Shollin

The RPG scents are designed to be layered! Are you a Neutral Good Half-Elf Ranger? Are you a Chaotic Evil Orc Mage? Whatever combination you try on, this is the place to review it! (Please note that nonreview comments and questions are still off-topic here and will be moved.)

First sniff: Light and airy (and for me, a little sneezy). I don’t actually smell citrus in this, but it feels like the sort of scent that would be citrusy. If that makes any sense at all.

 

Wearing: It’s very very pale, almost ghostly, which matches the art beautifully. Pale wood, pale flowers, pale musk. Faded completely by noon.

First sniff: Deep golden fruits in a liquid pool of sunset. I can’t pick out any distinct notes—it’s all just deep, warm, golden, fruity, beautiful.

 

Wearing: Stays very true to the first-scent sniff for the whole of its wearing, and it was still going strong as I headed off to a concert that night. Just fantastic.

First sniff: The edges of this scent smell like cherry/almond to me, but nothing like that is listed in the notes. There’s a rich buttery vanilla at the core, surrounded by lots of fruit.

 

Wearing: Very bright fruit and very dark vanilla, a study in contrasts. It’s a little unsettling for some reason; the fruit is rather loud, and there’s a hint of boozey fruitcake-ness to it.

First sniff: In the bottle, all I can smell is patchouli and clove.

 

Wearing: Dirty hippie smoking a clove cigarette…or possibly something herbal. It quickly calms down to a sort of green incense, and the floral part is coming out strongly on my right wrist.

First sniff: Pink and fluffy!

 

Wearing: The pink fluffiness immediately solidifies into a very solid base of warm vanilla tickled by white floral sweetness.

First sniff: Someone has ground up a Thin Mint cookie into a fine powder and blown it straight up my nose with a blowgun. Chocolate and mint and…well, what else do you need, really?

 

Wearing: Chocolate. Mint. Happiness. Sadly, as with just about every mint, it doesn’t last…but I think it’s good enough for long enough that I’ll just learn to deal with it. Yum.

First sniff: A pumpkin base with a gorgeous rich deep sweetness. I never expected to like tobacco, because I always figured it just smelled like cigarettes, but it seems to add a really nice deep, woody, almost-spicy note to anything its in, and paired with tonka its just fantastic.

Wearing: Oh, instant love. Smooth pumpkin underneath, sweet dark richness at the core, hovering just this side of spicy. Love.

First sniff: Pumpkin, very ripe juicy fruits, and tea. It’s caught somewhere in the middle between sweet and savory.

 

Wearing: I keep thinking this should be spicy, but it really isn’t; it’s just that I associate spice with pumpkin. The pumpkin in this is provides a very smooth base layer to boost the fruit and tea. I smell like either dessert or breakfast, and I’m not sure which.

First sniff: Pale but solid, a cool, clear night-air scent. Very pretty.

 

Wearing: Crisp cold air, glittering stars. It might snow in a few hours, but for now it’s the absolute crystalline perfection of a clear winter night. And unfortunately it’s just as fleeting; the aura extends no more than half an inch off my skin, and within an hour or two it’s gone completely. Sigh.

First sniff: Very chilly. Lemon and cold air.

 

Wearing: Lemon and mint, warming up just a little, but still the general impression is “chilly.” It takes an hour or so for the grounded sweetness of the tonka to develop, but it makes for a very pleasant warm undertone. I wasn’t super impressed with the initial chilly lemon, but now I keep happily revisiting my wrist.

First sniff: A sweet rose that threatens to go horribly poofy the second I put it on me, with a darker, stronger base underneath, and maybe a few drops of tea.

 

Wearing: POOF! But it seems to be calming quickly. The initial burst of powderose didn’t last too long, but the rest of the scent didn’t grab me.

First sniff: Cloyingly sweet floral. Hrm.

 

Wearing: I’m really trying not to let my opinion of the party influence my opinion of the scent, but this reminds me of a certain politician’s personality… it’s fake-sweet and cutesy, but underneath there’s just not much there.

First sniff: Oh, this is just amazing. Cool sweetness, fresh flowers, green fruit. It’s a complete mismatch from the note list, and I’m hoping the danger notes behave themselves on my skin, because in the bottle this is simply gorgeous.

 

Wearing: Wow! Rich fruit and warmth and flowing honey-sweetness. I’m thrilled that it stayed like this all day.

First sniff: For a “hint,” the wine in this is pretty strong, on a backdrop of flowers.

 

Wearing: Wine and flowers all day long. Not my thing.

First sniff: Pure frozen violet.

 

Wearing: Frozen violets, icy mint, and a hint of cream. Ooh. This is nicer than I expected; the violet never goes old-lady-powdery, and combined with the little splash of cream, it’s very pretty.

First sniff: Dry, brown, crackly, a little bit sweet and a little bit smoky. It reminds me of pipesmoke.

 

Wearing: The sweetness is more pronounced on me; it’s a strange smoky sweetness with some dry wood behind it.

First sniff: Warm, wet, green, murky.

 

Wearing: It’s tropical, but without the usual fruits and flowers – just a huge tangle of green and monsoon rains. I like it more than I expected to.

First sniff: Wind, rain, sea, and a drizzle of lime.

 

Wearing: The lime is much stronger on me, and really nice. Over time the wood and the tiny hint of Snake Oil come out and turn this into more than yet-another-sea-scent, which makes me very very happy. The drydown is just lovely.

First sniff: The wet insides of a cinnamon jawbreaker.

 

Wearing: Very very cinnamon candy, and not a whole lot else.

First sniff: Ooh! This is like a greener variant of One to Tie! It’s spring rather than summer, and the hay is very very green, but it’s the same outdoor sunny happy feeling.

 

Wearing: Fresh wet greenness, grass and leaves and dewdrops, and a little bit of nose-tickly hay.

First sniff: Smooth citrus, soft tea, gentle flowers, and a warm furry backdrop. Beautiful.

 

Wearing: EVEN BETTER OMG. Immediately it’s soft sticky honeyed beeswax and tea and musk and a little spritz of citrus.

First sniff: Tart green citrus and maybe some dry wood underneath.

 

Wearing: It’s weirdly spicy on me, almost the opposite of the bottle-scent.

First sniff: Soft cream and slightly plasticky sweetness.

 

Wearing: Powdery on top of plasticky, and unfortunately fakey-sweet. I really wish iris liked me more.

First sniff: Dry, dark wood, with a glaze of vanilla or tonka.

 

Wearing: Wow, is that the tobacco that smells like tonka to me? It swirls up in a warm haze as soon as I put this on my skin. The wrist-scent is still dry wood and whatever that warm dark slightly-sweet-ness is. I like this one more than I expected to.