Cali

Oh nooooo! This made me averse my head sniffing from the bottle, not what i was expecting at all! 

However, thank goodness, it calms down on drydown- whatever was not only SO strong (i'm guessing some of the black notes) has gone to the background, creating a beautiful velvety soft blanket of darkness, and on this darkness there's the slightest hint of something similar to fruits. Oudhy, vaguely vanilla, vaguely fruity. Gives me a headache. :c

Ooooh, very pretty! AH! I remember what this kinda reminds me of devil's nightcap from lush! They discontinued that soap here for a long time, so this is a nice little reminder of it, hah! 

This is sliiightly ever stronger with it's rooibos though, it's gives this nice spicyness to it, a wet warmth. In a good way!

Wet, i get something wet- and soaplike. Dust? Absolutely agreeing with the smoky velvet cucumber there. It's not disagreeable on me, but it's not something i'd ever go for.

On drydown it's a strong, but watery vetiver, with something surprisingly sweet and light (like a heady floral that's watered down), but the overall feel of it is a dark brooding figure. The notes are beautifully blended, i find it incredibly hard to describe. Oily, 100-year-old-layer-of-dust, vague woodsy, dirty leather and watery velvet cucumber vetiver??

Ohh i knew i was gonna like this! Besides being amongst many things, a musical geek, i had hoped to try this pair out for a while now. Beautiful strong white florals, that remind me a little bit of the ones in Hymn, the frankincense giving this a flowy, expensive feel (but it stays in the background, it's more of a purple, slightly more gritty and lesh in-your-face frankincense than in for example the blue note in Midnight on the midway). The vanilla comes out much more on drydown and is this beautiful sweet, soft almost creamy note that really ties this together.

Tags that would fit are indeed old fashioned, chique, feminine, innocent. 

My skin tends to amp white florals, but besides the fact that this has a pretty strong throw (though never strong enough for my tastes perhaps) it's never overpowering here.

Beautiful!! So happy with this!!

Super fresh, soft green, spicy on my skin. 

There's a squelchy-foresty goodness in this that unfortunately gets eaten on my skin, in the bottle I love this, on my skin it's still beautiful, but i don't know if i find a need to smell like this, as nice as it is. It's soft, velvety indeed, that makes some of these harsh sounding notes seem like a mossy bed to lay in. Gorgeous.

Thank you for the surprising frimp! ❤️ 

I hadn't even heard of this one, so i'm excited to give it a try.

This is a herby floral; soft florals (strongest being the lavender and the black rose), softer spices and maybe... dirt? Nothing too pervasive or distracting about that dirt, it blends well and adds a lovely depth. I imagine some kind of ancient kitchen with dried herbs and spices.. It's lovely!

This is a LOT like TKO on me. I'm not getting much of that buttercream period, it's TKO without that "sugary/tingly" (oddly enough) note. Maybe it's there, but just a touch in the background, slightly creamier. Just a beautiful sweet lavender perfume. Doesn't amp on me like TKO does unfortunately but this is lovely!

Ooof! From the bottle this is SO in your face kinda strong!! And it's that way on the skin too; to me it's this very expensive, very sugary sweet thick, but fluffy cookie? Maybe with some pink sprinkles on top. Agreeing with the corn cereal mentioned a few times before, but it's one of those American cereals, like. SUPER sweet. I personally don't want to smell like this, but i sure want to eat it!! 

Delicious, spicy cookie goodness! Sickeningly sweet, though my teeth are more of the salt-lubber-kind. Still, hunger-inducing realistic cookies, gingerbread-ish. I'd say that, but make it slightly toasted with perhaps another red spice in there, the vanilla and cinnamon tying it together beautifully.  

The art/inspiration for this alone is SO cute, i had to try this. This is a soft mix of fluffy florals, and somehow they've almost cracked how feathers can smell sometimes. Well, the feathers on my 'lil bird, my mom's bird smells quite different, but feathers do have a specific... feather-smell. I don't wanna say dirt- or patchouli-ish, but whatever it is that's close. The rose is at first there, but gets eaten on my skin. There's a snowy soft cypress in the background. 

Stronggg hazelnut, soft coconut-cocoa that reminds me of a bounty bar. No spun sugar for me. :c

Definately Figgy puddin' in there, beautifully blended with the rest of the notes. All there. The vetiver (usually death note for me) is here juuuuust enough and adds a lovely velvety depth, with the other notes softening, even slightly powdering up into a sweet nostalgic christmassy mix. 

A veil of furry musk (wilf anyone?) over strong herbs, berries and mosses; toppled with a dusting of sugary sweet snow. Real fun for drawing inspiration, or perhaps writing, if you write anything more than bpal reviews heh. 

Trying a lot of boozy, and cherry scents tonight, so i may be going a bit blind to it, but this is a darker cherry, purpled nurpled by the fig, dribbled- nay, gooped in honey, sexied up by the red musk. There is indeed a slight spice to it, adding to the ...lustness of this 'fume.

I'm getting cherry booze on first application - then it goes to something more... crumbly. It really goes to a more realistic cake like in A very pink surprise cake, though this time not a vanilla lemon- but straight-up red velvet sugary cake. The crumblyness then does fade a bit, and makes room for a slightly stronger buttercream and that boozy-cologne thing it's got going on.

Smells like a alcohol-based perfume i've smelled before; no idea what perfume that was, but this is very similar. Woodsy labdanum enveloped in boozy/tobacco red-raspberry-goodness, the benzoin rounding this up in a warm sweet squishy coccoon! 

Oooohhhh. Moody, feminine, victorian. Sooooft absinthe, ozone and dark gloom, with a herbal-floral perfume wayyy in the background. 

Suuuper strong cherry on a velvety dark cholocate bed. The orange blossom actually makes this really stand out, soft floral leaves that to me, makes this almost honey-like.

Ooooh dear. I wanted to like this very much, but the strength of the almond caught me by surprise, never a fan of this note though it has it's benefits. Gets less harsh on drydown though, thank goodness, and there's this beautiful goopy honey-rum there that's absolutely delightful. Definately something somewhat fruity in there - and that phosphorous note adds just enough of a tinge of 'bleh' to me; it's a little too sweet and uhhh i'm gonna call it metallic for lack of a better word here.

If you looooove raisins and maybe also the smell of... whatever that smell that hangs around in bars when it's late in whafts is, this may be up your alley? Wanna have a sip of that rum though...

Sexy lilac fougere. A ever-so slightly lighter, more sweeter, sparkly purple version of Sir Thomas Sharpe, dare I say. And yes, also similar to Dorian.. Won't need this but it's been lovely to finally give this a try!! 💜

Oof, not loving this from the bottle - Getting-vetiver-but-not-quite-vetiver-vibes from this, but once again, changes quite completely on my skin. It's very interesting; there's an almost fruity quality to this, which i think may be the mix of cardamon, myrrh and fir? messing with my head. This is REALLY strong at first, then slowly goes into something more coffee centered, and something i expected more from the notes. 

Still, a slight fruity something there, in the background, with a soooft mix of all the notes, the most noteable the coffee, cardamom and vanilla. 

I first made a somewhat... offensive noise at first application; sweet dark cacao and tan leather with a soft pine, hmmm. Though this directly reminds me of a really old bottle of Captain Cully that i once had, it dries down slightly different - though something similar for sure is in there, i just can't pinpoint it. It's both a mix of herbal- and motor oil though, if that makes ANY sense. 

On drydown there's still that in the background, and then the strongest note is a powdery dark cocoa, a soft thick brown leather. It's nice, but there's something that's bringing me back to the dentist we went to as very little kids lmao??? It's nice, quite sexy, though the weird dentist thing is sorta putting me off.. 

Starts out as a strange browny-green honestly slightly offputting scent, but i'm happy to mention that, yes this morphs quite a lot. And quite directly! After a few seconds, the frankincense comes up (similar to the one in midnight on the midway), leaves a white-reddish/purplyhaze, then goes to the background again (woaooaauuhuuhooh??) and the creamy vanilla takes the front with what i'm guessing is the coriander and wintry musk. The frankincense hasn't dissapeared as it's more in the middle now, which is interesting as i haven't smelled a perfume that did that in a while now! This is very chique perfume-y. Reaaally like this!

Smells like walking into my nearest flower shop. 🥰 Sappy, incredibly well blended florals. A punchy pepper (that, for a second i thought may be too strong, but stays just strong enough to elevate the scent into something that feels.. growing. Alive.) and dried i am left with mostly sappy greens, with the rest still there- that i'm hoping will get a bit stronger with age. 

Ohhh this smells like a tropical vacation. Or maybe like an incredibly lush, expensive sunscreen and a fancy cocktail nearby on a sunny day. That is doing it injustice though, this is a very realistic dip into someone else's memory, or maybe a fantasy into a beautiful summer paradise will do.