Another work week over! It’s time for our Friday community project. Today we’re doing “down the rabbit hole Friday”: wear the perfume that turned you into a perfumista (whatever that means to you). What did you pick, and why?
I’m wearing Diptyque Philoskyos, which was in the very first sample set I ever ordered online — from Aedes, if I remember correctly. The first full bottle I bought was Parfums de Nicolaï Balle de Match, but Balle de Match was really just a nicer, more sophisticated version of the sort of fragrances I was already wearing. Philosykos, my second full bottle purchase, expanded my idea of what a personal fragrance ought to smell like…