idk if you can get these where you live, but target stocks a brand called finery and their perfumes i believe are mostly dupes of more expensive ones, with the body sprays being $15 and the perfumes being $30. my fave is Without A Trace which is a dupe of phlur's Missing Person but i actually prefer without a trace! a nice musky/woody/suede kind of scent. i also don't like sweet scents, and there are several that i like from that brand. i'm wearing Before The Rainbow rn
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i love the finery brand at target. their line has a lot of scents and some of them are dupes for expensive perfumes; i actually like without a trace more than the expensive perfume it's a dupe of. they have perfumes for $30 and body sprays for $15, i just bought the midnight cafe spray today. personally i hate vanilla scents and love florals so my specific picks probably wouldn't line up with yours lol, but i'm sure they have some gourmands you'd like! also at target, the brand mix bar has a vanilla one that i know a lot of people love and they also make a roll on perfume oil of it
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When I finally got on antidepressants and stopped self-medicating my depression with an life-consuming addiction to amphetamines, I bought, like, 200 bottles of perfume. It wasn’t that before I got on proper medication, I couldn’t smell. It was just that when I was in the thick my depression, smelling something lovely just didn’t bring me any joy. It was too slight a pleasure—like listening to rain or baking cakes—to affect me. The only way I was able to afford 200 bottles of perfume was Dossier. They make dupes of iconic scents at price points of $29, $39 and $49. Their candles are great, too! My favorites are the Diptyque Do Son dupe, the Baccarat Rouge 540 dupe, the Love, Don’t Be Shy dupe (it’s Rihanna’s signature scent!) and, since I live in Florida now, I also love the Le Labo Santal 33 dupe because people chase me down the street to ask me what it is. It’s so sweet and heartwarming watching Floridians smell Santal 33 for the first time. But obviously I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that perfume back in New York. Being seen as an offbeat and eccentric weird is too essential my fragile sense of self.
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(Full disclaimer I have no idea if some of these are discontinued)
Karma by Lush is one of my favourites too so I think you might like these. They're not the same but I feel have a similar ✨je ne sais quoi✨
Amber Nod (Marks and Spencer): love little amber amber perfume. Marks and Spencer perfumes are wicked. Warmth by the apothecary range is like £13 and is a dupe for Santal 33 by Le Labo. Yeah it doesn't last quite as long on your skin but at £13 you can go crazy with the top ups. All the Apothecary range is really really nice
420 by Lush: A really woody CBD infused scent. It's kind of weird but in an enjoyable way.
Neroli perfume oil by Wanderflower - a warming comforting neroli scent. Oil based perfume is a nice more affordable option over eau de toilette because it lasts longer on the skin (though the scent often has a different and less fresh quality imo)
Arket perfume oil trio - The Oakmoss one especially is top tier. Really nice to layer due to their simplicity.
Alexander McQueen - One of the only "celebrity" perfumes I've actually loved. It's so hot and sexy and mysterious and smells like a strange flower you'd find somewhere magical. It is quite weird and this one is definitely discontinued and I don't know how much I'd recommend as a blind buy but it's an amazing perfume. Also the scent changes over the day in a really nice way. More for evening wear though
White Dahlia by Reiss - it's very fresh and quite cologne-y and even though it has no leather notes it still smells like leather to me? Not sure why that is but it's a very unisex scent and I feel compelled to wear this when I'm wearing a suit for some reason
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i will never get over polyvore shutting down. i used it obsessively and had hundreds of outfits made on it and mine were ARTFUL not like the stuff people say they saw on wattpad with like skinny jeans and converse and shit like mine were gorgeous. and then they shut down and i wasn't able to back up any of my stuff so i lost it all. HEARTBREAKINGGGGG
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one of my favorite song lyrics ever has always been from the song "i'd really love to see you tonight" by england dan and john ford coley. there's a line where the singer says "there's a warm wind blowing the stars around / and i'd really love to see you tonight" and i always loved the image and vibe of a warm wind blowing the stars around. i was really sad when i found out the lyric is actually "there's a warm wind blowing, the stars are out" :/
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