perfume: L'Artisan Parfumeur Al Oudh
Ladies, gentlemen, honorables of the internet, I have learned an important lesson about skin chemistry.
I should be 100% clear here that I asked
rydra_wong to recommend something "hilariously skanky". I knew what I was getting into. I did this on purpose. And I want to write up better notes, I do, but all I've got is that in vial, it opens with OH JEEZ, and then on my skin it takes a brief, brief sprint through something animalic before settling not just on sweat but on, I'm sorry, sweaty balls.
And I will take this a step further and say NOT EVEN IN A NICE WAY, because it heads from there STRAIGHT INTO ONIONS. I keep trying to wait out the "spices and gym short sweat and ONION ONION ONION" stage so that I can write a better review, and I keep scrubbing it.
So here's the kicker: my friend wanted to smell this, because I kept describing how amazingly NSFW it was, so she came over and dabbed a good portion on her wrist. And on her it smells - sweet. Spicy? Kind of woodsey, with a bodily warmth to it. I mean, it isn't a completely clean smell - it definitely smells like burying your face in the neck of a testosteroney homonid who has maybe recently played pickup basketball outside in the sun - but it's a nice smell. Onions make zero appearance.
Needless to say, I'm giving her the sample. She kept texting me all night going "I keep thinking I smell a hot dude and then turning around and realizing it's just my wrist."
I should be 100% clear here that I asked
rydra_wong to recommend something "hilariously skanky". I knew what I was getting into. I did this on purpose. And I want to write up better notes, I do, but all I've got is that in vial, it opens with OH JEEZ, and then on my skin it takes a brief, brief sprint through something animalic before settling not just on sweat but on, I'm sorry, sweaty balls.
And I will take this a step further and say NOT EVEN IN A NICE WAY, because it heads from there STRAIGHT INTO ONIONS. I keep trying to wait out the "spices and gym short sweat and ONION ONION ONION" stage so that I can write a better review, and I keep scrubbing it.
So here's the kicker: my friend wanted to smell this, because I kept describing how amazingly NSFW it was, so she came over and dabbed a good portion on her wrist. And on her it smells - sweet. Spicy? Kind of woodsey, with a bodily warmth to it. I mean, it isn't a completely clean smell - it definitely smells like burying your face in the neck of a testosteroney homonid who has maybe recently played pickup basketball outside in the sun - but it's a nice smell. Onions make zero appearance.
Needless to say, I'm giving her the sample. She kept texting me all night going "I keep thinking I smell a hot dude and then turning around and realizing it's just my wrist."