Hearse of Pancakes

[doomsday_disco]

There’s still a little time to kill before the viewing… surely it wouldn’t hurt to stop for a short stack? Black coffee, syrup-drenched buckwheat cakes, and a crusty cruller for the road.

[wilhelmscream]

Oh wow, on a personal level... this smells exactly like a bakery my mom and I would go to when I was a kid. She'd get a cup of black coffee, I would get a maple bar. We'd sit in a booth and I'd lay down on the bench and stare at all the ancient gumwads people stuck under the table. It's all right there when I smell this.

 

The coffee note is the most dominant. A velvety rich, pitch-black pool of coffee that is made sweeter and stickier from the syrup from the pancakes and the sugar from the cruller. The buckwheat gives it a nice bit of grit. The cruller gives it that chewy quality. It's straight-up gourmand.

 

After about an hour, it settles into a sort of ghostly memory of an old diner. The coffee smells a little stale, dusted with airborne powdered sugar. Gorgeous.

 

 

[ghoulnextdoor]

One of my brothers-in-law is a bit of a coffee enthusiast (also a bit of a snob, but that's not important to the story) and he drags us to every cafe and coffeeshop he can find whenever the family is all together. This smells exactly like what he orders, or some version of it: cafe mocha and a pastry, bitter-chocolate darkness meeting sugar-glazed fried dough. He's Icelandic, so he usually goes for the cream cake option, but this is my rose-tinted glasses recollection of those afternoons I've spent at small tables while he evaluates the beans, the roast, the crema, and I just smell this exact combination over and over until it becomes the scent of family obligation turned oddly tender and sweet.

[doomsday_disco]

This smells exactly like last year's atmo, which is to say, it smells DELICIOUS. This is more syrup-drenched pancake on me than coffee, but again, the syrup in this does not smell like most maple syrups. I have not been loving maple as a note the past few years, so that is a good thing, in my book. The syrup is really dark and somehow not cloying, and the pancakes themselves aren't overly buttery. The coffee is even less noticeable on my skin than in the atmo, so that must just be my skin amping up the pancake aspects, compared to other reviewers.

 

If you think you will like this, you probably will. I'm glad I decided to grab perfume oil to go along with my atmo, and I look forward to trying it with Pumpkin Brioche French Toast Hair Gloss when my decant arrives, so that I can smell like the best breakfast!  

 

 

[splendidissima]

I had been super-curious about this when it was an atmo, and didn't get around to ordering it then, and then it showed up in perfume form! So I had to, this time.

 

I was worried the coffee would be too strong, but it really isn't - it's more pancakes and syrup but not too sweet, just a sort of...warm richness, if that makes sense? Almost more like dark brown sugar, where it's more about the flavor and less about the sweetness. There's a murmur of coffee that smells exactly the way good coffee should make the kitchen smell, and the whole thing is cozy and kitchen-in-sunlight-on-a-lazy-morning deliciousness. 

 

My husband, with a perplexed but happy face , said, "peanut butter pancakes?" (I also had Halloween Hagelslag on the other arm for testing, so, make of that what you will...)