Liquid Sword

This made me smell like a musty grandpa…

Can someone inform me on what notes are in this?

I don’t usually like lavender because it smells too green, herbal and kinda harsh, but TK Snow is soft and pillowy.

It also smells very similar to my favourite perfume - Balm Bomb, by another indie brand. Their notes are lavender, oakmoss, vanilla, musk, amber. But is there something more in here?

Is this what traditional bay rum smells like, or a sweeter interpretation by the lab?

Having watched narrated video about this scent on YouTube, I could’ve never imagined it to translate so well into a perfume. But moreover, I didn’t know a perfume can smell this cold.

First impressions in the bottle: Spicy and salty handwash 

On skin:

I don’t know enough about perfume or literature to make the best analogy, but the videogame Who’s Lilac could smell like this.

There’s an attempt at deception with its sweetness, like someone pulling off a practiced standard yet hollow smile, but you can just feel the chill they emanate, and they know you know that something is so very wrong. You’re certain that in their humble wooden house, now filled with the dissonant smell of cleaning products used by hospitals, they have hid something very gruesome. But both of you prefer to act like everything is just fine.

So yeah, this is my interpretation of it after reading descriptions and tones of reviews about it. So it’s not the fairest review. All in all, it is a very cold scent that I can’t stop sniffing, and I’ve become more aware of that disinfectant smell in my life now.

On 10/22/2023 at 8:28 AM, comebackqueen said:

See below for edits.. added more

 

Btw your link isn't working to read about it : (

Thanks for letting me know! I changed the link.

Your suggestions sound great, and I’m particularly curious about Famine and Marian. Really interested to know how fear and hunger ascpects will translate into the language of scents.