Tokyo Milk Fragrances: Smelly Goodness

My birthday's coming up in a month or so and I'm running out of perfume. I HATE perfume shopping, I usually have found a scent through a magazine... not down with spending an hour in the fragrances department while sales associates act all haughty and everything starts to smell the same.

ANYWAY, the other day I was in a cute gift shop and caught a whiff of heaven: Tokyo Milk's "Tainted Love." I usually love light, citrus-y scents but this is deep, musky and... seductive?

"Tainted Love" consists of dark vanilla bean, orchid, white tea, and sandalwood. It kind of reminded me of Burberry scents.

Tokyo Milk makes a wide array of other scents, and at $38 bucks a pop, it's a pretty great deal for unique scents. Not to mention I woke up the next morning still smelling the perfume on myself, so it's nice to know I won't have to bathe in it in order to smell nice all day.

What are your favorite perfumes at the moment? My other favorite is a men's Bulgari scent.

-B

P.S. IT'S SUMMER BETCHES. For real, I've been home almost a whole week now and it's kind of hard to believe I'm halfway done with college. Plus it's raining, as usual, so it doesn't even feel like summer.

NEW PERFUME: PURE DKNY

Over break, I told my mom I wanted a perfume.

This week, I got a package.

MY MOM BOUGHT ME THE PERFUME AND SENT IT TO ME.

I have the best mom ever.

I now have Pure by DKNY in my olfactory arsenal!

The scent is created around a vanilla ethically sourced from Uganda,

The box and bottle are 100% recyclable, and the plastic wrapping is compostable.

AWESOME!

Also, it smells like absolute delight.

It says that on top of the vanilla, there is also:

dew drop petal accord, lotus blossom, bulgarian rose, jasmine, freesia, orchid, white amber, and sandalwood.

Geez.

To me, it smells like clouds, snuggles, fresh sheets, tea, and saturday sunsets :D

(lol i'm dying my hair)

<3

Claire

p.s. the SAG awards are tonight- will try and post my thoughts ASAP

p.p.s. the icky webcam photos will come to an end soon, i am getting a new camera charger!

p.p.p.s.

three years. we miss you.

Sula Perfumes

A few days ago, while shopping in Fremont with Berit and her mother,

I ran across some GLORIOUS little oil perfume rollers.

(There is also the option of an Eu de Parfum spritz bottle,

but I like the roller because of it's portability and controlled application,

plus the rollers are oil based, so they last longer and smell better)

The fragrances are:

Blackberry Blush-blackberry, cassis, osmanthus, rose, soft musk, vanilla

Butterfly Kiss-sweet pea, pink peony, freesia, blackberry, gardenia

Stiletto Musk- musk, amber, flora

Vanilla Blossom-vanilla, tonka bean, cherry blossom

Sun Kissed Citrus- tangerine, lemon, orange, grapefruit, bergamot

and Champagne Sugar- champagne, ginger, cotton candy, sugar cane

Every single one smells amazing, simple and light

I personally LOVED the Blackberry Blush

(I actually got so excited I broke this one in the store... oops!)

They are not too pricey, and come in a variety of lovely scents.

Berit's mom even bought one!

I don't remember the name of the little boutique we were in,

but you can find them at online at Sula Beauty,

at Anthropologie, or at Ulta

"Break rules,

Set Trends,

And always play pretty."

-from Susane Lang, the founder of Sula Beauty

<3

Claire