What I've Been Wearing So Far in 2025

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Though my desk is a messy disaster most of the time, I am pretty organized. I like lists, and I am forever updating various Google My Maps with places I plan to visit along with directions on how to get to those places. In 2020, I started a spreadsheet of daily dinners so I would be able to keep track of leftovers and be better able to plan meals (plus we were locked down; there wasn't much else to do). And in January of 2025, I started a SOTD spreadsheet to see which of my many fragrances I wear more often or none at all. 

I don't quite have enough scents to be able to wear a different one every day for 365 days, and I vow never to get near that many. I currently have 200-ish bottles and around two dozen travel sprays (at least according to my Fragrantica wardrobe), so I would have a good part of the year covered. Some scents, however, I might not wear for a few years in a row. Others--usually newer additions to the collection--I will wear more frequently. Until, of course, some new purchases usurp their places in my cold black heart--a regular occurrence. 

In the first third of this year, the 120-day period between January 1 and April 30, 2025, I wore 101 different fragrances. Thirteen of those were samples, only one of which I have since purchased (Perfumer H Rain Wood). On eleven separate days, I layered 2 or more fragrances, and on thirteen others, I wore 2 scents on the same day but at different times. (When I say "wore," I mean applied to my décolletage area, where I normally wear scent. I don't count those I sampled on my forearms or backs of hands, which would raise the number of total scents by several dozen.)

The fragrance I wore most often was D.S. & Durga Pistachio, four times on its own and twice layered with another scent (once each with 4160 Tuesdays Rhubarb & Custard and Sarah Baker Peach's Revenge). Tied for second place were Byredo Gypsy Water and Celine Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, with four wears each.

Several scents I wore thrice (Buchart Colbert Le Bain de Lulu, Maison Louis Marie Bois de Balincourt, Peach's Revenge, A.N. Other WD/18, Gallagher Mists of Time, D.S. & Durga Wear at Maximum Volume, Perfumer H Rain Wood, Profumum Roma Battito D'Ali, Hermes Barenia, and Chanel Paris-Edimbourg). Sixty-five different scents were only worn once, either by themselves, layered, or applied later in the day after my first fragrance faded/I got tired of smelling it. And of course the rest were worn twice. 

Does this info surprise me? Not really. I already knew that I'm pretty fickle when it comes to fragrance, and that I could never be a "signature scent" kinda gal. I don't even really understand why someone would want to smell like the same thing every day forever. I rarely want to smell like the same thing two days in a row, and didn't in the first four months of 2025. What I do find somewhat interesting is that I wore 88 different scents from my collection of just under 230, or about a third, over a third of a year. I highly doubt I'll go through the remaining 2/3 of my collection this year. Several things no longer interest me and should probably be re-homed. Some other perfumes have been discontinued and I'm in no hurry to use up the precious few drops I have left. Seven fragrances I consider "holiday" scents, and will likely rotate only those during the month of December. But we'll see. I think I will repeat this exercise again in early September and then again around January 1, 2026. 

Do you wear a different scent every day? How many do you think you wear over the course of four months? Would love to chat about it in the comments.

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Posted by theminx on Minxstinks
Note: this post is my opinion. I am not affiliated with the companies mentioned in this post or any other companies.