I've Got Out At Last

[doomsday_disco]

He stopped short by the door.

 

“What is the matter?” he cried. “For God’s sake, what are you doing!”

 

I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder.

 

“I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”

 

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

Torn paper revealing scorched plaster embedded with bitter citron, yellow grapefruit, and damp white cedar.

[ghoulnextdoor]

Perfect citrus segments arranged on a plate you can only see through iron bars, the breezy morning light cruel in its beauty. Grapefruit pith papery and bitter, dried allium flowers, pale purple pompoms translucent and slightly vegetal and musky-sharp, the detritus of something once fresh now aged into brittleness. That texture of things left to desiccate in captivity, the ghost of brightness viewed through obstruction, just the bitter rind of it pressed against your tongue.

[Saeva]

First sniff: bitter citrus cut by a more tart one. My mouth tingles. 

 

Touch down: much the same, though a lovely subtle scent of something has started to rise up behind all the citrus-y grapefruit and bitter citron. 

 

Early dry: The subtle scent has revealed itself to be woodsy and direct, so presumably the damp white cedar note. I definitely get the dampness; the scent smells a little aquatic without the pondsy undertone that usually turns me off of aquatics. I also get a plastic scent so familiar from the clown and blow mold lines, but this is much milder than I usually think of the Lab's plastic note. Like the impression of plaster, instead of inflatables. 

 

Dried now: ... and damn! The citrus up and disappeared on me, a ghost that never was. My skin seems to absorb citrus like it's mugging it for its lunch money, so this probably won't be the experience for everyone. I was enjoying the blend, which was a little quirky (plaster, citron, and damp wood) but well integrated. Then, boom, half the scent disappeared ten minutes in and left me with a disappointing waterlogged cedar feel. 

 

This is going to have to be a pass for me, but I think it would be quite nice on someone who doesn't absorb citrus so well.