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a woman in a black shirt is making a funny face in a living room . ALT: a woman in a black shirt is making a funny face in a living room .

Tried a gin/fino sherry cocktail recipe and it’s exactly the same experience as the kombucha meme

A mini phal orchid with a dozen dark purple blooms on one flower spike

My consistent overachiever

Aww, thank you! The Boyfriend is a fan as well 😂 I’ll have to resize that cosplay and bring him back one of these days. My shoulders had quite the growth spurt after HRT. 😅

Regrettably passing on Amorphous’ Frankenstein line. I sampled them and they’re incredibly atmospheric, but I hesitate on whether I would wear them.

I AM looking very hard at BPAL’s Lupercalia releases, however.

Rather glad he doesn’t have social media, otherwise he’d be asking me why I’m exposing his professor kink (tbf he probably could not care less, he likes being a cryptid defined only vaguely by my bizarre descriptions).

Picking out new glasses. Found a quirky academic style that I showed The Boyfriend. He was silent for a long time before telling me, “You have to get those.”

I forgot he had a big thing for when I was a professor.

People on perfume reddit showing off their immaculately organized perfume samples and I’m sitting here with my 27 thrifted, only vaguely cohesive trinket boxes and vintage glasses with wizard-level logic behind the location of each

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

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Realizing that being sick and quarantined to my bedroom means I can wear all the perfumes The Boyfriend hates

Showings for both Othello and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet in my local theaters this weekend and I’m dying of the plague 😭

A thermometer reading a fever of 101.4°F

Oh what fresh hell is this

Got an update from #welovecolors . Though they've blocked the image from being shared or commented on.

They admit to using AI for images (been noted they now have AI slop models on their website) and have no indication of stopping any time soon.

Take your business elsewhere.

Outlook: Would you like to add a collaborative link within this email?

Can’t think of anything I want less, thank you

Another thread on a perfume subreddit decrying unusual fragrance names and bottles. Why do you hate whimsy.

At the age where I consider putting aside a bit of tax return to buy a home steam cleaner

😂 I moved a few into the garden now that the weather is nicer. And killed another. I have one space on my vertical plant stand for this guy.

Google says this plant is difficult. Good. So am I. We’ll be best friends.

An alocasia antoro velvet. The plant has fuzzy black arrow-shaped leaves.

Love that the houseplant bubble has burst. Scored an antoro velvet alocasia at a grocery store for $18. Fuzzy goth plant supremacy.

A collection of French breakfast pastries

Made it to the boulangerie before the Sunday morning rush ~ 💕

Really missing my Scentb*rd subscription but unwilling to give money to fascists. Time to research other companies’ wares…

I die, Horatio

I don’t know what to think of this weather. It was sunny all morning, now back to full cloud cover. Nearly 80°F and 70% humidity. My delicate Californian ass is suffering. Garden work has halted for the day and I opened champagne instead.

リオヌヴィ

Almost 80°F tomorrow?

Death. Dying. Horror.

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I was supposed to finish this on valentine's day but i draw toooo slow. #wriothesleyxneuvillette #wriolette #Genshinlmpact #genshinimpactfanart #Wriothesley #Neuvillette

Banana is a weird no for me. Since HRT, I’ve started actively disliking banana as a fruit entirely. I’ll eat them because they’re good for me, but I don’t enjoy it. 😂

I’ve seen passion fruit and guava in a few new releases, so that might be something building up for a new trend.

I like the *idea* of tropical fruit scents but they never feel very me, I suppose? It always smells better on other people.

A bottle of Aqua Allegoria Nerolia Vetiver by Guerlain

On that note, SOTD is Guerlain’s Aqua Allegoria Nerolia Vetiver. A somewhat linear but beautiful green herbal orange blossom and figgy vetiver scent. Longevity could be better, but I could bathe in a good neroli, so I’m not against reapplying.

Bit pleased banana and passion fruit are having a moment in perfumery because I dislike both and will save money on new releases