Orafish
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Snow Moon: Apple Liqueur and Brandy
Orafish replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Heavy on the apple, low on the booze. I collect the lab's brandy notes, while present it is very demure here. The apple is the star of the show, fruity and bright. If this were a mixed drink it would be a tall glass of apple juice with half a shot of brandy. -
This is much closer to Snow White than Spellbound in my opinion, like a rose infused Snow White. Spellbound on its own is heady and overwhelming in the best way, but here those components are subdued by the blizzard of snow. The rose's petals are crisp with frost, the color drained from them. The musk and amber were worn by someone that left long ago, only hints of them remain. The leather straps are the thinnest laces, all for show. This has my favorite "OG Scotch Tape" snow note, the thick milky-opaque tape used on gifts in the 80s. It is not minty or coniferous or cologne-like, but creamy sugared slightly-plastic magic. It pairs wonderfully with the florals of Snowbound.
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I love the lab's ice and snow notes and was super excited to try this one out. The icicle note is somewhere between mint and cologne. The coconut flesh is dry and almost powdery, like a nearly empty bag of (unsweetened) shredded coconut found in the back of your pantry. The scent doesn't veer tropical nor foodie, this is not a crushed-ice coconut smoothie. At first the minty-cologne overpowers the coconut, after an hour or so the coconut wins out. There is a faint hint of something... oily/fatty/almost buttery that I attribute to some coconut notes. That richness adds a bit of unexpected depth. I really enjoy how the coconut flesh note doesn't have much sweetness and hope that doesn't change with age. As is, I don't have anything quite like it in my collection.
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This has lost some of its nuance over the years (no more florals) but I still enjoy it, it is a peach starburst candy explosion with a hint at something aldehydic and bright... not overpowering like champagne but perhaps the lighter fizz of 7-Up. This HG's profile is basic enough to pair well with most fruity scents, a great option to have in your HG arsenal.
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Butter creamed with eggs and sugar, a giant cup of custard. I only get a bit of lavender and the coconut is all but lost in the custard. Applied on skin there is a funkiness that could be called butter-musk... Not at all what I wanted from this scent, sadly.
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This is not the brown hued shaggy thing I was expecting. The lupine musk is reading far more blue toned than I imagined, it is a clean musk, chilly and stone-like with a hint at something aquatic. The ambrette used is overtaken a bit, less in the musk category than the mallow one, adding a hint of green cognac and sweetness. While not the dirty wild thing I was expecting to pair well with That 'Ere Wolf, it IS gorgeous. Altogether this is more of a seductive silver bullet scent than a shaggy fur one, complex and beautifully suited for all day wear.
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Strong juicy pear, not a snugly warm baked pear but a handful of bright and zingy pear skin dripping with juices. The pink musk is present, it doesn't veer into a white musk cleanliness but offers a decidedly perfumey quality to the scent with a hint of floral undertones. The cucumber is there if you search for it but really does get lost between the fruity pear and perfumey pink musk. I agree that this is a scent for pear lovers, it is a truly unique pear note!
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I agree that this leans more aquatic than grassy. The moonlit dew is glorious and prominent, more than mere dew drops clung to blades of grass, this dew has collected into deep teal puddles sparkling in *silver moonlight. The grass comes out more in the dry down, after a few hours it even becomes the dominating note left on my skin. As a collector of grass notes, the grass in this duo is closest to the wet grass in Goofballs and would suggest that perfume to anyone wanting a bit more of the grass in this bottle. Altogether this wears as an upscale fume and works wonderfully as a dewy layering note.
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Wolf Moon: Beeswax & Pine Needle
Orafish replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
This is a joy, surprisingly it is all about chewy sweet honey backed by a tiny bite of green. The pine never takes over, it stays a step behind the beeswax throughout the wear. This is strikingly similar to the smell of fresh basswood honey, which for those unfamiliar tends to have a light green hue and a slightly medicinal herbal *smell. -
This has gotten even better with a bit of age, when I received this in the fall it had an expected earthy ruggedness befitting the cooler months. It has developed into a well behaved less-stompy version of its previous self, one I can now see myself wearing in the heat of summer. The palo santo is sweet and smooth and the patch is golden hued. There is a honeyed warmth between the two notes. It now reminds me more of an expensive salon, less of a head shop, settling somewhere between the two in its uniqueness.