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Velvet Tonka Perfume
This is for the person who is done with "floral and fruity." You’re stepping into your Power Era. When you wear Velvet Tonka, you become the most grounded person in the room, the one who smells like success, late nights, and zero apologies.
What it Actually Smells Like
Forget the list of notes for a second. Close your eyes and imagine this:
The First Hit: It’s a sharp, clean snap, like peeling a fresh orange in a cold room. It’s bright and immediate.
The Heart: Within minutes, that sharpness melts. It turns into the smell of a high-end woodshop mixed with a bouquet of dark, heavy roses. It’s "sweet-meets-earthy."
The Deep Dry Down: This is where it stays for the next 10 hours. It smells like expensive tobacco and warm vanilla (even though there’s no tobacco in it). It’s the scent of a heavy wool coat that’s been near a fireplace, toasted, creamy, and slightly smoky.
It’s a "heavy" fragrance. It’s the smell of golden syrup poured over charred wood. It’s sweet, but it has a "burnt" edge that keeps it from being sickly.
- It’s for the person who wants to smell "expensive." Not "soap and water" expensive, but "private jet and leather seats" expensive.
- This is a "one-spray" wonder. It clings to your skin like a second identity and won't leave until you wash it off.
The Truth:
You don't wear Velvet Tonka to "smell nice." You wear it to be remembered. If you're looking for subtle, you're in the wrong shop!
It's important to spritz your perfume on the areas of the body that are naturally warm, such as your wrists, the nape of your neck, behind your knees, behind your ear, and inside your elbows.
Resist rubbing your wrists together. Fragrance should sit on the skin to mix with your natural oils, rubbing wrists together breaks down the top notes which means they will fade and evaporate quickly.
Fragrance binds to the oils in your skin, so applying it after your body oil creates a better surface for the scent molecules to bind to.
If like me you like to spritz your clothes then go for it, just remember that it's a different olfactory experience than when you correctly apply perfume to your skin.
Rule of thumb: If you can wash the fabric, then spritz away, just be careful of the delicate fabrics & some perfumes may stain!
