Welcome to the perfume room.

Well, actually, technically it's not today.

I smelled it yesterday, but I want to tell you about a new release from Panhalligans

that I smelled in Bloomingdale's that I really enjoyed. And that scent is called Fortuitous Finley. And it's brand new. I think it literally launched like yesterday or the day before. So what happened was I was walking by on 59th Street and I saw Kirkke, which is the new Maison Francis Kirk Jones scent in the window display. And I was like, ooh, I got to smell this. Spoiler alert. I did not have to smell it. And I'm going to get to Kirkie in a second. But let me say this first though. Okay, also just like on background, if you ever want to see the mantra, I don't chase, I attract, become your reality. All you got to do is go to the Bloomingdale's 59th Street

Fragrance Department because those salespeople are selling. And honestly, even with strict

focus and purpose, I have never walked in there and smelled less than 10 perfumes on any given day.

So Finley was one of the blotters that was handed to me. I expected to like smell it and keep it

moving, but it stopped me in my

tracks. So again, with a caveat that I don't have a bottle or a sample in front of me and I'm speaking

from memory, here's what I loved about it. It is distinctly green, gently sweet, warm and round,

but also a little bit sharp, a little bit leathery. So the notes listed are pistachio,

sea salt, suede, or maybe it's leather. I don't have the pyramid in front of me.

Swade and sandalwood. And definitely a part of that are violet and oris. Maybe the violet is in

the suede accord and the oris isn't the pistachio accord. But at first, when I first smelled

this one, it almost gave me an impression of fig because it's truly like green but sweet in the same way that fig is. You know what? Actually, as I'm saying this, that kind of makes sense because there is that suede note. And my brain kind of registers like fig and suede as like second cousins. You know what I've talked about in the past.

I feel like this was like a while ago. But I said once before, maybe a few times, I don't

know, I repaint myself on this podcast. But I've talked about how fig sometimes, not always,

gives me like a car sick cloyingness kind of feeling. And I have to say, whenever I get that sensation and perfume, it's always

from a fig perfume or a suede perfume. There are obviously fig perfumes and suede perfumes that I adore,

but the ones that I don't, it's because they trigger this very specific feeling like I'm reading

a long article in the back of a bumpy taxi on my phone.

Anyway, in Finley, the Salt Accord adds a bit of like a sort of like sea breeze, ocean air feel.

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