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Hihi Perfume lovers! We're setting up a fundraiser raffle to support street vendors being targeted by ICE here in LA! All we need are your unused/gently used perfumes to create prize bundles for raffle winners! DM if youd like to contribute 🫶 #perfumesky #perfume #sotd

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Using freshly acquired photoshop skills to put our friends baby in outlandish settings 👶🏽

Im fully here for it!

Is it just my algorithm or is 2000s-esque emo pop punk making a comeback??

Thank yooou! Excited to work on getting my seams more even on future projects, but pretty dang proud of this pillow 💕

Thank you so much!💕 Its not visible in the photo, but the pink has a patchy quality like quickly applied blush that I love!

Image of a 16x16 pillow inside a blush pink fabric with peonies and greenery framed in ovals.

Chasing dopamine by learning heritage crafts! Made a pillow case yesterday 🥳

Big news everyone! My perfume The Space Between has been nominated for an Art & Olfaction Award! I'm so pumped right now. Being nominated feels like a win already! Bottles sold out immediately last night after the press release and I am batching again to restock ASAP. Get samples while you can!

A square perfume bottle, black top, with bold text that says Art For Your Nose. In the upper right corner is an elaborate seal that reads FINALIST, Art and Olfaction Awards.

Image of a caption that reads: A round of applause for Miss Layla, the sparkling nose behind FUM Fragrances!! 🎉🎉🎉🤌 Miss Layla is no longer on IG but you can catch her on Bluesky (@fum fragrances. bluesky. social). Her award finalist perfume, The Space Between, embodies the slow practice of perfumery. Highlighting sustainably harvested copal resin from Puebla, Mexico that's then hand ground using a cured lava mocajete, tinctured for 9 months, filtered, and aged for an additional 3 months. At the @artandolfaction finalists announcement we had the opportunity to enjoy a part of Miss Layla's artistry in this perfume - the base! A soft, mineral warmth that didn't feel quite earthbound and an elusive sweetness that I couldn't pin down at the time. I kept coming back to it, because it was playing at the edges of some of my favorite scent profiles! We would love the opportunity to smell The Space Between fresh when we can experience the full story (and when it's back in stock. CONGRATS 🎊🎊🙌)!!! For now though, you can haunt her very pretty site and make your wishlist ✨️ * * * #perfume #perfumery #fragrance #sotd #indieperfume #perfumeawards #copal #fraghead #sotn

A cutie with light skin, a wide brimmed hat, curly brown hair and denim blue outfit leaning on a steel table in front of a row of perfume samples.

Last night @fumfragrances.bsky.social was announced as a finalist for the Art and Olfaction awards for her perfume, The Space Between!!!CONGRATULATIONS, MISS LAYLA 🎊🙌🤌 #perfumesky #fragrancesky

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

Unhoused folks have peak humor 😭 During our supply drop today, one of our skidrow neighbors was feeling particularly chatty & his friend turned & told us "now you know why he's homeless. He can't shut tf up" Like damn, the man just wanted to tell us a story 😂

Yesss! I like that there's so many flavor options for nori too. I like spicy ones!

Hello friends, make sure you're getting enough iodine in your nutrition! If you eat a lot of cruciferous veggies (kale, broccoli, cabbage...), beans, soy, they actually inhibit your body processing iodine. Low iodine can lead to goiters & thyroid issues which are on the rise due to wellness trends 😅

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I could definitely see it! I think perfumes tend to focus on the sweet, immediately pleasant aspects. But we're of the mindset that most things need a bit of dirty to really shine.

This material would be great for recreating a full guava scent experience - tree, skin, and pulp. #perfumery #perfumesky #fragrance #materialoftheday

Reminder to friends returning to the U.S. from abroad: delete your social media apps prior to catching your flight. You can always re-download them. But they don't need to be on your phone going through customs.

Whew that's a then & now I wasn't ready for 🫠

That has stuck with me ever since. Sanitizing media doesn't change the reality of an event. But I suspect that it might reduce opportunities for pple to engage with complex and painful emotions in a context where it is safer to do so.

This person's critique reminded me of when my friend was taking a course on genocides & a fellow student, a white middle class woman, asked the professor, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, not to show explicit media. He responded "if I survived living it, you can survive watching it."

I think CWs are important so pple can make informed choices about whether to engage. I don't agree that we just get rid of conscientious depictions of what pple suffer in reality.

How they're repeatedly failed by pple & institutions. How easy it is to lose pple's sympathy if your grief is wrathful. How it takes something from you that you don't ever get back. How other pple have a timeline for the phases of your grief & expect it to be linear.

The scene didn't feel edgy, it felt horrific and her response proportional to how she suffered. The show has its issues, but I think they did a relatively good job showing how survivors become isolated & alienated from pple who love them.

And drew the conclusion that bc the survivor was treated poorly by pple who love her bc she responded to her abuse with rage, that means the showwriters are not siding with survivors. I came to a different interpretation:

Does censorship or graphic imagery desensitize pple more/differently? Especially after witnessing a genocide for 500 days, it's unclear to me what the answer is. Saw a critique of a TV show that has an assault scene that called it edgy & unnecessary

Image of the cutest calico sleeping on a pair of blue jeans on a bed covered with sage colored sheets.

I guess I'm wearing different pants today 🥹

I love this sport! Sometimes it involves running and obsessing over hands

✨ THE SCENT STRIP pre-orders open March 21 – National Fragrance Day! ✨ Click through for deets :)

A screencap of a web page with the words The Scentuary and Genderful perfumes for curious noses.

Your future self smells intriguing 🍅 #perfumesky #sotd #fragrance

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