DTWOF: OMG SO MUCH PATCHOULI AND SANDALWOOD FOR THIS FANDOM. And in the middle of them all, there's Mo with her self-righteous white musk.
Lois might actually be Bulgari Black. I can't get it to play nice with my body chemistry, and it has that dreaded 'perfume' note I can't handle. But from the way other people describe it, I think it's Lois. Cheerfully, enthusiastically, unthreateningly kinky.
Mo: as mentioned, something that evokes laundry powder in everyone who smells it. With an undercurrent of... vanilla? Vanillin, lignin, something like that? Book pages, but also a hint of corruptibility. In a unisex or masculine formulation.
Sydney: something very deliberately and consciously 'perfumey'. Boutique parfumerie, not an indie oil. The phrase she'd use herself is 'femme aggressiveness', but in a very consciously deconstructed way - femme with a giant dildo and a shelf of cultural studies journals. So much Iso-E-Super. So much.
Clarice: I'm thinking pears and cinnamon and cedarwood, warm and homey, but fenced in by something jarring and synthetic. "A butch in a skirt," Toni called her when she went for her interview at the environment firm. Someone who put on corporate drag and then the wind changed. But the synthetic thing should also capture her zeal, her willingness to sacrifice anything to fight for her cause. I'm not sure what note that'd be.
Toni: whatever that last note was for Clarice, this would be the natural, non-synth version of that, and sandalwood, and something floral, but I'm not sure what.
Sparrow: the source of most of the patchouli and sandalwood fumes. Also grapefruit and rosemary and a bit of pepper, and an oddly strong note of steel. This one is an indie oil-based perfume. No alcohol. You can't buy this blend, you have to barter for it from your friend who does tarot readings at the farmer's market.
Ginger: do I even have to say what the top note is? ...It's ginger. Plus a tiny hint of patchouli, a bit of cloves, a good dollop of leather and paper, and... would lavender work with ginger? I'm not sure. If not lavender, maybe rosemary? Something to cover "studious and intensely focused and also zealous, but with a strong streak of procrastination." Oh, orange! Definitely orange zest. Bright and sharp. And definitely a doggy note as well.
Stuart: basil and musk and cilantro and nutritional yeast (is that a thing you can put in perfumes? he would try anyway) and citrus.
Janis: right now, I regret to say, Britney Spears' 'Fantasy'. She'll grow out of it and end up with something still feminine but less EXPLOSION OF TEENAGE GIRL.
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Lois might actually be Bulgari Black. I can't get it to play nice with my body chemistry, and it has that dreaded 'perfume' note I can't handle. But from the way other people describe it, I think it's Lois. Cheerfully, enthusiastically, unthreateningly kinky.
Mo: as mentioned, something that evokes laundry powder in everyone who smells it. With an undercurrent of... vanilla? Vanillin, lignin, something like that? Book pages, but also a hint of corruptibility. In a unisex or masculine formulation.
Sydney: something very deliberately and consciously 'perfumey'. Boutique parfumerie, not an indie oil. The phrase she'd use herself is 'femme aggressiveness', but in a very consciously deconstructed way - femme with a giant dildo and a shelf of cultural studies journals. So much Iso-E-Super. So much.
Clarice: I'm thinking pears and cinnamon and cedarwood, warm and homey, but fenced in by something jarring and synthetic. "A butch in a skirt," Toni called her when she went for her interview at the environment firm. Someone who put on corporate drag and then the wind changed. But the synthetic thing should also capture her zeal, her willingness to sacrifice anything to fight for her cause. I'm not sure what note that'd be.
Toni: whatever that last note was for Clarice, this would be the natural, non-synth version of that, and sandalwood, and something floral, but I'm not sure what.
Sparrow: the source of most of the patchouli and sandalwood fumes. Also grapefruit and rosemary and a bit of pepper, and an oddly strong note of steel. This one is an indie oil-based perfume. No alcohol. You can't buy this blend, you have to barter for it from your friend who does tarot readings at the farmer's market.
Ginger: do I even have to say what the top note is? ...It's ginger. Plus a tiny hint of patchouli, a bit of cloves, a good dollop of leather and paper, and... would lavender work with ginger? I'm not sure. If not lavender, maybe rosemary? Something to cover "studious and intensely focused and also zealous, but with a strong streak of procrastination." Oh, orange! Definitely orange zest. Bright and sharp. And definitely a doggy note as well.
Stuart: basil and musk and cilantro and nutritional yeast (is that a thing you can put in perfumes? he would try anyway) and citrus.
Janis: right now, I regret to say, Britney Spears' 'Fantasy'. She'll grow out of it and end up with something still feminine but less EXPLOSION OF TEENAGE GIRL.