Italian lemon
Australian seaside moss
French sage
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06/22/2023
IdleExpatter
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The joy of being pleasant
In every hobby, you hit that point where you overcomplicate things.
You spend hours falling down the review rabbit hole (hi, thanks for reading my review!)
You start prioritizing your fragrances by compliments they've gotten (or, more likely, that you wish they'd get you).
You set your heart on a new fragrance only to agonize over that ONE reviewer who said it was too mainstream to have any merit.
And you start to worry that a fragrance needs to be edgy, complicated, and esoteric - maybe even generally off-putting - to be worthy of your attention.
If you find yourself stressing out about this hobby like that, give Pacific Rock Moss a try, because this is one of the most joyously pleasant and uplifting fragrances I've tried.
Wearing it makes me feel happy. It's nice. It's just nice. And that's great!
That doesn't mean it's boring: it isn't. This opens as a juicy, vivacious citrus with all the bitterness stripped away. There's none of that zesty bite you sometimes get from citrus fragrances. It's a beautiful fresh scent.
As you glide along on that smooth and mellow lemon, you pick up a little bit of an oceanic touch, but in a way that's reminiscent rather than photorealistic. You won't smell LIKE the seaside, but you'll smell like the IDEA of the seaside.
As it dries down, a touch of woodiness comes out to deepen the experience, but it never gets too dark or too rich.
I know some folks have said "shower gel", and I sorta see what they mean as far as the overall scent profile, but I want to be clear that this stuff never goes soapy (for me, anyway). It's the aroma of a shower gel, not the chemistry of one.
I have never had a complaint about the performance. Now, to be clear, I am the OPPOSITE of those collectors who think that every fragrance needs to last 60 hours and choke out everybody in a 10-mile radius to be respectable. I much prefer my fragrances to have good manners and stay fairly close (I wear for myself, not to force others to experience my hobby). But this stuff still lasts a perfectly respectable and sensible 8+ hours on me, and throughout that time it pokes its head up and says hi.
This isn't going to challenge your idea of what fragrance can be. It isn't going to make any of your friends go "ew yuck what is that" so you can rush off to the forums and scoff at how their unrefined palates can't appreciate your niche masterpiece that smells like a rotting carcass.
It IS going to smell really really good, and be super pleasant, and maybe - just maybe - if you let it - it will make you feel happy too.
You spend hours falling down the review rabbit hole (hi, thanks for reading my review!)
You start prioritizing your fragrances by compliments they've gotten (or, more likely, that you wish they'd get you).
You set your heart on a new fragrance only to agonize over that ONE reviewer who said it was too mainstream to have any merit.
And you start to worry that a fragrance needs to be edgy, complicated, and esoteric - maybe even generally off-putting - to be worthy of your attention.
If you find yourself stressing out about this hobby like that, give Pacific Rock Moss a try, because this is one of the most joyously pleasant and uplifting fragrances I've tried.
Wearing it makes me feel happy. It's nice. It's just nice. And that's great!
That doesn't mean it's boring: it isn't. This opens as a juicy, vivacious citrus with all the bitterness stripped away. There's none of that zesty bite you sometimes get from citrus fragrances. It's a beautiful fresh scent.
As you glide along on that smooth and mellow lemon, you pick up a little bit of an oceanic touch, but in a way that's reminiscent rather than photorealistic. You won't smell LIKE the seaside, but you'll smell like the IDEA of the seaside.
As it dries down, a touch of woodiness comes out to deepen the experience, but it never gets too dark or too rich.
I know some folks have said "shower gel", and I sorta see what they mean as far as the overall scent profile, but I want to be clear that this stuff never goes soapy (for me, anyway). It's the aroma of a shower gel, not the chemistry of one.
I have never had a complaint about the performance. Now, to be clear, I am the OPPOSITE of those collectors who think that every fragrance needs to last 60 hours and choke out everybody in a 10-mile radius to be respectable. I much prefer my fragrances to have good manners and stay fairly close (I wear for myself, not to force others to experience my hobby). But this stuff still lasts a perfectly respectable and sensible 8+ hours on me, and throughout that time it pokes its head up and says hi.
This isn't going to challenge your idea of what fragrance can be. It isn't going to make any of your friends go "ew yuck what is that" so you can rush off to the forums and scoff at how their unrefined palates can't appreciate your niche masterpiece that smells like a rotting carcass.
It IS going to smell really really good, and be super pleasant, and maybe - just maybe - if you let it - it will make you feel happy too.
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