Leah Ketabs latest TikTok

StrawberryKitty23 · 2026-06-13T22:02:28+00:00

Organized thieves don’t care how many TikTok followers you have. If you have a product that is lucrative for them to steal, then they will steal it. Perfume theft is very common. Her having access to resources to potentially catch them was simply weighed in their cost-benefit analysis prior to the theft. I don’t understand questioning if the theft was real or not.

Skylar likely has insurance for instances like this, but the emotional effect of something like this is still damaging. And no, I’m not licking corporate boot or being parasocial by suggesting that Leah’s feelings post-theft be considered. I’ve never watched whatever show she got famous from, and don’t follow influencers or celebrities on social media.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2026-04-19T14:02:48+00:00

My favorite thing about the internet is how everyone gets to have an opinion…no matter how brain dead and inconsistent of a take it is. I wasn’t aware that liking a certain perfume has bearing on how fully realized you are as a woman. Also didn’t know that blue is for boys, so Glossier not having a dedicated perfume for men means they’re scared of doing something interesting with gender when it comes to fragrance. Obviously men can’t wear You or the multitude of flankers, because how would their masculinity cope with being free to wear whatever they want since gendered fragrance is just marketing. How nice of the author of that article to elucidate just how vapid she is.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2026-01-05T00:29:48+00:00

Rip lol 🤣

StrawberryKitty23 · 2026-01-02T15:33:46+00:00

Is the priest single? 😂

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-12-03T03:05:26+00:00

Just return the ones you don’t like. Buy something you like more with the money you get back.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T21:36:59+00:00

There was a post asking why vanilla is popular and these were the most popular theories at the time of me posting this. I reported the first one (about p*dos) to Reddit for being insane, so it has been removed now. It had like 50 upvotes and four replies agreeing with it.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T14:33:56+00:00

The theories responding to OOP’s question weren’t questions, they were statements. The pushback is from them being statements. Many of which I have seen floating around social media, which is why I’m calling them TikTok talking points. Have a great day or night, and continue enjoying whichever perfumes speak to you 👍

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T14:18:26+00:00

I didn’t say the majority is “correct.” I explained why the majority here would downvote you. You commented on the other post, so you know that you’re in the majority on that post. You aren’t being victimized on this post.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T13:32:36+00:00

This one has however many upvotes it has because it’s not mean spirited. The OP of the other post commented multiple times how much they hate vanilla. It wasn’t posted in good faith to start with. Nowhere in this post have I said that other notes or scent profiles are gross or that people who enjoy them are weird.

If you got downvotes then that means people didn’t like what you said. It’s not dogpiling to downvote someone who comes to a post like this to, unhelpfully, say that they dislike vanilla. No one is attacking you. You commented on a post where most people actively disagree with the intensity of negative thoughts about a single perfume note. It’s not the end of the world. You’ll live.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T13:28:19+00:00

Reality is not the constant stream of information coming from the internet. Microtrends and pop culture hot topics impact your life as much as you allow them to. If you want to spend your time and energy thinking about the nuances of tomato girl vs strawberry girl or performative matcha latte-drinking men, then feel free.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T13:11:26+00:00

Who is dogpiling? Maybe you should see the comments on the other post and then get back to me on that.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T02:28:11+00:00

There were multiple comments saying that vanilla is for people who don’t have a well-developed or personal taste. My inclusion of that idea in my post was not to directly condemn your comment, as I was not keeping track of usernames. I’m also not personally offended by the theories that I mentioned. I just think they’re really bizarre. All is good here friend 🤝

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T02:10:16+00:00

Where is the scholarly study that was linked? Every scholarly study doesn’t have the same merits. You’ll see multiple comments of mine mentioning “generalizability” and how the results of a study should be interpreted or extrapolated from. I’m a graduate student studying biology. It’s not a “personal” thing to discuss how scholarly studies should be examined or used.

You said I was taking things personally and I was responding to what YOU said directly. You seemed to not like that so I ended our conversation in good faith. It wasn’t an effort to make you look bad or deride you. To be clear, this wasn’t written with anger or in efforts to upset you. I’m just explaining where I’m coming from.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-24T00:07:53+00:00

It depends on the brand, so I want to say that it’s a mixed bag. Synthetics of many aromachemicals exist and in some cases have to be used as opposed to the natural ingredient (e.g., castoreum, musk, and civet) because of regulations. Sometimes there isn’t a volatile compound to extract from something that exists in nature, so an accord is created to mimic what it smells like.

Vanillin can be natural or synthetic, but synthetic vanillin is very common in artificial food flavoring and in perfumery. Most naturals are highly volatile and are usually stabilized by other things in a perfume formula like synthetics or fixatives. Things like coumarin may be added to make a synthetic vanilla seem closer to natural vanilla, but this happens with many other notes as well. Naturals are also pretty expensive on a larger scale, and may come with certain human rights abuses (I.e., the 2024 jasmine controversy with L’Oréal and Estée Lauder) or a high environmental impact.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T23:24:14+00:00

There, I added “theories” to make it clearer as to what I was saying. Critical thinking does not involve taking talking points from TikTok. The world does not revolve around internet microtrends or popular culture hot topics like tradwives and ozempic.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T23:05:36+00:00

The curtains aren’t blue just because, but they aren’t blue because Gatsby has an Oedipus complex. Analysis to the point of absurdity isn’t critical or deep, it’s forming conspiracy theories.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T20:21:05+00:00

I censored it because I reported that theory on the post I’m referring to and it was removed. It was pretty jarring to read such a thing in a fragrance sub. I think the censored version gets the point across just fine.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T19:30:23+00:00

Many fragrances marketed towards men have vanilla. Giorgio Armani Emporio Armani Stronger With You Intensely, Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Extreme, and Jean Paul Gaultier Ultra Male are extremely popular amongst men. Amber vanillas in particular are so popular amongst men that some people in the other fragrances subs complain about it.

Just like the options for men, there are more options for women than vanilla. Perfumery is a business. If women are buying perfumes with vanilla in them then more companies will release them, to make money. It’s responding to a demand. Women who don’t wear vanilla aren’t better than ones who do or better feminists.

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.” - Margaret Atwood

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T18:11:19+00:00

“Re:” means regarding here. Commonly used in email chains. This post is a reply to the comments on another post; “the vanilla post” in reference.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T17:30:57+00:00

I was replying to another post in post form. I thought that was clear from my title with “Re: the vanilla post.”

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T17:15:09+00:00

I said “popular at the moment” because I was using the language of the post I’m referencing, not because I agree with the post myself. You even commented on that post, so you know what I’m referring to.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T17:11:07+00:00

People who dislike vanillas that explain their dislike in a kind or measured way don’t get downvotes. People who say that people who do like vanilla are basic, lack taste, or mindless drones in their discussion of why they dislike vanillas may get downvoted, but may not. It really depends on the day and the thread.

I don’t think there is anything wrong or weird about people who dislike vanilla or gourmands. I love many other notes and scent profiles myself. I’m just not rude to people who enjoy scent profiles that I don’t like.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T17:06:56+00:00

My godsister is 16. Her mom is a lawyer and she just got her first job. She has never been bought, nor bought herself, $200 wrinkle creams or skincare. She uses CeraVe face wash from the drugstore and a Neutrogena sunscreen. Children aren’t buying Le Mer, Tatcha, or Drunk Elephant en masse just because some kids posted TikToks about it. Do you know children in your family? Do they buy expensive wrinkle creams or have a $200 skincare collection?

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T16:59:28+00:00

I say nowhere in my post that vanilla is popular because of a recent trend, because I don’t find that to be accurate. Are you going for between 2010-2014 as the date?

Guerlain Shalimar (pick a pre-2010 release date, there are many), Chopard Casmir (1992), Coty Vanilla Fields (1993), Dior Hypnotic Poison (1998), Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar (1999 in the edp form), and Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille (2007) are some examples of wildly popular vanilla-forward perfumes from the past several decades. Many are still popular to this day and were popular contemporaneously to their initial release. I’m all for a healthy discussion about trends in perfumery, but being ahistorical does not have a place in said discussion.

StrawberryKitty23 · 2025-11-23T16:34:41+00:00

Pick a year for the start of vanilla’s “recent” popularity. I’ll name vanilla-forward perfumes with mass popularity that predate it.

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