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The most stifling, heady, overwhelming pure crushed red rose scent. I’m suffocating in my rose-coloured noxious cloud and it feels like the heat of summer romance.
People who think rose scents are grandma-y need to see the Light.
Jun 25, 2025
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some people say rose scent smells like old people but i don’t think so???? to me it’s so relaxing and pretty! i tend to avoid vanilla or super sweet scents because they give me headaches. citrus/woodsy smells are great too, but something about rose just feels like me!!
this discontinued crabtree & evelyn lotion was gifted to me like 10 years ago and i am always thinking about it… bring her back!!!!
Mar 7, 2024
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like ok yeah it is 2013/14 again
i'm talking about specifically the rose jam body wash + perfume (not to be confused with the body spray) and the sleepy body wash + lotion. could literally just be nostalgia but both of those are very comforting to me … i just showered so now i'm thinking about it
in high school my friend came in one day smelling actually insane. turns out it was the lush sleepy cream. forgot about it for a few years but we're back. rose jam body wash was my first intro to lush at 12. but nostalgia aside, the perfume projects and lasts very well!!! recommend. i have the travel size and it's always in my bag.
my cat loves both of those scents
i work across the street from lush and can always smell it from the outside whenever i pass it
also the dean blunt song obv
Jan 24, 2024
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When I was a kid there was this Rosebud Lip and Hand Salve that seemed really really classy. It was in a vintage looking tin. While that rosebud salve is absolutely divine, some of its mystique has faded into the oblivion of my childhood. However, Vaseline has now put out a rose flavored vaseline in a mini vaseline box. It smells deeply erotic. And you have to plunge your finger into this rose flavor goop to apply directly onto your face. Sensuality!  The rose fragrance is really well synthesized. It whisks you away to working class glamor like the 20s or something…. If you get it you get it- if you don’t you don’t!!!!!!Some French guy once told me rose scented stuff smells like bathroom cleaner. He couldn’t be more wrong. Fragrance is classically one of the many French/ American divides. The fact is in America, we are overwhelmed with complicated fragrances for cleaning products, candles, and lip balms. Were inundated with Dr Pepper flavors , Coconut passion, Strawberry Attitudes… Vaseline is presupposing and imagining a land far far ago… where choices were specific, simple and deeply erotic.
May 12, 2022
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I made a Goodreads account recently and it asked me to rate some popular books I’d read before. Little did I know, every time I ranked a book, it would give me 5 more similar to that one, and then 5 more from that, and on and on until a neverending phylogenetic tree of books emerged on my screen.
I was on FaceTime with my friend as I did this, and we compared which books we’d both read, ones we loved, ones we got forced to read in school, ones we read as preteens, etc. But half an hour in and no end to the Goodreads algorithm, but stuck in The Very Hungry Caterpillar-y children’s book branch of the algorithm tree that I couldn’t escape, I started to get mad. So I command-Q’d chrome and called it a day.
This week I went back to organise my To Read list and to purge all the loose one-book memos on my notes app. My professor recently gave me her recommendations on queer literature and I wanted to properly organise them. On my profile it said I’d already read some 100+ books and I’d given them all 5 star ratings. Ok well now that’s pissing me off. Why is there digital clutter on my brand new account, and why did I give all that information to them anyways.? I love to categorise, but did I really need to log my readership of the individual 39 Clues books?
I feel similarly about when I first downloaded letterboxd and it made me go down a similar never ending algorithm of potential movies I’d watched before. I did spend an unreasonable amount of time swiping through those movies trying to remember if I really did watch Horton Hears a Who in 2008(?) or not.
Why do I feel the need to share this with the algorithm? genuinely what purpose does this serve me? Why am I volunteering memories from my 7 year old self when I learnt English by reading Geronimo Stilton books for the first time?
Anyways, I deleted all the past data from my Goodreads account. There’s only logs from my current reads, and the list of books I want to read next. There’s comfort in organising and seeing your life laid out in list/grid categories, like unlocking achievements on video games - oh did you know I read so and so and yeah I was a pretentious little bitch in high school and every YA book I read in 2013 has gotta be logged and
But there’s another type of comfort in keeping that information away from the internet where they’ll find a way to use that data against you. I can‘t think of a single occasion I’d need personalised ads for the chick-lit books I read in primary school but I know the algorithm is going to eventually find a way to sell my nostalgia back to me somehow… I‘m going to open any of my little apps and see hyper specific #ad on my screen.
I know I’ve given so much of me away online already - and look what I’m doing right now(!) , sharing my interests and recommendations to strangers online hah .. I won’t lie about the fact that it brings me joy to live online - it’s been my playground for so much of my life - Like sorry I am literally the internet explorer -But there was a time before I lived on the internet. I don’t think they need to know everything about Then.
I recommend not giving up everything about yourself to the machine
Mar 8, 2024
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Holding a physical paperback is one of the Core Experiences of reading pleasure— but the option of having your book at all times, no matter the lighting, body position or situation, is going to make you so much more likely to read.
The way you can read for 5 minutes, text your friend, check notifs and seamlessly come back to your page is kind of brainrot but you know what. Idgaf :33
For me, the convenience of skipping a trip to the library and just downloading an epub file is one of the purest indulgences of instant gratification… very gluttonous but it feels very Nice
Mar 8, 2024
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Rawdog the sound of society while you walk… the tea is crazy
May 17, 2024