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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1814 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 17, 2026

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Interesting. I will admit to first scanning the list, looking for what I will call The Scent. It was not there. I did eventually locate it in the world and buy it though. I did. Some have described it online as smelling "like glossy magazines and cocaine." I am not sure I agree with that. But it is something else. @daguerrean would no doubt recoil, like the proverbial vampire to a braid of Spanish Roja. His good right.

A more generous man would just tell you what in the hell it is that I got. But I feel like it's one of those things that I cannot reveal directly. Anyway the "That sucks are you joking me?" kind of retort is inevitable, as is the justified taunting mockery for the price I paid. I'm probably a romantic, but then only fools would admit to, or, indeed, be that. Plus now you have the descriptive quote and hey, Internet. I will neither confirm nor deny queries, but of course the cat is out of the bag.

I will also say that unlike your approach, mine was to hunt down the thing and bag it. Now that I have it, I am not interested in anything else. The princess was in the castle. Appreciate the time and effort to write it all up. A year ago I would not have even bothered reading it because I didn't give a damn about smells until the Korean guy got on the train that morning. I feel the need to spit and pepper this post with swear words to reassert my heterosexuality. Fuckin' oath.

Congrats on finding your Holy Grail! I haven't encountered mine yet.

If yours is the one that is not for triskaidekophobes, then I would probably not like it, anyway.

Also God damn I just saw the price tag on Tabarome and now I feel like a pauper touting Old Spice.

They are both (not Old Spice, Le Labo and Creed) equally and disgustingly expensive here. And rare. I bought literally the second to last bottle of Tabarome in Russia.

Possibly you wouldn't. Or possibly you would. I feel like this is another way of dividing the world--those who appreciate it, and those who don't. Many don't. Many horrible reviews. And part of me really does think Fuck those Philistines.

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