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Unless it's some sort of spectacular chocolate scent, every perfume I really love contains patchouli. This is a vaguely unsettling realization to have, considering most people's reaction to even the word patchouli is "Eeewwww. Dirty hippies". Which is a totally understandable reaction, considering most people's exposure to patchouli is cheap "patchouli" oil or incense, which smells like bad dirt and funk. Ugh. GOOD patchouli, to me, smells of incense and sugar and dark wood. It has the feel of candle flame glimmering in the darkness.
Angel? Chaos? Coromandel? Lord of Misrule? (Thank you, LUSH UK, for making a perfume!) All have a patchouli note, and I'm willing to bet that Blood Popsicle from BPAL has some patchouli lurking in there, too.
So tell me: what are your favorite perfumes, and did any of them surprise you once you realized what the notes were?
Angel? Chaos? Coromandel? Lord of Misrule? (Thank you, LUSH UK, for making a perfume!) All have a patchouli note, and I'm willing to bet that Blood Popsicle from BPAL has some patchouli lurking in there, too.
So tell me: what are your favorite perfumes, and did any of them surprise you once you realized what the notes were?
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