#pleasing perfume

Ooh. I’m really terrible at that, TBH. I wouldn’t trust me to give you a comp. I just went looking through TikTok to see if anyone had done one yet, but I can’t find anything.

All I can say is that while I like vanilla, I’m not a fan of super sweet perfumes that make me smell like a bakery. This is definitely less sweet than your usual gourmand vanillas.

To me, it was warm and cozy and a little bit spicy (must be the clove). I would wear it a lot during the cooler months.

Sorry I’m terrible at this. The best I can do is tell you what scents I love and wear often that are maybe in a similar family:

Jo Malone: Myrrh and Tonka

Gallagher Fragrance: Tonkazure

That must be it! Excuse me while I get all perfumey here for a second. Perfumes when they get made are left in the open for a couple of weeks to a month to macerate before getting bottled. Maceration is when the oils and alcohol all mix and when exposed to oxygen the alcohol evaporates you're left with the scent itself. Ideally they don't skip or shorten the maceration step so the fragrance you get from the bottle is how it's supposed to smell right at purchase. But if they shorten it, you can macerate yourself by spraying the perfume, leaving the cap open and storing in a dark place. The oxygen will get into the bottle and do its thing. If you ever try a perfume in a store from a tester, and buy it and at home and it smells different, that's because that sample bottle been sitting out for a while. So that hopefully is what happened here, their brand new bottles fresh of the assembly line, brand new opened and if pleasing shortened the maceration time you got the alcohol scent. But that's solvable by waiting a couple of weeks after spraying it. It's annoying you'd have to do that for a high end perfume but it's fixable. Still won't buy without testing first, yes they need samples even for purchase because I've been burned by blind buys before. But this gives me hope! I really want this perfume bottle

I'm hoping I smelled it wrong, too. I almost want to go back and try again. I swear I can still smell a trace of it on my wrist and I really liked the scent once it dried down.

It's funny because there's a Le Labo store just a block away from where Pleasing was, and I stopped in to get something for a gift, and they make it right there in the store. The man told me that it needs two weeks for the scents to settle and combine properly, and it made me wonder if the bottle they'd had at the pop-up was newly made.

I agree with you about longevity. I have a bunch of expensive perfumes, and this might be the longest anything has ever lasted on me without having to practically bathe in it. I have a feeling that they'll release a travel size after the holidays. I might wait and buy that just to give it a shot. It's much more affordable. I wish they did samples. It's annoying that they don't--even if they charged for them.

idk if i ever shared this with you guys but it’s my prized possession i painted a bunch of harry’s tattoos on a plate that i keep my perfumes on!

I don’t know, man, I don’t know!!! But I would. I would for him. I do stupid shit for him.

Hi nonnie, I remember two very helpful posts by @blackandwhlteaesthetlc here and by @indiaalphawhiskey here.