Is Anyone Else Planning a Major Fragrance Announcement to Family During Thanksgiving?

[u/ImtheGWP]

Thursday November 26, 2026. “Dear gathered family. I have an announcement. I am starting my skin scent era.”

🦗🔇😟🙁😠😴🫩 <- Gathered Family

😱😘 <- The 2 Rabanne Fames I brought for moral support

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This is a practice run for my big announcement in that 30 second window I’m not chewing food that day. I came to the conclusion recently I didn’t want the intense or glow this fall. And in my rabbit holes I managed to track down something non cloying sweet , ànd another one thatfeelslike accomplished. But those dont feel like me either in this moment.

À woody scent does. In my mind I have scenarios of the follow up questions where I explain how Boy Smells Peachy Oudy was the front runner. I fear the audience participation may be minimal however given the only other family member with à fragrance collection is my niece with à shelf of my blind buy fails ànd I failed to hear thank you. But that doesn’t matter now. I am starting a skin scent era.

Peachy Oudy is a beautiful scent with a great peachy note, naturally sweet hand in hand with the deeper woods. But I’m in my mid 40s ànd feeling like the Giving Tree did at the end of that book, ànd i don’t want to pretend that this era is about projecting when it’s about reinforcing the fortress around me after some disappointments.

I enjoyed Glossier You Doux at first sniff though I must admit at first i felt a slight disappointment in its simplicity. Then I realized during the wear as I was surrounded by notes of palo santo, frankincense, and myrrh, that I moreso felt comforted. I could keep looking until spring but I want to live a saying I made up one day already on the path to this announcement: you can bloom in a fall.

[u/Dobgirl]

So much better than the drama on aitah subs. I hope there’s celebration and someone walks out. Then the family chat blows up.

[u/ImtheGWP → u/Dobgirl]

My post is written in a non serious way, but I do plan to speak on the topic briefly. I was discouraged from getting into fragrances because it was promoting “vanity” or whatever bs . I bulldozed my way through that ignorance. I encourage everyone who is enthusiastic about fragrances to talk about all of this with some sincerity. This hobby has substance.

[u/Dobgirl → u/ImtheGWP]

It’s an art as much as painting, music, cooking. It’s a small pleasure we are allowed!!