#universal flowering

[robotmonsterbabe]

absolutely entranced with the banner at the foot of the gumamina website, will ABSOLUTELY be ordering odette and odile sometime soon

[paenethine]

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Toskovat/Inexcusable-Evil-75421.html

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Today I remembered destruction.

The pain of life often makes me forget the more disgusting pain of having it taken.

Fallen buildings on the news, crying babies, burnt flowers.

Memories lost, tears drowned, coffees never shared…

At least I have iodine on my wounds and crutches left to use, but what about those that don’t?

The next war will decide not what is right, but what is left.

Hate all governments & love all people.

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https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Toskovat/Age-of-Innocence-75417.html

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Today I remembered cycles.

I saw children on their bicycles near cars rushing by. Exhaust blowing on cotton candy.

Funny circus, absurd circle. It reminds me of knowing sweetness when I was their age. Strawberry jam and raspberry yoghurt. It was all so good but I couldn’t know it.

Then this metallic screech interrupted it all. The abrupt brake on youth. Hot, torn rubber marked so all could see. Born out of petrol on a back seat.

I was all so fast and loud, and the car couldn’t reverse again.

Now I’m parked in a hospital. Hope they have something sweet in store for me.

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https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Universal-Flowering/Poems-One-Through-Twelve-81917.html

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Sunfrosted ginger in Silver Lined Boxes

Nylon silk gloves in Ironed Violet Steam

Those heartbreaking Eau-de-Nil eyes of mimosa blossoms

Opoponax stained porcelain, Glossed Vermilion

Eggshell Blue cradled doves, painted and seared

Nebula plumes like stripes, monotony

Some solar breeze, baked en croute, with crunch

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perfumes I want + their notes and descriptions

[obsequist]

A butcher and a barman…

[fragranticareviewers]

[kittenpoem]

[fragranticareviewers]

[fragranticareviewers]

[moonbeamjuno]

wearing this today. after weeks of conflicting feelings, and hurling over the initial sharpness but strangely nostalgic aroma that drew me in, i have become intoxicated by this fragrance. there was something repulsive to me in the beginning, maybe the cream soda? or how the cream and the lime come together. but the way it settles into this blissful sweet, ever so slightly fruity and juvenile sprightliness, it reminds me so much of my bedroom when i was a teenager. before all the drugs and the doom and gloom and the burdens of life. especially, in the summer. laying on the floor looking through fashion magazines with the windows open. clipping my favorite pictures and taping them all over the four walls of my bedroom. i'm not one for gourmand scents, but something about this isn't entirely gourmand to me. yes it's sweet/fruity but not too much of either. and yes, it's slightly creamy but there's the floral notes that blend, balance the cream, the raspberry. the lime is a nice touch, along with the chosen floral notes and the grass to tame that sweetness. tastefully done and memorable. maybe i'll get the full bottle. i love this house.