July 29, 2021

My Online Crush Wears Armani Emporio But Remember Marc Jacobs Biscotti Splash And By the Way Does Adam Driver Smell Like Hero

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Why is it we’re so curious about what other people smell like? Or is that only me?

Jesus.

I hope I’m not the only one….

I’m not right?

You walk around wondering what other people smell like too don’t you?

Oh god I’m weird! I am, aren’t I? Oh wait, it’s ok, we already knew I was weird. Phew.

No but seriously, I think it’s sort of some freaky thing to wonder what people smell like but it’s also sort of human nature too…..

I am a great lover of fragrance. People are very quick to assume that my passion lies in makeup or even skincare but in reality the key to my heart is unlocked by perfume. I have a massive stash of fragrances (I won’t tell you how many bottles as that would be embarrass me terribly) but trust me it’s a lot (like a room full). So many of my fragrance have stories and I cherish them like sweet little memories that I can take out and mist all over myself. Fragrances gifted to me by dearly loved ones, fragrances that I’ve purchased from a country or state I traveled to, fragrances I’ve purchased for myself, ones I buy because they remind me of a certain time in my life….they all mean something special to me. It’s easy enough to just take one down, mist it on, close my eyes, and remember where it came from, the day I purchased it, who I was with, where I was…..Today I misted on Like This from Etat Libre D’Orange and I instantly panicked because I forgot how it came to me! Was it a gift? Did I buy it for myself? Where was I when I got it? But I closed my eyes, found my calm, and a small smile came to my face as I remembered the conversation with a friend who recommended it to me. I dunno if he remembers that day but I do (I love you Justin and I miss you!). And that my friends, is how powerful fragrance is.

Over the course of past few days I got about ten different messages across different apps and social platforms I’m on to see online friends telling me, “BELLA! DID YOU HEAR WHAT HE SMELLS LIKE!?” Who smells like what?! I realized quickly enough that the HE they spoke of was our online crush who apparently disclosed his fragrance of choice. I forget again, remind me, when did we all turn into 14 year old girls again that send messages back and fourth about our crushes? Why are we this excited about how a stranger on the Internet smells? But it made me smile so much and laugh because so many of these women I’ve become close to text, direct message me, whatsapp, and telegram me the weirdest things that make my day oh so much nicer.

So what does this fine gentlemen smell like? Apparently Armani Emporio…..”Hello? This is 1998 calling we’d like our cologne back please!” Emporio…I had to rake my little brain for memories of Emporio…I also drove myself partially crazy looking for a bottle as I’m positive I have both Lui and Lei but today as this post came to me a light bulb went off in my head, they re-released Emporio. But did he smell like 1998 or 2020 because I recall the 2020 juice has a richer woodsy base….But I guess we’ll never know……!

And hey, if we’re going to choose an Armani fragrance for this man I think he should smell like Profumo Special Blend. Aggressive AF, harsh, dominate, and apparently floating around town with lots of herbs in his pocket as Profumo Special Blend goes hard and takes no prisoners with those Rosemary, Sage and Patchouli notes.

By the way, you know what we also need to know? We need to know if Adam Driver really smells like Burberry Hero (I’m convinced he smells like Bvlgari Black Orient or By Kilian Memento Mori). That Burberry ad near had me falling into a comatose. Anyone remember last year when we were all bored in the house and people were making Adam Driver videos and Tiktoks to Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero? I’d make my boyfriend sit watching them with me. As Star Wars nerds I think I really enjoyed those bonding moment together. However, I’m pretty sure he mentally rolled his eyes when I walked into his home office in the middle of the morning when he was in some headspace programming, sat in his lap, and showed him some new thirst trap video featuring Adam Driver (I usually got the pat on the head and the mmmhmmm when I showed him but I’m almost 99.9% sure he was as into them as I was!). Hero launches late August and it’s already available for pre-order and as far as I’m concerned Burberry’s marketing team totally stole that Holding Out for a Hero moment to create this scent! Fight me on this. You’ll lose.

The scent is a blend of bergamot, juniper, cedarwood, and black pepper. It’s sounds really unintrusive with notes like those but I’d like to imagine that black pepper really gives it a kick and makes us think of Kylo Ren in all his glory.

You know what would be good for Adam? Biscotti! Warm, comforting, Marc Jacobs Biscotti. Marc, let’s sit, let’s talk, let’s discuss bringing back the Splashes. We love the Splashes, we want the Splashes, we need the Splashes. Come on won’t you bring them back for little old me? Biscotti was so warm, so delightful, it smelled like a big, hard hug from the man you love! You’ve been so busy reinventing yourself lately but how about we just do it for a feel good memory! Are you with me here?

Marc Jacobs Splash Collection 2010 1

I do so miss the Splashes.

I really don’t want another Daisy release. Let’s go wild and re-release some of the old Marc Jacob Splashes.

What do you think?

Who remembers how delicious Marc Jacobs Biscotti was? Yeah, that’s Adam Driver’s scent for sure.

And this my friends is an ode to men who smells delicious.

What’s your favorite men’s fragrance?

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  • Kelsey

    You aren’t weird at all Isabella! You’re funny as hell! I think Adam Driver smells like Dior Sauvage as for my online crushes one probably smells like sweat haha!

    • Isabella Muse

      Oh thank god lol! And here I was thinking how weird and strange I am! Sauvage?! Noooo! Jack Sparrow smells like Sauvage! LOL! Sweat? WHAT? Your online crush smells like sweat? I need the backstory!

  • David

    OH MY GOD! I’m here for the bring back the Marc Jacob Splashes vote!

  • Tela

    I still have biscotti! I purchased it years ago when you recommended it!

    • Isabella Muse

      haha! OMG! Me too! I have a small amount left that I cherish!

  • Christine

    My online crush revealed he wears Versace Eros which made me purchase a bottle! It actually works well as a women’s fragrance as well!

    • Isabella Muse

      Wait, is your online crush Daniel Sredzinski aka Jeremy Fragrance? LOL! He’s obsessed with Eros. I don’t doubt it! Some men’s fragrances smell incredible on me! I’m totally about normalizing men’s fragrance for women!

  • Donna J

    I discovered Adam through you Muse! You mentioned GIRLS in an old post and I watched it and instantly fell in love with him!

    • Isabella Muse

      Ha! Oh my gosh yes! I was obsessed with it when it first came out and Adam was the big draw!

  • mikhail

    What were the notes in biscotti? That sounds amazing! Wish it was around to smell!

    • Isabella Muse

      It’s actually probably not what you think. It doesn’t smell like an actual biscotti! It has bergamot, orange blossom, pistachio, and vanilla. It’s sort of a masculine scent so it can go either way as a women’s or a men’s fragrance!

  • Aurora

    I was watching those we need a hero tiktoks too during lockdown! I love me some Kylo!

  • L

    Ugh olfactory memory. The ones that really get me are when I catch a waft of a cologne that a IRL former flame wore. I’m not looking to dredge up steamy memories when I’m just walking through the mall or down the street!

  • Stephanie Guerrero

    You are not the only one! My crush, Martin Gore wears Thierry Mugler’s Angel. That scent is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much for me though. I tried it and had to scrub it. LOL!!!

    • Isabella Muse

      STFU! Martin Gore wears Angel!? I’d never peg him for an Angel lover Oh angel is harsh! I have the deepest, passionate love affair with it I love to hate it LOL! And I love to love it!

      • Stephanie Guerrero

        He did back in the early 2000s. I even bought the nail polish he wore for the Touring the Angel Tour in 2005/06. LOL!!! Yeah, just a bit obsessed. 😉

        • Isabella Muse

          Oh my god! Too cute! I can relate to being obsessed. I have so many celeb crushes haha! ;-D

  • Leia

    My crush wears your signature scent! Love, Don’t Be Shy! Riri, of course!

    • Isabella Muse

      HAHA Leia! I crush on Riri too! And yasss best sent every!

  • Heather

    Musey! My husband wears 2020 but he’s wore the original Most people say there’s no difference between the original and the relaunch but you’re right there is something deeper about the 2020 release!

    • Isabella Muse

      I THOUGHT SO TOO! I had the original from way back in the day and if I sniff both I feel they are a bit different but experts swear it’s the same exact fragrance My nose is picking up something more with the new version! I actually had a senior moment for a second when people came at me with Emporio because it’s pretty all over the grey market for sale and I was absolutely arguing with a friend tell her no no no it’s gone it was discontinued. But I remember Armani’s press team sent me the relaunch last year BUT I don’t remember it coming to market in the US which is odd. As I remember all fragrance launches. Are you in the US? If so, where did you get it?

  • Vikki Velvetfur

    No you’re not alone in the ‘imagining how people smell’! It’s one of the things I think when I look at pics of my musician crush – “he looks like he smells sooo good”, I imagine him to smell ‘expensive’! Also clean and fresh, you know what I mean 😀 That Profumo Special Blend sounds great, I hadn’t heard of it so thanks for mentioning it! I’ll have to get to a department store to seek it out. I’m as obsessed with perfume as you, I love the way you describe the obsession! I don’t know male fragrances though as I haven’t had a ‘male’ for several years, but I recently had a successful blind buy in TK Maxx ( TJ Maxx to you!) which is ‘Osez-Moi!’ by Chantal Thomass – it smells like a glamorous boudoir so in case you don’t already know that one you need to find it and see what you think, it’s gorgeous 🙂

    • Isabella Muse

      It’s sort of weird right but also, sort of natural that you wonder what people smell like! Who’s your musician crush? Maybe I know him and can tell you what I think he smells like lol! Profumo Special Blend is so damn harsh but it’s sexy AF too. Go do it! Tell me what you think! Aw thanks so glad you enjoyed the post! I’m such a weirdo when it comes to writing some of these long winded posts! Haha! Oh I know of it but never smelled it. The bottle reminds me of the old D Brill fragrance ;-D thanks for the rec I’ll look for it! I do so enjoy a good blind fragrance buy from TJ!

      • Vikki Velvetfur

        Haha, yeah I think it’s natural to wonder about that! I don’t wanna say his name, just in case he’s the kinda person who might Google himself out of curiosity and he’d see this and be like “who’s that crazy stalker?”! He’s not a big mainstream popular musician anyway, very underground (European), and to be honest he hasn’t put out any new music for about 10 years! Oh and by the way I love your long posts, they’re always a good read 😀 Ooh I’ve just found Dianne Brill on Fragrantica, that bottle is so gorgeous! I see what you mean about the similarity 🙂

        • Isabella Muse

          I sort of do too!! But I think some people prob think we’re weird lol! Interesting you have me curious haha…! I didn’t mention the name of the person in this post either because he’s super private and I can just picture all my readers going over to comment and say, “I read on Musings of a Muse you smell like Emporio!” LOL! Aw thank you! I enjoy writing them but I’m always so scared people will be bored haha! Oh Vikki! It smelled so incredible. A truly old glam Hollywood fragrance! https://www.musingsofamuse.com/2009/02/dianne-brill-eau-de-parfume-review.html <---not my best work but you can see some bad pictures from 2009 haha!

          • Vikki Velvetfur

            Ooohh thanks for the review link, I’ll head over right now! That comment about your crush made me laugh, the idea of all the people saying “you smell like…”!! The person I’m talking about is super private as well…actually I just had an idea – I follow you on Insta as well (although don’t see you on there as much as the email updates I get from you, hence no comments on there from me), so if you want I could send you a DM with his name and a pic or two (I have this same username on Insta too), if not then that’s cool too of course 🙂

          • Isabella Muse

            My pleasure 🙂 LOL I’m so glad it made you laugh! Oh I post often on Instagram but I tend to get shadowbaned from everyone seeing me! Sure DM ME!!!!!!!!!!! I’d love to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • kjh

    There�s a lot of speculation about what Idris Elba wears. S.t. by Floris, or Penhaligon, or Tom Ford. He filed a trademark for a scent in 2020, so maybe we�ll know eventually. I wouldn�t cross the street for most celebrities, but I�d watch him walk to the mailbox totally clothed. I always channel Stringer Bell in the Wire. So it has to be something high end, dangerous, with an illicit note. You guys tell me. His bespoke should be interesting. Not feeling the Adam Driver, but he�s probably too young to hit my fantasy boyfriends. They live on the side of the refrigerator, and can be anywhere from 20 years younger to�.dead. No shit. Actually, I think I had to make an exemption/exception for Idris Elba. I may have a dog whose name is Jussi Sperling (Jack Sparrow in Scandy/German) and love the older Eau Sauvage, but JD got demoted and removed from the refrigerator for behavior. Wonder why Dennis Hopper is still up? Hmmm�

    • Isabella Muse

      I think you intentionally brought Idris into this chat because it would lead to a discuss of Roland Deschain and the Man in Black and what they smell like! LOL! Which Penhaligon though? Which Tom Ford? Tobacco Vanille for Roland and Idris maybe ;D The smoky element seems ideal for the Gunslinger yes? LOL Oh you even went so far as to bring Stringer into this conversation! Yes, it’s that dangerous, illicit note so maybe Tobacco Vanille isn’t ideal for this conversation perhaps something darker, something a little mean? Tom Ford Oud Wood? LOL Oh my god please let’s retire Dennis! And yeah, Jussi needs to be cancelled too! Sorry girl!