The Pink Bedroom

I went to Ministry of Scent today and asked for recommendations for two scent profiles: an experimental gourmand and something harsh and industrial that leans feminine rather than masculine. While gushing with the sales associate about the strawberry-rubber fever dream that is Toskovat's Age of Innocence, she beelines to the other end of the store for The Pink Bedroom. I had had this one on my test list, but had forgotten about it by the time I had eventually visited. She was gracious enough to show me a lovely array of scents that matched my requests, but The Pink Bedroom was the easy winner. Admittedly I'm a bit of a freak but this fragrance is all the things it sells itself as while still being extremely wearable. It's sticky, sweet, waxy, glossy, gummy, chewy, plastic, but gracefully tamed by a comfortingly familiar powdery iris and jammy rose. I do wish I could smell a stronger musk note on my skin, so this one might call for some layering experiments. I had an era in my life where every day I would eat one singular mini Laffy Taffy (my interpretation of "having a little treat" before it became a christened phenomenon). I can't say I have any distinct olfactory memories of what that smelled like but The Pink Bedroom is, at least spiriturally, what it would smell like to rip a strawberry Laffy Taffy out of plastic wrapping. My only complaint is that the sillage is pretty intimate on me. I have other oil-based perfumes with quite impressive projection, but perhaps coconut oil is not the best carrier for my skin chemistry. Don't care though, I'm so happy to have this in my life. Really testing the boundaries of nose blindness here but in the last seven hours I've had this on my skin, I've genuinely considered rolling this somewhere on my face so it can be closer to my nose...

Just received my rollerball in the mail and decided to slather it on my wrist while already testing the mechanics' garage that is The Lover's Tale by Francesca Bianchi. What a pair! The Pink Bedroom girly notes skate atop the oil slick that is The Lover's Tale. The doll head note blends seamlessly with the sweet gasoline, greasy black leather, smoky wood and motor oil, and cheap pink liquid soap from TLT, while the cutesy strawberry and pink rose accentuate the orris notes in each fragrance with hearts and stars. This combo is the fragrance equivalent of The Shangri-La's song "Leader of the Pack."

My BFF gave my this for my birthday a couple weeks ago and it is such a soft, sweet, and nostalgic smell. The lipstick notes are very forward and I love it! It's a very cute and flirtatious fragrance on the surface however every once in a while I will notice a somewhat old or dusty note that intruiges me. It honestly reminds me of my own pink bedroom full of dolls, makeup, and old furniture because I never clean it LOL It captures the story incredibly well and I can imagine the exact scene this is supposed to illustrate. It is unique but still very very wearable.

my childhood in a vial. plastic dolls mixed with strawberry lip smackers and the scented kid makeup palettes my mom would let me and my sister play with so we wouldn't ransack and destroy hers. this is a perfume that really makes me realize how much fragrance can paint a picture in ways i didn't even think were possible. while this probably won't be my most worn fragrance, i can't deny that this is a masterfully done work of art and Marissa Zappas truly hit the nail on the head when she created this. if she had zero fans i am no longer here and have passed on.

i love the concept and story behind it so much but it's just giving strawberry lipgloss with lipgloss level longevity and no matter how much i apply and re-apply i can barely smell it. she's my beautiful daughter and i'm not mad, i'm disappointed. edit: i'm so sorry!!! i take it all back!!!! i don't know what was wrong with my nose before but it wasn't you, it was me. longevity and sillage are totally average but you smell like a strawberry scented doll from the 60s and exactly as advertised. i love my daughter!!