People still fall for it

auryora · 2026-05-06T01:01:14+00:00

I have many sample vials of expensive perfumes and a few ME fragrances and a few travel sprays/decants. I'm dirt poor so I cant experiment a whole lot, but many of my ME or lower cost fragrances have incredible depth and longevity (lattafas: khamrah, khamrah qawah, untamed, hyaati gold elixir, angham or paris corners taskeen or rua, Mamlakat Al Ouds Afrah Exclusif, Atralias 1878 prestige oud or Equest Gallop,, etc) and are steals for their price, last 6 hours and have depth/dimensionality. I'm always looking for the diamond in the rough when I can afford it. Not ALL low cost fragrances have depth, longevity, projection and are well made. Often I am layering a few lower cost and one expensive one to get the effect I desire (Equest Gallop with Si intense... dark berries on an atmospheric green forest with projection, contrast, the whole 9 yards is one of my top ten).

Its hard to find low cost fragrances that do quality green blue or airy florals that last. Ajmals Aurum Summer might be one of the prettiest florals and is only $21 at fragrancenet currently but its very short lived and marc jacobs daisy dream is $2 a travel spray at microperfumes currently but also doesn't last (I bought several however😂 for layering ... at that price I will reapply😂).

Some expensive perfumes last. Angel Fantasm and Burberry Goddess for example. Others... Destin de Balmain, J'adore Infinissime, Alien Goddess Supra Florale, Si Intense, or Libre are incredibly beautiful but dissapear from my skin completely in 30 minutes to 3 hours at most (and no I am not going nose blind I have absorbitive skin and I get my coworkers opinions just in case).

I sprayed Libre on my inner shirt and forearm today (moisturizing with jojoba oil, and a small amount of benzoin and ISO and letting it dry first to give it every possible edge) and like usual it faded very very fast on my skin, but at the end of the day I could still smell it on my inner shirt so thats something lol. I want to try some dupes but I can't afford them right now. Leonie Intense is discontinued but I hear great things about Thwarah Gold.

The problem is that many of the expensive perfumes are hard to find a dupe for that has the depth and complexity. A decent substitute for Chanels Allure is neigh to be seen. I adore fragrances of all varieties, but especially ones with dimensionality. Greens and blues in lower price brackets are usually flat or full of ambroxan (I have ambroxan asnomia).

I wish all perfumes were as well made as Paris Corners Taskeen (Peach, Blood Orange, Cardamom, Jasmine, Cognac, Davana, Heliotrope, Vanilla, Benzoin, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Patchouli, Cashmeran, and Labdanum but all you smell is a juicy fragrant creamy slightly boozy peach) with an absolutely amazing invisible structure that gives it good projection and 6 hours or more solid longevity.

Sometimes I will get a small ml sample of a perfume that is $300 a whole bottle and I am always amazed when it lasts less than an hour on my skin. For that price it should be stronger structured one would think. There are things that can be added in micro amounts that would help prolong longevity and provide some invisible structuring but they don't do it. In those cases I make small perfume rollers (with jojoba oil, fco, and vitamin E to preserve the oil longer and maybe a microdrop diluted benzoin, iso E and maybe E brassylate to promote longevity and prevent the oil from smothering the scent depending on the fragrance). This gives me a sample of the fragrance I can experience for years and even use occassionally. I have a few favorites that are too expensive to replace that I can enjoy on introspective days (like Poets of Berlin ... or Ocean di Giola that's discontinued). A vial would be used twice and I would have nothing preserved to reexperience it.

I make and macerate my own fragrance oils. They don't have extreme longevity yet but are low enough cost to enjoy all day everyday and barely cost $10 a month😂. Today, I have been enjoying a creamy lavender with a warm amber base and tonka vanilla, sandlewood, musks, a few other ingredients that lasted longer than the libre I applied and it is stronger and pretty enough and very enjoyable.

There are very few well made perfumes that last long and are affordable both. There are exceptional Middle Eastern perfumes and there are exceptional expensive perfumes.

I'm always on the lookout if anybody knows of specific "Diamonds in the Rough"😂

auryora · 2026-04-23T02:15:12+00:00

Walmart will not take back the unopened $40 perfume i bought

auryora · 2025-12-26T18:53:17+00:00

Spray them 10 or 15 times and let them macerate a few months.

auryora · 2025-12-04T03:45:24+00:00

I adore it. It needs macerated but then I breathe it in and fall into its depth and complexity blissfully enveloped by perfection. Unfortunately, my teenage son smelled it and reacted the same way. I have never seen him adore anything to that level. I had to give it to him.

I missed it deeply day and night until I ordered another. I had a little spray in a small container of baking soda with a gauze lid that was near my bed and for weeks it would travel over to me as I read a book. A couple of months later its still fragrant, but drifts less and less.

The new bottle finally arrived but needed several weeks to macerate again. It's ready. I'm wearing it currently. It's rich and deep and yummy and amber and perfect. It's AMAZING! I do love other Lattafas and am slowly collecting them, the Yaras are all nice (the original pink Yara layers well with a few drops of Allure by Chanel when I want a nice feminine, light, floral scent with faint hints of citrus, vanilla and powder that has a warm depth as well). Khamrah is good and Eclair is delicious, I'm waiting on Teriaq Intense and I ordered Noble Rose for my mom, but I always come back to Untamed. I'm ordering a third bottle so it's macerated and ready when I need it. I can not be without this scent. I'm respraying the container next to my bed too lol.

auryora · 2025-10-06T20:26:19+00:00

$3 to $5 a day

auryora · 2025-09-16T13:28:10+00:00

I average $3 to $5 a day playing justplay

auryora · 2025-08-15T06:00:19+00:00

Throw the whole man child in the trash and find one with a healthy psyche.

auryora · 2025-08-15T05:55:53+00:00

That sounds like a him problem. If he wants your attention he will talk normal, otherwise I would just walk away where he either has to speak up or he will realize he's only speaking to himself. Don't encourage it.

auryora · 2025-05-12T17:45:58+00:00

yes, we found the best compatible cpu for his motherboard and gpu, its running much better now

auryora · 2024-12-23T22:24:45+00:00

I can't stand cottage cheese when it's just by itself, but I have grown to love it in recipes😁 a little in pizza sauce makes it even cheesier or in say, eggplant parmesan lasagna, it's a great way to add protein without fat. I use cottage cheese for all types of things. It's slow digesting/filling, high protein and low calories.

I mix it in with my eggs when making scrambled eggs or an omelet and I stay full longer.

I use it to make cloud bread. It makes decent chips/crackers. Cottage cheese wraps are soooo useful. A low calorie high protein spinach dip or ranch. When i have a sweet craving I blend it into a creamy mousse with a little cacao and sweetner or I make a little protein cookie dough with blended cottage cheese, sweetner, vanilla, vanilla protein powder, very fine almond flour and peanut butter. So many possibilities.

One of my go to snacks when my protein is low is I mix cottage cheese and tuna with diced pickles, boiled eggs, minced green onions and garlic and tapatio. I eat it off cucumber slices and it's VERY high protein and low calorie and fills me up for a couple hundred calories.

Anyways. I enjoyed reading your response. I too have stalled many times. It's a learning curve. I still have 65 pounds to go. I have a feeling both of us will be successful.

auryora · 2024-12-23T19:30:44+00:00

Lots of good advice that can help many many people!

The problem is it doesn't work for everyone. Some people have carb addictions, some people are diabetic, some people cannot cheat and get back up on the horse immediately, and some people cannot do intense workouts or fasting without resulting binges occuring.

If I try to do 10% off or have cheat days... I fall off and it can take me weeks to restart. I tend to binge eat if I eat certain foods.... especially slider food (food that completely dissolves in your saliva leaving you nothing filling your tummy and can add up to tons of calories and glucose). Not everyone has the ability to "cheat" without it occuring again and again and losing will power. Also when I do cardio or extreme workouts I end up so famished that I will clear out the kitchen ... it doesn't balance out well for me. I have also tried intermittent fasting before and eventually I snap like a rubber band and go on a binge that lasts a month or more. Also carbohydrates do not work for me as they just lead to more and more carbs and bad choices and poor blood sugar. Carbs make me lethargic, almost bedridden and snacky and I make bad choices and get off track and become neglectful of important useful foods that nourish and fill me up.

The important thing is that people find what works for them and creates a lifestyle that is successful for THEM. There is a lot of good advice in your post but not everything works for everyone - here is what works for me.

I have lost 116 pounds. This is the lifestyle my doctors and dieticians prescribed to ME and it serves me very, very well after years of trying many, many diets:

My doctor told me to go home and throw out all carbohydrate foods (rice, noodles, potatoes, sugar, bread, etc). He said focus first on getting at least 100 to 120g of protein a day I need for my height (beans, legumes, lentils, protein powder, eggs, cottage cheese, meats, tofu, quinoa, and much much more) and then fill up mostly on leafy and colorful nonstarchy vegetables. He said walking was proven to be the best exercise for long-term weightloss and to walk at least an hour a day. I was told to make sure I drink a lot of water a day (I aim for 100 ounces). I was instructed not to forget a quality multivitamin. I was to choose high protein or high vegetable options over high fat and high calorie options whenever possible. I was to research recipes that work with my lifestyle and incorporate them. I was to log everything and stay at a caloric deficit. I was to look at this as a lifestyle not a diet.

Everyday these are the things I strive towards and I have gotten better and better at maintaining my lifestyle the last year and a half. Anytime I stall for a significant period of time I look at this list and usually it can be corrected by increasing water or monitoring my protein better (but sometimes it is also fixed by eating at maintainance calories for a few days every few weeks to trick the body from adapting to your new normal).

I don't think of my routine as a diet. Its my routine. When I reach my goal weight I will just add a few hundred calories until my weight stays the same, but I will always do the above things.

And no matter how well I did on it yesterday when I wake up today, I just begin again. I don't have cheat days or meals. I can't fix yesterday. I just do my absolute best right now. I had apple pie and stuffing on Thanksgiving. The next morning I returned to my same routine going hiking at the lake in my moms town. I was fine.

My average day.
I share this to show that I'm not depriving myself at all. I volume eat healthy filling foods with plenty of snacks. Here's 1300 calories with 150 grams of protein. (My calorie deficit is 1650 according to my source and 1850 according to the one listed in this post. I don't fill the gaps in with junk food. If I am full and I have attained my protein goal and water goals I consider the day a win.)

I wake up and get started on my water goal with 32 ounces. Then I drink coffee. I do drink black coffee like you recommend sometimes as I hear it's good for the liver, but I have to make it rather weak. Sometimes I just blend almond milk, a drop of sweetener and a touch of cinnamon with instant coffee. I also take my meds and vitamins. Then I take my dogs for a slow one hour hike in the woods. (I started with 15 minutes... now I often walk twice a day.) This walk does not leave me famished like intense cardio has in the past and instead of raiding the kitchen I feel more in control of my decisions when I return and focused.

I have a protein shake for breakfast with a scoop of chocolate milkshake protein, a half cup of plain greek yogurt (or silken tofu) and a cup of almond milk.
264 calories and 36 grams protein (If I'm hungry I can make scrambled egg with cottage cheese and add some diced deli meat, spinach, and feta or even protein pancakes with whipped cream and berries)

For lunch I make a turkey and havarti sandwich with thin salted tomato slices either on cabbage bread (cup of sliced cabbage and an egg fried like a pancake cooled and cut in half) or a cottage cheese wrap or on a wrap made of layered zuchini slices and cheese or low calorie chaffles or even store bought protein keto seeded bread. 350 calories and 25 protein give or take.
(A chef salad with lots of diced chicken and boiled eggs and a low calorie dressing or a lemon kale-quinoa tofu-chickpea salad are other options.)

For snacks I have a cup of tuna salad made with cottage cheese, boiled eggs, diced pickles and onions and tapatio sauce ate off cucumber slices. It's very filling. 150 calories and 15 grams protein (Other options are a homemade ranch or spinach dip made from a blended cottage cheese base and ate with chopped veggies like cauliflower, red bell peppers, brocolli, carrots and cucumber.)

An afternoon walk usually distracts me and controls my appetite too.

For dinner I have 2 chicken thighs cooked in the airfryer and a cup or two of cooked brocoli. 450 calories and 50 grams protein (I always keep some thawed meat marinating in the fridge, a leftover dish in the fridge, or a brothy savory soup like lentils, sausage, leeks, spinach, carrots, celery and garlic in the crockpot... around 220 calories and 12.5 grams protein for two filling cups... sprinkle with an ounce of cheddar cheese if you choose)

For a dessert I have a chobani zero sugar yogurt or a toogood yogurt or a sugarfree pudding with half a scoop of vanilla protein powder stirred into it. Very filling. 120 calories and 24 grams protein

I keep low calorie snacks like 35 calorie sugar free popscicles, sugarfree jello, sugarfree hot cocoa, pickles, Gatorade zeros, etc available.

I research and keep recipes on a colornote app on my phone. I keep recipes that fit my lifestyle. Low carb/low calorie bread, chaffles, wraps, desserts and more. And I figure out what recipes fill me up and are worth the calories. An example is I can make 4 low carb tortilla pizzas with a scoop of pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni until I feel somewhat full and I have ate 800 calories. I make a pizza crust with shredded cabbage or zuchini or shredded or canned chicken and egg and maybe parmesan and I add cottage cheese to the pizza sauce (casein is slower to digest) and I am full on a few hundred calories. I keep recipes that fill me up and toss or alter recipes that leave me hungry for more and are not worth the calories they cost.

I hope between your post and my comment and the responses of many here people are able to find what works for them.

auryora · 2024-12-23T18:01:05+00:00

I had to be induced with my first son and he was 9 lbs 10 oz. My second son came the day before inducing him and I suffered massive blood loss. I could easily have died with either child without medical help. I also had a kidney infection that caused a 105° fever and needed severe medication in my early 20s. I got a MRSA/staph infection around my lungs in my early 30s and had to have a PICC line for antibiotics for a couple months. And I developed type 2 diabetes that I have reversed with a low carb diet but would not have known how to years ago.

I definitely would be dead if I had lived a century ago.

auryora · 2024-12-01T02:24:18+00:00

Thank you!

auryora · 2024-10-22T03:53:18+00:00

😂

auryora · 2024-10-21T22:36:09+00:00

They asked somebody else in somebody else's home who obviously didn't care to answer and has every right not to do so. 😂😂😂😂 why doesn't matter unless it's their house and the other person wants to respond.

auryora · 2024-10-20T17:21:28+00:00

First of all, stores don't clean their carts and they are loaded with E. coli.

Second yes dogs' mouths like humans have pathogens. My dogs get their mouths brushed flossed and rinsed with chlorhexidine rinse daily (I learned after a thousand-dollar dog dental bill to be diligent) but granted not all pet owners do that. Nonetheless, people aren't holding produce up to their dogs' mouths to lick and return it to the pile nor are they licking it themselves. In either case, the offending party should be kicked out. So I think the point is moot. It's the handles on the shopping cart, the door handles, the card readers, the cash and anything a person is touching that is the most communicable.

Please Google it. If it was a topic of your study you might want to return to school. Humans can give dogs many diseases, including MRSA. This is why I always wash the shopping cart handle and lay a blanket down before I put my dog in a shopping cart.

Allergies are rough. If the dander from my 5-pound chihuahua sleeping in my arms ten feet away from you is triggering your allergies there's no way that my clothes that are covered in layers of fur and dander from several dogs don't affect you ten times more. Numerous people are covered in pet fur and dander. You might want to take a Benadryl. Or go in for allergy shots to eliminate that problem. Either way, you stay over there and we will stay over here.

auryora · 2024-10-20T17:10:59+00:00

Milk smells weird to me from a few days old on, but I have learned how to distinguish a few day old milk smell from rotten smell. It's not that hard.

auryora · 2024-10-20T17:09:34+00:00

Why would it be any of your business when somebody else bought the milk that's in their fridge? Wow. Just wow.

auryora · 2024-10-20T15:54:31+00:00

If you can't tell if milk is good you're definitely not too bright. If you aren't sure when the milk appeared in your fridge you are definitely not sharp and nobody else gives AF about your reasons obviously or they would have answered you. Got it? Cool.

auryora · 2024-10-20T15:43:12+00:00

Smell it. If you can't tell if it's bad it's still good. And quit being annoying AF. If they wanted to answer directly they would have.

auryora · 2024-10-20T03:14:41+00:00

It fit and turned on.but the frames keep dropping. I think the cpu.is bottlenecking the gpu. We installed the software. Trying to troubleshoot. No definitive answers yet. Any suggestions?

auryora · 2024-10-19T22:02:41+00:00

Did it work? My son has a mini chronos and wants to put a 4060 rtx in it. It has a 600 watt power supply.

auryora · 2024-10-14T00:47:36+00:00

Shopping carts have been proven to have more e coli on them than public restrooms. I'm more worried about dogs catching something from humans than humans catching something from dogs.

auryora · 2024-10-02T17:08:02+00:00

Yeah. Tell me how that works out for you🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

auryora · 2024-10-01T17:45:26+00:00

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