29 year old Sad Potato living in New Zealand, collector of perfumes and vintage jewellery, and lover of cats, baked goods, electro swing, rockabilly culture, horror stories, video games, and Gothic literature.
Absolutely love this cat. He’s sherlockthecat_official on tiktok and his bit is for his fans to accuse him of the wildest shit while he stares blankly at the camera:
Bonus:
Lapel watch, USA, c. 1889, Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Amouage Gold Femme
Notes: incense, lily of the valley, rose; orris, jasmine, frankincense; amber, sandalwood, musk, civet, cedar
Oh yeah.
It’s a very heavy aldehyde opening. Unmistakable, old-school, “classic glamour.” You’ll probably associate it with your mother’s perfume (except, god, if you’re sufficiently young your mother probably wore Poison or something.)
There’s also – sometimes but not always – a different note in the opening that smells like bug spray to me. (Not a bad thing in my book.)
That’s the first half hour or so. Then, I get a lot of zingy, golden, sharp scent, so blended I can’t place it, maybe the sandalwood or frankincense. Like a ray of light. I love it.
I may have a less sensitive nose this week, but I only get about three hours of longevity here, at least as a full “perfume”. The rest of the day, it’s detectable, but only barely, an incense-and-woods sort of hum at the skin.
I’m a fan. I regret that I didn’t have enough in my sample for me to really figure out more of the complexity, but something is clearly working for me here. Gold is queenly. No sweetness, just radiance and authority.
My morning glory doesn’t like the wind chime
SHUT🤏
actually the secret to happiness is finding a good perfume and wearing it all the time