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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼

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Fragrance writer. Academic editor. Perfume, books, book podcasts, cinema, theater, food, travel. Author of isniffbeforeisleep.com ✍🏻🌷 Words also in Basenotes, Ifragrance, and The Scent Strip Magazine. 📰🪻

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hello, everyone! I’m Damiana, author of the blog I Sniff Before I Sleep www.isniffbeforeisleep.com 🌼

I Sniff Before I Sleep

Reflections of a Scent Collector

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 1d

It’s beautiful but I have similar feelings about it. I can’t really wear mine anymore.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous! I hope you love them.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, nice! I’d love to hear what you think. 🥰

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

#perfumesky #fragrancesky

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

🐱🫚 Furever (Animal Lover Collection) is the sweetest ode to a kitty named Callisto, who crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. The fragrance is sweet, a little zingy, and as soft and joyful as a beloved pet’s fur.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

🐉🪾 Dragon Wood (Lost Fairytale Collection) feels a bit more like dragon blood. This fragrance is at once sweet, smoky, mossy, and metallic. But maybe that hint of metal isn’t actually the dragon’s blood, but a knight’s gleaming armor from an old battle.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

📖🌿 The Reader Becomes the Book (Get Lit Collection) is the perfect book nerd scent. Imagine reading a book under the stars, the scent of the sweet, dewy grass mingling with that of the dry paper, as you leaf through that book. I can’t stop sniffing my wrist or catching wafts every time I move.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

🍑🫖 Summer House on the Moon (Life on the Moon Collection) is a glass of cold peach tea sipped on a warm day at the beach. I detect the fruity tea along with the aroma of peach, enhanced by a floral hint of osmanthus.

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

Introducing the artisan perfume house, A House on the Moon 🏠🌙 on this #travelsizetuesday

Thoughts about each perfume oil in comments ⬇️

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 2d

Stunning! 🤩💫✨

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 3d

#perfumesky #fragrancesky #vintageperfume

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 4d

The latest volume of The Scent Strip, 📰 (Spellbound Edition) and Magie Noire, also my #sotd 🪄🖤✨

Well done, again, @immortalperfumes.bsky.social! ✍🏻

Highlights include perfumed spells, Tarot musings, autumn soups, scented exhibitions, and Jen’s most recent fragrance, Swanstone Reverie. 🦢🪨

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MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.social · 4d

A beautiful glimpse into the past:
a 19th-century French mechanical perfume caddy.

Antique Early 19th C. French Perfume or Scent Caddy, Mother of Pearl Shells, Ormolu, 3 Flasks - Palais Royal
#PerfumeSky #FragranceSky

Antique Early 19th C. French Perfume or Scent Caddy, Mother of Pearl Shells, Ormolu, 3 Flasks - Palais Royal

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 4d

This is simply fabulous. 💫⭐️

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 5d

She is! 🎃💀👻 My 13-year old son has always been into spooky stuff, still decorates for Halloween, etc. He used to fall asleep hugging a small zombie animatronic when he was 4! 🧟

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 6d

Glad you love it too! 🥀🥀🥀

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 6d

🫶🏻🙌🏻😻

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 6d

I hope you’ll get an opportunity to try them, although Attar has been discontinued for years. 🥲❤️

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! 🙌🏻🌹😍

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 6d

Quite reminiscent of the Chanel backbone (especially No. 22) but with a bubblier, more modern touch. ✨✨✨

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 7d

My favorite is Aldehyde 44, the Dallas City Exclusive. I have the small bottle and I love it! 😍

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 7d

Classic! But you’re wearing such a lush classic. 😍

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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 7d

Wit 🥀❤️🤗

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 7d

#perfumesky #fragrancesky #halloween

I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 7d

Feral roses:

🥀Rosa de Bolero by @witandwest.com is entwined with bitter herbs in a garden of poison flowers. ☠️🌿

🥀 Dirty Rose by PK Perfumes is darkened by smoky, animalic oud gunk.🪾🖤

🥀 Attar by Isabell is a combination of disintegrated roses and the thick dust from an ancient tomb. ⚰️🪦

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