Four and Twenty Blackbirds

[doomsday_disco]

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye.

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie.

 

When the pie was opened,

The birds began to sing.

Wasn’t that a dainty dish

To set before the king?

 

A delicacy to be puffed and then passed, dainty as you please: rye puff pastry crust splitting apart to reveal a cacophony of musky wild blackberries stewed in kush-infused butter.

[VioletChaos]

I went back and forth on getting a bottle of this because I ADORE all these notes...except the kush. Weed-forward scents tend to amplify on me to the point where I might get questionable looks from strangers on the train!
However, the other notes were far too compelling to resist, so....

In The Bottle: Juicy blackberry  and piecrust yummmmmmm!

Wet On Skin: Same, but the piecrust is getting a bit more complex, and it's becoming more obvious that it's rye flour and not the standard, more ordinary pastry flour.

Dry Down: The kush butter has in fact revealed itself, but it's not the disaster I feared with my skin chemistry! I recall Tom saying something about it adding a "green" note, I think, and that's an accurate assessment here- this is like sitting near a dense stand of trees in high summer, below a window, where a blackberry pie with a buttery crust has been set down to cool. It is all of those bits at once.

In All: medium-low throw but with staying power. If you like pie crust scents, blackberry scents or gourmand scents more generally, definitely don't let that one note intimidate you- this is an absolute delight!  

[Little Bird]

Monster Bait: Closet, is that you? 
Four & Twenty Blackbirds is blackberry pie filling, the most lovely, rich, vanilla cream cheese frosting, and a hint of spicy-green weed note (like the way tomato leaf is green and spicy).  It's like the edibles version of MB: Closet, and I love it.  After a half hour, I can smell the "rye puff pastry crust," and it adds a warm, cuddly, golden undertone to the scent.  I feel like I can smell the unusual spiciness of caraway mingling with the weed note, but I could be imagining that. 
Blackberry pie filling, vanilla, pie crust, and a hint of weed.  This is even better than I was hoping it would be ❤️.

[doomsday_disco]

This is a weed-tinged blackberry pie scent. The blackberry note is the star of the show throughout wear. The weed note is not skunky and is the same one featured in Honeyed Weed and Dandelions. It's most prevalent during the wet phase of the scent, but it's not a main player on me. This is the pie scent with the most noticeable pie crust note that I've tried from the Lab. Most of the Lab's pies, while I love them and look forward to more of them, tend to be more about the filling than the crust, so I'm happy both pie components are present here! The crust starts off more like a freshly baked, warm, buttery crust, but then I get more rye from it after a while.

 

The decant is definitely a keeper. I'm going to need to a full day slather to see if I need more of this. I might need to get more just for that pie crust note.