this is the collection of perfumes i own. i'm not really into buying designer scents or anything but recently i've been enjoying going on etsy or to small indie perfumeries and buying samples and small rollerballs etc. all stores/perfumeries are listed!
notes i'm partial to: heliotrope, almond, sandalwood, milk, vanilla, paper, ocean, salt, rain/petrichor, rice, , patchouli, lavender, ozone, violet, lilac, neroli, white amber, fig leaf, light musks, motor oil, metallics, marine air, concrete.
this is a WIP!! i am slowly re-adding things from my collection (most of these are tiny samples but geez there's a lot) so it's gonna take some time; check back often for updates!! notes/scent descriptions are taken directly from the house's website with mild tweaks if they're especially verbose (if the perfumes are still available and documented there. since i like indies, the level of documentation varies. otherwise i have tried to find the notes on r/indiemakeupandmore posts). i will try to be picky with only using the hearts for the ones i really like, but i like most of the perfumes i have so don't take not-having-a-heart as an 'i didn't care for it'.
i recommend soft by poesie for those who want a very yummy but neutral rice perfume and codex by calyx scentscapes for those who want the smell of books and paper. like the smell of burning laptop and overheating electronics? rabbit hole from cardinal scents is your best bet.
current loves (last update 7.13.25): possession by hexmundi, namba by fantome, eclipse by bpal, aurora by alkemia, bisou by hexennacht, loup-garou by hexennacht.
BLACK PHOENIX ALCHEMY LAB.
LADY AMALTHEA. ♡
THE LAST UNICORN.
SNOW WHITE (2007). ♡
ECLIPSE.
FAE.
CTHULU.
THE SERPENT IN THE LILACS. ♡
VIGIL FOR THE HARVEST SUITORS.
SNAKE OIL (HAIR GLOSS).
ALKEMIA.
OLD BOOKS AND FRESH FLOWERS. fresh neroli orange flowers and heliotrope blossoms pressed between the delicate paper pages of a leather-bound book. ♡
MOON LUST. creamy white ambers, blonde woods, and luminescent skin notes. ♡
GILDED ALCHEMY.
AURORA. a luminscent skin-but-better aurora of soft cashmeran, orris root, cardamon infused coconut milk, white amber, white musk, white violet, white ginger, lotus flower, and a touch of honeyed cream.
ENCHANTRESS.
HAUNTED AND BEWITCHED.
FANTOME.
DUENDE. oakmoss, cedar, fir, resinous labdanum, benzoin, tree sap, wild violets, and lilac.
NAMBA. salt water canals, motor oil, buzzing neon, melted vanilla ice cream. ♡
PARLOUR. a darkly polished mahogany rapping table, spirit boards, sweet rosewood chests, burning incense, and a hint of vetiver.
TRITON. murky sea water, ambergris, ancient forest mosses, crushed ivy leaves, frankincense, resins, ozone, with a hint of citrus.
HEXENNACHT.
SANTAL. sandalwood incense, golden sandalwood, mysore wood accord, vanilla sandalwood.
LEOPARDITE. mysore sandalwood, golden sandalwood powder, vanilla husk, chamois accord, alaskan cedarwood, tobacco leaf, black oak, cardamom, saffron threads, miel blanc.
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER. strawberry and dirt.
BISOU. smeared lipstick and warm, flushed skin: vanilla, orris root, violet, sugar, cetalox, skin musk, and safraleine.
LOUP-GAROU. silver amber, fur, lunar musk. ♡
LIPSTICK ACCORD. powdery violet, heliotrope, orris, vanilla musk, almond.
PIERROT PERFUMERY.
PERSON SUIT. a mild blend of green fig, iso-E-super, sandalwood and musk. ♡
STARDUST MOTEL. sheer vanilla, vetiver, jasmine, heliotrope, baby rose buds, cashmere amber, cigarette ash, satin. ♡
BATS IN THE BELFRY. notes of vintage lace, dried flowers and dusty photos. ♡
MILK TEETH. strawberry milk, amber white musk, and cedarwood. ♡
RAVENSTAG. a sharp yet even blend of green pine, firewood, black musk, sweaty skin and a desperate plea from a mind on fire. ♡
PHASMOPHILIA. sandalwood, candle smoke, dusty attic notes, spearmint, musk, ginger.
CARDINAL SCENTS.
FAMILIAR SPIRIT. milk, white sage, sea salt, white amber. ♡
RABBIT HOLE. static electricity, live copper wires, velvet upholstery, antique wood. ♡
SUGAR HAZE. spun sugar, pink himalayan salt, sea amber, white musk.
SWAN PRINCESS. wild spearmint, blue eucalyptus, fir balsam, ambrette seed musk.
GHOST STORY. burnt marshmallows, white bedsheets with eye holes, black frankincense, amber.
NIGHT OWL. night blooming jasmine, wet ivy, bergamot, rainswept pavement.
HEX MUNDI.
RACHAEL. rachael is enrobed in the fragrance of petrichor, violet, tobacco, leather and tart cherry. ♡
DECKARD. ambroxan, petrichor, smoke and cade.
REYNOLDS & ALMA. reynolds & alma dance enrobed in cashmere, salt air and oolong tea.
POSSESSION. matrimony vine, vanilla orchids, cement, creme and amber. ♡
FYRINNAE.
ABANDONED SPACE STATION. cool, stale air. overly greased interior doors for recent forced manual entry. disused machinery, many parts stripped away for spares or scrap. the kinetic secondary lights still worked, which made the environment a little more unsettling.
SKIING ON EUROPA. the atmosphere of a distant moon, not as habitable for mammals as Earth, the thin air reminiscent of high mountain elevations before snowfall. cold, and ozonic.
AEROBRAKING. the combination of warm machine oil, cold titanium, and the slightly stale scent of re-circulated oxygen.
THUNDERSNOW. a little cold, slightly electric and very industrial-metallic, somewhat earthy as the mix of convection and icy temperatures don't quite have the soft peacefulness of ordinary snowfall.
UNDER THE MOONRISE. mango is at the forefront; not candy-like but barely ripe fresh fruit, then the fragrance of orange champaca, with a slight air of neroli and surrounding tropical greenery on a humid evening.
CONVERGENCE ZONE. rain on a cool day hits evergreen trees and dusty soil, bringing a slight dampness back to the northwest air. this is our pure pacific northwest rain fragrance.
SPIRIT ARMOR. a soft and vaguely sweet scent envelops you with light wisps of ambrette, tonka, cedarwood, and amber. a light fragrance.
POESIE.
SOFT. rice soliflore. ♡
CHERRY-KA'S TRUNK.
RESTLESS DREAMING.
SILVER HANDSOME.
A RIDDLE AND AN ENIGMA.
PARANORMAL PERFUMES.
BLACK MOON MILK. sweetened, condensed milk with vanilla. a dash of black cardamom, cinnamon, and peppercorn. musk. soft woods.
OSMOFOLIA.
CIRRUS. a basket of white lilacs and prim heliotrope, handfuls of juicy blueberries, sugary fluffs of fairy floss (cotton candy), papery orris, freezing cold air, and a painter's empty canvas. ♡
CUMULUS. fluffy steamed white rice, baimudan white tea, soft white mimosas, sugared musk, crisp fresh air accord, balsamic vanilla orchid, orris root powder, and petrichor. ♡
ORYZA. fluffy basmati rice in a warm bowl. rice single note.
CALYX SCENTSCAPES.
CODEX. opens with the sweet pulpy smell of new books, paper, binding glue, and modern bookshops, and ages into the dusty scent of antiquarian volumes with foxed pages and worn leather bindings. ♡
NOCTURNAL ALCHEMY (NAVA).
RICE MILK MUSK. creamy basmati rice milk accord, saffron, tonka infused sugar, bastet amber, mahogany wood, and soft white floral blend of tuberose, mallow, angelica, musk flower, and white lily all blended into bastet's musk base.
NUI COBALT DESIGNS.
SUBSPACE. warm almond milk, dewy blue lotus, labdanum, gardenia, driftwood, and porcelain musk.
D.GRAYI.
RED JASMINE RICE. red jasmine rice, black tea, saffron, jasmine sambac, rice powder, sticky rice, vietnamese oud, rice bran.
JASMINE RICE. jasmine rice and black tea tincture, jasmine sambac, rice powder, sticky rice, benzoin, rice bran.
PANDAN. bread, coconut milk, pandan tincture, sandalwood, pine resin, vanilla waffle.
DESIGNER/NON-INDIE PERFUMES.
ELDO ghost in the shell.
elizabeth taylor white diamonds splash.
guerlain l'heure bleue. EDT splash.
skylar warm cashmere.