Peach Rock Candy Atmosphere Spray

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Peach Rock Candy.

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This is another one of those times that I wish someone else were the first reviewer and wondered if I should review it at all, as my review might make this even harder to destash (like with my review of a previous peach con exclusive).

 

But I'm going to be honest.

 

I was originally going to get a decant of this, but I decided to go for a bottle, since I loved Peach Candyfloss Atmo from a Dragoncon of yore and thought that maybe this could fill that void.

 

Alas, I should not have gone the bottle route.

 

Peach Rocky Candy smells like a tootsie roll (which doesn't hang around too long after this is sprayed, fortunately), artificial grape sugar, and the type of peach you would find in gummy peach rings. But I get more of the fake grape than that peach. I don't know if I'm describing it in a way that makes sense, but I don't mean grape candy -- it's like the grape-like sugar that some of the crappy boba places use in their drinks. The initial spray of this is more like a candy bag with a forgotten gummy peach ring in it than peach rock candy to me, and I get more of that fake grape-like sugar I detest than peach from this (although I do smell more peach after the scent has been on the paper towel I tested it on after a while -- it just never has more peach than that grape-like sugar to my nose). Whenever I smelled this, I couldn't help thinking, "I hate it." I'm also not the only one who smelled tootsie roll in this in the bottle and freshly sprayed -- I held the open bottle up to my partner's nose and asked them to smell it and tell me what they thought it smelled like, and they said tootsie roll, without me having put that idea into their head.

 

I have no idea where the tootsie roll came from, and I don't like artificial grape at all, so I am probably more sensitive to it. I did see one reviewer on social media say that they love this and would have bought 12 bottles if it were a perfume oil, so there's a least one person who had an experience at the opposite end of the spectrum from mine. I truly hope my experience is an outlier and that other reviewers love their bottles just as much as the person who wished this were a perfume oil. As for me... I think I'm either going to have to hope it actually moves in a future destash (unlike Peach Glazed Donut with Mango Chunks) or give it away to someone who will hopefully appreciate it.