mirth & marvels

Hello again 👋

The best I can promise at this point to is try to post consistently for at least a month straight.

If I can at least manage that, I’ll consider it a win 🙌

To piggyback off my previous post…

So lately, my current obsession has been perfume. I tried to join a group with other addicts to share my joy and learn new brands. I created an intro post (group rules) and mentioned a niche brand. The post sat in “pending approval” for 2 days. After seeing the chatter in the group, I soon figured out why.

I was asking about a brand that was several hundred dollars for 100ml. It’s a new niche brand and would have to be an on-the-road blind buy. A woman online described it with a visual she got upon first sniff: a white velour track suit with rhinestone flip-flops and a Stanley cup. She went on to say it smelled like Britney Spears perfume on first spray and dried down to White Diamonds.

No shade, but at that price point I didn’t want the smell and performance of drugstore perfume.

Why was it that a post approved after I submitted my intro was about Midnight Fantasy and a post defending White Diamonds. I shit you not. I stayed in the group for the cattiness, but deleted my intro. I didn’t want to deal with the awkwardness that affordability conversations bring.

Humans have always self-segregated. Always. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous and coddling.

I could go off the deep end with this point, but I’ll sum it up here: I’m not in the business of pretending something is (or isn’t) true to preserve someone’s fragile ego. It’s simply not my ministry.

Being in a group with people from different education levels and financial backgrounds has its benefits, but usually not usually when it pertains to hobbies and interests.

If you want to talk about Creed, Amouage, and Byredo, you’ll be hard-pressed to find kinship where drugstore and Victoria’s Secret perfumes are on the forefront.

Little by little I’ve been building my collection, but damn it’s hard to keep pushing when there’s no one behind you to push.

Scent of the Day: Tom Ford Lost Cherry