Beanman & Beanwoman Prepare to Attack the Vagina

[alhbooks]

Skin musk, white amber, ambergris, orange blossom, ylang ylang, and coconut milk.

 

I just received a sniffie of this in trade and am totally surprised at how much I like it, given my general disinterest in coconut scents. The combination keeps the coconut in check but allows it to shine softly. It's a very gentle scent.

[whitsunweddings]

In the imp: A clean musk with hints of citrus and coconut.

Wet: A rather harsh citrusy musk.

Dry: Yeah. Meh.

[mymymai]

ITI: Clean skin musk, orange blossom, and ylang ylang. It's somewhat floral, but soft and clean smelling.

 

Wet: The orange blossom and skin musk are more dominant but the ylang ylang adds a feminine tone to the scent, while the coconut evens everything out and provides a warm, sensuous base.

 

Dry: The ylang ylang has turned somewhat soapy, but the coconut milk and skin musk mellow everything down, making it a subtle, feminine scent that would be perfect for anyone.

[filigree_shadow]

Hm. Based on those notes, I expected to either love this or hate it. Like, amber sometimes goes powdery, and coconut sometimes smells like plastic, and ylang ylang is almost always way too sweet and ruins a blend for me, and ambergris is sometimes powdery too... yikes, now that I'm writing this out, I wonder why the hell I wanted to try this. I like orange blossom, but those other notes are always iffy. Welp, I'm often confusing, even to myself.

 

What I got out of it is a soft, lightly coconut (and I do mean a bare hint), perfumey musk. It's sweet, pretty, and unfortunately awfully generic. It smells to me like the type of perfume someone would wear if she doesn't have much of a preference about what perfume she wears. Like, "Oh, I'll just pick a super bland one so I don't stand out at all." And that, for sure, is not my style.

[LizziesLuck]

Wet: OMG. I immediately slather on more. Musky coconut (which is a combo I LOVE) with hints of tropical ylang ylang. It smells like expensive sunscreen (which I also love) and summer and the beach and everything good in this world.

 

 

Dry: I knew I would love this, and I was not wrong. Musky coconut, not too sweet or strong. A great skin scent. It smells like summer, and it makes me so happy.