...Thanks everyone for your recommends! Will test what I can find asap, the list is growing 😁

...What are your favourite tea-scented frags? Green tea, flavoured black tea, Earl Grey, Lapsang Souchong, etc etc etc - looking for all and any teas,either with straight up tea notes, or something you perceive as tea, even if it's not in the pyramid.I have samples of Hermessence Osmanthe Yunnan and Bois Datchaï , and like them both though they are very different. I also perceive a tea note in some berry perfumes like Touch The Original Gold and some patchouli perfumes like Wild Rose Aoud.Curious to hear about your recommendations!

...Rojabird@Nushka thats a great idea! I could post here when I’ve tested them. :)No pressure though 😁 Enjoy the testing! 

...Very curious to read about your impressions of whatever you get to test! 

...Watercolour and fresh/light: Un Jardin sur le Toit Another green one: L'Eau miXte Light and powdery (very light kumquat, so not as citrusy as lemon for example): Le Jardin de Monsieur Li A very light white floral Chypre (the eau de toilette fits your request better imho): La Panthère Eau de Toilette Powdery floral : Ananda Eau de Parfum Powdery slightly spicy cocoa: Rococò A warm fluffy amber, slightly spicy but not "in your face" : Ambre Cashmere Intense

...Obviously and with no contest: Fils de joie

...Royal Gold Eau de Parfum - best vanilla since Yves Rocher discontinued Cap Nature - Vanille and Vanille Bourbon Eau de Toilette

...It annoys me but yes, I also get hung up on silly things like names with certain connotations...which I find ridiculous because names are just marketing and often have nothing to do with the perfume composition itself; but I can't help it 🤷‍♀️Funny though, I always read "Boy smells" as an active verb, not as in "boy smelling of something" but "boy smelling/sniffing something" 👃🌷

...So many! Rose de Caroline Un Air d'Apogée Fils de joie Sa majesté la rose Rose de Taif Extrait de Parfum Velvet Haze Rose Morocco Afrah But by far my biggest 🤯🤯🤯 moment was Emarati Musk

...Chypre Palatin La Panthère Eau de Parfum

...I think there's a difference between what something actually costs, and what you'd be willing to pay. If I understand correctly, you're talking about the latter. Because, let's be real, nothing costs as much as the exhorbitant prices one sees. Some of the prices are blown up for this specific reason - so that people willing to pay that much get the feeling of belonging to some "elite". You're never buying just a perfume, but everything that goes with it - for some it's an illusory sense of self-worth.

...Datura noir Eau de Parfum - had a sample and thought it was too cool (in every sense of the word) for me to wear it. Kept testing it for two years always thinking- nah, not for me.Then I bought a bottle 🥰 J'adore Eau de Parfum Infinissime - had a few samples, thought the scent was boring and wore it just to geth through the samples, then grew to love and bought a bottle 🥰

...CocopahMitchcraft,Mitch Please! Don't make me take my babies out of their boxes! 😂😂Edit: The pillow technique works! 😍 Those bottles!!! Love Hind Al Oud.

...SOTD: Velvet Haze Let MeChill 🍹🏝️p.s. a few more: Taif Aoud Parfum :Get My LimoDatura noir Eau de Parfum :Goth Girl's SummerRose de Caroline:MILF Superhero Disguised

...Python Promesse Private Collection Jasmine White Moss Eau de Parfum Escale à Pondichéry Dior Addict (2002) Eau de ParfumAll the classic Guerlains before they were reformulated and poured into the same bottles.And regretting not getting doubles of the ones I only bought once and finished already:Fleurs de Nuit Amour d'Amandier

...Rosa Centifolia (2022) - a woody rose

...Any 5 notes? I want the smell of summer rain from my childhood.Top: petrichore, cold breeze; Heart: wet asphalt, wet linden tree leaves; Base: sunshine

...VaivaK95I kid you all not, I was waiting in line at Starbucks and a guy standing behind me buried his nose/face into my hair, then said 'mmmhhhh you smell like a snack'. the culprit was Xerjoff Casamorati Italica.That's terrifying 😨 Compliments are wonderful, strangers treating people like an object are not 😅

...Raspy and jarring synthetic oud 😵 (gimme the good stuff any day though)

...Two types: 1) memory-triggering perfumes, which are anchored to a time or a person the thought of which is calmingL'Occitan (my husband's cologne)Angel Eau de Parfum (a childhood memory) 2) physically relaxing aromas that work more like aromatherapyIntuition Parfum (for the orange and roundness of amber)Sa majesté la rose or any other rose-centered perfume