doomsday_disco Report post Posted September 11 the butterfly having disappeared my spirit came back to me — Wafū, trans. R. H. Blyth Wings unfolding in darkness, an echo of silence, the softest flutter, and then gone. Shadow-dappled tuberose and black orchid, buffeted by crumpled violet leaves and ink-dipped tea roses. A glint of obsidian musk slinks beneath, woven with scorched vanilla resin, dusty myrrh, and the faintest touch of crushed blackberry skin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AnOfferingToTheNight Report post Posted September 27 (edited) This one is quite the shifter! Fresh from the bottle the blackberry skin and rose are front and center but very quickly the other florals come out to play. After about 20 minutes it settled into this really nice, soft, kind-of inky(?) sweetness that is so subtle and just absolutely gorgeous. Decent throw too. The dust in the "dusty myrrh" note is definitely a soft, whispery type of dust, rather than a dry dust. If I was a chinchilla this is what I would want my dust bath to smell like! Update: After roughly an hour it turned to pure powder with that faintest memory of what it was. Very fitting! Edited September 27 by AnOfferingToTheNight Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wilhelmscream Report post Posted October 2 I second that, I'm having a very similar journey with mine. Quite the shifter! This scent begins with a heavy darkness. Damp florals lurking in the rainy shadows. Very moody! But then it... changes! The blackberry, vanilla and myrrh begin to rise through the watercolor floral haze. And after a while, it shifts into a crumbly blackberry incense. And then it's just like, barely there. Dusty, soft, ghostly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VioletChaos Report post Posted October 14 I am thirding that this scent is a morpher to be sure! Even so, the vibe remains the same throughout the journey, which is what I was hoping for. I'm not always friends with florals OR with myrrh, but I just had a feeling that this would be an exception, and I was right. At its heart BBM is a dark, juicy, vampish, goth-girl scent. I picture my 19-year-old self, with meticulously applied eyeliner, having a fun night of drama and dancing at a club in L.A. with all my friends...but also the remnants clinging to my skin when I crawl into bed just before dawn, cozying up for sleep and gorgeous, gothy dreams. 🦇 The tuberose and black orchid are definitely the stars throughout, but this isn't a straight floral scent- the myrrh and vanilla provide a grounded-ness to the scent, with the other listed notes coming in for visits, leaving, and coming back, repeatedly. Not only was this a blind-buy, but I was so certain it would be grand that I got a backup to boot- and I'm glad I did, as I know this will get even better with age. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doomsday_disco Report post Posted October 22 (edited) This is a very purple scent that is mostly about the violet and blackberry on me, although the tuberose, orchid, and rose are definitely not far behind those notes (I think my skin just tends to amp the violet). I get some of the myrrh in the background, and dusty is an apt description of this variation of that note -- but I don't get much in the way of the scorched vanilla resin from this on my skin, except when layered with the Vanilla-Infused Frankincense and Raspberry duet. After several hours, the tuberose and orchid do end up overtaking the violet and blackberry, and I get some musk with those notes, as well as more of the myrrh. I layered a drop of these duets with the lunacy scent, and these were my experiences: Layered with Black Butterfly Moon: Vanilla and Tobacco Flower - I mostly got the dirt and sheer vanilla floating over the blackberry-tinged purple flowers of the lunacy scent. Layered with Black Butterfly Moon: Vanilla-Infused Frankincense and Raspberry - I enjoyed the combination of the two scents more than the moon on its own. I'm not sure if the lunacy scent brought out more of the vanilla-infused frankincense from this, or if this brought out more of the vanilla resin in the lunacy, or what, but I definitely get some vanilla and resin with the tart raspberry that floats over the blackberry and purple flowers from the lunacy scent, and the vanilla and resin note make me think of the Bourbon Vanilla bath oil from several years ago (deceptively sweet: bourbon vanilla oleoresin and benzoin resinoid). This isn't a scent that is typically in my wheelhouse -- I don't really enjoy fruity florals or florals with resins, but I got it to try those layering combos, and because the artwork and the goth-y scent description gave me of Yuko Ichihara from xxxHolic vibes. This isn't something I need more than a decant of, but I am glad that I decided to try it. Edited October 22 by doomsday_disco Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
