Influenced: Phlur Vanilla Skin | Perfume Posse
I like to relax in the evenings with some makeup / beauty / fashion YouTube, and if you spend much time on that kind of content, they’re often gushing about Phlur, which makes fragrance (plus the same scents in hair/body mist, lotion, deodorant, and I think candles). I was Phlur-curious, and we have a better-than-nothing Sephora outpost in our Kohl’s, so off Carolyn and I went for some retail therapy.
Phlur works with (and credits) respected perfumers including Clement Gavarry and Frank Voelkl on their website, so there’s hope, you know? Thoughts, in no particular order, on some of the fragrances we sampled from the line.
Missing Person is a skin musk. I don’t know that I would love it on its own, but it’s a wonderful layering scent. Carolyn has it in the body lotion. I’m greased up with Hawaiian Tropic this time of year, but I may revisit in the winter.
Vanilla Skin – I think this is one of their most popular scents? For what it is, it is perfect. It’s the sort of thing you can spritz on without too much thought and head out the door. It’s an aura scent – not overpowering but definitely radiating delicately around you (or me, at least) for most of a day. Clean skin musk and vanilla. Carolyn swears by the Vanilla Skin deodorant (also a popular product).
Father Figure is a fig, ostensibly (get it? Fig-ure?) but not figgy enough for me. Smells fine, more musk than anything, nothing I need.
Vanilla Smoke, Vanilla Nectar – variants of Vanilla Skin, I think they’re also sold in a small-bottle set on the Phlur website so like Pokemon you can collect them all. Yes, they’re different, in the way you’d expect (Vanilla Smoke is, you guessed it, smoky; Nectar has notes of papaya, apricot and pomelo if you like that sort of thing) but I’ve got other things I like better.
The Phlur website sells a wider array of options than regular Sephora, plus $39 sample sets which I think include most of the line, plus various other product combos in smaller sizes, which I appreciate. By fragrance standards they are fairly inexpensive, $99 for 50ml of fragrance, $32 for travel size, and only $25 for the body mist, plus their website does bundles. The packaging is simple, with clean lines, and the bottles are nice in the hand and don’t feel cheap. Their vibe is nothing too complex, wearable, user-friendly without being insipid, and hey — there are worse concepts in the market.
Sometimes I just want to smell nice, and I liked these enough to buy two of them (Vanilla Skin plus one I’ll likely talk about in another post.) Have you tried any in the line?
cover image: Angela Roma via Pexels, bottle images from Phlur website
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