This week’s fixation: chocolate. I don’t actually like eating chocolate (I know, the horror!), but I love the smell. So, when I heard about a $5 perfume on Amazon that would supposedly turn me into a cup of Swiss Miss, you know I had to check it out.

I’ll admit, I was iffy about the affordable Arabic perfume trend. I expected the scents to be too heavy for my preference. Instead, this little $4.63 rollerball from Amazon has turned into one of my favorite winter perfumes.

Amazon lists this perfume oil as an “amber vanilla,” featuring:

Editor’s Note: There are two versions — a spray and a rollerball. This review is for the rollerball oil version.

✅ Why It Works: It’s an affordable chocolate scent for gourmand lovers.

❌ Why It Doesn’t: For the price, I have no complaints.

💸 Buy It? Yes! This is a winner if you like sweet scents.

Rating: ✨✨✨✨✨/5

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🇫🇷 Au revoir, Zoom and Teams. France’s government is moving to Visio, a state-built platform, in a very intentional effort to stop leaning on American tech. I’d consider moving if it meant never hearing a Teams notification again

📍 TikTok US knows where you are. Literally. New terms require users to accept the collection of “precise location data.” TikTok can pull this info from user-generated content — even unpublished posts. I see why the French want to dump us.

🛞 Telsa killed Autopilot as a standard feature on its base models. Helpfully, CEO Elon Musk said you can pay him $99 a month to access the full self-driving subscription. I hope it comes with a free subscriber-only tote bag.

🪿 An 82-year-old man from Ankeny, Iowa, will serve six months’ probation for deliberately plowing over a flock of geese, in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Geese are mean, but it’s still an asshole move.

💨 In more bird news, puffins are struggling to survive Storm Chandra. The poor puffins are washing up on Scottish beaches, far from their winter homes in the North Atlantic. Someone get them cozy tiny Scottish sweaters immediately.

I didn’t get tickets to Ulta World … and neither did you. This one-day, consumerist expo hosted by the beauty giant sold out in less than five minutes, and Redditors are pissed. The chief complaint? Most tickets appear to have been reserved for influencers and their groupies, not the general public. Ooof. Not a good look in this economy.

Celebrate Lunar New Year with this hilariously sad horse plush. Born from a factory mishap (someone sewed the smile on upside down), it went viral as an accidental working-class icon, per the BBC. If you don’t feel like Sad Horse after a workday… are you even employed?