I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼
@isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social
Fragrance writer. Academic editor. Perfume, books, book podcasts, cinema, theater, food, travel. Author of isniffbeforeisleep.com ✍🏻🌷 Words also in Basenotes, Ifragrance, and The Scent Strip Magazine. 📰🪻
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I Sniff Before I Sleep
Reflections of a Scent Collector
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Hello, everyone! I’m Damiana, author of the blog I Sniff Before I Sleep www.isniffbeforeisleep.com 🌼
I’m in a fragrant cloud with Silver Haze by The Alloy Studio, which evokes the atmosphere of a disco 🪩 party from the nineties - a blend of strawberry candy, 🍓🍬, fog haze, 🌫️ and cigarettes. 🚬
Brand overview on my blog:
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/the-alloy-st...
Brand overview on my blog:
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/the-alloy-st...
February 15, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I’m in a fragrant cloud with Silver Haze by The Alloy Studio, which evokes the atmosphere of a disco 🪩 party from the nineties - a blend of strawberry candy, 🍓🍬, fog haze, 🌫️ and cigarettes. 🚬
Brand overview on my blog:
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/the-alloy-st...
Brand overview on my blog:
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/the-alloy-st...
For the 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🏻🔬🧫🧪🧬 , I’m highlighting Jolie Madame and its creator, brilliant perfumer Germaine Cellier.
Cellier was a chemist but also an inventive artist and innovator who pioneered daring green fragrances, bracing leathers, and roaring florals.
Cellier was a chemist but also an inventive artist and innovator who pioneered daring green fragrances, bracing leathers, and roaring florals.
February 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
For the 2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🏻🔬🧫🧪🧬 , I’m highlighting Jolie Madame and its creator, brilliant perfumer Germaine Cellier.
Cellier was a chemist but also an inventive artist and innovator who pioneered daring green fragrances, bracing leathers, and roaring florals.
Cellier was a chemist but also an inventive artist and innovator who pioneered daring green fragrances, bracing leathers, and roaring florals.
✍🏻 In my article for the Solstice 2026 issue of the Scent Strip magazine, I explore the cinematic connections between solstice and scent through the movies by film director, Pedro Almodóvar. 🌗👃🏻🎞️ 🎥
Thank you @immortalperfumes for the opportunity to contribute again! 🗞️
#perfumesky #perfumemagazine
Thank you @immortalperfumes for the opportunity to contribute again! 🗞️
#perfumesky #perfumemagazine
February 8, 2026 at 9:15 PM
✍🏻 In my article for the Solstice 2026 issue of the Scent Strip magazine, I explore the cinematic connections between solstice and scent through the movies by film director, Pedro Almodóvar. 🌗👃🏻🎞️ 🎥
Thank you @immortalperfumes for the opportunity to contribute again! 🗞️
#perfumesky #perfumemagazine
Thank you @immortalperfumes for the opportunity to contribute again! 🗞️
#perfumesky #perfumemagazine
A corner of my vintage miniature collection. 💫✨
See anything you love? 👀💖
Anyone attending the International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) conference in Chicago in April? 👃🏻🪞👜💄
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
#vintageperfume #perfumesky
See anything you love? 👀💖
Anyone attending the International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) conference in Chicago in April? 👃🏻🪞👜💄
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
#vintageperfume #perfumesky
February 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
A corner of my vintage miniature collection. 💫✨
See anything you love? 👀💖
Anyone attending the International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) conference in Chicago in April? 👃🏻🪞👜💄
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
#vintageperfume #perfumesky
See anything you love? 👀💖
Anyone attending the International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) conference in Chicago in April? 👃🏻🪞👜💄
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
#vintageperfume #perfumesky
✍🏻 My first interview of 2026 is with artisan perfumer Shawn Maher, founder and perfumer of Chatillon Lux and Maher Olfactive. ✍🏻
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/chatillon-lu...
Don’t miss Shawn’s co-curated scent exhibition at the Missouri Botanical St. Louis 🪴🥀🪻🪷
In view through March 31, 2026.
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/chatillon-lu...
Don’t miss Shawn’s co-curated scent exhibition at the Missouri Botanical St. Louis 🪴🥀🪻🪷
In view through March 31, 2026.
Chatillon Lux and Maher Olfactive Fragrances - I Sniff Before I Sleep
My first interview of 2026 is with artisan perfumer Shawn Maher, founder and perfumer of Chatillon Lux and Maher Olfactive. I first heard of Shawn’s brands in 2020. Fragrance writers and perfume lover...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
✍🏻 My first interview of 2026 is with artisan perfumer Shawn Maher, founder and perfumer of Chatillon Lux and Maher Olfactive. ✍🏻
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/chatillon-lu...
Don’t miss Shawn’s co-curated scent exhibition at the Missouri Botanical St. Louis 🪴🥀🪻🪷
In view through March 31, 2026.
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/chatillon-lu...
Don’t miss Shawn’s co-curated scent exhibition at the Missouri Botanical St. Louis 🪴🥀🪻🪷
In view through March 31, 2026.
✨ Something private, familiar, and a little smutty seeping through the skin:
Under My Skin by Francesca Bianchi 🐆
Full review (one of the first in my blog) in the link: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/francesca-bi...
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
Under My Skin by Francesca Bianchi 🐆
Full review (one of the first in my blog) in the link: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/francesca-bi...
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 PM
✨ Something private, familiar, and a little smutty seeping through the skin:
Under My Skin by Francesca Bianchi 🐆
Full review (one of the first in my blog) in the link: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/francesca-bi...
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
Under My Skin by Francesca Bianchi 🐆
Full review (one of the first in my blog) in the link: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/francesca-bi...
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
Kinesis and Hypnotic Nectar by The Alloy Studio are the two sides of a haunted garden in winter. ❄️
📀 Kinesis is a garden in full sun that is strangely quiet and eery. ☀️🪷🌼🌬️🌳
💿 Hypnotic Nectar is bitter and unsettling, suggesting that the garden has decided to keep you. 🌌🌿🪲🍄🟫
#perfumesky
📀 Kinesis is a garden in full sun that is strangely quiet and eery. ☀️🪷🌼🌬️🌳
💿 Hypnotic Nectar is bitter and unsettling, suggesting that the garden has decided to keep you. 🌌🌿🪲🍄🟫
#perfumesky
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Kinesis and Hypnotic Nectar by The Alloy Studio are the two sides of a haunted garden in winter. ❄️
📀 Kinesis is a garden in full sun that is strangely quiet and eery. ☀️🪷🌼🌬️🌳
💿 Hypnotic Nectar is bitter and unsettling, suggesting that the garden has decided to keep you. 🌌🌿🪲🍄🟫
#perfumesky
📀 Kinesis is a garden in full sun that is strangely quiet and eery. ☀️🪷🌼🌬️🌳
💿 Hypnotic Nectar is bitter and unsettling, suggesting that the garden has decided to keep you. 🌌🌿🪲🍄🟫
#perfumesky
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On this day in 1965, The Avengers episode "Death at Bargain Prices" started filming at Elstree Studios. artandhue.com/theavengers
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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🧣 Perfect fragrance to hunker down with. ❄️
🪡🧵 Atelier 14 by Sentire for Sainte Cellier @saintecellier.bsky.social is fresh, textural, and multidimensional, suggesting the collection of scents in a bustling clothing boutique. 👗👔
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🪡🧵 Atelier 14 by Sentire for Sainte Cellier @saintecellier.bsky.social is fresh, textural, and multidimensional, suggesting the collection of scents in a bustling clothing boutique. 👗👔
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/sentire-x-sa...
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
🧣 Perfect fragrance to hunker down with. ❄️
🪡🧵 Atelier 14 by Sentire for Sainte Cellier @saintecellier.bsky.social is fresh, textural, and multidimensional, suggesting the collection of scents in a bustling clothing boutique. 👗👔
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/sentire-x-sa...
🪡🧵 Atelier 14 by Sentire for Sainte Cellier @saintecellier.bsky.social is fresh, textural, and multidimensional, suggesting the collection of scents in a bustling clothing boutique. 👗👔
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/sentire-x-sa...
Love this! 🌹 Happy Friday. ❤️
Essential Oils - are wrung -
The Attar from the Rose
Be not expressed by Suns - alone -
It is the gift of Screws -
The General Rose - decay -
But this - in Lady’s Drawer
Make Summer - When the Lady lie
In Ceaseless Rosemary - Emily Dickinson
#Poetry #PerfumeSky #FragranceSky
The Attar from the Rose
Be not expressed by Suns - alone -
It is the gift of Screws -
The General Rose - decay -
But this - in Lady’s Drawer
Make Summer - When the Lady lie
In Ceaseless Rosemary - Emily Dickinson
#Poetry #PerfumeSky #FragranceSky
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Love this! 🌹 Happy Friday. ❤️
My Valentino gems ✨🥺
Valentino (1978) - I’ve had this miniature for 37 years! 💫
Vendetta (1991) - I purchased it at age 14 when it first came out. Still one of my favorite bottles! 🪭✨
Valentino Donna (2015) - “Loose powder in suede purse” chypre.
#valentino #perfumesky
Valentino (1978) - I’ve had this miniature for 37 years! 💫
Vendetta (1991) - I purchased it at age 14 when it first came out. Still one of my favorite bottles! 🪭✨
Valentino Donna (2015) - “Loose powder in suede purse” chypre.
#valentino #perfumesky
January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
My Valentino gems ✨🥺
Valentino (1978) - I’ve had this miniature for 37 years! 💫
Vendetta (1991) - I purchased it at age 14 when it first came out. Still one of my favorite bottles! 🪭✨
Valentino Donna (2015) - “Loose powder in suede purse” chypre.
#valentino #perfumesky
Valentino (1978) - I’ve had this miniature for 37 years! 💫
Vendetta (1991) - I purchased it at age 14 when it first came out. Still one of my favorite bottles! 🪭✨
Valentino Donna (2015) - “Loose powder in suede purse” chypre.
#valentino #perfumesky
✍🏻 I’m really excited to share Reflections on my Perfume Collection, a new article I just published on my blog. 🌼
Tell me about your perfume collections!
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
Tell me about your perfume collections!
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
Reflections on my Collection - I Sniff Before I Sleep
This past year was challenging in many ways, but in my experience, perfume always brings joy and hardly ever disappoints. One of the best things about 2025 was having exciting conversations on collect...
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January 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
✍🏻 I’m really excited to share Reflections on my Perfume Collection, a new article I just published on my blog. 🌼
Tell me about your perfume collections!
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
Tell me about your perfume collections!
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/reflections-...
Juicy, jovial, playful, and classy are some of the qualities of Stilettos on Lex by Jul et Mad, a beloved modern chypre and my scent choice for a night at the theater
Guess what I’m going to see? 🎭 🌈 ✨🍐🌹
Full blog review: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/jul-et-mad-s...
Guess what I’m going to see? 🎭 🌈 ✨🍐🌹
Full blog review: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/jul-et-mad-s...
January 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Juicy, jovial, playful, and classy are some of the qualities of Stilettos on Lex by Jul et Mad, a beloved modern chypre and my scent choice for a night at the theater
Guess what I’m going to see? 🎭 🌈 ✨🍐🌹
Full blog review: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/jul-et-mad-s...
Guess what I’m going to see? 🎭 🌈 ✨🍐🌹
Full blog review: www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/jul-et-mad-s...
Yes! 🛋️📚🧣☕️
January 14, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Yes! 🛋️📚🧣☕️
Happy Travel Size Tuesday (or Tiny Miniature Tuesday!) with the smallest vintage bottles in my collection. 🩵✨
See any you love? 👀💫
#perfumeminiature #vintageperfume #vintageminiature #perfumesky
See any you love? 👀💫
#perfumeminiature #vintageperfume #vintageminiature #perfumesky
January 13, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Happy Travel Size Tuesday (or Tiny Miniature Tuesday!) with the smallest vintage bottles in my collection. 🩵✨
See any you love? 👀💫
#perfumeminiature #vintageperfume #vintageminiature #perfumesky
See any you love? 👀💫
#perfumeminiature #vintageperfume #vintageminiature #perfumesky
In Lucid Reveries by Leptis Magna, the muse softly peers into a reflection of herself, unsure where reality ends and fantasy begins, but lulling herself into that moment.
The rippling effect is echoed by the scent of marshmallow fluff and the iridescent spirals of the artwork.
🌈💭🍡🥛🌈☁️💜🩷
The rippling effect is echoed by the scent of marshmallow fluff and the iridescent spirals of the artwork.
🌈💭🍡🥛🌈☁️💜🩷
January 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
In Lucid Reveries by Leptis Magna, the muse softly peers into a reflection of herself, unsure where reality ends and fantasy begins, but lulling herself into that moment.
The rippling effect is echoed by the scent of marshmallow fluff and the iridescent spirals of the artwork.
🌈💭🍡🥛🌈☁️💜🩷
The rippling effect is echoed by the scent of marshmallow fluff and the iridescent spirals of the artwork.
🌈💭🍡🥛🌈☁️💜🩷
Descriptions that resonate with me. 🩶
Scent of the day: Maison Crivelli Iris Malikhân. A decrepit lightning bolt locked in a dusty crypt. A phantasmagoric zoetrope shapeshifting, powdery, leathery, metallic, vegetal, austere, sophisticated. Moscow Art Theatre witch-queen mid-transformation, glamorous and gloomy, enigmatic and unsettling
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Descriptions that resonate with me. 🩶
I can’t think of a better birthday #sotd 🎂
The beautiful trail of Diva by Ungaro has haunted me since a young age, but I only got my bottle (30 ml) and miniature (7.5 ml) recently. True keepers! 🌟⭐️
Love the gilded honey patina that permeates the classic chypre accord in Diva. ✨🍯🌳
#vintageperfume
The beautiful trail of Diva by Ungaro has haunted me since a young age, but I only got my bottle (30 ml) and miniature (7.5 ml) recently. True keepers! 🌟⭐️
Love the gilded honey patina that permeates the classic chypre accord in Diva. ✨🍯🌳
#vintageperfume
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I can’t think of a better birthday #sotd 🎂
The beautiful trail of Diva by Ungaro has haunted me since a young age, but I only got my bottle (30 ml) and miniature (7.5 ml) recently. True keepers! 🌟⭐️
Love the gilded honey patina that permeates the classic chypre accord in Diva. ✨🍯🌳
#vintageperfume
The beautiful trail of Diva by Ungaro has haunted me since a young age, but I only got my bottle (30 ml) and miniature (7.5 ml) recently. True keepers! 🌟⭐️
Love the gilded honey patina that permeates the classic chypre accord in Diva. ✨🍯🌳
#vintageperfume
Three fragrances, one note. 💟💟💟
Three personal and thoughtful interpretations of orris by Maher Olfactive:
Orris Forest: Earthen, damp, aromatic orris 🌳
Waking Dream: Hazy, sheer, light purple orris 💜
Tempo Rubato: Stone-fruit, heady, prickly orris 🌼
Stay tuned for more ✍🏻
#artisanperfume
Three personal and thoughtful interpretations of orris by Maher Olfactive:
Orris Forest: Earthen, damp, aromatic orris 🌳
Waking Dream: Hazy, sheer, light purple orris 💜
Tempo Rubato: Stone-fruit, heady, prickly orris 🌼
Stay tuned for more ✍🏻
#artisanperfume
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Three fragrances, one note. 💟💟💟
Three personal and thoughtful interpretations of orris by Maher Olfactive:
Orris Forest: Earthen, damp, aromatic orris 🌳
Waking Dream: Hazy, sheer, light purple orris 💜
Tempo Rubato: Stone-fruit, heady, prickly orris 🌼
Stay tuned for more ✍🏻
#artisanperfume
Three personal and thoughtful interpretations of orris by Maher Olfactive:
Orris Forest: Earthen, damp, aromatic orris 🌳
Waking Dream: Hazy, sheer, light purple orris 💜
Tempo Rubato: Stone-fruit, heady, prickly orris 🌼
Stay tuned for more ✍🏻
#artisanperfume
Saying goodbye to 2025 with another favorite release. 🥂🎉
Fleur Danger by Thomas de Monaco has an avant-garde, silvery, and dazzling elegance I can’t get enough of — a perfect scent to celebrate and welcome 2026! 🪩🩶💿🩶
Happy New Year! 🎆💖
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
Fleur Danger by Thomas de Monaco has an avant-garde, silvery, and dazzling elegance I can’t get enough of — a perfect scent to celebrate and welcome 2026! 🪩🩶💿🩶
Happy New Year! 🎆💖
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
December 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Saying goodbye to 2025 with another favorite release. 🥂🎉
Fleur Danger by Thomas de Monaco has an avant-garde, silvery, and dazzling elegance I can’t get enough of — a perfect scent to celebrate and welcome 2026! 🪩🩶💿🩶
Happy New Year! 🎆💖
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
Fleur Danger by Thomas de Monaco has an avant-garde, silvery, and dazzling elegance I can’t get enough of — a perfect scent to celebrate and welcome 2026! 🪩🩶💿🩶
Happy New Year! 🎆💖
#perfumesky #fragrancesky
🤍 Skin musks, naughty musks, laundry-fresh musks, out-the-shower musks, powdery musks, fluffy musks, floral musks, and fruity musks from all walks of fragrance life! 🤍
🤍 See any you like? Share your favorites with me! 🤍
#muskperfume #fragrancesky #perfumesky
🤍 See any you like? Share your favorites with me! 🤍
#muskperfume #fragrancesky #perfumesky
December 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🤍 Skin musks, naughty musks, laundry-fresh musks, out-the-shower musks, powdery musks, fluffy musks, floral musks, and fruity musks from all walks of fragrance life! 🤍
🤍 See any you like? Share your favorites with me! 🤍
#muskperfume #fragrancesky #perfumesky
🤍 See any you like? Share your favorites with me! 🤍
#muskperfume #fragrancesky #perfumesky
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I like to keep a store of “secret chocolate” scattered throughout the pantry for us to eventually forget about and rediscover when we need it most. Extra-extra bougie stuff. A gift from the house to us: a replenishment of the secret chocolate stash!
December 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Favorite indie and artisan fragrances for the holidays!🎄
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 💫✨🌟
#perfumesky #fragrancesky #christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 💫✨🌟
#perfumesky #fragrancesky #christmas
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Favorite indie and artisan fragrances for the holidays!🎄
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 💫✨🌟
#perfumesky #fragrancesky #christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 💫✨🌟
#perfumesky #fragrancesky #christmas
Michael, the little mischievous elf, stopped by Otto of Roses, the perfume shop in our Christmas village. 👃🏻🏬
He has good taste. He grabbed La Valse by @witandwest.com 🌹.
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He has good taste. He grabbed La Valse by @witandwest.com 🌹.
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/wit-west-per...
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Michael, the little mischievous elf, stopped by Otto of Roses, the perfume shop in our Christmas village. 👃🏻🏬
He has good taste. He grabbed La Valse by @witandwest.com 🌹.
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/wit-west-per...
He has good taste. He grabbed La Valse by @witandwest.com 🌹.
www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/wit-west-per...