Deceitfuldescender

So this is cinnamon and pumpkin dominant on me (NOT pumpkin spice, just cinnamony butteryness) witha backdrop of creamy rice pudding. At long dry down the creamy rice pudding takes over and then sort of morphs i to just a creamy sweetness with not really any pumpkin left, and only a dan of cinnamon. This is VERY foody. It is unrepentantly sweet and smells like sweet food period.

This is actually quite nice on my skin, a very smooth mix of the whole. I guess I didn’t know what sweet pea smelled like but it is a sweet and decidedly unstinky or headache inducing floral. The vanilla and amber and sweet pea overlay again unpowdery sandalwood that lays as a backdrop. A well rounded sweet scent that is neither foody , nor resinous, nor floral but something in between.

I cannot imagine how but this goes unbelievably masculine on me. Pure aftershave, cologne. The lilac is buried somewhere under the cologne but it really is smothered. I get no green tea. I would love this on my husband if he would wear it but it doesn’t work on me as I do not favor masculine scents.

Wet this is mostly the strawberry but dry down is exclusively the soap (reminds me of Johnson and Johnson baby soap), honey and a touch of sunshine. It is sort of nostalgic and as a mum who used this soap for her kids probably a keeper for memory sake. On long dry down just a hint of strawberry comes out. Fades after a few hours altogether.

This reminds me of another bpal but I cannot recall what it is, like an itch I cannot scratch. This dries down to mostly honey and cream with the booberries being less berry and more boo. I actually quite like it so will probably be keeping my bottle but I do wish I could figure out what it reminds me of.

Wet this is very chocolate forward- somewhere between dark and milk chocolate for me. Early dry down the buttercream is dominant, smells like the same note from Cake Smash v6. Not plastic on my skin fortunately. Late dry down is a mash of the two stages. Milky chocolate and buttercream swirled together but definitely not a chocolate buttercream just a mix of the two notes. Very sweet very foods pretty straightforward.

So Eve does not work on me because I amp the rose and it becomes cloying. Eve WSFU opens up almost as cloying, super sweet and very spicy and just not good for me. But. Dry down is different, I was not sure what to expect from the sage but it reads as a subdued earthy balancer to rich not overly sweet incense, spices and a dab of honey. Dry down is quite nice actually, and makes this a keeper I think. Keep fing up Beth, cause winner winner.

On dry down this is a not quite perfuming almond blossom and rice milk (translate as just a pleasant creaminess) with only a sliver of currant hiding somewhere in the bouquet. Notably on the edge of foody without being foody. Nice and good for springy time.

This is such a bizarre scent on me, a morpher for sure. Wet and in the early dry down it is like soapy dryer sheets... definitely a painful stage. But dry it is a faintly sweet scent that is reminiscent of blood but in ankind of pleasant way. I am not sure how to describe it and I cannot pin down any notes. I do not get the frozen notes on my skin. Still deciding if it should stay or not.

The description for this sums it up nicely. Wet this is frank forward and is a little masculine for me, but on dry down there is light vanilla-y musk (definitey bourbon vanilla, not alcohol related in anyway and also not even remotely foody) with just the faintest overlay of frankincense that tempers it nicely. Not very resinous, not foody. Just right for layering and I cannot wait to experiment with it some. If this sounds like it might work for you, try it because it is very neutral and easy to wear.

I think this may be the coffee scent I always wanted but had never found in bpal. It starts out super coffee heavy, ultra thick, syrupy turkish style coffee, black. Then the spices start to come forward, sweetened greatly by the shisha (which reminds me so much of college when we used to go smoke in the middle eastern restaurants). This is a sum of its parts scent where these components swirl together and slowly even out so nothing is strongly dominating and it is just an accord of this perfect picture of a place. Late drydown is just remnants of sweetish spices dabbed with coffee. Such a winner for me.

This is definitely related to Morocco in big ways. Morocco is a little too intense for me, and this wears as Morocco but married to tea rose, which amps on me as sort of sickly sweet. I guess I am one of the unlucky few this perfume does not work for. It is pretty fresh from mailbox os I will retest after a few days.

Candied dragon’s blood with a little candied strawberry (like the strawberry hard candies with the gooey centers). I only recognize the Dragon’s blood bc of Kwamie Cotton, and while I enjoy it, I think I like it better with the cotton than with the strawberry. Still may be a keeper though, I will let it rest and then try again. Kwamie Cotton is one of my favorite scents period so comparing probably is not fair =p

Wet this is very vetiver on me, and as I dry down I get smoke, slightly sweetened smoke but mostly just smoke. It would seem I amp it. While not an unpleasant scent I was hoping the smoke would be a background note and not the forenote. Alas.

On my skin oh short dry down this is definitely crystalized flowers with lavender (not crystaly) and some of the cream. I think somewhee deep down is the cake, it is not amping on me currently. This is evenly matched floral and foody, not really wholly one of the other. An interesting blend, interested to get to the late dry down as often scents take a while to really settle on my skin.