perfume write-ups: mary shelley

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my first time with the substack image editor… seamless work if i say so myself

Have you ever noticed that you can sing “Mary Shelley” to the tune of “Buddy Holly”? I sure noticed because it gets stuck in my head every time I open this draft. I’m trying to make this your problem also.

Anyway. For reasons that don’t matter, I’ve been collecting Mary Shelley perfumes. The world of indie fragrances is fully of witchy nerds (I say this affectionately) and if there’s one thing witchy nerds love… it’s Mary Shelley. So this is all indie stuff. If Guerlain has a Mary Shelley perfume they’re doing a great job hiding it from me.

Not paywalling this one because it’s a bit of a goof, but there will be a paywalled one coming out soon. (I only send the paywalled perfume posts to paid subscribers because I find getting short little preview posts really annoying, incidentally.…