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Sweet, but not like sugar or candy. Like aged honey, boozy but it won’t make you smell like a drunk. The sweetness of honeysuckle and the wet, bitter note of oakmoss make such a unique and lovely scent, it’s almost atmospheric. This is my favorite out of all of Daniela’s perfumes, and I am so glad I took a gamble to get this in full size.
Verdict: 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 LOVE! Hopefully she allows custom orders to have this in a bigger size because I truly love this perfume.
Vibe: drinking alcohol with friends in a rented house at Batangas, chilly night air bring about the scent of planted honeysuckles, petrichor setting in after the last days of summer.

On me, the resin and the calamansi, as subtle as they are, make a very interesting combination to create a unique form of musk. I couldn’t smell the vanilla extract, which surprised me since my skin usually amps up vanilla notes. It aaaaalmost has that same boozy note as Honeysuckle, but it’s mostly musk with a slight tang to it.
Verdict: 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 Love. Will get a fullsize.
Vibe: saturday morning, lying on the grass at Salcedo park after jogging across Ayala. Home-brewed citrus drinks and kombuchas sold at Salcedo Market beckons you to quench your thirst.

Ravensara almost has the same dna as Benjamin, the difference is that the musk takes a backseat and florals take center stage, but it’s not heavy floral at all, in fact there’s almost something citrusy somewhere that gives the floral notes a lightness to it. It almost has that petrichor-note to it like Honeysuckle, but not so much that it overpowers the florals.
Verdict: 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 Love. Perfect for lazy weekends.
Vibe: after resting and drinking kombucha from Salcedo Market, you browse through the flower shops being sold there, the signs of incoming drizzle about to form.

This is the first from her perfumes I don’t like, and either I’m not experienced enough to truly appreciate it, or my skin chemistry has something to do with it, but it doesn’t smell fragrant to me at all, even after almost a month of testing it hasn’t changed on me 😢. It reminds me of a certain smell, but I don’t know what. Closest I can think of are mothballs. I suspect it’s the combination of onycha, cade and black pepper. I’m sad that this doesn’t work on me at all, as the image of saltwater skin was enticing to me. If anyone owns this and likes it, please share your thoughts! I’d love to know how you perceive this scent.
Verdict: 🌻 NOPE. My skin hates it, sorry!
Vibe: decluttering years-old clothes and finding they’ve been eaten by bugs. The regret that comes after of not recovering them sooner.

This smells like that one fancy perfumed soap we got from balkbayan packages, but more natural, earthy. This is what I think vintage perfumes smell like, the saffron and gardenia create a strong floral fragrance without being sharp that most floral-heavy perfumes have, which I think the earthy note tones it down.
Verdict: 🌻🌻🌻🌻 Like! Though I’m still reconsidering in getting a full size.
Vibe: visiting your free-spirited tita who’s staying in her condo in the Philippines for a short while before going back out to the world for another adventure. Various flowers from her latest venture are meticulously placed in a glass vase while you browse through her vast collection of perfumes from different origins. (Highkey lowkey I want to be that tita hahaha)

What I bought is the previous iteration with flowers submerged in perfume oil, while the one after is purely perfume oil, so this review maaay be outdated in case the new version is different! On me the powder starts out very in-your-face, but I love powder notes so if anything this makes me excited. Over time the powder mellows down but is still more prominent, while the florals start to bloom to create a beautiful powdery floral fragrance that isn’t screechy.
Verdict: 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 LOVE. If the term “pabebe” existed in 1950s Philippines, I would wear this in that timeline hahaha
Vibe: Holding your recently-bathed, freshly-powdered baby. Watching your husband, your first and only love, watering your blossoming garden in a clear day. (Nope not projecting at all lol)

This evokes a specific childhood memory that I don’t even know what. It smells like shampoo from a brand that I don’t remember. Amoy bagong ligo, which there are a lot in SBP’s catalogue, for Anonymous Gal it smells clean, fresh, and...creamy? Not creamy like sweet, just, creamy? It’s hard to describe. I’m a bit jealous of the reviews saying it’s fresh creamy oriental on them, I think my skin amped the aquatic notes on this one. 😭
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️ I’d love it better if the dry down was the entire scent!
Vibe: taking a long shower during one of your rest days, contemplating whether you should go out with your friends or not exist for 24 hours while shampooing your hair for longer than necessary.

I’ve never smelled any of the perfumes mentioned, but I have smelled YSL’s Black Opium, and to me Fleurs Exquise reminds me of that, but more sweet floral and without the coffee note from YSL.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ I’m quite torn tbh! If I smelled this a few years ago I would be ALL over it, but while I really do like this, I have since moved on to other scents, but I would fondly sniff this every now and then before giving this away.
Vibe: purchasing your very first big girl perfume to wear in your very first big girl job. Now your on your way to look for your first set of big girl clothes.

MMM! This is sweet. My inner sweet tooth gets very excited every time I put this on. If you smelled Al Rehab’s Choco Musk roll on, it’s like that but much more refined and with more depth. The florals are a nice touch to the cotton candy and marshmallow to keep it interesting and not flat, while the sandalwood reigns in the candy notes to be a little more grounded. There's also a tiny bit of caramel in it if I smell closely, and tbh I dig it.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ LOVE! Definitely one of those can't-stop-smelling-my-wrists perfumes. Highly recommended for gourmand lovers.
Vibe: eating every chocolate and candy you've been craving for and you know it's really bad for you, but in that moment you don't care because what's wrong in eating another snickers bar? (actually no pls don't, everything in moderation!!)

So first time I put this on, this smells like ballpen ink. So I rested it for a while thinking the scent might settle. Few days later, I can now smell the fruit notes, mostly cherry, but now instead of ink it now smells like cherry-flavored medicine I was given as a child. Over wear time, the medicine note goes away and is left with cherry with other notes I can’t identify.
UPDATE: OKAY, so the ballpen ink note is completely gone. I think this perfume has been properly rested. The cherry note remains, but I’m happy to report it’s not medicine-y anymore, it’s hardly there now, mostly at the background. Now it smells...well, fruity! But not like bright fruity, it’s dark like wine. It has a slight red wine accord to it, but I wouldn’t call it a an actual wine scent because of its sweetness. I’m actually starting to like it! Definitely a perfume that needs resting and getting used to.
Verdict: ☕️☕️ I occasionally like fruit-dominant scents, but I can’t get the picture of cherry-flavored meds out of my head!
UPDATE VERDICT: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ Not cherry medicine anymore!! It transformed beautifully on me into sweet, sweet red wine-ish fragrance.
Vibe: absent from school, anxiously waiting for 3:00pm for your scheduled cold medicine, watching cartoon re-runs while thinking what your classmates are up to while you’re gone.
UPDATE VIBE: looking through a photo album filled with old pictures of you from grade-school, fondly reminiscing the simpler days as you drink sweet, cherry red wine.

I. LOVE. This. This smells close to Lush’s Buck’s Fizz body conditioner and Celebration body, but blended more appropriately for a perfume. It smells like the fanciest orange I’ve ever smelled, with the earth note stopping the orange from being too sweet. This is such a great after-shower scent, fresh and clean but the earthy citrus keeps it interesting.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ LOVE. Now I want orange juice.
Vibe: drinking freshly squeezed orange juice to start your work day, after putting on your dainty jewelry to complete your power look. What they don’t know is you’re still swamped from your previous overtime, but they don’t need to know that after a bit of concealer.

Another bagong-ligo scent to me. In comparison to Anonymous’ shampoo and Tourmaline’s citrus accords, Jardin is all florals. I can’t pick up the powder notes, my nose translates it as clean, creamy. Like floral soap. Tbh it smells more soap than floral on me!
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️ I prefer Tourmaline as an after-shower scent. Would smell better on other people, but soapy scents just don’t jive well with my skin.
Vibe: after a long day from work, you took a much deserved shower. You put your phone on silent for the next few hours to have a moment to yourself, browsing on netflix what’s the best series to binge on while waiting for your hair to dry.

It says it’s unisex, but to me it leans very close to masculine. I’m not good at describing male-forward scents but I’ll try. It smells like a men’s perfume that I come across every now and then, but idk what that exact perfume is. It’s spicy, but in a cold way? I do pick up the sweet notes, but I can’t tell which notes are doing that, I suspect it’s the cinnamon bark and/or nutmeg. This would smell nice on guys. On me? Not so much.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️ It’s fine on guys, but I wouldn’t take a double take, er, sniff.
Vibe: that guy you’re seeing who you’re not sure whether his boasts at his entrepreneurial prowess actually has merit or is complete bs, but hey, at least he knows how to dress up!

So to me, THIS is unisex. Still masculine-leaning but I can actually see myself wearing this when the situation arises. This also reminds of another men’s perfume that I don’t know of. Light, fresh, and the combination of the florals and fruits blend well together that they complement each other without overpowering the other.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ Not for me, but would smell really good on guys!
Vibe: riding the mrt and standing beside you is a well-dressed man staring vacantly outside the window just like you did a few moments ago. Every now and then you catch a whiff of his perfume, and wonder what’s a man like him doing in a vehicle like mrt? The train stops at Buendia, and before you know it he’s hastily on his way out, accidentally bumping your shoulder and a quick glance at you says “I’m sorry.” As the train continues onward to Guadalupe, you catch a faint scent of the stranger’s perfume on the shoulder he bumped into. (Yaks bakit naging novella HAHAHAHA)

I’m a chocoholic through and through, so this positive review is inevitable. It’s a bittersweet cocoa. That’s it. And sometimes that’s enough.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ LOVE! Kung gusto mo magdiet at tumigil sa tsokolate singhutin mo to hahaha
Vibe: hot chocolate made from tsokolate tablea, watching feel-good movies you used to enjoy many moons ago.

Other than chocolate, I’m infamously known to be a coffeeholic. Smells like french vanilla with an extra shot of expresso with a smidge of toffee. Or kopiko candy. There’s also this slight floral note lingering somewhere upon dry down, which tbh I love it. I don’t know if that’s just me though, but I’m not complaining. Mixing this with Chocolat Extreme is ✨👌 gourmand goodness.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ LOVE! Enough said.
Vibe: drinking java at your local cafe, setting up your laptop, planner, and notes. You’re going to be there for a while.

I’ve never tried gingerbread cookies, like at all. My idea of the holidays is chocolate cake, cookies, and strong coffee. So honestly my idea isn’t really festive. 😅 This scents smells strongly of cinnamon to me, reminds me so much of cinnamon bread (mmm now I want one). Very spicy, it dries down sweeter due to the vanilla and brown sugar, but the cinnamon still makes its presence known.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ I like it! Though I won’t put this as often as Chocolat, Sucre, and Cafe, this would be nice to use on days where I want gourmand but more spicy than sweet.
Vibe: you’re invited to your friend’s xmas party where their holiday traditions are more westernized, whereas you’d rather be eating sweet spaghetti and lechon than drink another eggnog (ngl I wanna know what eggnog tastes like)

IRISES! One of the few florals in perfumes I adore to bits. Iris and Saffron Oud is sophisticated, the oud elevating it beyond just being another floral perfume. It almost smells cold, despite the oud. I’d wear this for formal events, but I can see people wearing this for work because why the hell not?
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ Love. I feel so fancy wearing this for someone wearing shorts. 🥸
Vibe: attending a formal ball, roaming outside to the estate’s garden to take a breather from the noise. The music and chatter begins to fade away as you go further into the garden, irises swaying softly, the crisp chill air indicate the dying days of summer.

This is Saffron Oud’s daintier sister. It reminds me a bit of Narciso Rodriguez Poudree, but they’re not the same. (I’m assuming NR Rouge would be similar, but I haven’t tried that yet) Soft powder complements the iris, with dry down leaning more powdery and creamy (is that even a thing?) as time goes on. Like RMiTF’s Promise Ring, it invokes a sense of innocence, but this is a tad bit more mature.
Verdict: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ Love. Irises and powder notes? So lovely. 🤍
Vibe: back to the ball, retouching your lipstick and patting another layer of face powder before getting back to the scene. You see irises in ornate vases upon exiting the bathroom.

I don’t get rose? If there is, it might be faint. I think I’m mostly smelling cantaloupe, which I don’t really like. I can’t detect the rose and vanilla at all even after two hours went by, maaaybe I can smell the patchouli, but I could’ve been nose-blind at that point. There’s also something waxy about this scent, I thought it could be the leather, but idk? I have no idea, it reminds me of one of the Watsons brand lipbalms that I dislike so much because of its waxy scent.
Verdict: 🍷🍷 I may not be the right person for this. I really do wish the rose and vanilla notes were more prominent, but that’s just me 🤷🏻‍♀️
Vibe: accompanying your friend in their candle-making class. They’re passionately explaining to you the process of it all while you nod along and encourage them, genuinely happy for their excitement but also getting a little lost throughout their explanation.

Oooh, I like this! Citrusy and floral in equal measure, the rose and lemon notes really shine through in this one, while thyme and cardamom gives them an earthy balance. The lemon here isn’t like sweetened iced lemon tea, more like hot brewed lemon tea blend. It’s very calming.
Verdict: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Love! Imo this is a pretty safe buy.
Vibe: browsing the shops at Cubao Expo, looking for a good deal on secondhand books. You eventually stop by a cafe residing there, sipping on lemon tea as you’re reading one of the books you bought.

P+A has a quiz where the result is the recommended perfume for you, and I got Jasmine. I like jasmine usually (Lush’s Lust and Flying Fox are really good jasmine heavy scents!) and while this one is also purely jasmine, this specifically is very much like sampaguita. Sampaguita as a flower, I adore. As perfume, not really. The bergamot and green apple add a zest to the jasmine, while I can’t really detect a whole lot of vanilla/patchouli/leather even on dry down.
Verdict: 🍷🍷🍷 Not really keen on smelling like sampaguita. 😅
Vibe: visiting your local church on a wednesday, the last mass has just finished and you’re waiting for the next one. You kneel down and pray on one of the pews. The first thing you see when you look up is the statue of Mother Mary, her silent gaze knows of your untold truths.

This is a masculine scent, but works well as unisex. The fruit notes, particularly grapefruit, peach and plum, work really well with the earthy accords of oud and tonka beans. The bergamot and lily of the valley softens the rest of the notes to create a smooth aromatic blend. It’s fruity without being overly sweet, it just smells...smooth. Understated, but smells so good.
Verdict: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 I would love to smell this on a guy, it smells really enticing!
Vibe: he invites you to have an impromptu dinner at his place, and upon getting there he surprises you with homemade dinner and a bottle of wine. He bashfully tells you that he wished this would’ve been more romantic, but you’re already thinking how to show your appreciation after dinner.

This smells like an expensive candle, but unlike Chance, the waxy note smells better, most likely because of the coconut. The lavender, oud and incense softens the coconut further, it almost smells creamy, like luxurious coconut lotion. I can’t smell the pineapple on me though. Like Salvador, this is a smooth fragrance.
Verdict: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Love! I don’t normally go for coconut scents, but this is an exception.
Vibe: having a staycation at a hotel outside Metro Manila. Scheduled a spa day with your friends as you catch up and gossip over white wine.

if (this.search) { return this.names.filter((name) => name.startsWith(this.search)); } else { return this.names; } 

class Array { filter(predicate) { let result = []; for (let item of this) { if (predicate(item)) { result.push(item); } } return result; } } 

function nope() { return false; } function yep() { return true; } items.filter(nope); // will return an empty array items.filter(yep); // will return a duplicate of the array 

I can't wrap my head around that searchFunction is a (computed) function and not a list and yet it's getting looped through.

class Foo { accessed: number = 0; _names: string[] = []; get names(): string[] { this.accessed++; return this._names; } set names(value: string[]) { this.accessed++; this._names = value; } } const foo = new Foo(); if (!foo.names || foo.names.length === 0) { foo.names = ["John", "Paul", "George", "Ringo"]; } console.log(foo.accessed); // => 3 

import java.util.Scanner; public class Main{ public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println("Enter the 2 values of currency space separted: \"{currency-type} chaos\"\nFor example: Transmutes are 18.5t:1c, input \"18.5 1\"\nFor example: exa are 1exa:75c, input \"1 75\""); double[] valueInChaos = new double[21]; String[] currencyType = {"transmute","arm","blacksmith","aug","alt","chance","jew","chroma", "fuse","alch","chis","chaos","scour","vaal","regret","gbb","gcp","bless","regal", "exalt","divine"}; Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); for(int i = 0; i < valueInChaos.length; i++){ System.out.println("Enter the 2 values for "+currencyType[i]); String[] temp = sc.nextLine().split(" "); valueInChaos[i] = Double.parseDouble(temp[1])/Double.parseDouble(temp[0]); } System.out.println("___________________________________________________________________________________________________"); System.out.println("The following numbers shown are the effective value of dropped currency(in chaos)\nfor every 1000 rolls on the currency table followed by the currency conversion made."); System.out.println("___________________________________________________________________________________________________"); trinketCalc a = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "none", "none", 0); trinketCalc b = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "chaos", "divine", .01); trinketCalc c = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "chroma", "jew", .5); trinketCalc d = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "chroma", "fuse", .3); trinketCalc e = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "jew", "fuse", .3); trinketCalc f = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "alt", "chaos", .15); trinketCalc g = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "alt", "alch", .25); trinketCalc h = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "alt", "regal", .01); trinketCalc i = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "aug", "chaos", .08); trinketCalc j = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "aug", "alch", .13); trinketCalc k = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "aug", "regal", .01); trinketCalc l = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "scour", "regret", .25); trinketCalc m = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "transmute", "chaos", .04); trinketCalc n = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "regal", "divine", .05); trinketCalc o = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "regal", "exalt", .04); trinketCalc p = new trinketCalc(valueInChaos, currencyType, "transmute", "alch", .07); } } class trinketCalc{ private String[] currencyType; private double[] currencyDropRate = {0.20831,0.20827,0.11095,0.10328,0.05508,0.05508,0.05508,0.05508, 0.03443,0.02754,0.02754,0.01652,0.01377,0.00689,0.00689,0.00682,0.00275,0.00275,0.00207, 0.00055,0.00034};; private double[] currencyBaseWorth; private double[] currencyEffectiveWorth; private double convertEffectiveChance; public trinketCalc(double[] valueInChaos, String[] currencyType, String a, String b, double convertChance){ this.currencyType = currencyType; this.currencyEffectiveWorth = new double[21]; for(int i = 0; i Edit: This is a fun project for myself, something I shared just for those curious or would find it interesting and as a learning experience for myself. It could be useful to tell which trinkets are good for currency farming, but it is NOT CORRECT yet. Please don't try to invest or do anything you wouldn't based on these numbers because they aren't accurate of actual effective drop values. That being said I will be updating this, for those interested in accurate numbers, and for myself to rectify any incorrect calculations I have made.
 Edit2: as pointed out by u/Mr_Boboob the math was wrong. I have implemented changes regarding my response to his comment. This should solve at least one of the mistakes I made. Changes reflect in code here but not on ideone. The new values: 
 5.843214280090559 ---- Converting none to none
 5.882547613423893 ---- Converting chaos to divine
 5.819478016354297 ---- Converting chroma to jew
 5.979401093277374 ---- Converting chroma to fuse
 5.993642851519131 ---- Converting jew to fuse
 6.176115378991659 ---- Converting alt to chaos
 5.89845760819103 ---- Converting alt to alch
 5.846672992806414 ---- Converting alt to regal
 6.214681585224903 ---- Converting aug to chaos
 5.959723027351101 ---- Converting aug to alch
 5.854518441531672 ---- Converting aug to regal
 5.856224484172192 ---- Converting scour to regret
 6.228658633832056 ---- Converting transmute to chaos
 5.871377545396681 ---- Converting regal to divine
 6.082996320906885 ---- Converting regal to exalt
 5.9887006292969085 ---- Converting transmute to alch
 

    
 
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Skills and Takeaways

• Analytical thinking
• Procedural design
• Implementing stopgaps
• Simplifying and streamlining complex processes
• Understanding problem domains
• Thinking in a more abstract way
• Integrating different solutions

• Being empathetic to coworkers
• Understanding how to navigate management
• Networking efficiently and making good impressions
• Building knowledge through passion and diligence
• UNDERSTANDING FREAKING SPREADSHEETS^I can't believe I didn't know what a pivot table was until like three years ago
• Meta-learning and teaching

• Project management
• Training and team-building
• Light data analysis
• Supercharged data-entry and management
• Operation design and execution and a bunch more.

My journey went on to engineering; yours doesn't need to

Programming is a useful tool in and of itself, even if you're not a programmer

Programming can be a useful tool in the abstract, even if you're not a programmer

Working on tangential skills can make you into a better programmer

Thinking outside of the "concept" box, but staying within the "propriety" box is the sweet spot

• Sometimes, people just don't get something. You need to hear it with the right wording, at the exact right time and place, under the right arrangement of stars, and with the right inspiration to understand sometimes. This happens to everyone at some point - it doesn't make them stupid or bad or whatever. Remember at least one of your moments so you can be patient with others.
• It's easy to talk down to someone (oversimplify), and it makes you look like an asshole. It's also easy to speak too technically and lose them, and that can also make you look like an asshole. Apply some boilerplate in the conversation. Something like, "I'm not sure how familiar you are with X, but blah blah" and then get more technical if they know or get simpler if they don't. Don't be afraid to use analogies in casual conversation, because if you subsequently use analogy in work conversation people won't take it the wrong way.
• You have to stand your ground sometimes. It's important to learn how to be firm but also sympathetic. Crucially, this sweet spot is different from person to person. I still don't have a good way of figuring this out easily, though.
• I'm important to observe pleasantries, water cooler talk, and operate within general rules of propriety. It makes people feel familiar and comfortable. This builds you good will, which goes a long way when you try to introduce weird concepts. As an example, if you're nice and understanding (genuinely), you can more easily talk to coworkers about their processes and can get them to change them more easily. This can really help with frictional people, especially when you're stuck trying to make a team adopt a change their stupid manager is trying to make. You can also back them up if it doesn't work out.
• You are memorable when you are passionate. It's better to be positively passionate about something than negatively, generally speaking. That positivity and affection for your subject of choice really sticks with people.
• Learn how to see if people are engaged with what you're discussing. Being apologetic if you're ranting can buy you good will, or can help others reinforce that they are interesting in what you're talking about.
• Learn to take an interest in anything. Am I ever going to wear makeup? Not likely. Have I gotten to know colleagues better by shutting up and listening and trying to understand makeup? Hell yes. Have I made connections with potential business partners or coworkers by being able to contribute a bit to conversation? You bet. Seriously, most people don't have attention spans to learn about things that are not interesting to relevant to them. Developing this skill reinforces your ability to learn about boring or irrelevant things. It also lets you find more common ground. Years after learning about makeup with some coworkers, I accidentally landed a sale with someone because I kept up a conversation with someone who was a makeup artist, and she talked with her boss about asset management.