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Ava's Young Sister
The name suggests that this is a hybrid of similar-sounding fragrance of a pop singer, whose name may no longer be mentioned, which hums a melody when pressing the spray head (the flacon not the singer) and my ever-popular Prada fragrance.
But far from it, because Candy Love smells, as the company website reveals, like love apples, fairgrounds, and natural ingredients of apple, green mandarin, and hundred-petaled rosea. Hear hear. The vanilla cream is unfortunately not of natural origin but who cares. With the kitschy heart flacon you actually expect plastic, rather than organic quality, although there are also plastic in organic quality, but good.
The apple smells the way Snow White would have liked him, juicy sweet, subtly sugary and completely pleasing, lovely and not a bit dangerous. An apple scent for Eva's younger sister. An apple scent that doesn't stand out in a negative way, with my friend commenting on it with, "What smells so sweet?". I just ignore it, because I like him, so both, the fragrance and of course my friend.
I wore Candy Love to work last week, as it blended wonderfully with the wintry, part-snowy, part-rainy scenery. He does not wear on, blends in light-footed, fragrant skillfully. However, if you are expecting a densely packed sillage monster, you are wrong here. The bottle suits Escada and promises a fragrance that fits in with the series of previous creations. But Candy Love is so much more delicate and innocent, it doesn't party in Rio but rolls through the home happily and unagitatedly, even a little unobtrusively. It's a scent that would have fit either Essence or Juniper Lane. Whether you can smell out the partly natural ingredients now? I would say no. I also barely smell rose, vanilla cream minimally. It remains an almost solinotealer, finely sweet apple scent, no more, no less.
Last week, by the way, I layered it with Le Male Le Parfum, which made for an interesting combination. I'll tell you about the story in a next blog about winter layering experiments though
Thanks for reading and I wish you all a relaxing Sunday
Your Flaconesse
But far from it, because Candy Love smells, as the company website reveals, like love apples, fairgrounds, and natural ingredients of apple, green mandarin, and hundred-petaled rosea. Hear hear. The vanilla cream is unfortunately not of natural origin but who cares. With the kitschy heart flacon you actually expect plastic, rather than organic quality, although there are also plastic in organic quality, but good.
The apple smells the way Snow White would have liked him, juicy sweet, subtly sugary and completely pleasing, lovely and not a bit dangerous. An apple scent for Eva's younger sister. An apple scent that doesn't stand out in a negative way, with my friend commenting on it with, "What smells so sweet?". I just ignore it, because I like him, so both, the fragrance and of course my friend.
I wore Candy Love to work last week, as it blended wonderfully with the wintry, part-snowy, part-rainy scenery. He does not wear on, blends in light-footed, fragrant skillfully. However, if you are expecting a densely packed sillage monster, you are wrong here. The bottle suits Escada and promises a fragrance that fits in with the series of previous creations. But Candy Love is so much more delicate and innocent, it doesn't party in Rio but rolls through the home happily and unagitatedly, even a little unobtrusively. It's a scent that would have fit either Essence or Juniper Lane. Whether you can smell out the partly natural ingredients now? I would say no. I also barely smell rose, vanilla cream minimally. It remains an almost solinotealer, finely sweet apple scent, no more, no less.
Last week, by the way, I layered it with Le Male Le Parfum, which made for an interesting combination. I'll tell you about the story in a next blog about winter layering experiments though
Thanks for reading and I wish you all a relaxing Sunday
Your Flaconesse
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Vintage Trésor
As a child, I never really understood what this "between the years" was supposed to mean. Is the year over after Christmas and one finds oneself in a time-less space? That can't be. The older I got, the more I saw these days between Christmas and New Year's Eve as exactly that: between the years. You do things that have been left undone all year, sum up the old and make plans for the new.
I've prescribed myself a little YouTube break for between the years, I'm cleaning out drawers and closets, I'm writing to all the friends I haven't checked in with in far too long, and I'm carrying out a new tradition I've been practicing for the past 2 years: Magick card sorting. The nerds among you may know what I'm talking about. For all muggles: It's a trading card game, which has its beginnings in the 90s. In the meantime countless editions have been released (3 - 4 per year). The cards depict all kinds of fantasy creatures, humans, animals, undead, plants and also undead plants and the most sought-after card from the very first edition, the black lotus, is now traded for an incredible $42,000. Of course, I do not own this card (yet), but my most valuable, the Lion's Eye Diamond brings it to 250€.
I tell you all this only to write that I have meanwhile animal back pain and googly eyes from sorting. Until the just purchased miracle package with 900 new old cards arrives, the existing 6000 have to be put in order, but in the meantime, to inspire the mind with something else, it is once again time to rip off a Creed scent.
There are a few mainstream niche brands that I'm not sure what to make of yet, Creed and Parfums de Marly being among them. For me now more commerce than art, even if the former is an old and traditional brand. Most creations of both houses could not convince me.
Asian Green Tea I fish from the bulging sample exchange package of FvSpee and must immediately and completely unsprayed lunsen on the fragrance notes. Ha, a fragrance that doesn't come off so well here and is also supposed to be a fragrance twin to my beloved Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden, from Captain Kurk's pen. So the bar is set pretty high and I spray two sprays on my forearm. My brain immediately reports a parallel to Trésor. I am confused. A dignified citrus at the beginning, which doesn't really come across as sparkling, but rather brings an almost old-fashioned, dusty touch. Behind that is something herbaceous, which scrapes sharply on the edge to celery. This vegetable, though present in extremely few fragrance pyramids, will set any perfumista's nose alarm bells ringing, as it often indicates a tilted component. The celery-like becomes tamer, but the fragrance doesn't really feel rounded to me. This absolutely coherent and creamy feeling, which the Arden fragrance conveys, is completely missing from the Creed. It seems at the beginning almost pointed or sharp, a little intangible and probably does not quite know where it wants to go. However, I give the fragrance twin suggestion with its namesake a thumbs down. While I'm voting like this, I see that 6 people have decided against Tresor as a fragrance twin and I have to smile, because there's at least one perfumo out there who recognized parallels here just like my nose. Maybe a little spray of the green tea brew could give the latest Trésor formulation back its radiant opening, which I used to hear back in the 90s when my grandma would apply the Lancome permanent.
And there, my nose catches a little whiff of green tea, phew lucky! So the fragrance, not me, because it was clear to me from the first minute that we weren't going to be too great friends, still, a fragrance should at least smell to what it says on it, so there you go, roughly. And I wonder directly whether a Viking smells like mouthwash, probably ehr after the opposite.
Back to Asia Green Tea, which is supposed to smell like so many components, which probably all bite each other in the nose and out comes a citrusy-old celery infusion with green tea aroma, but no no, you do not have to spend so much money to smell better than that. I stay then but with the much-mentioned Arden or optionally also with Yves Rocher.
Who misses, however, the good old radiant Trésor of yesteryear, should smell here times over, because the light celery at the beginning also guaranteed to create the real vintage feeling.
I've prescribed myself a little YouTube break for between the years, I'm cleaning out drawers and closets, I'm writing to all the friends I haven't checked in with in far too long, and I'm carrying out a new tradition I've been practicing for the past 2 years: Magick card sorting. The nerds among you may know what I'm talking about. For all muggles: It's a trading card game, which has its beginnings in the 90s. In the meantime countless editions have been released (3 - 4 per year). The cards depict all kinds of fantasy creatures, humans, animals, undead, plants and also undead plants and the most sought-after card from the very first edition, the black lotus, is now traded for an incredible $42,000. Of course, I do not own this card (yet), but my most valuable, the Lion's Eye Diamond brings it to 250€.
I tell you all this only to write that I have meanwhile animal back pain and googly eyes from sorting. Until the just purchased miracle package with 900 new old cards arrives, the existing 6000 have to be put in order, but in the meantime, to inspire the mind with something else, it is once again time to rip off a Creed scent.
There are a few mainstream niche brands that I'm not sure what to make of yet, Creed and Parfums de Marly being among them. For me now more commerce than art, even if the former is an old and traditional brand. Most creations of both houses could not convince me.
Asian Green Tea I fish from the bulging sample exchange package of FvSpee and must immediately and completely unsprayed lunsen on the fragrance notes. Ha, a fragrance that doesn't come off so well here and is also supposed to be a fragrance twin to my beloved Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden, from Captain Kurk's pen. So the bar is set pretty high and I spray two sprays on my forearm. My brain immediately reports a parallel to Trésor. I am confused. A dignified citrus at the beginning, which doesn't really come across as sparkling, but rather brings an almost old-fashioned, dusty touch. Behind that is something herbaceous, which scrapes sharply on the edge to celery. This vegetable, though present in extremely few fragrance pyramids, will set any perfumista's nose alarm bells ringing, as it often indicates a tilted component. The celery-like becomes tamer, but the fragrance doesn't really feel rounded to me. This absolutely coherent and creamy feeling, which the Arden fragrance conveys, is completely missing from the Creed. It seems at the beginning almost pointed or sharp, a little intangible and probably does not quite know where it wants to go. However, I give the fragrance twin suggestion with its namesake a thumbs down. While I'm voting like this, I see that 6 people have decided against Tresor as a fragrance twin and I have to smile, because there's at least one perfumo out there who recognized parallels here just like my nose. Maybe a little spray of the green tea brew could give the latest Trésor formulation back its radiant opening, which I used to hear back in the 90s when my grandma would apply the Lancome permanent.
And there, my nose catches a little whiff of green tea, phew lucky! So the fragrance, not me, because it was clear to me from the first minute that we weren't going to be too great friends, still, a fragrance should at least smell to what it says on it, so there you go, roughly. And I wonder directly whether a Viking smells like mouthwash, probably ehr after the opposite.
Back to Asia Green Tea, which is supposed to smell like so many components, which probably all bite each other in the nose and out comes a citrusy-old celery infusion with green tea aroma, but no no, you do not have to spend so much money to smell better than that. I stay then but with the much-mentioned Arden or optionally also with Yves Rocher.
Who misses, however, the good old radiant Trésor of yesteryear, should smell here times over, because the light celery at the beginning also guaranteed to create the real vintage feeling.
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Intellectual nose teaser
Hello my dear perfume friends, one last time I want to open my perfume avntskalender for you this year, because the 24th is the last door. Today I face an infinitely brave task and test for you: Etat Libre d'Orange - Sécrétions Magnifiques.
Probably the most controversially rated and discussed fragrance. Is this art or can it go away? And how much art is allowed in a perfume anyway? Can you recreate a gang bang party olfactory? And in the process, I've heard opinions ranging from "gross, I want to throw up" and "a blood-covered crime scene" to "I need a new brain" All of which scared me to no end, having the shocked face of my perfume review goddess Katie Puckrick ever before my eyes.
When I had the fragrance as a sample then once in a hiking package with me at home, I smelled briefly at the spray head, grimaced and had to pass. I sent it unsprayed to the next. Scaredy-cat.
Now I got myself a fresh sample and would like to take on the heroic task for everyone's amusement. On and off I had smelled the spray head and only detected a harmless floral creaminess, but who knows, surely it's still playing dead and then, but then, it hits full on from the ambush. I'm shaking as I free the sprayer from the safety bag, about to get serious, my reindeer hair band should lighten the mood a bit. Spray or dab? Breaking it open could result in an accident, all the contents landing on the parquet floor and I'll have to redecorate the room, so I opt for spraying. A little spray, unerringly from the wrist, whew, at least that worked out well. I wave it around a bit, hardly daring to sniff, slowly approaching the spray site with my nose, sucking in the air intermittently AND: it's not that bad! I realize almost a little disappointed. Ok, taking another big breath I have to admit, it doesn't smell great either: I smell wet dog fur, something piercingly metallic. There was also talk of fresh mussels somewhere and yes, I smell those too or just the wet bleeding dog. No sperm, saliva, sweat, yes admittedly a little blood, but fresh blood smells different.
So I sit there, am a little bit disgusted and find the fragrance yet somehow interesting, because it is so very different, as everything smelled so far. He challenges its wearer emotionally as well as mentally. Emotionally, because it contains something addictive in the base, which magically attracts me. This creamy combination of milk, iris, coconut and sandal would make a smooth 8.0 scent without the oodles of azurone and ozone in the top notes, I'm sure. However, the top notes never quite disappear like that, only become toned down as the fragrance progresses. Mentally, the fragrance is challenging because it is quite suspenseful, admittedly interesting, but also exhausting because it is over-present. Even around the mini sprayer you can not smell around it.
Honestly, I imagined it more unwearable, due to the, let's call it kindly metallic sea breeze, it would not be a fragrance I could wear. However, I would give a lot to have a fragrance that has just that heart and base note. I would love it.
So Sécrétions Magnifique remains its fragrance that wants to provoke, just because of the name. You can like that or not. I count him to the avant-garde perfume art and concede him quite a raison d'être as an intellectual nose teaser. Or just as much ado about nothing, because with all honesty, I have smelled far worse fragrances.
I wish you all reflective holidays and if we no longer read us, come well into the new year!
Your Flaconesse
Probably the most controversially rated and discussed fragrance. Is this art or can it go away? And how much art is allowed in a perfume anyway? Can you recreate a gang bang party olfactory? And in the process, I've heard opinions ranging from "gross, I want to throw up" and "a blood-covered crime scene" to "I need a new brain" All of which scared me to no end, having the shocked face of my perfume review goddess Katie Puckrick ever before my eyes.
When I had the fragrance as a sample then once in a hiking package with me at home, I smelled briefly at the spray head, grimaced and had to pass. I sent it unsprayed to the next. Scaredy-cat.
Now I got myself a fresh sample and would like to take on the heroic task for everyone's amusement. On and off I had smelled the spray head and only detected a harmless floral creaminess, but who knows, surely it's still playing dead and then, but then, it hits full on from the ambush. I'm shaking as I free the sprayer from the safety bag, about to get serious, my reindeer hair band should lighten the mood a bit. Spray or dab? Breaking it open could result in an accident, all the contents landing on the parquet floor and I'll have to redecorate the room, so I opt for spraying. A little spray, unerringly from the wrist, whew, at least that worked out well. I wave it around a bit, hardly daring to sniff, slowly approaching the spray site with my nose, sucking in the air intermittently AND: it's not that bad! I realize almost a little disappointed. Ok, taking another big breath I have to admit, it doesn't smell great either: I smell wet dog fur, something piercingly metallic. There was also talk of fresh mussels somewhere and yes, I smell those too or just the wet bleeding dog. No sperm, saliva, sweat, yes admittedly a little blood, but fresh blood smells different.
So I sit there, am a little bit disgusted and find the fragrance yet somehow interesting, because it is so very different, as everything smelled so far. He challenges its wearer emotionally as well as mentally. Emotionally, because it contains something addictive in the base, which magically attracts me. This creamy combination of milk, iris, coconut and sandal would make a smooth 8.0 scent without the oodles of azurone and ozone in the top notes, I'm sure. However, the top notes never quite disappear like that, only become toned down as the fragrance progresses. Mentally, the fragrance is challenging because it is quite suspenseful, admittedly interesting, but also exhausting because it is over-present. Even around the mini sprayer you can not smell around it.
Honestly, I imagined it more unwearable, due to the, let's call it kindly metallic sea breeze, it would not be a fragrance I could wear. However, I would give a lot to have a fragrance that has just that heart and base note. I would love it.
So Sécrétions Magnifique remains its fragrance that wants to provoke, just because of the name. You can like that or not. I count him to the avant-garde perfume art and concede him quite a raison d'être as an intellectual nose teaser. Or just as much ado about nothing, because with all honesty, I have smelled far worse fragrances.
I wish you all reflective holidays and if we no longer read us, come well into the new year!
Your Flaconesse
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The fruity-smoky mainstream niche
Hello my dear perfume friends, today there is behind the penultimate 23.Türchen a First Bzw. Second Impressions to this fragrance: Gisada - Ambassador for Men.
Gisada is a Swiss luxury brand that offers handbags and perfumes of the middle to upper price range and which was completely unknown to me until now. Brand testinonial is Jeremy Meeks, the young man who was discovered as the prettiest jailbird ever because of his mug shot, the photo went viral in 2014. After serving his sentence, he took off with a stellar career as a model. Don't judge, (almost) everyone deserves a 2nd chance!
Despite all the good upbringing and to compensate for centuries of patriarchal oppression , I may just reduce him here to the appearance and say: the guy just looks hot!
The fragrance is more unisex than ever. And yet I want to describe to you today my first impressions about it entirely on the basis of the role-typical clichés, because we are used to and feel comfortable in it (Irone an. A treatise on this topic will be blogging soon):
At the spray head, the chemistry is already hitting me here, similar to Erba Pura. I smell Gamma-Undecalactone, a dark fruity aromachemical, to which I seem to react hyperosmically, already perceive small amounts exaggerated. Sprayed on, the scent starts intensely fresh and fruity. A short time later, the mango comes in and I get the olfactory impression as if a woman with fruity mango shower gel had sneaked into the men's group shower, where otherwise only products are used that are clearly declared as "for men". The mango note is nicely brought out, becoming creamier as the scent progresses, until it flattens out after about 3-4 hours, allowing the base to shine through. Which seems flat to me here though, like a dried up Herbes de Provence spice blend. From the Gamma-Undecalactone I hardly notice anything, it just seemed to stick to the spray head increased.
For the sake of completeness, I would also like to record my Second Impressions:
Apple, slightly spicy freshness at the beginning, subtle herbal notes come. The fragrance appears moderately sweet and suddenly blossoms the fruity mango note, citrus flanked, discreetly synthetic and once again I feel this fragrance is 100% unisex. The fruitiness slowly develops a creamy bottom note. After some time, about 2-3 hours, the herbaceousness becomes more prominent, minimal smokiness and Herbes de Provence notes come in. And very late in the drydown, only perceptible the next day, I smell it again, the Gamma-Undecalactone.
My conclusion to the fragrance: it is ok, whether the world has now necessarily needed him, however, is debatable. He plays with its fruity smokiness in a popular mainstream niche, wink wink, a combination that might seem familiar to many noses. Wear Ambassador for Man I would not, but also not push him off the edge of the bed, if a guy like Jeremy Meeks smells so .
Apologies for the charged mood today, it was all down to my squeaky underwear in the video and so I want to slowly ramp up the excitement curve until tomorrow when everything finally unloads and I test the most controversial fragrance ever. Be curious. And no, it is neither Office nor Date for Men ;-)
Thanks for reading,
Your Flaconesse
Gisada is a Swiss luxury brand that offers handbags and perfumes of the middle to upper price range and which was completely unknown to me until now. Brand testinonial is Jeremy Meeks, the young man who was discovered as the prettiest jailbird ever because of his mug shot, the photo went viral in 2014. After serving his sentence, he took off with a stellar career as a model. Don't judge, (almost) everyone deserves a 2nd chance!
Despite all the good upbringing and to compensate for centuries of patriarchal oppression , I may just reduce him here to the appearance and say: the guy just looks hot!
The fragrance is more unisex than ever. And yet I want to describe to you today my first impressions about it entirely on the basis of the role-typical clichés, because we are used to and feel comfortable in it (Irone an. A treatise on this topic will be blogging soon):
At the spray head, the chemistry is already hitting me here, similar to Erba Pura. I smell Gamma-Undecalactone, a dark fruity aromachemical, to which I seem to react hyperosmically, already perceive small amounts exaggerated. Sprayed on, the scent starts intensely fresh and fruity. A short time later, the mango comes in and I get the olfactory impression as if a woman with fruity mango shower gel had sneaked into the men's group shower, where otherwise only products are used that are clearly declared as "for men". The mango note is nicely brought out, becoming creamier as the scent progresses, until it flattens out after about 3-4 hours, allowing the base to shine through. Which seems flat to me here though, like a dried up Herbes de Provence spice blend. From the Gamma-Undecalactone I hardly notice anything, it just seemed to stick to the spray head increased.
For the sake of completeness, I would also like to record my Second Impressions:
Apple, slightly spicy freshness at the beginning, subtle herbal notes come. The fragrance appears moderately sweet and suddenly blossoms the fruity mango note, citrus flanked, discreetly synthetic and once again I feel this fragrance is 100% unisex. The fruitiness slowly develops a creamy bottom note. After some time, about 2-3 hours, the herbaceousness becomes more prominent, minimal smokiness and Herbes de Provence notes come in. And very late in the drydown, only perceptible the next day, I smell it again, the Gamma-Undecalactone.
My conclusion to the fragrance: it is ok, whether the world has now necessarily needed him, however, is debatable. He plays with its fruity smokiness in a popular mainstream niche, wink wink, a combination that might seem familiar to many noses. Wear Ambassador for Man I would not, but also not push him off the edge of the bed, if a guy like Jeremy Meeks smells so .
Apologies for the charged mood today, it was all down to my squeaky underwear in the video and so I want to slowly ramp up the excitement curve until tomorrow when everything finally unloads and I test the most controversial fragrance ever. Be curious. And no, it is neither Office nor Date for Men ;-)
Thanks for reading,
Your Flaconesse
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and the fairy from pink cotton candy land whispers to you, "Everything will be all right!"
Welcome to my 22nd perfume advent calendar door, today with Juniper Lane - Moon Flower.
First of all, I think the concepts of Clean Beauty and natural cosmetics great. The Juniper Lane brand advertises using ingredients that are 100% natural in origin. The products are NATURE.org certified, vegan and contain no mineral oil, preservatives or dyes. Further, I read on the packaging that the perfumes were created in Grasse, the French perfume capital, and manufactured in Germany. So far, so supportable.
And the packaging also makes a good impression. The artwork is delicate. The slightly raised flowers, fit in soft pink and green tones wonderfully to the golden font. The porcelain flacon is reminiscent of Gucci - Bloom. No one would suspect a cheap drugstore fragrance here. Only the spray head could be more easily guide, he hakt a little.
Sprayed on, the fragrance takes me to a fairyland, where the trees are made of pink cotton candy and rivers of fruity lemonade flow. It starts off subtly fruity with raspberry and cherry aromas over a soft bed of almond notes. It has a wispy to plush feel to its overall consistency, aromatically playfully sweet yet quite delicate, innocent I might say. A fragrance that doesn't scream loudly, "here I am!" but strikes the quiet, romantic notes. It reminds me of a fruity Kenzo - Amour. Also has certain similarities to the vanilla scented plastic figures from the 90s. Swans and ponies with pink glitter hair.
Moon Flower is a fragrance that fits wonderfully into the cold winter time, which I prefer to apply after the evening shower as a wellness, cuddle and fall asleep fragrance. A fragrance that whispers to you softly: Everything will be fine, I will protect you. You will never happen anything bad, because all the elves from the magic land watch over your sleep and send you rosy dreams.
If you're looking for a last minute gift for a young girl or someone young at heart, or a fragrance to give you back some lightheartedness in these stressful times, be sure to test it out.
I'm about to head out again, out into the cold world and I already know what magical creatures will accompany me.
Thanks for reading,
Your Flaconesse
First of all, I think the concepts of Clean Beauty and natural cosmetics great. The Juniper Lane brand advertises using ingredients that are 100% natural in origin. The products are NATURE.org certified, vegan and contain no mineral oil, preservatives or dyes. Further, I read on the packaging that the perfumes were created in Grasse, the French perfume capital, and manufactured in Germany. So far, so supportable.
And the packaging also makes a good impression. The artwork is delicate. The slightly raised flowers, fit in soft pink and green tones wonderfully to the golden font. The porcelain flacon is reminiscent of Gucci - Bloom. No one would suspect a cheap drugstore fragrance here. Only the spray head could be more easily guide, he hakt a little.
Sprayed on, the fragrance takes me to a fairyland, where the trees are made of pink cotton candy and rivers of fruity lemonade flow. It starts off subtly fruity with raspberry and cherry aromas over a soft bed of almond notes. It has a wispy to plush feel to its overall consistency, aromatically playfully sweet yet quite delicate, innocent I might say. A fragrance that doesn't scream loudly, "here I am!" but strikes the quiet, romantic notes. It reminds me of a fruity Kenzo - Amour. Also has certain similarities to the vanilla scented plastic figures from the 90s. Swans and ponies with pink glitter hair.
Moon Flower is a fragrance that fits wonderfully into the cold winter time, which I prefer to apply after the evening shower as a wellness, cuddle and fall asleep fragrance. A fragrance that whispers to you softly: Everything will be fine, I will protect you. You will never happen anything bad, because all the elves from the magic land watch over your sleep and send you rosy dreams.
If you're looking for a last minute gift for a young girl or someone young at heart, or a fragrance to give you back some lightheartedness in these stressful times, be sure to test it out.
I'm about to head out again, out into the cold world and I already know what magical creatures will accompany me.
Thanks for reading,
Your Flaconesse
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