Wrapped up in my furs (real, vintage, NEVER that plastic fake crap, except for fake leopard skin, that has to be fake or it doesn’t work) with my painted face that smells ever so lightly of coty airspun (I don’t actually use it as my skin HATES talc, but the smell is too lovely) and the waxy sweetness of lipstick, in my heaviest jewelry, this is the perfect scent, warm and sweet and spicy, bohemian royalty in resins and amber, sandalwood, bay leaf, patchouli. It is bliss
Spices and sweat and animalistic notes are what I’m really feeling right now, give me civet and castoreum and musk and genet and ambergris and leather piled on sandalwood and cinnamon and cumin and nutmeg with sweet amber drizzled all over it.
OMG this is my perfect Gardenia. I’ve been searching forever, sweet and fresh and without the gross coconut scent I get in so many gardenia scents, with a warm sexy base of benzoin. Just perfect
Fruit and flowers over a base of slightly sweaty flesh, a lover’s skin in a room full of vases of lilacs and roses, peonies and a plate of fresh cut citrus. You burned incense yesterday and the faint smoky tang of it lingers in the background.
It’s sweet, sensual, wonderfully carnal in the face of so many “clean” modern florals. Very, very sexy.
I remember hearing the story of a woman who’d grown up in a society that didn’t do deoderant (I don’t remember which one) who’d married an American man and her saying that sharing a bed with him was like sleeping with a ghost because she couldn’t smell him.
I think culturally we’re weird about smell. I mean Americans, but also a lot of Northern Europe. People who love perfume say Japan’s not a perfume country and thus not a fragrance country, but Japan is a heavily fragranced country, they just don’t do perfume as much, Japan doesn’t have a tradition of wearing fragrance on skin, instead one scents clothes, and home and other spaces one exists in (the Japanese incense tradition is an especially lovely one) and strongly scented fabric softeners sell extraordinarily well there.
In any case, we North Americans, and Northern Europeans (especially north western Europeans, Russia and other Eastern European nations have a very strong history of perfumery) are unusual in our distaste for fragrance, not just our distaste for perfume, but our overall suspicion of scent.
We blamed odeurs for the plague, and in modern times stereotype certain ethnicities as prone to wearing far too much scent, we are deeply suspicious of fragrance chemicals and clamour for unscented products. We seem to believe that the very act of smelling anything is bad for us. We do everything we can to avoid producing natural human odors (even those that are regarded as pleasant or inoffensive elsewhere) and seem in general to have some yen for an enviornment completely devoid of smell, which is to me as peculiar a longing as a longing for an enviornment completely devoid of sound,
Perhaps we lost our ability to stomach fragrances around the time the anglosphere lost our ability to handle spicy food (the 19th century, our food was actually quite spicy until then, when a health fad for bland food created the sensitivity to heat that we’re known for as a culture today) perhaps it has something to do with the weather or protestantism, all I know is that we’re weird about smell as a culture.
In any case, I think this distaste for scent overall leads us to vastly underestimate and ignore our senses of smell, we are unaware of the scents of those we love, we ignore the scented landscape.
Extraordinarily elegant, but not fouffy, wood and fruit with a hint of leather, this luxurious fragrance inspired by Napoleon is ideal for Picard. The understated elegance of the House of Creed is perfect for the elegant and cultured, yet pragmatic Picard.
Riker
Lalique Encre Noir
Vetiver, cypress, cashmere wood and musk create a masculine yet warm scent, as virile and yet likable as Riker
Worf
LM Perfumes Black Oud
Oud wood, sandalwood, castoreum, civet, sweaty cumin this ultra hardcore woody/animalistic is the sort of scent a Klingon would adore, the true scent of a warrior.
Troi
The Different Company Oriental Lounge
Spices, amber, animalistic labdanum all speak to a hippie with elegant taste. Sweet and pleasant as kind as she is.
Data
Guerlain Cherry Blossom
Data would notice that humans wear fragrance and get really interested. He’d take Troi or Riker along to try a bunch, would end up falling in love with a pretty, feminine scent like this one, but it’s combination of tea, lemon and cherry is as sweet and loveable as Data himself, and it would just end up sort of… working.
La Forge
Diptyque
Philosykos
My headcanon is that Geordie appreciates fragrance a lot and has a collection of interesting and unconventional fragrances. He’d probably find their chemical composition interesting as well as appreciating them as an art form. I feel he would appreciate this fig and fig leaf composition because it would make him think of pleasant summer days and warm weather.
The Borg
Bath and Body Works Cucumber Melon
Argue all you want, but I insist they pump borg ships full of the stuff. This is the sort of fragrance a hive mind would produce.
Lwaxana Troi
YSL Opium
Oversexed and over the top, but ultimately well intentioned
Dr. Crusher
Dana Chantilly
A gentle, classic feminine with a lovely citrus sherbert opening, lady like and yet somehow also eminently practical. Warm and friendly in it’s sandalwood, sweet vanilla and earthy oakmoss.
Wesley
Axe Pheonix
He’d douse himself in it and have to be told to “Stop wearing so much of that horrid stuff, everyone on the bridge is getting a headache” He’s just at that age.
Incense, pine, aldehydes make for a unique,intriguing strange and ageless yet utterly wearable fragrance as mysterious, knowing and good hearted as Guinan herself.
O’Brian:
Stetson Stetson
Honey, musk, sandalwood, this cheap and cheerful masculine is probably what O’Brian has been wearing since college, and it suits him.
Oh yes I just chose a bunch of perfumes appropriate for TNG characters
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 