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He's so cool. A very woody, rich black leather. The pumpkin isn't too dominant. It warms everything up and gives it some earthy spice. Sexy and dark.
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Oh wow, on a personal level... this smells exactly like a bakery my mom and I would go to when I was a kid. She'd get a cup of black coffee, I would get a maple bar. We'd sit in a booth and I'd lay down on the bench and stare at all the ancient gumwads people stuck under the table. It's all right there when I smell this. The coffee note is the most dominant. A velvety rich, pitch-black pool of coffee that is made sweeter and stickier from the syrup from the pancakes and the sugar from the cruller. The buckwheat gives it a nice bit of grit. The cruller gives it that chewy quality. It's straight-up gourmand. After about an hour, it settles into a sort of ghostly memory of an old diner. The coffee smells a little stale, dusted with airborne powdered sugar. Gorgeous.
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There is something about it that smells cold. The crunchy, clean, sort of cologne-y smell of the dead leaves goes head-to-head with that singed cloud of dark smog. There's sort of an aloof coolness to it. Dreamy bad boy archetype vibes.
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Okay, which one of you spilled soda all over the backseat?! I mean, this one is honestly kinda trippy! It smells like an old car. The crackled ambery leather seats stained with sticky cherry cola, covered in old thumb smudges of motor oil that give the car an everlasting industrial chemical tang. The cherry cola is most present right out of the bottle and first on the skin, but then it really shifts. The soda gets stale and murky. The acrid smell of motor oil creeps in over it. The leather is strong but well worn. The longer it sits, the more and more it smells like an old car. A car that's lived. A car that's seen it all. ONE HOUR LATER Sticky, leathery resinous cherry.
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In the bottle and first on the skin, the familiar Embalming Fluid is front and center. But it quickly begins to reveal more... White satin curtains and fresh leather seats? Yes. I don't know what notes make up the satin curtains, but undeniably, there's something very textural about this. Plush and lush. White leather is subtle compared to other leather notes I know. It does feel new and clean. Overall, a very clean, creamy, soft, luscious little hearse ya got here!
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This is one of my personal favorites. Last Halloween, when we introduced the Wild Hearses line as atmosphere sprays, I went through an entire bottle of Hiss & Hearse in a month and immediately ordered us a backup bottle (which I learned how to use *sparingly*). When I found out we were bringing the hearses back this year, but as perfumes, I was so excited to have a perfume version of this. It's always fun when Beth combines Dorian and Snake Oil together and I think this one is NEXT LEVEL. I love what the dirt and moss notes do to this perfume. The vanilla in both Dorian and Snake Oil seems to rise through, creating this dirty, mossy vanilla-tinged haze. Very earthy, very soft.
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I'm surprised by how subtle this is! I was expecting to open the bottle and get a whoosh of bombastic fruitiness and that just wasn't the case. What I smell the most both from the bottle and on the skin is the chewy candy note. I feel like it tampers down both the red fruit (pomegranate? red currant? both? something else entirely?) and the vanilla, giving it all that waxy, plastic-y, gummy smell. Sweet, fruity and very chewy.
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Chocolate sprinkles, butter and chewy warm pumpkin bread. Incredibly cozy.
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This smells pink. This smells so pink. This smells like an industrious and indecisive canonically blonde Pisces legend who has had every job under the sun and still finds plenty of time to go to the beach. Just the right mix of tartness from the guava and grapefruit, and the sweetness of the strawberry and blackberry, against the sparkly backdrop of pink champagne. It's so fizzy and fun.
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As you can imagine, this is very lime forward in the beginning. Once it settles down a bit, the petitgrain, white musk and bay rum begin to pick up, giving it a nice bit of grit and swagger. The zing of the lime ring and the black pepper pair nicely. Overall, it has a very old school, citrus-spice-bay rum men's cologne vibe to it.
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I feel like this has a bit of crossover with Adam from Only Lovers Left Alive? There's a similar "burnt plastic over sweet, soft woods and leather" thing going on here. It smells lived in (in a good way). Honestly, what a freaking vibe! The burnt plastic and smudgy waxiness, the woodiness of the pencil, the well-worn leather and the hint of metal. Snarly and defiant. Smells like teen goth flashbacks. I love it.
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Yowza! Spicy mango heaven! I'm gonna sit and wait a moment while all that settles down before I check in on that gorgeous amber note Beth uses for the Blow Mold fragrances. (Five Minutes Later...) Spice settles a bit. Still mango city. It sort of reminds me of a candy I used to eat as a child but I can't think of what. (Five More Minutes Later...) This might just be it. Maybe the amber is coming through more than I detect because that mango is potent... Oh. There's the amber! Okay, I get it now. A fun, rambunctious, fruity pop with a bit of spice.
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As a lifelong hater of black licorice, this just simply couldn't be my jam. But I needed to try it on for science! And to see if I could be convinced otherwise. And here's the thing... I am being convinced otherwise. The licorice gets top billing, but the grey amber is actually the star of the show. She ties the licorice and black pepper together beautifully. An herbal-y, peppery amber. I don't know why, but it reminds me of Margot Tenenbaum.
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A decadent swoon of buttery, malty, gooey chocolate and coffee. Wears close to the skin, so you're not going to enter a room bombastically smelling like the fanciest coffee shop. This one doesn't have the wild shifting powers of it's buddy Black Butterfly Moon. All the notes stay pretty consistent from bottle to skin, and they all settle down together in perfect harmony.
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I second that, I'm having a very similar journey with mine. Quite the shifter! This scent begins with a heavy darkness. Damp florals lurking in the rainy shadows. Very moody! But then it... changes! The blackberry, vanilla and myrrh begin to rise through the watercolor floral haze. And after a while, it shifts into a crumbly blackberry incense. And then it's just like, barely there. Dusty, soft, ghostly.