My 15 favourite perfumes in my collection (+ mini reviews)
Frédéric Malle: Portrait of a Lady
My signature evening perfume. It isn't a dupe but it's close enough to replace my first love, Midnight Poison, because it has a similar vibe: sultry, sexy, gothic rose and patchouli.
Diptyque: Philosykos
One of my favourite summer perfumes. I'm a fig fiend. I love that this combines the fig fruit and fig leaf, and it works beautifully with the coconut and cedar.
Penhaligon's: Empressa
My signature daytime perfume. Elegant and feminine. Vibrant citrus, rose, and patchouli.
Tocca: Florence
Spring in a bottle. An elegant blend of gardenia, pear, apple, and tuberose. She's a beauty. Fresh and delicate.
Byredo: Blanche
Clean, pure, comforting, innocent. Like wrapping yourself in freshly laundered linens that dried in the sun, after you've had a luxurious bubble bath.
Miller Harris: Secret Gardenia
Another spring meadow scent. Similar to Florence, but the water notes and violet make it different enough that I justify having both.
Guerlain: Insolence
Candied violets. The ultimate coquette perfume. Makes me feel like a faerie princess.
Guerlain: Samsara
It's giving 1950s femme fatale.
Narciso Rodriguez: Musc Noir Rose
Creamy and sensual, a soft evening perfume. Plum, rose, musc, vanilla, beautiful.
Acqua di Parma: Fico di Amalfi
More fig because I'm predictable. Very unisex, very fresh.
Lalique: de Lalique
Vintage feminity in bottle. Soft, fruity jasmine with a gorgeous musk and sandalwood base. She's underrated and surprisingly affordable. I like to wear this one to bed.
Serge Lutens: L'Orpheline
Incense at mass. Cold yet comforting. Wear it to smell like a Victorian ghost haunting a cathedral.
Serge Lutens: Santal Majuscule
If you love sandalwood like I do, you need this.
Rabanne: Pure XS
The only gourmand I have. I smell edible when I wear this. That popcorn note is so unique and just works somehow. Creamy vanilla, ylang ylang, coconut, and peach.
Dior: Midnight Poison
My first love. Nothing will ever come close. I still have about a third of a bottle and I'd sell a kidney for another one. Rose patchouli BOMB. The sexiest, most gothic perfume in the world. RIP.
Frédéric Malle: Portrait of a Lady
My signature evening perfume. It isn't a dupe but it's close enough to replace my first love, Midnight Poison, because it has a similar vibe: sultry, sexy, gothic rose and patchouli.
Diptyque: Philosykos
One of my favourite summer perfumes. I'm a fig fiend. I love that this combines the fig fruit and fig leaf, and it works beautifully with the coconut and cedar.
Penhaligon's: Empressa
My signature daytime perfume. Elegant and feminine. Vibrant citrus, rose, and patchouli.
Tocca: Florence
Spring in a bottle. An elegant blend of gardenia, pear, apple, and tuberose. She's a beauty. Fresh and delicate.
Byredo: Blanche
Clean, pure, comforting, innocent. Like wrapping yourself in freshly laundered linens that dried in the sun, after you've had a luxurious bubble bath.
Miller Harris: Secret Gardenia
Another spring meadow scent. Similar to Florence, but the water notes and violet make it different enough that I justify having both.
Guerlain: Insolence
Candied violets. The ultimate coquette perfume. Makes me feel like a faerie princess.
Guerlain: Samsara
It's giving 1950s femme fatale.
Narciso Rodriguez: Musc Noir Rose
Creamy and sensual, a soft evening perfume. Plum, rose, musc, vanilla, beautiful.
Acqua di Parma: Fico di Amalfi
More fig because I'm predictable. Very unisex, very fresh.
Lalique: de Lalique
Vintage feminity in bottle. Soft, fruity jasmine with a gorgeous musk and sandalwood base. She's underrated and surprisingly affordable. I like to wear this one to bed.
Serge Lutens: L'Orpheline
Incense at mass. Cold yet comforting. Wear it to smell like a Victorian ghost haunting a cathedral.
Serge Lutens: Santal Majuscule
If you love sandalwood like I do, you need this.
Rabanne: Pure XS
The only gourmand I have. I smell edible when I wear this. That popcorn note is so unique and just works somehow. Creamy vanilla, ylang ylang, coconut, and peach.
Dior: Midnight Poison
My first love. Nothing will ever come close. I still have about a third of a bottle and I'd sell a kidney for another one. Rose patchouli BOMB. The sexiest, most gothic perfume in the world. RIP.