some favorite perfumes (so far)

from my year of perfumes

spoilers!!

This was the year I found a new expensive hobby (perfume) to replace my old expensive hobby (drinking gin). So I wanted to put down some of my favorites from this year—all of which, weirdly, I have not actually posted about yet, though some of them will almost definitely get posts before the end of the year, unless I get hit by a car or something.

At this point in my journey to the center of perfume, I have tested something over 170 perfumes.¹ (This was achieved by wearing at least one new sample every day, and sometimes more than one depending on the longevity of the first one I tried.) I have not tried very many “canonical” perfumes outside of Chanel No. 5 or even that much of the niche perfume world that tends to dominate forums I look at online (ELDO, By Killian, Byredo, Frederic Malle, etc).

This wasn’t really on purpose, I have a bunch from t…