Today we’re helping Rena, who had so much fun with the Monday Mail last year that she wants to do it again. She’d like to find a new scent that stays very close to the skin, since she is a massage therapist and doesn’t want to overwhelm her customers. Her most recent acquisitions — Annick Goutal Songes, Parfums de Nicolaï Sacrebleu and Lush The Bug — are all too lush and big for work purposes. Ideally, her new perfume will cost under $125. Here is what we know about Rena:

She’s a massage therapist in her early 40s, and she is currently attending acupuncture school in New York City.

She says she is generally cheerful, optimistic, easy going and down to earth.

She loves eating out, going to bookstores and looking at art.

Rena’s favorite notes are gardenia, honey, honeysuckle, galbanum, carnation, tiare, frangipani, saffron, plum, cardamom, linden, mimosa and iris but she’ll consider anything except lily, including vintage scents as long as she can get samples…

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