With Christmas just around the corner, I really need to start thinking about which fragrance to wear this year. At the moment, it’s between Apple Brandy, Maasai Mara and Dolce Di Giorno.

I went with Spicebomb Extreme on Christmas Eve.

I'm leaning towards Oajin from PDM just feels like a nice day to break it out missed wearing it at thanksgiving

I've almost emptied my sample of DSH Manhattan, but I am saving just enough to wear tomorrow. I don't see a page in the database here for it, so I'll share my review in this thread, for now :)

DSH Perfumes Manhattan is vintage firelight– all warmth and no flame, the way old films captured hearths in silver-screen shadows. The glow feels richer than memory, grounded in something earthy and lush, a cherry left at the bottom of a glass, soaked in honeyed spirits, plummy with promise. A bitter note cuts through the sweetness, a tiny nibble under the gazes of those who love you, a warmth so enveloping and tender it breaks your heart just a little and brings tears to your eyes. You recognize it instantly: that feeling of safety and love that you can only experience now through the lens of nostalgia because you'll never be that young or small or loved that way again. The scent wraps around you like a blanket of childhood memory that softens into sadness when held too long. It's the kind of velvet golden haze that catches in your throat now, because you know such perfect shelter can't exist outside of memory, outside these few precious frames of black and white film where the firelight always burns just right, and everyone you've ever loved is still young and beautiful and waiting in the next room. This is a softly devastating scent, and one that requires emotional steadiness to wear - it has a way of dissolving the present and opening rooms in the memory where beloved ghosts forever wait patiently for you with open arms, where the little heart you long outgrew is forever full.