Dollhouse Astrid Perfume / Blooddrop 2009

Dollhouse, with notes of raspberry, vanilla, grapefruit, calendula, and bergamot, is a hypersaturated hallucinatory Lisa Frank folder funhouse fruit salad of a scent. I think this fragrance would be so much fun for a jellyshoe flipflop string-shouldered neon sundress summertime, and though I don’t know if I would associate this with dollhouses, I try not to critique or judge inspiration. Like the Boulet Brothers say on every episode of Dragula, “We’re not here to judge your drag. Drag is art, and art is subjective.” The artful inspiration that goes into the creation of a fragrance is intensely personal, and if this is what a perfumer imagines a dollhouse smells like, who am I to argue with that? For myself, I think it smells like technicolor dolphins, tie-dye unicorns and kaleidoscopic rainbow daydreams.