His Crown and His Shroud

[doomsday_disco]

“O father, see yonder! see yonder!” he says;

“My boy, upon what doest thou fearfully gaze?” —

“O, ’tis the Erl-King with his crown and his shroud.”

“No, my son, it is but a dark wreath of the cloud.”

 

A dread shape forms in the mist: chilled white musk, rain-soaked earth, and a gleam of blackened steel.

[ellocentipede]

This is a gloomy atmospheric that's also very pretty. The rain and earth are realistic and loamy, gentle and not sharp or too clean. I swear that the white musk is coconut-kissed--it's very pretty. The steel keeps this interesting and unisex. I love scents that paint a scene for me, and this one is evocative, interesting, and highly wearable.

[forspecial_plate]

I've smelled a couple other scents like this before, and at first I wasn't all that impressed.  It felt a little "been there, done that".  But then last week I had a bad headache and this was the only scent I felt like I could wear.  I ended up really liking it.  

 

Graveyard Dirt, although I really like it and always want to have some available, is a little too close to "damp mildew" for me to wear in my day-to-day life.  HC&HS however is something I could comfortably wear any time, but especially right now when we just had snow in the past week, but it's warming up and everything's melting.  

 

That's the impression I get - forest floor with melting slush and with the dirt starting to peek through.  It has a very spa-like feel for me personally.  Then I can just barely pick out the white musk, and that comes out stronger over time.  I agree with the previous reviewer, this white musk is somehow reminding me of a faint coconut note around the edges of the scent.  I do not smell the steel note or anything blackened about this.   

 

I'm glad I took a chance on this one! 

Edited February 28 by forspecial_plate

[Biocarbons]

 Muddy rainwater and white musk.

[leptonpyr]

My skin apparently possesses the legendary alchemical properties necessary to turn the dreaded Erl-King into... Sprite. Not, like, a faerie type of sprite, like the popular lemon-lime soda. I swear to god that's all I'm getting from this, and it's bizarre. No idea which mysterious elements are going Sprite on me, but I definitely get zero rain-soaked earth, zero blackened steel. On me this is a weird artificial-smelling lemon-lime soda, with some fizzy aldehydes definitely present. The scent is quite similar to The Erl-King's Pale Daughter (although that one seems slightly more wearable on me), so if that one worked for you, I think the musk is the same and this one likely will too. I appreciate the thematic consistency of the Erl-King's Pale Daughter inheriting her father's spectral musk, I just wish my skin didn't do... whatever the hell it's doing to it!