Ochosi

[DiesMali]

... His ofrenda is the soft shea he shares with Obatala, forest herbs, and sprucewood arrow shafts.

 

In the imp: ...there's no melon in the notes, but I could swear I smell a sharp, green, unripe melon.

 

Wet on my skin: No melon once it's on my skin. Now it's sharp, green, almost medicinal herbs with just a bit of soft shea butter.

 

Dry: Foresty scents usually range between decent and amazing on me, but I think the shea in this isn't quite working on my skin when combined with the green herbal and evergreen notes. I like my forest tempered by amber or patchouli, but this instead both sweetens and sharpens everything to GREEN for the first ~hour of wear. It's a bit medicinal and disjointed on me, and I think it would likely need a bit of patch or something "earthier" to temper the runaway GREEN. This had such potential, but the combination just doesn't do well with my skin chemistry. I am disappoint.

[spikyfairy]

This was a frimp, which I quite expected to like, being fond of forest-y scents. I had not tried the shea note before.

In the imp: Promising - herbal and a little creamy, not too sweet.
Wet on me: Ooh! Kind of weird, but I like it.. Green herbs & spicy wood (the spruce I presume, I can see how it might read as pine to some, but it doesn't really to me). Can already tell this has the potential to go badly wrong, though: many herbal & "green" notes sadly don't love me as much as I love them. There is an almost bitter thing going on here too, which smells very familiar but I can't place it.. Not even sure if it's part of the herbs, or the wood.
Dry: It has calmed down a little, but the bitterness remains - definitely the "forest herbs" clashing with my skin chemistry. I can clearly identify the spruce now, and I like its piney-spiciness. The shea is creamy in the background, but not going rancid like most milky notes do on me. I am also getting a touch of that weird & horrid phantom rotten-banana note I encounter occasionally - no idea what is causing it here.
Went through a slightly soapy phase in late dry-down, then settled down to a pleasant soft, dusty, woodiness.

I think this would be lovely if these notes work on your skin, but they don't seem to on mine. I passed this one on to a friend.

[roseus]

In the imp: cool (I first thought of sweetened eucalyptus but maybe spruce?) and herbal

 

Wet: still cool, almost mentholated, and very herbal. Getting a little bit of sweet, creamy shea.

 

Dry: Creamy shea layered with many herbs. Not really my thing even though I love that shea note!

[achildoftime]

I wasn't really expecting sweet berries from this one. I got zero woods and zero herbs neither wet nor dry. It just smells like a big bowl of berries that were just picked and washed in cold water. It's really strange for me. I was hoping for the woodsy scent a lot of others got. Curse my sweetness amping chemistry!