Fizzy Jack O' Lantern

[annaham]

1.5 oz gin
½ oz dry sherry
½ oz lemon juice
1 tsp pumpkin butter
2 dashes of Averna amaro

 

Pour the gin, sherry, lemon juice, pumpkin butter, and liqueur to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake that mofo and strain it into a rocks glass filled with ice and a strong, spicy ginger ale. Stir gently, and garnish with a cinnamon stick or human finger bone.

 

This one is SO WEIRD and I'm glad I ordered a bottle. In the bottle, it smells like very high-quality fizzy water with a tiny bit of squash--not much sweetness, and it's almost mildly astringent. After the dry-down, it smells like a light gin and tonic with a little pumpkin--but not sweet. This is a very subtle scent and really unique.

[Soupy Twist]

2016 version: All I get is the gin note from Twenty-One, maybe sweetened with the berry note from Skadi or Almond Blossom. I love Twenty-One — it's one of my all-time favorites — but I already have a bottle, plus last year's Gingered Chocolate Soufflé oddly reduces to just the gin note from Twenty-One on my skin and I have a bottle of that too, so I won't need this. But lovely to try.

[freyasfae]

I am a sucker for the BPAL fizzy and champagnes! This one is no different, but it has another element I love - pumpkin spice! But fortunately, a very subtle pumpkin spice. I get it when I put my nose up close to the scent, and the pumpkin becomes more prominent as it dries down. I love it!

[joopjoop]

I've discovered this Weenie season (my first) that I have something of an adverse reaction to the smell of pumpkin, and the first whiff of Fizzy Jack O'Latern - which smells like pumpkin soda - is kind of gross.

 

I soldier on however and fortunately the pumpkin doesn't stick around on the skin and it turns into a fizzy ginger ale with a touch of sherry. I like it - it's fizzy and fun, but not something I would reach for, probably ever.

 

However, super glad I got to try it through a lovely lovely swap.

[puddingirl]

This is confusing on my nose! I can't work out what it reminds me of in the bottle, a fuzzy peach shower gel by The Body Shop I think?! It seems to have a good throw when wet. It's quite sharp and starting to turn soapy on me. I smell like gin. I love gin, but not this much! SWAP!

[lizabelle]

This is definitely a confusing scent, as others have noted, but I kind of love it. If I remind myself that it's a gin/sherry/lemon mix that I'm supposed to be smelling I can pick them all out, but all mixed together they kind of smell like ginger ale. In the background are lemon cookies and maybe some pumpkin spice bread/muffins/what have you.

 

Also: this is the fizziest thing I've ever smelled. From now on I'm just going to blind-buy anything with sparkling/fizzy in the description because I love BPAL's handling of that kind of scent. Somehow it makes my nose feel the way it does when I get up close to soda or champagne and sniff! I honestly have no idea how much I would wear this, but it's so much fun.

[everanything]

Bottle: effervescent orange

Wet: no change

Dry: orange spray

 

Like a lemon slice in a ginger ale. I get no creamy pumpkin or spice. Just a bubbly drink with a chemical alcohol edge.

[soniahgreen]

Smells like effervescent pumpkin, citrus, and dirty, sweaty feet. Not sure what's going on with my nose and skin chemistry but Pumpkin Foot is going to swaps!

[Aveya]

Fizzy! I was excited to try this one. I have imps left from a decant circle form 2012 that I JUST GOT TO now. What the heck, right?

 

In the imp I was super excited.

On skin at first I really loved it too. Reminds me of the atomic lau scents, and other gin/champagne scents.

 

But it's the pumpkin spice. Something in the labs "pumpkin spice" goes a little... sickly sweet on me? Vaguely fake, tooo pumpkin? Something. I found it in the single note and it's 100% in this as well.

 

It's an ALMOST awesome for me. The pumpkin is just a bit too thick/sweet for me. Then I read the review above mine and now I can't stop smelly sweaty feet either

[donkehpoo]

Wet: Fizzy lemon and ginger cocktail. Strong on the ginger!

 

Dry: The effervescence has died off a bit. This is primarily ginger ale now, with a pretty weak throw.