thank you!! yeah i was like “no, i can’t let this perfume be ruined… i was supposed to pass this down to my children like my mom passed down to me… but i’m not having any children…” yeah, not any REAL children, but I DO have this vampire, and he is very much like an old woman to me. he is such a grandma to me. so he’s my grandma now. and also my child. apparently. either way, those are the two eligible candidates for a signature scent of shalimar.
i love when people who aren’t into perfumes have one that a relative gave them that they’ve just kind of stuck with. perfumes don’t really expire, and i think that’s such a beautiful thing, because it allows us to bond with scents for a long time. it allows them to truly exist alongside us and become special objects. sometimes people just kinda throw perfume at people as a gift, but they never really know how long it’s gonna be sitting on our dresser or what our relationship to it is gonna be. it’s just like… “here, take this new smell.”