Girl of the Year

I'm very Pro-Girl of the Year, but beware! If you're not usually into tobacco, smokey, sweet, and powdery scents.... think of maybe Lush or Jazz Club, you may not enjoy this! Upon spraying GOTY for the first time, all I thought of was "Oh my God???" I can totally see this being a polarizing fragrance and it certainly isn't for everyone. I immediately got a whiff of smoke, sweet tobacco, incense, and soap! The tobacco and leather is sooooo sweet, it immediately turned soapy on me. I also think the lipstick note is attributing to this, keeping it soft and powdery around the edges. This perfume smells like a professional stoner, like think of a corporate stoner girl. Girl Boss by day, chill stoner by night. Wears minimalistic, neutral power suits during the day, yet wears flowy yoga pants, rolls a spliff with lavender and rose pedals, wears Aesop religiously, and heads to her hot yoga class in the evening time. GOTY reminds me of a sexy, Type B type of girl. She's in her mid 20s, real intelligent. Hedonistic with the gravel, drawing dead eyes. You say she's anorexic, and you heard she likes when people say it. Think you already know her, but you don't! This perfume reminds me of a bougie, upscale, overpriced smoke shop. The incense, candles, and smokey sweetness will envelop you in a cloud of rebellion and confidence. That's exactly how I feel when I wear this. Rebellious and confident. It is not a safe, well-received fragrance by all, but it feels so darn good to put on GOTY and go about your business with your head up high. After it's settled for a few hours, I get a gorgeous whiff of incense, sweetness, powder, leather and sandalwood goodness. It makes me feel like this scent has a presence of its own and it makes me feel more powerful. More present. Taking up more space. If you enjoy deep, sweet, sultry, sexy, tobacco, smokey, powdery and leather type of scents... then you will love this!

This scent has such vintage smell to it (as in vintage clothing; a lived-in musk with an air of pungent sweetness) that takes on a life of it's own; the scent carries both an aura of familiarity with twist of mystery that's subtle and sexy, but not overpowering. Top notes of a pungent rose over bottom notes of leather, burning incense, and vintage fur; I love the way this wears throughout the day and the lasting scent on the skin. I often layer my spray perfumes paired over a Le Labo body oil on heat pressure points; I layered TWM Girl Of The Year with the Le Labo Rose 31 body oil and it's heavenly. Thin Wild Mercury scents always tell a story and transport me to an entirely different era and mindset; when I'm wearing Girl Of The Year: Location: Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, 47th St Midtown Manhattan Year: 1967 Outfit: I'm wearing a vintage rabbit fur coat over a slinky Paco Rabanne silver sequin disc dress Surroundings/Happenings: I'm drinking a gin gimlet, chain-smoking cigarettes, lining up mirror lines with Candy Darling laughing along with a drunken Truman Capote ramble-on with his latest Manhattan socialite gossip Soundtrack: Nico & The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Small Faces, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, The Animals I'm forever such a Thin Wild Mercury fan; I've been wearing TWM scents for 4 years now, having started with Laurel Canyon 1966 and Whiskey 1969 from the LA collection. Cathleen has proven to be such an excellent story teller in crafting her scents and curating the brand identity; her scents evoke a feeling and transport you to a different decade that evoke the spirit of the time. The scents are long-lasting and great quality; worth every penny and then some. My only TWM complaint is that the bottles don't come in larger sizes; I wish there were 3.4 fl oz. size bottles available!

I’ve been dreaming and thinking about what this fragrance could be since the perfumer (Cathleen) first posted about it on Instagram. Upon smelling it in the NY sample set, I fell in love and immediately knew I’d be buying a full bottle. The opening of the fragrance is smoky in the way that incense is and slightly sweet. It’s sexy and truly encapsulates the chosen muse, Edie Sedgwick. It’s darkly feminine. Like a girl in fishnets with a cigarette hanging from her lips while she looks in the mirror of her vanity. Dark liner is smudged around her eyes from the night before and her room is messy with expensive things strewn about. There’s candles everywhere, powdery lipstick lubes and luxurious skincare products. After the initial smokiness subsides it becomes much sweeter on my skin (the leather I believe) before becoming powdery! The lipstick note is truly captured here. After a few hours, the sweetness is very gentle. It still maintains it’s animalic dna but smells like the wearer took a long bath complete with bath beads before slipping into a warm fur winter coat. Girl of the Year truly captures creativity in fragrance and I’m so happy to own it.

I've been eyeing Girl of the Year for a while, and after the whole Chappell Roan moment, I figured if not now, when? I was instantly captivated by the story behind the fragrance. I love the concept of the iconic 1960s It Girl. Smoky, leathery scents aren’t usually part of my rotation, but the lipstick note completely intrigued me. To my surprise, I fell in love. The incense note is absolutely wonderful—smoky but soft, adding beautiful depth, the dry down is a dreamy sandalwood base, grounding everything in a warm, creamy finish. It feels nostalgic in the best way, like stepping into a vintage shop filled with hidden treasures and memories you didn’t know you had. It's evocative, a little moody, and incredibly unique. This one is special, definitely not your average perfume, but that’s exactly why I adore it.

This fragrance does open very clinical, like a tube of lipstick, but the kind my mother wore in the 80’s when I rifled through her makeup. Impressive that anyone could get that right. Settles into a leathery and animalic tone that’s hard to ignore. Not a safe blind buy if you’re not into animalic fragrances. After a couple hours it fades into a really powdery and smoky sandalwood accord. I wish this had more projection and sillage, but perhaps that’s part of the art form, knowing not to overdo it. I’m quite in love with this little fragrance and it’s at a great price point, compared to another similar animalic fragrance I was considering for purchase. This is very unique and hard to describe! This smells exactly like Sandy from Grease when she turned into a hot and badass chick at the carnival.