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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very satisfied with my choices, particularly the upper half! (and sorry Grandparino, but Tragic Tommy will play the final versus Tabilo… that man has been consistently generous to us and deserves a little reward)

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hope I can resist the impulse of blind buying this, but I’m so so curious to know what it’s. With all this mystery I will be very disappointed if it’s just a new flanker

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love stories about 18th-19th century scientists and naturalists and Andrea Wulf is a skilled writer who presents her vast research with fluid prose and vivid imagery. George Forster’s life was a turbulent one and his progressive revolutionary ideas sound “woke” even for our age.

Cover of “The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris” by Andre Wulf. The cover shows drawings and or pictures of a parrot from Tonga (with red, green and blue feathers) and of the Barringtonia asiatica tree.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Raphael Collignon defended his Monza title and, as a reward besides the points and prize money, he got a second giant perfume bottle!!! This is absolutely delightful.

A smiling Raphael Collignon with Monza Challenger trophy: a giant bottle of Atkinsons’ Born for Eternity”

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Obviously I’m curious about this perle thing, but I don’t want my skincare to have the intensity of an eau de parfum. So this claim is a bit puzzling 🤔

Screenshot from Guerlain’s website showing the new Aqua Allegoria Perle fragrances: Rosa Rossa, Florabloom and Nerolia Vetiver

The text says: A new limited collection of skin fragrances, that combine the intensity of an eau de parfum with the beautifying effect of hydrating skincare, in an innovative water-based micro-pearl formula

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Another boring day in the office for Grandparino

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Merrian-Webster’s love definition: “In tennis, ‘love’ represents a score of zero. This use has existed since the late 1800s, and it's not certain how it came to be. The most likely theory is that those with zero points were still playing for the "love of the game" despite their losing score.”

Adrian Mannarino jokes with his team showing the 6-0 6-0 partial score after losing the second set versus Djokovic at the 2024 Australian Open

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Argentina Open has now mascots: Mati el Mate (left), Mati el Mate Amargo (right) &

Argentina Open mascot dressed as a mate cup. This version is smiling.

Argentina Open mascot dressed as a mate cup. This version looks sad and miserable.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Lefty royalty enjoying the Argentina Open!

Guido Pella and Federico Delbonis watching a first round match at the Argentina Open today.

Picture posted by the tournament accounts on social media.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The Golden Swing starts in less than ten days! May the Golden Swing boys bring us more iconic moments. And (my faves) harvest tons of ranking points.

Photo of Alexandre Muller watching Francisco Comesaña fall over the net during match for the Rio Open last February.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Meanwhile, on irrelevant tennis news, Golden Twenty-Four bête noires will be fighting for their lives in Concepción tomorrow.

Alejandro Tabilo and Marco Cecchinato play tomorrow for Conceptión CH100 semifinals

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Your 2026 AO champions 🔮

Photomontage of Angelic Adrian Mannarino by a French account on Tennis Twitter

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In tennis, Frenchmen come in all flavors (i.e., speeds and spins) 😍 AF: Arthur Fils AMa: Adrian Mannarino HG: Hugo Gaston

2026 Forehand Speed vs Topspin Rate plot by Tennis Insights. The plot has three outlier French players in the extremes (HG: Hugo Gaston - lowest fh speed; AMa: Adrian Mannarino - lowest fh topspin rate; and AF: Arthur Fils - highest fh speed and topspin rate

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Tennis photo(s) of the year! (no but yes)

Alexandre Müller watches Francisco Comesaña fall over the net during a match at the Rio Open.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I posted a picture of the original bottle above, but the current Les Légendaires are all sold in the more generic inverted-heart bottle. I think it’s okay because most I’ve tried are quite decent or good or maybe even great .

Bottle of Guerlain Insolence EDP (Les Légendaires).

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The words tragic drop patchouli shot make me very proud!

Most used words by this account throughout the year. It’s basically a lot of tennis and fragrance terms.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It should have been the other way around

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

So Hubi is a ghost haunting Dimitrov’s racket

Tennis TV poster featuring all players who made to the final 8 in the ATP finals since 1990

Hubert Hurcakz’s picture was inserted inside a racket (which looks like Grigor Dimitrov’s racket)

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It would’ve been cooler if they had used something of “The Dark Side of the Moon.” Maybe “A Great Gig in the Sky”

Screenshot of front page of article titled: “Pink Floyd and the Blood–Brain Barrier: Mass Spectrometry Explores How Music Modulates Protein Networks in LNP Delivery”

https://www.chromatographyonline.com/view/pink-floyd-and-the-blood-brain-barrier-mass-spectrometry-explores-how-music-modulates-protein-networks-in-lnp-delivery

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Are there other players with quotation marks in their official names?

Screenshot of Luis “Guto” Miguel bio on ATP website.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New meme! And it seems that Pat is still loyal to Prince

Pat Rafter (holding a tennis ball and a Prince racket) and Rod Laver looking amusingly surprised in preparations for Laver Cup

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Alex had a run on ITFs a few months ago and now is having a run on Challengers 75! And just out of curiosity, Vasilev and Ivanov are the USO boys’ finalists (Ivanov won Wimbledon)

Screenshots from Flashscore showing Molcan’s results in Sofia and Istanbul challengers.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Probably Miss Dior’s pale pink golden era was 2005, but having never smelled it, I pick 2011-2012 as my canonical Miss Dior. What’s striking is that it’s not only the scent that keeps changing constantly, but the color of the liquid as well, from pale pink-orange to something close to hot pink.

Picture of a bottle of Miss Dior EDP released in 2005

Pink of a bottle of Miss Dior EDP released in 2011-2012

Picture of a bottle of Miss Dior EDP released in 2017

Picture of a bottle of Miss Dior EDP released in 2021

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If both are healthy and playing close to their respective best, I think Jordy has an edge because of his variety and the ability of pace starving Adrian like no other. But who knows

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Today a new chapter of the greatest rivalry in men’s tennis. If you like absurd UE counts and whinny grumpy grown men, you won’t be disappointed!

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Your 2025 USO champions 🔮

Photo montage of Adrian Mannarino with angel wings

Photo of Marketa Vondrousova looking zen

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Finally organized my samples and decanters and entered everything in a database. Proud of myself! Now I’m afraid that this will make more difficult to find things 😅 #perfumesky #fragrancesky

Perfume samples organized in three 10 rows x 10 columns cryo boxes. These were mostly collected in the past five years.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This looks respectable. Excellent for a washed grandpa!

Jannik Sinner def. Adrian Mannarino in ATP Cincinnati R16 (6-4 7-6)

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

And we will have a rematch of the greatest rivalry in men’s tennis! Plus, Tragic Tommy is back! I think I like tennis again (for the next four days and then I will likely ignore it altogether).

Section of Cincinnati’s draw. The first round match are:

Tomas Machac [19] vs BYE
Jordan Thompson vs Adrian Mannarino [Q]
Pedro Martinez vs Nicolas Jarry [WC]
BYE vs Tommy Paul [19]

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Guerlain lists “undergrowth notes” as one of the main accords in CdA. I guess this is their interpretation of oakmoss 🤷🏻‍♀️

Image of a green leaf above Guerlai’s description for “undergrowth notes” in Chant d’Arômes

“UNDERGROWTH NOTES
Harvested in France, Guerlain's moss is first processed into a concrete before being transformed into an absolute. Tree moss absolute brings a woody and earthy note to perfume.”

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

(temporarily) back to the top 100!

Adrian Mannarino appears as No. 97 in the live rankings with his semifinal result in Newport

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I guess the doppelganger can pay the bill 😭😅

Post from indiatimes.com with the title “Wimbledon 2025: Henry Patten, Adrian Mannarino among 12 players slapped with four-figure fine for staff abuse and on-court outbursts”

The photos show the British tennis player Henry Patten (left) and a Adrian Mannarino-like Greek basketball player

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The Rublev-Mannarino matchup has been very one-sided, with the exception of one weird match. So unfortunately I feel pretty confident that Wimbledon ends tomorrow because I don’t think the surface difference will be a factor.

Screenshot from the ATP website showing the h2h for the Rublev-Mannarino matchup

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

but obviously someone thought about it way before I did

Photo of a fried egg flower and the following text:

“At the Granada Native Garden, we have coffeeberry, milkweed, miner’s lettuce, and even a plant that gives off the savory aroma of sauteed onions and peppers! To continue the foodie theme, currently in bloom is the so-called “fried egg flower”, properly named the matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri). That’s “ma-TIL-i-ha”, by the way. And you can easily see how it gets its whimsical nickname!

Or “sunny side up” flower, if you prefer?”

Photo of blooming fried egg plants and the following text:

“”Queen of the California Wildflowers” is another title that has been justly bestowed on the matilija poppy because, as Greg Rubin and Lucy Warren have said, “Drama is Matilija poppy’s first, last and middle name.” It is in good company with our famous California poppy, belonging to the same botanical family (Papaveraceae).”

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Saw this flower today and thought to myself “this looks like a fried egg, so I’m going to call it sunny side up egg flower…”

A zoomed picture of a flower with white petals and a yellow center, resembling a fried egg

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The coolest man on the ATP tour sometimes also turns into the hottest man on the ATP tour. The Mannarino’s paradox.

Mannarino looking cool (and hot) wearing a pastel pink hoodie.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Relatable king (I mean, relatable peasant)

Adrian Mannarino’s words about being denied entry into the All England Club for having a coffee because he is a qualifying player:

“I arrived a bit early for a practice session, so I thought of stopping for a coffee, but they turned me away because I was a qualifying player. It’s not a big deal, but at the time it hurt! Am I still a player or what? It’s the kind of small thing that drives you crazy, but that at the same time makes you even happier for having qualified.”

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I think this is the one streamed court. Probably it’s because the kid is a former junior champion who will win 61 slams in the next 25 years

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Maybe Barrena, aka Guillermo Coria’s dupe, is the real deal

Poster from ATP Challenger Tour celebrating Alex Barrena, champion in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia Open)

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Perfect timing because the first blossoms are starting to appear.

A bad picture of two lonely linden blossoms.

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Caro @waveelusive.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

These beauties have a lovely and heady orange blossom-like scent that saturates the air all around. (apparently they are called mock oranges, which I think it’s apt)

Picture showing shrubs with small green leaves and white, four-petaled, flowers.

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