"My individuality is very important to me and I like to keep my style and my scent unique I've always been quite protective over my appearance. I don't like it when people ask where I've bought something because I like to be unique. My friends find it funny, but I think it's important to have your own distinct style. This hasn't been a point of contention until recently, when I bought a nice perfume."
"My reasoning is simple: if I have a unique scent that is personal to me, I don't want my best friend to smell the same. We can't go around wearing the same perfume; it's weird. A personal scent is a very intimate thing. It's not like a jumper or even a lipstick shade, which you put on and take off. When someone hugs me and says, I like how you smell, that means something and it's personal."
The person prioritizes individuality and intentionally maintains a distinct style and scent, resisting copying. A friend's compliment on a new perfume led that friend to want the exact same fragrance, provoking annoyance because the scent is viewed as intimate and identity-defining. Sharing an identical scent with a close friend is perceived as eroding personal distinctiveness and as a lazy choice instead of independent discovery. The friend's inability to understand the upset, plus a boyfriend siding with the friend, produced feelings of dismissal and an unfair label of insecurity. The perfume came from a small French-owned website and feels worth gatekeeping after research.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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