Wow Taylor Swift surprised Sweden fans by telling them the name of her body scent “if you want to smell like me”

Easter egg is too minute or complicated to withstand Taylor Swift’s fandom for long. But one question has haunted Swifties for years: What does the pop superstar actually smell like?

Let’s travel back to circa 2010, Taylor’s Speak Now era. While she was being interviewed by late-night host David Letterman, he observed that she smelled like “expensive wood.” Though it’s unknown exactly what scent she was sporting that night, Taylor has been known to lean toward warm and spicy fragrances.

Enter: Santal Blush by Tom Ford. Whispers from fans invited to Taylor’s Reputation secret sessions revealed she wears the woodsy fragrance grounded in notes of sandalwood, cinnamon, and ylang-ylang. Plus, a scene from her 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana shows a clip of Taylor backstage on the Reputation tour, in which a bottle of Santal Blush is surrounded by other tour essentials.

Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford—a sophisticated fragrance with a smoky sweet scent—also comes up in conversations about Taylor’s signature smell. Others say she’s a longtime fan of Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb, which translates her penchant for warm scents into a more floral base with notes of jasmine, rose, and cattleya.

But Taylor’s love for richly romantic scents predates her Tom Ford fixation: She often used to wear her own fan-favorite fragrances from Elizabeth Arden. Between 2011 and 2014, the Grammy winner released five fragrances with the cosmetics company: Wonderstruck, Wonderstruck Enchanted, Taylor, Made of Starlight, and Incredible Things. Unfortunately, they have all since been discontinued, leaving fans deep-diving for dupes and scouring the internet for coveted unopened bottles, which sell for hundreds of dollars.

Wonderstruck, a magical scent for hopeless romantics sealed in an enchanting purple bottle, was Taylor’s first foray into fragrance in 2011. It’s a floral scent with top notes of raspberry, blackberry, and freesia, along with base notes of peach and sandalwood. Its sister scent Wonderstruck Enchanted debuted soon after in a similarly shaped burgundy bottle, which continued the sweet and floral theme with vanilla base notes.