Stardust & Stems
MEET CUTE — Romance Readers Collection, Chapter One | Eau de Parfum
MEET CUTE — Romance Readers Collection, Chapter One | Eau de Parfum
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Meet Cute is Chapter One of the Romance Readers Collection — a series of perfumes inspired by romance tropes and the moments that begin love stories.
In romance novels, a meet cute is the first encounter: unexpected, charged, and quietly unforgettable. The moment everything changes.
The farmer’s market still happens, even on mornings like this — fog clinging to the air, cold enough to make you hesitate. You stand at the fruit stall anyway, biting into a ripe cherry that bursts with juice, bright and sweet against the chill.
Coffee drifts through the crowd, warm and familiar, settling around you like an invitation to stay.
As the market hums back to life around you, someone steps closer. Cocoa milk, soft skin, a presence that shifts the air between you. A question is asked of the vendor, but the words blur. Instead, there’s a glance held just a second too long — a spark of pink peppercorn flashes, sharp and electric, your pulse quickening before you can steady yourself.
As the initial flutter softens into an easy sense of familiarity, a gentle breeze carries the sweetness of magnolia.
And you know this is the beginning of the story you’ll never stop telling.
That’s Meet Cute.
FRUIT | SOFT GOURMAND | SKIN MUSK
TOP Ripe Cherry Pulp • Bitter Almond • Pink Peppercorn
HEART Magnolia Petal • Cocoa Milk • Tonka Bean
BASE Brewing Coffee • Soft Skin Musk
Pink peppercorn arrives bright and electric — quick, alive, like a lingering glance that's impossible to ignore. And then, almost immediately, it softens. Cherry and chocolate bloom into something warmer and closer, settling into a sweetness that feels intimate rather than loud.
✨ IMPORTANT PRODUCT DETAILS- please note, the rollerball option for Meet Cute uses a different bottle than our normal swirl rollerball, see option photo.
Available In
• Eau de Parfum Spray — alcohol base
• Rollerball Perfume — organic jojoba oil base, may contain Coco Caprylate Caprate (a 100% plant based non synthetic ester)
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⚠️ Rollerball Notice (10 mL)
Oil-based rollerballs use friction-fit lids and may leak slightly in transit. Replacement or refund is only available if there is visible product loss over ~10% (1 mL). If this is a concern, please choose an atomizer format instead. Please read the:
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🌿 About Our Perfumes
Each Stardust & Stems perfume is hand-blended in small batches and poured fresh to order in my home studio, created with intention to weave a moment of magic into the everyday — a soft pause from life’s demands, meant to bring joy, wonder, and whimsy to those who wear it.
All perfumes are paraben-free, phthalate-free, and unfiltered. Natural cloudiness or botanical sediment may appear over time and is part of the living beauty of artisan perfume.
👉 Why Natural Perfumes Change Over Time
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Almost all perfumes are vegan. Full vegan status can be found here:
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from 121 reviewsSuch a lovely scent. I used the oil sample I received in my discovery package. It calms down on my skin to that strawberry forest note. The sweet citrous whispers over time. I have a large strawberry patch, so this is pretty accurate to that smell, as well as a strawberry shortcake scented toy I had growing up lol
Another one of my everyday scents. I love all the ingredients; some can be made out to me more than others. Specifically, I’m not really able to smell the grapefruit, even on initial spray, which is my only gripe. It’s hard to distinguish over the intense notes, but it comes out so pleasantly over time. The cloves note reminds me of gingerbread. LOVE this, I’m definitely going to get a bigger bottle.
I've been wearing this for about a half a year. Personally, for me, something I can wear every day. Upon initial smell, I can pick up every note and they blend together beautifully. Over time those base notes work well for my skin. I love this dearly, very nostalgic to when my teachers would burn gourmand candles.
The initial spray for me is very strong but cools down soon after. This is a very complex perfume, though I have no major complaints. The perfume wear is a journey through each ingredient. Great for a wispy, elegant or independent vibe. Makes me feel like I need to powder my nose! I wear this to formal events, and it makes a statement.
The lilac is very present, cool down just fine. I love the juniper note and the resin forest vibes. Not an everyday wear for me, since lilac is not my favorite floral. If the lilac note was something different I think I would have liked this more. The vibes remind me of fairies trying to trick me into the forest line from a meadow.
This perfume reminds me slightly of Secret Flower Moon in the sense of vibes. Elegant, sweet, soft, and welcoming. I wore this on my clothes and it lasted for hours, it would waft up and drastically improve my mood. It’s like I landed in flowers and took in the sun.
Definitely distinctive, cool down just gets better and better. I bought this to try and get the aged oak moss, which does come out. For me, this is similar to the vibe of autumn leaves, but it might be missing something. I really enjoy this scent for special occasions where I want to feel a lovely forest flair.
This scent is absolutely amazing. I cannot recommend it enough whenever I wear it I get SO MANY compliments. My coworkers were like girl you smell amazing first time I wore it, so it’s now what I wear 90% of the time to work (and obviously other places too) I swear this is my go to new scent. You have to get it!
Yummmm!!!! The scent is spot on and makes me want to eat it! Really nourishing lip balm that I’m very happy with.
I love this scent! It is beautifully exotic and soothing.
Minty perfection for winter. So nourishing. Doesn't leave my lips feeling dry later in the day like some lip balms.
I sampled the perfume spray. The scent starts out as a lovely, delicate sugared lavender with a hint of tartness from the lemon. Towards the middle of its evolution, I think the milk and lemon mixed weird on my skin and had an offputting sour sweetness, but thankfully that faded into a milky lavender sugar cookie scent! This is everything I hoped for and it's a beautiful lavender gourmand fragrance!
Absolutely delightful! Love it and love the other creations as well. And is mostly natural, which is why I am a top fan!
Wasn’t sure I would be in love with this, but we are going strong on the daily. Heavy on the cocoa and I like to layer it on top of cocoa or shea butter for extra delicious staying power.
Beautiful bottle and scent! My daughter loved it.