doomsday_disco Report post Posted August 21 Just imagine all the tattoos hidden below as you walk through the cemetery... maybe you’ll get to see some of them in person one day! Grave loam, mushrooms, Spanish moss, a smear of ink, and a blob of braaaains. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VioletChaos Report post Posted November 14 I am unsurprised in some ways that I'm the first to review- mushrooms and brains are not everyone's cup of tea for a perfume!- but what about the ink and the grave loam??? Welp, let's just see what happens. In the bottle, I'm getting that gorgeous turned-earth, loamy-loam that some of us adore from Penny Dreadful and Graveyard Dirt. There's also a sweet plant-y smell in the mix that isn't quite floral, and I'm betting it's the Spanish Moss. We are off to a great start! Wet on skin, the sharp, slightly chemical scent of the ink starts to come through. This is my first encounter with the tattoo ink note from the Lab, but I am one of the fans of the original Indian Ink single note they released many years ago, and I'd say at least at this stage, this ink is a close cousin of that old one, and I'm delighted. I think I'm also getting little hints of the mushrooms, which are adding a nice extra layer to all the earthy bits here. Upon dry down, the moss and ink are melding into a rather cologne-y combo. Normally, I can find that to be off-putting, but the loam and mushrooms are holding everything in balance and it's turned into what I can only describe as a great counterpart to Penny Dreadful. When I first tried out Miss Dreadful 18 years (!!!!) ago, I thought she had a chocolate note in her. I no longer think that- I think there was something rich and sultry lurking in the noir perfume of the scent that read that way to be for a time. I mention this because I think that Penny wound up being a bit more on the femme-side of the scent spectrum, though not by much, and that rich, almost-choco-aspect held the balance. Here, I think that moss-ink combination are doing the same, right across the line, making this scent a slightly masculine-leaning version of a scent with similar bones. If you *really* wanna gender it up, you might conclude these to be brother-sister counterparts. Of course, there's DNA in both scents that can *also* be found in the American Gods scent, Laura, and it's NOT the loam that joins the three but Laura's formaldehyde-glycerine-lanolin combo (sweet-but-chemical) that I think is actually the element that creates the kinship amongst the three. For me, this makes Zombie Flash a welcome addition to a verrrry specific part of the Lab's perfumed family tree, and I am super delighted to welcome it aboard ❤️ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gentle-twig Report post Posted Wednesday at 05:08 PM (edited) This one is really confusing to me. I’m actually wondering if my decant is mislabeled because it’s almost nothing like I was expecting. I could convince myself there’s a speck of dirt here, but it is accompanied by a buttery note and another tart note that takes over the blend. I get a little butteriness from a lot of the lab’s earthy blends, but this is turned all the way up. I thought in the decant that the tartness might be a gummy candy accord for the brains, but this is really a kind of transparent citrus (maybe), not very gummy candy like (maybe hard candy?) and almost floral? I don’t get any ink at all but I do get a hint of spiced eau de weenie amber, almost like there’s a drop of October 32 in there. I’m honestly inspired to go through the weenies and see if there is one that matches what I’m experiencing. OK I think this is probably a mislabeled decant of Pumpkin Trash Bag? But I can’t be sure so please sound off in the comments if this is a bright and sunny citrus and buttery pumpkin melange on your skin as well Edited Wednesday at 05:22 PM by gentle-twig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
