Gloomily, Gloomily

[doomsday_disco]

“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.

 

“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.

 

“Why, what’s the matter?”

 

“Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.”

 

“Can’t all what?” said Pooh, rubbing his nose.

 

“Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.”

 

“Oh!” said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, “What mulberry bush is that?”

 

“Bon-hommy,” went on Eeyore gloomily. “French word meaning bonhommy,” he explained. “I’m not complaining, but There It Is.”

 

Every solid friend group has at least one goth kid representing. Soft grey musk, pink thistle, lavender ash, tea leaves, pale iris, grey lilac, and rain-soaked moss.

 

Each purchase of Gloomily, Gloomily comes with a 1/32 oz imp of The Donkey’s Tail. The Donkey’s Tail is not available for sale on its own, and make sure you keep it safe as you never know where it might end up.

Edited November 29, 2025 by doomsday_disco

[Geminirubyshoes]

These Hundred Acre wood perfumes are going to slay my heart. They are achingly beautiful and yet another shining testament to Beth’s artistry as a perfumer. 

Our sweet little stuffed Donkey SMELLS like his color scheme. So many soft greys, pinks & purples it is honestly difficult to decipher what is what. There is a coolness which I am guessing is the rain soaked moss but makes me remember holding hands with my childhood best friend while we splashed in puddles in my driveway many years ago. Gloomily, Gloomily is a perfume of grey sighs and a lavender smile from one corner of the mouth. 

The Donkeys’ Tail is also extremely beautiful and I feel like I don’t have the vocabulary at this point to accurately describe how beautiful it is. I am sure someone else will do a better job talking about it! 

[abejita]

It's just so damned cozy. I agree with the first review that this really smells like its color scheme, grey and pale pink and lavender. It also has so much texture, soft and with a plush nap. Major synesthesia going on. The lilac gives it sweetness, the soft musk gives it depth, and the rain/moss keep it from going powdery. The lavender is my favorite kind, sweet without the medicinal sharpness. I want to bury my face in my skin right now. I don't get much gloom from this, but maybe some wistfulness. This is not my usual style of scent, but I really love it. I have a feeling this will be wildly popular.

[kittystryker]

This is definitely a very soft scent, with the most gentle of lavender. It does go a little powdery on my skin, but that’s OK, because it works so well with a lavender that it just feels like the coziest moments of childhood. I’m excited to use it as a sleep scent tonight, and I imagine I will have very sweet dreams.

[LavenderCoffee]

this is SO wonderfully cozy!

 

the in vitro/freshly applied scent is mildly alarming if you also studiously avoid the laundry product aisle at the store, but thankfully this subsides quickly as the scent settles on my skin. I don't want to say "laundry" too many times here, but Gloomily, Gloomily perfectly captures the soft/clean/slightly fuzzy vibe of a favorite fabric item, with just-right contributions from musk/iris/moss to keep everything in balance. I had a concern this would go to soap on me with the gentle floral/aquatic notes but so far so good! I think the musk and the tea leaves are helping anchor the scent in a "lived-in" space. and honestly not much of the lavender comes through for me, which is fine considering it's been reduced to ash and blended with other pale pinks and purples, and is also good news if you don't go in for strong herbal lavender.

 

if you do want to punch up the lavender, you've got your Donkey's Tail to help, assuming you haven't mislaid it. layered together, I get something a bit sweeter and more complex, but still soft and well-loved. I think Gloomily would layer well with other scents too. 

Edited December 27, 2025 by LavenderCoffee

[wilhelmscream]

This has a very wistful, introspective sadness to it, like Angela Chase of My So-Called Life. I love that it's referred to as the goth kid scent, very appropriate. Soft goth. Grey goth.

 

In the bottle, it is a truly amazing synesthesia experience of thick, rain-filled clouds of pale purply-grey. A heavy sigh of sadness as you linger in a doorway waiting for someone to take note that you're there, asking you what's wrong. "Oh nothing..."

 

The lavender, iris and lilac all team up together to form this gentle purple floral swirl. The grey musk is cozy, softly sweet. The thistle, tea and moss give it an earthiness and texture.

 

The tail pairs wonderfully with it, bringing in the fabric component of silk and cotton, sweetening it up with the vanilla and adding a little more purple with a French Lavender.

 

Honestly reminds me a lot of my sweet grey cat I had through most of my 20 named Zooey. Tiny little thing, looked like an ash grey cloud with big green eyes. She even smelled grey, kinda dusty.

 

 

[amoray]

I smelled this and immediately felt I was giving Eeyore a great big hug. Oh you sweet sad goth boy with your pink bow and dislike of small talk, you are loved.This scent smells sooooo soft, and is a grey pink lavender moment. Lavender but make it *pastel*. This scent feels like being protected and a sweet gentleness like being carried to your room after a long car ride. This scent felt like childhood and was so nostalgic I almost cried the first time I wore it. 

[ghoulnextdoor]

 "3 AM/awakened by a sweet summer rain/ Distant howling /of a passing /southbound coal train." Jim White's low, laconic narration, Aimee Mann's sweet echoing lullaby. "Was I dreaming, or was there someone just lying here/ Beside me in this bed?" Lavender's herbal whisper, threaded with cool grassy thistle. Clean linen, powdery soap, freshly laundered pillowcases, cotton worn thin and shaped to a body that doesn't feel like yours anymore, it hasn't in a while. Hiss and hum, signal loss between stations, the fuzzy half-awake feeling where you can't tell what's real and what's dreamed. Every certainty you built your life on dissolves into white noise and snow. The quiet crisis of middle age, waking in the dark and realizing all your convictions were just incomplete pictures, inadequate attempts to understand. Everything you think you know is just static on the radio.

[doomsday_disco]

Winnie the Pooh is among my very favorite books, and Eeyore is my favorite character from the series, so this was the Hundred Acre Wood scent to which I was most looking forward. I used to have a mug with Eeyore's good morning quote on it, too. I wish I still had it!

 

I'm not familiar with the thistle note, but I, too, get lots of purple and grey from this scent, with the iris, lavender, and lilac swirling together to make that grey and purple floral bouquet, and the high-pitched iris and lilac being particularly loud on me (although this grey lilac seems to be tamer than some other varieties). The floral notes combine with the rain-soaked moss, which I believe may be the same note found in 2024's The Storm, to just exude melancholy -- but over time, the grey musk peeks out and smooths over the loud iris, lilac, and moss notes, so that it is less like having a cry and more like a deep sigh. I mean, you would be sighing the deepest of sighs, too, if you lost your tail, or your house made of sticks kept falling down. By the end of the day, I'm left a soft, clean scent of grey musk tinged with tea leaves, a few flower petals, and some raindrops on moss.

 

Needless to say, this one is a keeper and a must-try of the Hundred Acre Wood collection.

 

I haven't tried layering this with The Donkey's Tail yet, but I'll update this review once I try layering them together. I adore that scent even more with its lavender, vanilla, and fuzzy cotton notes and may just have to get a back-up of this for more of The Donkey's Tail. Petition for The Donkey's Tail to be released as a bottle in a future installment of the Hundred Acre Wood scent series!  

Edited yesterday at 12:37 AM by doomsday_disco