Beyond music, there are a lot of things I like to think about and also have opinions about. Books, wines, restaurants, and yes, fragrances. I do have a good number of bottles of fragrances but compared to various reviewers on YouTube, no, I don't have bookshelves full of scents. I wish. I think scent is such a powerful thing. I should never ever wish to lose my sense of smell. Good smells bring such pleasure.
I've felt compelled to write about Glossier You; they just came out with a roller-ball edition "for the purse" and it's cheaper than the bottle so that's how I came to experience this scent, which seems to be pretty popular at the moment. The hype around it is that it is supposed to smell like you because of some connection with the oils on your skin, but I think all scents have, to a degree, a specific wear on us that is dependent upon our skin chemistry.
The fragrance comes across more feminine than masculine, but there'd be nothing wrong with smelling this on a man. It has a powdery aspect to it, and a chemical sweetness, reminicent of the actual smell of cotton candy. There's a vague reminicence of cinnamon in the back of the profile, perhaps it's the bite or spice to the pepper note that's listed. I get the salt note too, as if it was part of your skin itself, all along, and this review gives credit to ambrox for that note.
The scent lasted on me with the roller ball applied to my inner arms for about 3 hours before fading, not a long lasting scent. Or did it just melt into me, and become me?
I think the idea that this sceent smells like you is marketing but there is something to be said about the combination of the scent's flavor profile. I know calling the scent's components flavors is odd, but this is something you might actually go so far to want to taste. The scent evokes something overwhelmingly pleasant and comforting. And there are things in life that should smell so good: our loves ones, our pets, our favorite stuffed animals, our pillow case at night, and a freshly laundered shirt.
Hype aside, I like this fragrance. It's very different than anything else I own. My favorites are all gender neutral or male-labeled offerings from the house of Francis Kurdjian. If anything came nearly as close, it would have been Versace's Blue Jeans worn by a date of mine in 1997. But as much as I have kept Blue Jeans in my repertoire since smelling it originally (it's now marketed under the Versus label at a steal of a price), nothing was better than enjoying it on someone else. I think the same of this offering. It's the scent you'd wear to keep someone close to you, for as long as it lasts.