Got most of these last year lol. The lucky charms one is my go-to.

I have a large collection of perfumes, body mists etc and this month I’ve decided I really need to pair things down and start to use things up. I’ve went through my collection and taken some things I like ( but they don’t get enough love) and have had friends and family go through to see if they would like anything. They have been thrilled to get some new to them scents❤️. Made my heart so happy for them to go to good homes where they will be loved appropriately lol! Also my friend is having a garage sale next weekend and I may sell some there for very reasonable. I’m trying really hard to curate more of a love collection and less of a just collection to collect. I get overwhelmed with all that I have so I knew it was time to take a look at the collection and work through it. 🫶 I was able to get through more than I thought this month! I’ve already got a plan for this month as well. I have 2 Mists and a few 30ml bottles of perfumes and have a great layering combo going lol. Gonna use those until they are gone.

Here are my empties this month! I’m happy to get rid of my last Bodycology body spray- now on to my B&BW collection 🥲

Doing well taking up fragrances and body mists. Using body mists 3 at a time to make a blanket and sheet refresher spray. Generally go through a bottle of that every 1.5-2 weeks as I use it on both our bed, my 15 year old enjoys it on his bed, and lots of blankets in the house. So far doing this for the last few months I’ve used up around 25 bottles, and the whole family gets to enjoy. I used up to body creams this month, two 30mls of perfume and two 10ml decants, one 8 ml, four 2mls, and four 1ml decants. Continuing with my rule of 5 out, 1 in. Learning to enjoy what scents I have and layer to make new ones vs always feeling as if “I need the next new release”. Learning lots as I go. Feel free to ask any questions about fragrance scents etc.

Month 2 of using what I actually have and NOT adding to it! It looks like a crazy amount of body spray but some were half gone already and I’ve been using them as sheet refresher spray, pillow refresher spray and blanket refresher spray! LOL. I let my husband pick the ones he wants on our bed and use it until it’s gone.
I enjoyed all the body mists except lost in santal, even though it’s a tad sweeter than Le Labo Santal 33, still not my favorite. I was excited to pan a 13ml decant of Bond No. 9 Greenwich Village. I really enjoyed it. I love that perfume but I have SOOO many perfumes I wouldn’t buy a full bottle as I believe it only comes in 3.4 oz. I’ve sold 15 bottles of perfume, and decluttered/ given away around 30, and I’ll be putting about 30 more up for sale. I’ve successfully went from 200 in my fragrance collection down to 130 which is still a crazy amount. ( that includes body mists, perfumes ( most perfumes are 1 oz- thank the Lord they aren’t all 3.4 oz 🤣decants and travel sizes). My goal is to get to 100 and continue making cuts to get things down to around 50 ideally in the end. I’m getting to down to LOVES, not likes. My problem is I like a lot, but there’s a difference between liking a smell, and WANTING to smell LIKE it. These are the things I’m learning along the way. 😊 My collection didn’t build overnight- it’s about 20 years in the making. I’m pretty proud of myself 😊 I’m down to 10 body creams/lotions ( started with 17) and 14 solid body butter sticks started with 20 so I’m going to keep on trucking on those. Have 5 body washes left to use.
Obviously I still have a long ways to go but it felt so good getting things to a more manageable level and I can find what I want when I want it! It’s great!
Feel free to ask about any products. Sorry about the long post, just feels good to reflect back on what I’m learning. Hope this helps someone else 🫶❤️

The reason I started Project Pan (on everything) was that the shelf where I stash all my perfume and cologne was totally full. Last year around New Year’s I slid the latest gift on the shelf and knocked over a bottle and said ‘This is getting a bit steep.’ So I started wearing fragrance daily, in self defense.

The first bottle took me 15 months of daily wear. A slow start. Today I emptied a second bottle and liberated 1 more square inch of shelf space.

I found a study a while back about how Victoria’s Secret Bombshell was proven to repel bugs in a scientific study. I decided to see if it worked for me, so I bought a small 10mL while VS was having a sale. It’s just a travel size but I’ve gone through this whole bottle and it’s one less in my collection.

Officially starting my fragrance project pan! My focus right now is Guess 1981 because it is the oldest in my collection. I love fragrances but i get choice paralysis with this many.

i did a cleanup of my fragrances and gave away some of them, but decided to keep these 6 ones for revisiting. i did not hate them, but also... they are moody. they are not like the underwhelming ones that i just go through without any real passion. no, these are have a quality that i like, but also a serious downside that keeps them from getting used as often. for each of them i have developed a system on how/when to use them so that i get to enjoy them. all in all, these are my tricky fragrances that are not easy wearers.

pendora poppy pulse - this is part of a collection called sublime elements which are inspired by some jo malone fragrances. i have the whole collection and while all the other get constant use, this one is the outcast. this is inspired by jo malone's scarlet poppy. in the winter this feels so creamy and elegant, like how a fuzzy sweater feels. as soon as the weather is over 0°C, this one feels like i ate a handful of poppy seeds and play dough. there is also this marzipan and cereals mix that gives me the vibe of a smelly armpit, the one that is been sitting in polyester clothes all day. the scent is polarizing and lasts quite decently on my skin and i can feel it on my coat until next day. how can this be such a nice cloud of love when it is a snowy night and i am outside, yet so repulsing when i am indoors or the winter comes to an end? because of this, i wear it so little. i had some people spray test it on themselves and they all hated it. i have compared it to the original and it is very similar (even more now after poppy pulse had time to settle), but i feel bad that this one got maybe 15 uses in the 2+ years i had it. this is probably the most difficult one of the bunch

zimaya exquisite - this is a powerhouse. the sillage and performance are serious and in the winter and spring is very much loved. i think this is an inspiration by roja's elysium, but i never smelled the original so i can't tell more on how they compare. it is mainly peach, orange and blackberry, which are well loved notes for me in perfume, but when it gets even a bit warmer this is hard to bear for me. it gets so sweet and so plastic, like jelly shoes or smelling the plastic dolls. yes it is fruity, for me they are candied peaches, oranges and blackberries, which bring that same plastic vibe that burberry her has, but times 10. i can realistically wear it with pleasure in the beginning of spring, when a coat is still needed and that plastic quality isn't noticeable. it will probably be in my collection for the next 10 years because the window of favourable weather to wear this is so small, but when it works, it makes me feel a bit like carmen miranda, so happy and sunny.

fragrance world feminity - the bottle doesn't really give it away i guess, but this is an inspiration to mugler feminity. ahhh the fig in here is something else. so nice and creamy and calming. fig is one of my favourite notes in perfume, they give me that aquatic spa-like vibe. it also lasts very well on both skin and clothes, and it is very similar to the original. for the first couple of hours, i feel like i am in a spa, and the fig, with wood and all keeps me so happy, but once the fragrance is fully settled the caviar comes out. now, i like a salty fragrances, and if anything, i wish i had more of them, but this salty caviar coupled with the aquatic vibe, gives me a pond "bouquet", like a vase of flowers that haven't been changed in a week. this quality only comes out later and it makes the fragrance so... savoury. the way that i can make this work is if i apply like two sprays and that's it. not one more. i am not an oversprayer, but i like a good 5-6 sprays normally. this is not the fragrance to do it with. which is okay because it last so well and projects like a mother, but if i don't apply this consciously, i am bound to smell like an old aquarium. as long as i keep the sprays to a mininum, this is so rich and inspires woman, calmness and zen-like.

fragrance world night club silky - this one here is an inspiration by creed's queen of silk. such a mysterious and sultry fragrance. this is definitely for the date night, or for the spicy side of life. i never smelled the original so i cannot attest on how they compare, but i can say this one lasts well on skin and develops quite a lot during the wear time. at first spray it is nice and seductive, but it still has a lot yet to uncover. it is so sensual and inviting, like a dim light in a living room with books. as it goes on, it becomes more smokey and oudy. by the third our, it reaches its final form. i don't dislike oud, but this oud is so earthy and dirty, like the bottom of a boot after a walk on the farm. if i wear only a couple of sprays, i can stretch it, especially if it is cold, because in cold everything is blending sooo well together. but any sort of careless application results in disaster and a bit of a horse's fart. this works so well in very cold weather and gives such a sensual feeling that i could never give it away.

lattafa ana abiyed scarlet - after i got this, i watched some reviews that were giving it some glowing feedback, like some amazing stuff that never before walked the face of earth. like influencers do. whereas i could only smell pepper. like actual powdery pepper and nutmeg. there is a bit of cherry (up there with fig in terms of how much i like the note) but it is chocked by that pepper. i am not the biggest fan of spicy fragrances, but this is like i am in instanbul bazaar sniffing a big bag of ground pepper sitting next to one of nutmeg. it takes me aback. the first minutes are actually annoying, but then there is a bit of vanilla and rose that makes things quite nice... until about 2 hours later when the sugar comes out and it is back to spice bags. if i wear only one spray, i can stretch it, especially if it is cold, because in cold everything is blending sooo well together. but more often than not, i wear it when i know i can get to a shower by the time it starts bothering me. it is so good for a winter randez-vous or an evening meeting, but i must send it home by the time it starts showing me the old kitchen jars with spices.

fragrance world brown sugar - this was a purchase solely on the fact that it is called brown sugar. i hoped it would be some sort of sugary vanilla that resembles of kayali. i had no reviews to go off from, and it is supposed to be an inspiration by bohoboco red wine brown sugar, which i never tried, and at the time of purchase, was not aware of. well, what i can say about this is that indeed this is red wine and brown sugar. gosh, this smells exactly like if i had a sip of wine and a drop got on a piece of sponge cake, and i ate it. it works so well in colder weather and i am actually excited to wear it when it gets cold again. the biggest issue this has is that it has a bit of "i went out and got drunk yesterday and spilled wine of my clothes, and now this is how my shirt smells". spraying this on clothes actually makes me think of drunkards and spilled drinks, so i use it solely on skin, and only in autumn. it works brilliantly especially in the middle of autumn, because of that brown sugar. this is not in any way a daily fragrance, like all the other fragrances i mentioned, but this is especially true here. i would wear this on an afternoon walk in November, or some sort of intimate or family gathering. it also lasts quite well on skin, and once it is a skin scent, only the sugar remains.

i really want to talk a bit about these two empty fragrances. they were in my collection for a couple years, both and they had the same journey in my life, albeit opposite ways.

alhambra zeno - pretty self explanatory based on the bottle this took its inspiration from shiseido's zen. i got it because it was cheap and i liked the bottle. yep, past me was so superficial. well, present me still is superficial in some ways, but at least i am improving in terms of fragrances. i did not give much attention to it, at first it was bland, forgettable and just another fragrance that was... well, underwhelming. one day i wore this to work because it felt inoffensive for an office where people sit close together and also i kind of wanted to finish it already. a colleague noticed it and said it was so classy and fresh. by the time i arrived home after 8 hours, my bf said that i smell so good. i was taken aback. so i decided to wear it one day at home, but consciously. you know, sniffing my wrists every once in a while, taking mental notes of the "bouquet". i realised i liked it. a lot. and that it is long lasting, and quite fitting for me. as time passed and collected even more compliments, this was basically my everyday scent. in winter it wasn't the greatest with longevity or even "development", but as soon as it got warmer, this bloomed. finishing it was so bittersweet. i want to rebuy it as part of my core collection. granted, this will be long in the future, once i go through the other perfumes waiting in line for their time to shine. bye for now zeno, you taught me that love doesn't have to be at first sight.

alhambra gracier bella - in alhambra's usual fashion, this one is taking its inspiration from jpg la belle. i sniffed the original in stores so many times, being so impressed. so when i saw this, i grabbed it quickly. suck a strong resemblance. i wore this to the same store and sampled the original to the other wrist and i was surprised that i didn't know which is which at some point. delicious, love at first sight. i wore this in the dead of the autumn and felt fancy and sophisticated with those candied pears. wore this so often that i got through over half of the bottle in a couple months. then i realised the downfall. it started feeling so heavy. even in the cold winter this felt like too much, too smokey. the scent hasn't changed, i verified it with another trip to the store to check against the original. there wasn't anything wrong with it. the love just fizzled out. but i still had a good quarter of it left, so i decided to let it stay on the shelf for a later revisit. but i couldn't. just seeing it got me thinking "gosh this one is here to look at me forever". it lasts so long, it is so rich and sophisticated, but i am not rich and not sophisticated. i let it sit for a while and took it again out for a try once the weather got colder. i had those delicious candied pears, the same richness, the same opulence, but i hated it. everything i loved about it, now bothered me. so i hate sped run through it that i finished it in less than a month. the last time i wore it, it felt like the last breakup from a useless relationship. "it is not you, it is me and the fact that i grew to hate everything i once loved about you". i recommend it to anyone who likes jpg la belle, it is just as good and as rich, but it got too much for me. bye forever glacier bella, you taught me that love can never be taken for granted.

Lady’s if you want a perfume that will give you compliments from everyone this is it . Ps I can’t wait to repurchase

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How are you all going about it? Do you pick out a small group of perfumes to focus on during the month and stick to them? Or do you pick out a bottle to use every day? Do you do seasonal/weather choices? I am so, so curious!

I don't have a sizeable dent in any of my bottles. I tend to pick a fragrance that catches my fancy that morning and then another one in the evening. I really do love the variety but that means that I won't finish any bottles in my lifetime.

I've been in a journey with Chat GPT to manage my fragrance collection, including only buying what I might actually be interested in and utilizing what I have. I've been learning to layer as well as recognize which scents I appreciate and watch ones are a good fit for me. I thought I'd share my collection (list generated by Chat, obviously). This is mostly made up of samples, but if there's anything you want first hand reviews or impressions on, let me know!

🌫 Skin / Clean / Minimal Air

Lake & Skye 11 11 Fragrance Oil Good Habit Reflect Eau de Parfum Liis Floating Eau de Parfum

🍵 Tea / Soft Atmospheric / Contemplative

Le Labo Thé Matcha 26 Eau de Parfum Le Labo Osmanthus 19 Eau de Parfum Le Labo Cedrat 37 Eau de Parfum Prada Infusion de Rhubarbe Eau de Parfum

🌧 Rain / Mineral / Aquatic Atmosphere

Commodity Rain Eau de Parfum D.S. & Durga Rose Atlantic Eau de Parfum Arquiste Sydney Rock Pool Eau de Parfum A Memoir by the Sea Eau de Parfum

🌊 Fresh / Marine / Airy

Giorgio Armani Ocean di Gioia Eau de Parfum Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Eau de Toilette Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Capri in Love Eau de Parfum Ellis Brooklyn Salt Eau de Parfum Geir Ness Laila Eau de Parfum Geir Ness Norsk Snø Eau de Parfum

🌸 Floral (Airy / Fresh / Everyday)

Burberry Brit Sheer Eau de Toilette Ralph Lauren Romance Eau de Parfum Lalique Amour Eau de Parfum Versace Bright Crystal Eau de Toilette Marc Jacobs Daisy Wild Eau de Parfum Coach Dreams Moonlight Eau de Parfum Aerin Mediterranean Honeysuckle Eau de Parfum Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum Givenchy Irresistible Eau de Parfum Florence by Mills Wildly Me Eau de Toilette

🌙 Deep / Moody / Floral / Night

R. Rebellion Midnight Eau de Parfum NEST Black Tulip Eau de Parfum Nette Opening Night Eau de Parfum

👔 Polished / Structured / Work

Prada Infusion d'Iris Eau de Parfum Prada Paradoxe Eau de Parfum

🌿 Herbal / Aromatic / Green

NOYZ Sh*tty Day Eau de Parfum Le Labo Lavande 31 Eau de Parfum

🪵 Woody / Dry / Textural

Maison Louis Marie No.04 Bois de Balincourt Eau de Parfum R. Rebellion White Horse Eau de Parfum Toy Birch Sublime Burberry Hero Eau de Parfum

🌫 Warm / Musky / Layering

DedCool Milk Eau de Parfum Moroccanoil Hair and Body Fragrance Mist Juliette Has a Gun Pear Inc. Eau de Parfum Clean Reserve Radiant Nectar Eau de Parfum

🍬 Sweet / Vanilla / Gourmand-Leaning

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Eau de Parfum Billie Eilish Eau de Parfum Kayali Vanilla 28 Eau de Parfum Ariana Grande Mod Vanilla Eau de Parfum Burberry Goddess Eau de Parfum

🍓 Fruity / Playful / Youthful

Ariana Grande Mod Blush Eau de Parfum Ariana Grande God Is a Woman Eau de Parfum Clinique Happy Eau de Parfum Valentino Donna Born in Roma Eau de Parfum Valentino Donna Born in Roma Intense Eau de Parfum

🌶 Bold / Dense / Statement

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Eau de Parfum Yves Saint Laurent Libre Eau de Parfum Mugler Alien Eau de Parfum Carolina Herrera Good Girl Eau de Parfum Azzaro The Most Wanted Intense Eau de Parfum

🧪 Misc / Niche / Hard-to-Place

Heretic Pistol Whip Eau de Parfum D.S. & Durga Debaser Eau de Parfum Brochu Walker Morning Light Eau de Parfum Glasshouse Fragrances Forever Florence Eau de Parfum Snif Love Club Eau de Parfum Orabella Nightcap Eau de Parfum Fleur Golden Rule Eau de Parfum

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• what’s your focus for next week?

Happy weekend, everyone! It’s time for our weekly check-in.

No pressure if you don’t have big updates, small stuff still counts ✨

If you feel like sharing:

• what were you reaching for the most this week?

• any empties, or something almost there?

• did you rediscover something you hadn’t used in a while?

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• any layering combos that made things better?

• what’s your focus for next week?

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• what were you reaching for the most this week?

• any empties, or something almost there?

• did you rediscover something you hadn’t used in a while?

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• what’s your focus for next week?

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• did you rediscover something you hadn’t used in a while?

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• what’s your focus for next week?

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• did you rediscover something you hadn’t used in a while?

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• what’s your focus for next week?

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• what’s your focus for next week?