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Melanie Smellanie
@melbinks.bsky.social
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Perfume lover, lawyer, person
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melbinks.bsky.social
I may have chosen violence with my SOTD but I was mostly going for comfort. Wearing Golden Hour by Voyager, a durian, mango that dries down to a gorgeous vanilla. I love the funk at the start but I guess it’s not for everyone.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
There’s a hint of vintage, a whisper of a rumor of something dirty underneath all the clean musk. Maybe I’m imagining it but I think it keeps it interesting.
melbinks.bsky.social Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 21h
SOTN is Nuage de Coton by 100Bon. Pretty inexpensive ($65 for a 50ml) and just the loveliest musk, iris, and ambrette. It’s not too powdery and retains some of the purple in the scent but the big star is the ambrette. It’s really pillowy and delightful. I suspect I’ll wear it more at night.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
SOTN is Nuage de Coton by 100Bon. Pretty inexpensive ($65 for a 50ml) and just the loveliest musk, iris, and ambrette. It’s not too powdery and retains some of the purple in the scent but the big star is the ambrette. It’s really pillowy and delightful. I suspect I’ll wear it more at night.
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
Had an incredible time making perfume today with EPC. I made two travel sizes. The 1st was cardamom moss- 4 parts, Tonka sesame- 3, cedar absinthe-3. The 2nd was bergamot incense- 4, jasmine osmanthus- 2, sandalwood musk- 4. It’s amazing how powerful a jasmine scent can be. I got to name them too!
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
On my way to a perfume making class and lunch with friends
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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lyz.bsky.social
Showed my teen my one good TikTok and she was like “it’s so weird you still have to post for attention in your 40s” so excuse me while I walk into the ocean
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
I wore a Dua of a discontinued Escada. The Dua is called crown twilight. It’s a mango fresh early oughts and it was lovely and cheering
melbinks.bsky.social Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 3d
I’m feeling in my feels today. I know part of it is not enough sleep and part is that I maybe gently bumped my car today (against an inanimate object; both the car and object are fine) but I want to snap out of it. So I’m thinking shower and dressing up and a new perfume. Suggestions welcome.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
I’m feeling in my feels today. I know part of it is not enough sleep and part is that I maybe gently bumped my car today (against an inanimate object; both the car and object are fine) but I want to snap out of it. So I’m thinking shower and dressing up and a new perfume. Suggestions welcome.
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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hoshigato.bsky.social
Gotta remember to post on here more often. Tiktok going to shyt #perfume #perfumery #perfumesky #fragrance #diyfragrance
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
We are not a serious country, at all.
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.

Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
Wearing this again today over my Majaina Sin and I love it. I’m so glad I bought this.
melbinks.bsky.social Melanie Smellanie @melbinks.bsky.social · 9d
This morning I tried a sample of Gateau des Anges by Fleurit and then proceeded to go on Mercari immediately and buy a bottle. Haven’t fallen that hard for a perfume, much less a gourmand, in a very long time. It’s a beautifully blended decadent flormand. Instant love. Have you tried it?
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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warren.senate.gov
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
SOTD Chai Chai Chai by Anjali. A blind buy of a travel. I wish I’d bout the full size because holy crap it’s wonderful. Milky black tea with a whisper of warm spices and just the loveliest sweetness from sugar and biscuit notes. I smell so delightful
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
Also, eating a bunch of Brussels sprouts and Serrano peppers leftovers for breakfast is apparently something my stomach did not appreciate. Who woulda thunk
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
Serrano peppers. Mild until they’re not. Sneaky bastards.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
Angel’s Bread by Cerchi Nell’acqua is so much more artificial than I expected it to be. It’s definitely got a hint of okay doh. Not a winner in my book. But glad I tried it because I was tired of seeing it everywhere and not knowing.
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
melbinks.bsky.social
Watched a couple of clips of Landman on TikTok last night so of course today I’m drafting emails in a cowboy accent in my head.
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
melbinks.bsky.social
Put a sample on the back of my hand today and it immediately made me feel uneasy. It’s not an ugly scent. In fact, it’s pretty. And it didn’t make me queasy. Just uneasy. Very unsettling. Ever happen to you? And if so do you recall which scent?
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating
April 7 Brian McEntire, Civil Rights Division: My goal was always to become an attorney in the Civil Rights Division. That was my dream. I ended up working a lot on fire department cases. In Cobb County, Ga., we got information that even though African Americans and whites were applying for positions at about an equal rate over the previous decade, 90 percent of the hires had been white and 10 percent had been African American. And we didn't quite understand why that was. So we did an investigation and found out that there was a credit check that was disproportionately knocking out African Americans, particularly for student loan debt. And when we asked them why they were doing that, their response was essentially, Well, if a firefighter is deeply in debt and he's fighting a fire, he might steal grandma's pearls. So we brought suit. In February, we got a note saying that the attorney general wanted us to withdraw the case. The next day, division leadership insisted that we put additional language in the notice of dismissal that implied it was all about reverse discrimination. I didn't know, quite frankly, if I could sign it. If I have to say what I argued before was illegal, then I could have been accused of misleading the court, which could have ended up with me being disciplined, sanctioned and my bar license revoked. So I did not sign it. My colleagues didn't sign it. They pulled us all into a room, and we were all prepared to get fired because none of us were going to sign. My boss signed a modified version of the notice of withdrawal on our behalf. We also had a racial-discrimination case involving the sole African American attorney working for the Mississippi State Senate, who, during the years she worked there, was paid less than half of what her similarly situated white colleagues were making. It was as clear-cut a case of disparate racial treatment you could find. The Senate stalled the case until Trump's appointees could come in and order our section to drop it. When you talk about the rule of law and treating people fairly and equally, that's obviously a slap in the face.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM