these fops, they’re trying to murder me

formerly dance-in-the-morning-glow

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✧ ao3: fleethelight

✧ your local Perfume & Pathetic Men Guy(🍤)™ to some, a demon in a wig to others

✧ currently enjoying: potc, hozier, the last dinner party, ghost, florence + the machine

✧ personal posts are tagged with #elle’s hell

✧ mostly found rambling about:

⋆ my fics and wips (currently only writing for potc — should i make a masterlist? probably)

⋆ period dramas, music, history

⋆ niche/indie fragrance

✧ expect:

⋆ fic snippets, updates & writing thoughts

⋆ the occasional post about tom hollander doing unspeakable things to my psyche

⋆ oddly specific perfume musings #elle’s smells

hiii kit!!

so for gillette, i’m thinking not just clean aquatic vibes, but something with a slightly sharper, cheekier edge in contrast to the more prim-and-proper aquatics i assigned to james.

and for a man who’s constantly having a terrible day at work (and mostly based on the name alone), i’d probably go with belly of the whale by anomalous perfume (marine, salt, waterfall, mandarin, ozone, driftwood, ambergris, sandalwood, musk, animalics, vanilla, benzoin). it has this slightly feral, animalic undertone that feels very “salt-crusted, been-through-it” in a way that suits him.

or, alternatively, black sea by lorenzo pazzaglia (bergamot, sardinian myrtle, salt, ozone, aquatic notes, orange blossom, black salt of cyprus, ylang-ylang, seaweed, musk, patchouli, oakmoss, ambergris). i feel like the myrtle note in particular adds a green, slightly bitter sharpness that keeps it from being just a “nice ocean scent” and gives it a bit more character.

hiii moosie <3

4. What was your first ship/OTP?

answered here :) i think a close second—and a very logical follow-up—was bard the bowman/thranduil.

9. Tell me a piece of gossip.

oh god. um. i can’t think of anything juicy right now 😭

i did once send a confession to a fandom confession blog while stoned off my tits and then completely forgot about it by the time it got posted. when i eventually came across it, i remember thinking, “oooo, this person thinks exactly like me!!!”

…it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that person was, in fact, me. anyway.

10. What is an act of kindness you have never forgotten?

this is weirdly hard to answer. the first thing that comes to mind is my now-husband lending me his shoes at a party after my heels had rubbed my feet completely raw. he then proceeded to walk home in nothing but socks. in december. through some of the nastiest parts of town. (everyone who knows where i live knows exactly what i’m talking about. there are some really questionable areas 😭)

19. What do you smell like?

awww, i love that you asked this!! :^) i think most of my friends would probably associate me with deep, ambery, boozy or incense-y scents. but certain fig fragrances and white florals also feel very me. it depends on the day, honestly.