Pomegranate, Carnation, and Peonies

[doomsday_disco]

Pomegranate, Carnation, and Peonies.

[Biocarbons]

Pom flavored sweet tarts. Now it's floral sweet tarts. It settles into tart peony. I think this would be refreshing for summer.

[Alethia]

This is definitely pomegranate sweet tarts on me. The first hour was weird: it was heavily indolic like jasmine snuck in. I also think it’s interesting that this is pure candy on me while Pomegranate Pastille (literally pomegranate candy) is just sweet, juicy fruit. 

[bheansidhe]

This is an odd one to review, to be sure! I don't get the spicy-floral smell of stock that I associate with carnation, and I'm never quite sure what peonies smell like (they don't grow in my climate). What I do get is a sharp-sweet pomegranate candy and what smells a lot like lotus root; a kind of pink bubblegummy coolness. If I huff and ask myself "Is this anything like Alice?" my nose replies that yes, something about this is like Alice, so presumably carnations are making themselves known. 

 

It never goes indolic, but I'd say it reads more like a sweet hard candy with floral sillage. The pomegranate part is distinct, so if that's a favorite note, this is worth trying.

Edited March 11 by bheansidhe

[leptonpyr]

This did something odd when I first put it on and smelled almost unpleasantly indolic. I have no idea why! Carnation hasn't done that on me before. Peony was the only note in this that I hadn't tried yet, but "indolic" does not seem to correspond remotely to any descriptions of peony I've found online, so who knows what that was about. Apparently I amp indoles like crazy, so maybe I've just unlocked the bonus power of "turn anything I touch indolic"? (glad I'm not the only who had this experience at any rate!)

 

Anyway, happily the inexplicable indoles faded within an hour, and I could mainly smell the juicy pomegranate with a floral undertone. Possibly a whiff of spice from the carnation, but I'm really not sure. As the day went on, it kind of blended into something very smooth/fresh/bright, more of a blended fruity-floral than distinctly pomegranate or distinctly peony/carnation, which was very nice. It mostly disappeared on me after about 6hrs, but I could definitely still pick it up very, very faintly if I pressed my nose to my skin. At the very end of the day, after more than 12 hours of wear, there was something decidedly but verrrrry faintly peppery/spicy on me, so I suppose that was the carnation coming out at last! 

 

Overall neither my favorite pomegranate scent nor my favorite floral, but I really enjoyed this one, and my experience of wearing it was so weird it only added to the enjoyment.