Sadly "outgrowing" Alien - edit: no she's back!

Edit April 2025:

I'm happy to edit this and say I'm loving Alien again. I really do think last year I was just having a wonderful time discovering new scents, especially gourmands, that the last thing I wanted to wear was my signature scent of the last 2 years. I think this taught me to not think my current perfume obsession/s means a permanent change in my taste. I really did way too much overthinking with it last year. My taste is still very much mainly gourmands, but Alien will always have a special place in my wardrobe and I still think it's in my top 2 favourites.

Original post July 2024:

Sadly, I'm finding myself already having outgrown Alien Eau de Parfum , or rather that my tastes have just changed. I have been preferring much more sweet fragrances this year, so it's funny to say "outgrown" a perfume like Alien when I'm reaching for things like Fantasy Eau de Parfum and Moonlight Body Mist instead.

I have not even finished my 30ml of Alien, as I am sensitive to the strength of it and spray it so lightly using the mist method. But I fully expected that coming into winter, I'd be using up my last ~5 ml and refilling my bottle with the 100ml refill I bought back at the end of summer. I am now concerned I may never even use that refill. It's now mid winter and I have tried wearing Alien a few times, but all of those times I felt it was still too strong and I felt relief when I took those clothes off and showered.

I have also tried spraying it on a jacket so that I get the nice amber drydown for days, like I used to love doing on my jackets and even my pajamas, but I don't like that either this year. I barely smell the warm amber now, it's mostly just overpowering cashmere- so even the way I perceive the perfume has changed. Yet I really don't want to part ways with my bottle.

I still hope for a time where I know for sure "yes, this is the best occasion to wear Alien"- which are times when I will be out for a long time at night, usually outdoors (like a friend is having a fire in their backyard, or we are all going out to explore at night, or we are going clubbing but I feel like spending most of the night in the smokers area). A time like that hasn't come this year, so to be fair, there always has been a better option than Alien to wear so far.

I also think that my change in tastes towards sweet gourmand fragrances is probably also linked to me being more committed to "juvenile" things like having pink and pastel purple everything, sanrio and kawaii everything. Maybe something to do with deeper psychology and needing to comfort my inner child or whatever, and Alien just isn't fitting there? Yet knowing this could be linked also makes me realise that this is also likely to change sometime in the future, so I can't believe that at my age of 27, I will suddenly be only into cute girly pink and purple everything for the rest of my life (there would be no problem if this were true though!). So I may very well become partial to Alien again.

I am experiencing something similar with Nirvana Amethyst- a fragrance that speaks so strongly to the part of me that loves Alien too- the part of me that used to feel a lot edgier and really loved showing my uniqueness in a rebellious and provocative way. I have not been wearing Nirvana Amethyst much either.

For now I will just keep Alien separate from my wardrobe, stored away, hoping another time I can come back to it and be obsessed with it again. Because I definitely can see a time where that comes true, but it likely won't be this year.
My 30 ml bottle is small, so it's no big deal to keep it stored away, waiting. The refill is rather large, but I got it for half price and if I end up wanting to wear Alien a lot again, I will regret it if my refill is gone.