Mineralic Amber Hair Gloss

[doomsday_disco]

Mineralic Amber.

[feyofthefellwood]

To me, this is light and pretty and smells a bit like an expensive salon product, but also like classic BPAL (it has a hint of that effervescent cola-like incense to it). It's mineralic, but in a sparkly kind of way rather than an earthy one. It pairs well with The Grey Columns (grey and white amber), which is one of my favorite everyday scents. I wish there was a perfume version of this in addition to a HG. 

[roseus]

Agreed this is sparkly (not like white musk or aldehyde but that rich cola-incense described much better by @feyofthefellwood). Rich but not weighty. Fans of ambergris/grey amber scents take notice! I think this will do a fine job of replacing my Hag Grey when it runs out.

[puellacaerulea]

This one doesn't morph much from the decant to my hair -- there's amber, but the mineralic notes have a light, effervescent quality (while still being obviously mineralic -- is pretty, sparkly sand a thing? Because that's where my brain is going) that lighten up the amber. I can sometimes find amber scents a little too heavy, especially for everyday wear, but this hits a happy medium.

[Amoraexcena]

I love and adore this. To me, this is what silvery fairy dust blended with unicorn tears smells like. A gentle, perfectly balanced salty-sweet, come-hither scent. It's the perfect wet-look opalescent highlighter of my dreams in perfume form. I'm pretty sure it's similar to grey amber/ambergris. I wish this also came in perfume form, it's so lovely. 

[Vaudenilla]

This is, perhaps, what I would like my hair to smell like for the rest of time. I heartily second @Amoraexcena 's assessment that this is what silvery fairy dust and unicorn tears smell like, but I would even go so far as to say that this is the smell of early morning sunlight hitting the unicorn's shimmering mane as it drinks from a tranquil lake. The lake is fed by a large waterfall, which is casting rainbows and misting everything in a shuddering layer of dew. 

 

This is what a moonbeam smells like, bottled. Powdery sweet amber, smooth and silky and almost skin-musky. Mineralic sparkliness that adds some salty, grounded complexity that keeps you sniffing for more...

 

This thing literally lasts for up to 3 days in my hair. Granted I have long, unruly thick hair that I douse in hairgloss (Seriously, about 5 ish pumps every time I use gloss at this point). 

[Assimbya]

Glittering, aldehydic, pale amber; I agree with previous reviewers that it has an enrapturing salty-sweet combination to it which is both pretty and slightly mysterious. I suspect this would go sharp on my skin, so it's lovely to have it in hair gloss form, where it can shine alongside my amber-centric perfumes, which all have more sweetness or floral to soften them. This doesn't have quite so much throw or longevity as my other bpal hair glosses; it's a little subtler, but quite lovely.

 

I ordered a squirt of this from the lab with my last bottle order, and am very pleased I did, though I am going to need to wear it some more times to decide whether I will get a bottle of it. I go through hair gloss so much more quickly than I go through perfume and so the bar for buying a bottle is much lower on these for me; I can tell this one is going to pair well with many of my perfume collection, but I'm not quite sure it feels a niche I need.