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So, this is an interesting thing. NORD Fragrances offer solid scents and container casess for them, which all come packaged in recyclable card. You buy the scents as a little balm-like puck, smear a bit off on your finger, wait for it to warm a little, and then apply. I’m using the Marine Mist right now, as it pairs well with my usual beard oil, and I have a Bonfire to try later on. The case is metal – you just swap out the little pucks. From the Netherlands. Clever idea.
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I get this imported from the States, and it’s my favourite beard oil. Sunstone is very marine and makes me think of walking on the shore in winter. I love it.
But! This time they sent a very large sampler of a beard oil called Jol, and, I have to tell you, it’s amazing. It’s a seasonal oil for Yule – smells floral in the bottle but as soon as you massage it into the beard, it’s wood, smoke and Christmas spices. I was absolutely shocked at how it transformed. If you’re in the market for such things, Fires Of Freyja is the place to go.
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The mancub is currently eating second lunch. He got a quarter dose of his antibiotics yesterday, so today I need a new plan to get them into him, but he’s moving around normally now and said a whole sentence or two to me today. Which was probably “where’s my second lunch, fuckface?”
OPERATIONS: New newsletter is out.
STATUS: I bought samples of five fragrances from Noted Aromas that arrived yesterday. I’m currently wearing the Havana, which has more vanilla than I was expecting, and has an almost peppermint hit when first sprayed – you have to wait for the dry-down to get the other notes. The Berlin, which I tried yesterday, is much more me, if slightly sweeter than my usual taste. I used to wear scents all the time, but stopped at some point in my 40s. I spent too much money on clothes last night. I feel like a change. 8hrs 41m sleep. Wearing the Timex today, because I have to go outside later and cut and dispose of some wisteria seed pods. Inbox 88, but a disturbing number of those are receipts.
READING: HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey (UK) (US+)
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Comments closed“The smell of something worse than death”: I tried the Internet’s most divisive cologne
““This fragrance has severely degraded my life and it will take a few weeks to recover,” writes fragrance reviewer @aksf789 of Amouage’s Opus XIII Silver Oud. “Certainly the worst fragrance I have ever smelled and likely the worst smell in general I have ever experienced. The perfumer belongs in federal prison for life after creating this atrocity to the human race. This is the smell of something worse than death.”
September 16, 2025 at 11:38PM
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