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so i searched for fantasy by britney perfume on reddit and found many fantasy and britney perfumes related posts here on this sub.

so im here looking for honest reviews for these two perfumes that im interested in.

1. fantasy by britney:

so i haven't used this ever ig but i had a local long bottle perfume and it had name "fantasya" on it and had similar art/ colors as britneys fantasy perfume box. i really liked that long pen perfume and to me it kinda also had smell of good quality doll hair and/ or good quality doll body (maybe that material is called vinyl? im not 100% sure). so if that pen perfume was a fantasy dupe or something then does actual fantasy has that doll hair/ body scent?

2. cloud by ariana:

so cloud by ariana i havent used it ever too but imo looks really cute, that bottle and that cloud shaped stand. as far as ive searched, it sounds like a soft feminine perfume but my concern is if its crazy powdery? i don't like chanel no 5 for how powdery and annoying it is but i do like how powdery yara pink is, its way better than chanel no.5 in terms of powdery note/ notes, so this is what im concerned about. whether cloud smells artificial and too much powdery or it smells nice "clean" powdery?

Assalam u Alaikum.

i had previously posted about this issue as well but only one brother commented under that post.

im at a place, where some family members of mine are desperate to get "treated". they go to these people who tell them they have jinns after them and/ or sihr done on them and so they get "treatment" from those people but that treatment includes burning chits of paper with some writings on those (probably taweedh/ amulets) after rubbing them on oneself, using water handed by those people to perform wudhu with it etc and avoid certain foods (idk for medical reasons or any so called "spiritual reason") and till now it was my family member who was using those so called treatments, rest of our family wasn't using them for ourselves till now when some family members went to that person again and that person told them something along the lines of that sihr/ jinn thing is getting to another family member too (i feel sorry for this family member cause this family member and young and may even end up doing those things) and how for 1 time all of us (for except one family member) have to do a thing which is to maybe rub a paper chit on ourselves, then burn it and inhale smoke, then take ashes and mix it in water and drink sone of it and apply some/ rest to our body. what the hell is this? this clearly is an unIslamic ritual and i don't want to do it. for past twice i was told to burn such chit which a family member had rubbed on their body and i tried avoiding burning it first time but eventually had to so i searched how to discard an amulet (since that chit according to my understanding was an amulet with name of firaun and idk what else written on it) so what i did was i did burn it but i did it in a "taweedh discarding way" by burning it and reciting last three Surahs Of The Qur'an, and second time i did that i recited Surah Al Ikhlaas.

what to do now?

my family will get mad/ upset or idk will come after me if i refuse. what to do? do i just take that chit/ amulet and take it privately and not rub it on my body but instead just burn it while reciting Surah Al Ikhlaas or all 3 Last Surahs?

advise me what to do. i don't wanna commit shirk nor kufr nor bid'aah nor any major sin and then i don't want to harm my family too.

advise me brothers and sisters.

JazakAllah.

Assalam u Alaikum.

im an unmarried sister and i live with my family. currently im going through a weird emotional phase where i get upset at small things imo and feel hurt.

i feel like im getting emotionally distant from my family specially my mother. in my opinion she sometimes favors my brother over me but also sometimes claims she favors me over him. not only that but sometimes in my opinion she favors/ likes some things about other people's daughters and young women, over me. for example once when a young lady we're both related to, started doing niqab, my mother said good things about that young lady, but she sometimes has criticized me doing pardah. recently she's impressed by a young co worker, who she was impressed by in multiple ways including her wearing "western" clothes like pants and shirts if im right.

i feel like my interests and hobbies and what i do are criticized let alone enjoyed or experienced with me and it gets hurtful. i don't have any person who shares same interests as me and my friendships aren't well maintained too. my brother is allowed to be with his friends even at our place, at some of his friends' places and outdoors at places like restaurants and public places too but for me its dangerous and not suitable out there, nor can i call my friends at my place because i think my family gets weird/ awkward about it and i don't even have a proper room of my own to have my friends in.

im getting emotionally distant from my family. i think they don't even include me in talks and decisions like they include my brother and im older. they don't understand my struggles or my nature/ habits. my mom really gets upset with me at so many things but i think my brother gets a pass.

i literally send long texts to ai about things i wanna talk/ chat about and receive responses from ai. this isn't ok. i should have actual friends who i talk to and share my favorite topics and hobbies with them. but i don't have them, nor is my family like that.

my mother literally many times she herself talks so much and i listen with not too much interruption i think but when i talk she sometimes interrupts me, talks over me and then i stop then sometimes.

my mother thinks and even talks about how my paternal grandmother is not good for me but in my opinion at least my paternal grandmother listens to me when i talk, listens to my long talks and doesnt even get mad at me when i talk back or misbehave (which ik im wrong for). my mother doesn't hate me and she actually is really kind and hardworking and does so much, works so much for us all but her words are harsh sometimes like i said above. and sometimes i feel she's unfair to me when she validates other young women/ other people's daughters but not me and sometimes i think favors my brother in things she doesn't sometimes favor me in.

advice needed.

JazakAllah.

Assalam u Alaikum.

(long post ahead)

so my family (not everybody) but a few people of my family are kinda desperate. unwanted situations and "downs" of life happen with everybody, not a big deal. its the fact that since years (probably since before i was born) my family is into these rituals and cultural stuff. im an adult now and it has gotten to a crazy point i think. i myself am going through crazy waswaas currently which sometimes are bad sometimes just nagging but my family (those specific people, im being vague for privacy) are still into these rituals and stuff and im fearing shirk, kufr and what not.

one of them found out recently about this person online who calls/ introduces himself as a "demonologist" and like he's into "spirituality" and stuff. well he also appears in these "podcasts" and i watched a few and he seems questionable. (i can share links if it wouldnt be publicizing somebodys sins and if anybody of you wants to check) but one thing he talked about was this perfume oil or something (which he claimed he gives too) which when a person uses it, a leader of jinns called so and so comes to help that person Astaghfirullah.

and he "addressed" some people's concerns about him promoting/ doing shirk and/ or kufr by giving an example of Prophet Sulaiman PBUH how Prophet Sulaiman PBUH once asked jinns to do something (if im remembering right). brother you're a commoner, why/ how are you comparing yourself to a Prophet? you aren't even from ummah of that Prophet. so this person i am sure is suspicious and a family member of mine was almost keen to contact this person for spiritual help regarding unwanted/ difficult circumstances we're going through as in for treatment. i tried to tell that family member that these things are shirk and/ or kufr and they aren't mentioned in The Qur'an and then how Prophet Muhammad PBUH didnt do/ advice such things then why we do such things etc and this family member still is impressed by that person.

These family members imo get so easily influenced by some people sometimes its crazy. they have since before my birth (if im right) contacted many such individuals who did a variety of things except Ruqyah (if im saying truth) and its not okay. i fear so much but what can i do? they kinda tell me things like im so negative and maybe an extremist and there's nothing wrong with getting treatment for yourself and we even had a little argument and being upset with each other when this family member impressed by that demonologist was telling me about how this demonologist guy was talking about qurbani blood in his podcast

(if my info is right then he maybe talked on his podcast about how qurbani blood should be/ or is/ was used to not be wasted but instead buried underground in/ around one's home so evil eye and idk evil things are repelled and my family member was also talking about people dipping their hands/ fingers/ fingertips in qurbani blood and putting that on doors of their home or leaving a few drops or drop of qurbani blood in corners of house and letting it stay and dry there so evil things or whatever are repelled or house is protected from those. but idk if these later things that demonologist had said or it was probably info from people my family member knows irl. mentioning info here where it came from doesn't matter i guess.)

Astaghfirullah. not only are these rituals bs but what the hell is that demonic rituals thing mixed with these cultural practices and how these are so dangerous and so bad but so easily promoted and done. what do i do?

just now these family members of mine were together in this thing they did. a certain amount of water was taken in a utensil and then i didnt see anything i was in another place inside our home but when i went in that room, i saw a family member of mine running knife inside that water in that utensil, as if "cutting" that water with that knife (imagine cutting jelly/ jello with a knife when its still inside a container, kinda like that)

and then i left after doing what i went there to do. then a few minutes later, i heard water pouring/ falling down sounds and then a few minutes or seconds later a family member of mine called me to fetch some water (from that utensil) in a bowl which they handed me before their Wudhu goes dry (im assuming this family member performed Wudhu using that water and there was also a tub so maybe that water was to be used and collected too im assuming). i did fetch that water and i was told to scoop it out into that bowl using a scoop that was left inside that utensil with water, i ended up dipping that bowl directly into that water (i think it did dip a little) and i realized i was told to use that scoop and i messed up kinda.

i asked Allah (internally or externally maybe) something like to fail this entire ritual and nobody gets harmed from it other than those whose idea it was (like maybe those who told this to my family members) and i did hand that bowl to my family member and went to wash splatters of my arms. then i rinsed that bowl with normal tap water too.

what to do about these situations? its bad to see your family falling prey to these disgusting demonic rituals.

if i tell you all those "rituals" that only i went through, these family members have gone through more than me and still they don't understand that these rituals aren't "treatments" they're invitations for evil. and like when has anybody ever "benefitted" from such demonic things? putting your aakhirah at stake and involving your family into it too? this is so bad.

what do i do?

for those of you who are going to put it on me for "helping" my family in these things just fyi, Allah Knows i hate these things and He Knows that He Has Blessed me with knowledge and mentality of realizing these things for what they are and not being into them.

i myself am just a random sinner. ofc i slip up, and sometimes i have to do these "fetch this, hold this, grab that" because these family members remind me sometimes how i disobey them and its sinful and ik there's no obeying people if it means disobeying Allah and then His Messenger PBUH, but these people don't understand. i already am going through some things and im NOT supporting these demonic things. im here for advice literally. please be kind and advice me. and pray for me.

JazakAllah.

(please put nsfw tag if needed and don't remove this post for that)