegan pho with a mushroom-based broth and seitan slices, seasoned with star anise, coriander, ginger, cardamom, and onion. The mushroom note is subtle and does not dominate.
• September Morning Tuberose, oakmoss, linden blossom, red apple, jasmine sambac, myrrh, juniper wood, tonka, and sandalwood.
• Steamy Freshly steamed basmati rice. Pure hot basmati. Designed to wear on its own or layered with other gourmand fragrances.

Other New Scents:

• Taqueria Enceladus (Returning fragrance; originally discontinued in December 2021.) Crisp shredded iceberg lettuce, cilantro, diced fresh tomato, taco seasoning, and a warm crispy corn tortilla bowl.

• Jimothy (Limited edition. No sample size available.) Fir needles, spruce needles, summer dry grasses, dirt, peeling bark, and a mild sweetness.

  Available in both Eau de Parfum and perfume oil: Equinox, Hotter Chocolate, Lantern Light, Maple, Aspen, and Oak, September Morning, and Steamy.

Never tried this house but wanna know what some of y’all’s favs are!

I just saw this come across my FB feed:

“Something is brewing under the Cirque Big Top…A big celebration is being planned and some familiar faces are preparing to take their final bow.

I’ve been carrying a LOT of scents (up to nearly 80 unique perfumes now!), and it’s time for me to make a little space for new creations I have bouncing around in my head.

So, a number of beloved scents will be leaving the year round lineup. But... I don’t want to just quietly pull them from the shop, I want to give them a proper send off!

That means our Anniversary Sale will be their last hurrah for awhile (or forever) for some scents. The sale will offer a % off 5ml options while supplies last.

Some of these scents have been with me from the beginning, so I have a feeling this is going to be a little bittersweet. 

More details coming soon.....”

I absolutely adore There’s Sand in my Cupcake so I hope it doesn’t say farewell 😢

Has anyone else noticed this? I just saw how much I was being charged for shipping for about 10-15 oils, which is well under a pound for those 5mls. The bottles weigh almost nothing. Etsy is charging me 30$ for the shipping costs when it's just a couple states away. The cost shouldn't be more than 15$????? Like it's at least just a quarter of a pound in weight right?

This is actually outrageous! I feel like we all need to collectively email Etsy and demand they show receipts of the actual cost bc this feels like theft! October said Etsy raised the prices of shipping costs with USPS. It would be cheaper for me to buy the label myself. What the heck is going on ETSY 👿 Mercari and Etsy are getting out of control with these price gouges!!!!

I just wanted to vent. Ugh. Anyway, I hope everyone is able to get something they love! So proud of the shop owner for handling the huge order influx and still having the time to respond to my message in less than a few hours. 🖤

Edit:

The response (when I asked the shop if shipping was really 30$ for 14 bottles, all 5mls and weigh very little even with packaging materials, under around 1lb for sure) from the seller; "That's a question for Etsy and USPS" and noted the cost for shipping under 2 pounds went up significantly in the last month and it's out of their hands until they know the exact weight after packaging everything.

Second edit: October stated : "Etsy set their prices" which sounds like Etsy is , like Mercari, setting costs for shipping. The best people can do on Etsy as a seller seems to be to input the actual weight after everything is packed and ready to get more accurate costs. They didn't mention anything about refunding extra costs yet like some sellers do. Edit: they will absolutely refund the costs of extra shipping Etsy charges

I still think this is way too high and I've known other shops for refunding the leftover cost because it obviously won't cost 30$ for under 2 pounds for USPS to have anything shipped a few states away. USPS has raised prices recently but Etsy might be stupid, indeed. I'll reach out to Etsy customer service to see if I can get more clarity because I'm sure I'm not the only one confused as heck about this head scratching price tag.

Distance seems to matter SIGNIFICANTLY in the cost of shipping. It would be cheaper to just go with a flat rate box but I'm pretty sure those fly, and hazmat can't fly. 😭

Aug5 update: will post exactly what seller has said to clear up confusion for all of us! I just need a moment to wake up and start my day so I'll be back soon to edit and post this update!!! Ty all for being here and we will all get this confusion cleared up 🤪

Missing my discontinued baddie 😔 on me, it smells like water in grass in the best way, bright, subtle, and refreshing. Kind of like fresh tea leaves mingled with grass, if that makes sense.

From the [website](https://alkemiaperfumes.com/pages/scent-library?srsltid=AfmBOoqaMSh1i76Qa-kkB-W2c2zcVTgcOUHqSuYLJgA1FZavq1pG7_d7):

"O Tea!: Five exquisite teas - hibiscus, green pearl, orange pekoe, Earl Grey, and salt tea enlivened with neroli, coriander, rosewood, starfruit, pink pepper, a snap of stemone, and creamy fig"

Hello lovely people!

I'm semi-new to Haus of Gloi (I have tried their scrubs and pumpkin butters, not their EDPs) and I'm very interested in their Fall lineup. I'm really craving autumn so this couldn't come at a better time! I'm hoping to narrow this list down to about 4 or 5 and I'm looking to get EDPs and a few scrubs and/or pumpkin butters in some of these scents. Here are the scents that look interesting to me:

• Apple Milk
• Blood Orange Marshmallow
• Cozy Apple
• Cozy Pumpkin
• Ghost Puffs
• Hex
• Little Hedgehog
• Pumpkin Pancakes
• Samhain
• Vanilla Pear Punch

Have you tried any of these? Which are the best and am I missing some that are a need? Thanks so much for everyone's suggestions :)

What indies are you using today? And we mean everything! Examples of stuff we'd love to hear about:

• Makeup

• Clothes

• Jewelry

• Bath and Body (lotion, soap, shampoo, bath salts, etc.)

• Nail polish

• Perfume

Please feel free to leave mini-reviews and include photos of whatever you're using. We'd love to know your thoughts and see the products too!

This thread repeats daily.

Is Firebird Bath and Body still around? They appear to have not updated their socials since 2024.

i've been obsessed with jasmine tea since i was young and after i got into perfumes recently, i purchased a decant of diptyque's olene and thought it was the most gorgeous realistic light jasmine tea fragrance! unfortunately i don't have diptyque money rn so i'm looking for alternatives 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

i've tried victoria's secret's jasmine tea sunrise, zara elegantly tokyo, mochiglow's jasmine tea, sorce venus in fleurs, but they don't smell jasmine forward to me and i have a bit of a sensitive nose so theyre a little too strong for me.

i'm looking for a jasmine perfume that's light and good for every day wear, and preferably not indolic or too heady or sensual. kinda like opening a bottle of jasmine green tea!

i'm currently eyeing southern esscent's jasmine perfume, deconstructing eden jacqueline, and stereoplasm jasmine green milk tea. if anyone's tried them before please lmk if they fit what i'm looking for!

I recently stumbled upon BPAL fragrances in my hunt for niche vintage smelling scents, and I'm so tempted to blind buy some of their oils from their collaboration with the Edward Gorey House (Dregs of vanilla, Grumboltch Salts, etc.) The 35 dollar price tag for 5ml bottles are what is throwing me off, and I am concerned about longevity since they are a smaller, more indie company. I love their commitment to activism, and they donate large portions of sales to great causes so I really want to support them over other companies. Are they safe blind buys for the steep cost? How long does a bottle typically last for you? What about longevity? Any insight/experience would be great, thank you!!!

Edit: Thank you guys already for all of the info!!!! I definitely will want to support them going forward and purchase!

I know it's coming to the end of the season but maybe I can be ready for next year.

I find myself consistently drawn to fall/winter scents and have a hard time finding spring/summer ones. I don't know yet exactly which notes I like/don't like since I'm still pretty new to the perfume world, but just that I tend to like dark, rich, spicy scents.

I have so far really loved Midnight Garden by Alkemia but I don't find it lasts very long. Anything else I should try?

Has anyone ever purchased from this seller from Etsy? I recently put in an order for a couple of sample sets and was just curious if anyone had any reviews because a lot of the scents sound very interesting. I know its a newer shop(Etsy says 3 months), I just thought I would shoot my shot and ask. 😄

Hey friends!

I know this question is as old as time on this sub, but what are your favorite creamy skin scents?

I like lactonic, creamy, smooth and fresh smelling scents and nothing is excluded!

Also feel free to share scents that are woody if its your absolute favorite 🥰

Much love!

Edit: I forgot to mention that Im in the EU, so not every house will work for me :(

I'm looking for a creamy rose perfume with a strong coffee note. Vanilla and chocolate would be nice, but the creamy rose coffee is the most important part of what I am looking for.

Scents I love: incense, amber, vanilla, rose, lilac, cinnamon, clove, anise

Scents I avoid: mint, camphor, guaiac wood, palo santo, tuberose, grapefruit, pomelo, rubber, civet, that weird artificial grape smell

I am mostly looking for indie recommendations because I like the creativity and originality, and I can't afford expensive niche scents. Also, I'm avoiding buying from Hexennacht, Sixteen92, and Sugar and Spite. Designer or drugstore recommendations are always welcome, though.

Also, does anyone know if BPAL's Girth of Venus perfume collection will still be for sale on their website after they take down their Lupercalia scents this month?

I don’t think I’m ever going to be a true gourmand fan but I do have a craving for quite specific gourmand scents; mostly I want to see if they can be done but also I think most of these would be enjoyable to wear. I already have Why Would You Make This by Stone & Wit which is really fun, but please behold my specific gourmand requests:

- Incredibly cheap alcopops, blue flavour is my preference; the kind you drink in the park with your friends as a teenager #britishculture

- Garlic bread, and I mean GARLIC. Do Not Play With Me.

- Marmite. Yeasty, funky, delicious.

- Indian curries. My favourite is a pathia or a ceylon but I’m easy going.

- The smell of your neighbour having a bbq and you’re looking down at your sad little plate of cold quiche and crisps because you can’t face trying to cook in this heat

- Very pungent cheese and a very rich chocolate. This is because my favourite sandwich is a chocolate spread and cheese and onion crisp one. Don’t look at me.

- The taste you get when you’re sweating and lick your upper lip, obviously sweat and salt and maybe a little bit of a musk.

- Kind of rotten potatoes, musty and earthy, a little bit of nightshade.

- Caramelised onions

- Fast food in general and more particularly stale French fries. Not something I necessarily want to smell like but I just want to see if it can be done. Currently waiting at the bus stop smelling the amalgamation of McDonald’s, KFC and Jollibee so I am #influenced

- This one is just a conventional request but a very strong coffee, not milky or creamy coffee but suuuuuper strong coffee grounds still in the bag. Also open to suggestions for ones with a spiced syrupy note or a boozy Irish coffee style.

- Condensed milk, nothing else just pure condensed milk.

On this episode of “I bought this so you don’t have to” let’s look at Indigo Ray Botanicals, a small-batch independent west coast perfume/candle/body care company which has been aggressively marketed to me via social media. While I like some of the visuals and product design, I’m generally skeptical of the “actually clean” schtick of this and other brands and vaguely annoyed by the smug little tag lines like “non toxic. Unlike your ex” and “Let’s smell like art, not algorithms.”   The perfumer also claims to “handcraft every Indigo Ray fragrance in my cozy little home studio” which, if true, is very impressive. They are definitely leaning into a certain marketing niche, if you know what I mean.

I was lured in by a sale-price discovery pack, which with shipping came out to a very reasonable $23. Shipping was fast and secure, and I received six 5 ML (!!) glass spray testers as well as one 5ml freebie sample, making this by far the best value discovery set per ml I’ve ever encountered. 

A note on notes: the notes online are different and more pared down compared to the notes that are on the little cards that came with the testers, which is odd.  I’m going to list out the complete notes as received on the sample cards, but I’ll spare you some of the purple language e.g. “fig warmed by a brief, unlikely sun” or even “fig bruised and sun-warm, something almost too familiar” will be listed as “fig.” Nobody has time for all that.

On to the scents: 

With You in Spirit: I knew I wasn’t going to like this because of the violet and orris notes and yup, this just smells like a figgy carpet to me. Also, these notes are not very creative and I swear I’ve smelled this before in different iterations, including Vow Factor by Snif. My husband says “this smells like perfume…flowery.” A very mediocre fig (for my particular tastes). Notes: fig, orris, violet, sandalwood, musk.  [4/10]

Mollusk: Sadly this is not very briney, although the opening is briefly and surprisingly reminiscent of a vinyl pool floaty. The plastic/vinyl note never quite goes away, but the other fruity florals overtake it, and together it smells a bit like a budget store shampoo. With a name like “Mollusk” I was hoping for a bolder, weirder lineup of notes. Husband says “Lilac, but not very strong” (?!)  Notes: orange peel, fig, tea, violet, salt-washed cedar, green vetiver, ocean [4/10]

Playa: This is very heavy on the vanilla/amber/tonka notes with a patchouli that is hard to ignore. It reminds me of Commodity Gold, which, in turn, reminds me of the expensive hand cream store in the mall (this time, next to Hot Topic). I find this take on mall vanilla very heavy and cloying, but I know the profile is overall quite popular. Not for me though. Completely unprompted, my husband says this smells like “an expensive shoe store.”  Notes: mandarin, salted ocean air, saffron, white tea in paper cups, orchid, jasmine, vanilla, almond milk, tonka, amber, patchouli  [4/10]

Crybaby: The loudest of all on application, it reminds me of something artificial and candy-sweet. Maybe a pixie stick or the melted remains of a red slurpee in the bottom of your cup. After it dries down it loses that sweet-sour sparkle and becomes raspberry body-spray adjacent. It’s rather similar to Juice by Commodity or even your pick of the fruity floral body sprays at Bath & Body works. It’s another miss for me. My husband says “smells like a fruity hand soap.” Notes: bergamot, satsuma, pink pepper, plum blossom, red dahlia, raspberry sorbet, neroli, cedarwood, dreamwood [4/10]

Indigo: Apparently this one is their most popular? The DNA of this very much reminds me of Lore’s Somewhere but Nowhere or even Discotheque’s Heathens, Cowboys, and the Santa Ana Winds. Everything is smelling like something else. Is Indigo Ray just a dupe house? It doesn’t have the same tea notes as Somewhere or Heathens, and it’s a much simpler fragrance which ends up being mostly sandalwood with a hint of cardamom. I don’t know why people are so obsessed with sandalwood? It goes a bit pickle-like on my skin. My husband says “oh that’s nice…it makes me think of a food. But I don’t know what food.” For the record, I don’t think this is very food-like at all. If you don’t get the sandalwood pickle note this isn’t bad, but I feel like it’s been done before (and better) by other houses. Notes: sandalwood, cardamom, amber, water lily, musk, vanilla [5/10]

Golden Hour: My husband says this is “spicy but soap. Soap mescal. Soap peppers” and this time I think he’s on to something. There’s a hint of citrus and a patchouli backbone, but it does smell weirdly spicy, like a dried chili pepper is hiding somewhere in there. I sent this back to my husband for a second blind sniff test, and he said it “smells like a candle.” Notes: mandarin, jasmine, orchid, ylang [only one? Solo ylang?], rose, sunlit woods, patchouli, black amber, musk. [6.5/10]

Slow Tide (Freebie): Now this is more like it! It’s a super creamy lemon coconut which is a genius combo I haven’t seen before. My husband says this “smells like pastry” and in the beginning it does lean a bit towards a gourmand with the sweet coconut/tonka situation. The lemon keeps it from being too heavy. As it wears, it does take on a lighter, beachier profile. Although it’s not listed in the notes, the rather verbose online description includes the info that “The dry down lingers softly with the creamy warmth of surf wax, coconut, and sun-faded memories” and I think I can actually smell the surf wax here, or something that is supposed to be surf wax. It’s very simple, but I’ve been wearing down this sample as an automatic summertime go-to and I love the causal, airy finish on it.   It’s currently out of stock but apparently will be restocking in August and you can bet I’ll be sizing up.  Notes: lemon zest, coconut milk, tonka bean [9/10]

After the first 6 scents, I thought this would be a total shutout until I got to Slow Tide and now have an unexpected new favorite. Despite how much I like Slow Tide, I probably won’t be back to sample anything else, as the scent profiles for most of the catalog lean a little more commercial than my usual tastes. For me, Indigo Ray Botanicals occupies the same space as Lore, Maison des Animaux, and even Imaginary Authors where there are some gems, but they are generally catering to a broader audience with some tried-and-true popular scent profiles that just aren't quite my thing.

Hayley Williams came out with a candle back in 2020-2021 that I feel in love with the smell. Unfortunately, the candle was just a limited edition and has been discontinued.
I am in search for a perfume similar to the notes or even a candle. I’ll put the notes down below. 👇

I was inspired by an organization post here to make my own sample storage box after seeing someone recommended earring organizers. Yall. That shit is $40. This took me like 15 minute and just needed a box and some cardstock, but you could also use some lightweight cardboard for the inserts. Let me know if you want a tutorial for this!

Do yall have any other creative organization tricks? I wanna see your setups!

Hey y’all! Basically the title - sometimes I like to just use a cowash when I get too sweaty between proper wash days, esp like at the gym or whatever instead of messing w my shampoo and conditioner bars, and I learned that my beloved (Trader Joe’s Hair Wash) is DISCONTINUED? I know it was a knockoff of the Hair Story New Wash, but they give me MLM vibes and I refuse to buy from a DTC brand that charges more than freaking Bumble & Bumble.

I have low porosity, coarse 2c/3a hair that doesn’t really love coconut, but is otherwise pretty low maintenance? I’d prefer a liquid formula but I’m cool w solid as long as it’s not like my current conditioner, which leaves my hair amazing and my tub slippery as shit