#aesthetic fragrances

[mx-incognito]

Eclectic Alchemy --> Formulas for Every Body + Gender-Free + Detergent-Free + Aesthetic Fragrances

[fairyygore]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ。RiRi ୨୧

[moniqueesworld]

Love a good fragrance….

[expulence]

[m-eltdown]

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Joanna Lumley in advertisement for Purdey fragrance, 1976.

[curseofmxcbeth]

Whispers in the Library and Coffee Break - dark academia fragrances from Replica by Maison Margiela

[fyi-iyanni]

Champagne Toast 🥂✨

[gent-illmatic]

[ambrosekingdom]

There is a musk that comes from academia, which I'll attempt to describe.

It starts with the smell of wood. Where a building isn't stone, it is old lacquered hard wood that has also been absorbing the elements for centuries. Outdoors, it is wet and slick, but indoors, the dryness preserves it, and absorbs the scents brought in such as leather and cigarettes and cigars and the spilled whiskey.

There is the scent of people as well, permeating throughout. Academia is often thought of as a solitary environment, but lectures and classes and clubs and parties, they bring together women, men and others in a tight space often. There's the scent of sweat and perfume and cologne, but also the inimitable aroma that comes from worn leather and damp wool. Breath these in deep enough, and your mind and soul are transported to events that have transpired over the course of decades, if not longer. The deep bellied laughter, the intimate whispers, and even the silence between two or more forbidden lovers, gazing from across the room.

Finally of course, there's the musk of books. Of paper, flax, cotton and leather, of the glue binding in the spine, and the collected dust of a hundred years. That scent is the book dying, the materials with which it was made slowly degrading over a prolonged period. A finely trained nose might even determine a book's age, from the distinct smell of the materials used by printers at the time.

Breath it all in, and let yourself feel everything that these fragrances evoke in your mind. Longing, desire, nostalgia, lust, anger, sadness, melancholy. The history that has passed may guide your present and future.

[malachitechrysocolla]

Pretty Lolita Lempicka perfumes bottles

From left to right:

Star Dust Midnight Fragrance

Le Parfum de Lolita Lempicka

Lolita Lempicka

Lolita Lempicka Le Premier Parfum

Lolita Lempicka Scintillante

L’Eau Jolie

Minuit Noir

Midnight Couture Black Eau de Minuit

L’Eau de Minuit

[driedflowers161]

i've been saving up to buy new perfume but i can't find any that's close enough to what i'm looking for. i want to find a fragrance that smells like humidity, spanish moss, old dusty rotting wood, church incense, tobacco, floral, vanilla, dark earthy type scent. kinda smells like the pictures, like an old church basement in the summer. if anyone has any recommendations at all please let me know, thank you :)

[expulence]

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰?

[prismatic-skies]

[fairyygore]

[literarydesire]

Favourite perfumes for each season 🤎

Spring

Bohemian Soul by Une Nuit Normade

Summer

Bloom Acqua di Fiori by Gucci

Autumn

Autumn Vibes by Replica, Maison Margiela

Winter

Libre Intense by Yves Saint Laurent

I've used this seasonal rotation of perfumes for years and will probably continue to do so for many, many more. I can highly recommend all of them as longlasting and interesting fragrances!