Blue fragrances don’t form a distinct fragrance family. Instead, the term blue fragrance describes a scent accord within a perfume or cologne. A blue scent is reminiscent of water, whether that be freshwater, seawater, or rainwater. This type of fragrance also tends to have an airy quality, which is an element that’s evocative of air, like a cool alpine breeze or a gust of salty ocean air.

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Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

Vintage Perfume Bottles

The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola

Ok hear me out.

In my experience, people usually only know a perfume or a cologne by name for 2 reasons. 1) they wear it, or 2) someone they love wears it.

Now. Santal 33.

Considering it’s a cologne and not a perfume, there’s only 4 men close enough to Henry that he’d know their exact cologne. Percy, Phillip, Shaan or his dad.

So, allow me to bring out my headcannon.

Santal 33 was Arthur’s cologne. It’s a newer cologne, yeah. 2011 debut, coming as a replacement to 2006’s Santal 26. So I get that. But sometimes your favorite cologne or perfume gets discontinued or reformulated to hell and you need to find a new one. Maybe that’s how Arthur stumbled onto it in 2011, and for the memory building years of 11 to 17, that’s what he smelt like.

So in Rio/Melbourne, when Alex is very close to a young, still freshly grieving Henry, the scent of his father is just too raw, too overpowering, too painful.

and that’s why he reacts how he does. But promptly forgets it, also.

And when when Henry stumbles into Alex in that closet, stressed, truthfully a bit scared too, suddenly he smells home. He smells safe and home and comfort and love and realizes it’s Alex he smells but it’s also dad. It’s dads cologne. It’s “Santal 33”.

And, it’s doesn’t take long for Alex to stop just smelling like home and safety but for Alex to become his home and safety. And he laments to Percy, that it’s weird, that he’s a freak that his fathers cologne does it for him.

And Percy asks, does Alex’s cologne arose you? And Henry stops in his tracks.

No, actually. The smell of Alex under it? That’s sexy sure but not as much as it’s comforting. Alex smells uniquely like alex. His own natural scent and his fucking cinnamon everything- coffee, gum. His detergent, his dryer sheets. He smells like alex and it’s not that the smell does it for him, smelling alex just smells safe. Alex’s scent just makes him feel calm. And the cologne? It’s part of it. Part because it smells like his dad, part because it smells like alex. Equal parts honestly. Henry isn’t aroused by Alex’s scent, he’s calmed by it. He feels loved when wrapped up in it. He wears Alex’s clothes and smells Alex all over him and he feels wrapped in a blanket of love.

That’s all. Thank you

BTS of #RWRBMovie: 'Can't Help Falling in Love'

From Billboard:

In one key scene, the star-crossed lovers slow dance in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, despite it being after hours (one of the many perks of being a prince). In the book, Elton John’s “Your Song” plays, but cinematically, that didn’t track for Lopez. “I love Sir Elton — he’s been such a supporter of mine throughout my career — but the scene I envisioned, I couldn’t hear that song,” he tells Billboard. With the help of his music supervisors, the aching, lovelorn voice of Mike Hadreas found its way into the film via Perfume Genius’ 2016 cover of “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” It was originally supposed to be an on-set placeholder until Hadreas recorded a new, different cover, but after living with it for months, Lopez decided he couldn’t see or hear the scene any other way. “I felt terrible calling Mike,” Lopez says. “[I told him] ‘I have good news and bad news. The bad news is I don’t need a cover from you. The good news is I already have one [from you].”

>> post about the soundtrack

red, white & royal blue (2023) dir. matthew lópez / perfume genius (orig. elvis presley), ‘can’t help falling in love’ / william shakespeare, as you like it / casey mcquiston, red, white & royal blue / perfume genius (orig. elvis presley), ‘can’t help falling in love’ / pride & prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright / casey mcquiston, red, white & royal blue / red, white & royal blue (2023) dir. matthew lópez / pride & prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright

songs that altered entire fanbases

Shiseido: 'Relaxing Fragrance' Ad (1998) Photography: Hideo Fuji

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Antique Perfume Bottles

holiday outfit: "selkie girl at a new year eve party to find the love of her life before she returns to the sea forever more" | requested by @angelblueprint

ulyana sergeenko embellished bodice corset and draped slit silk skirt ensemble in pale blue-grey, hc a/w 2o21

christian dior by john galliano diamond drape neck piece, hc a/w 1997

prada silver sequin satin heels, c. 199o's

masque milano "white whale" eau de parfum

{beauty} icy lashes and shimmery eyes @ john galliano rtw a/w 2oo9

Perfume Blue Chalk (#cebafb to #f4e1fe)

Blue Lock in Japan part 4.

Perfume bottle made of moulded blue glass in the form of a scallop-shell with  one surface moulded to depict the sun (French, circa 1700).

Made by Bernard Perrot.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

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