Purple Snowballs

[Caper]

Sugar plum snowballs with a touch of currant and cardamom!

 

It has the same sickly-sweet smell as Yellow Snowballs, but once it is on it is delicious. I bought this one blind because Yum! and it is good. Fruity, a hint of spice, and slush. Good stuff!

[stellamaris]

Well this goes into the What To Wear When it's Hot and Horrible Out pile, perfect summer wear. I love all of the snowballs, this is no exception. and it's hello purple.

[zankoku_zen]

Piney snow, hints of currant and cardamom. This one is dark fruity piney blend.

 

At least it smells like winter in the outside. If by winter, I mean a pine tree who seems to be drinking copious amounts of black currant lassis.

 

Do they even make black currant lassis? [What do I know. Not a pine tree.]

[Astarial]

A sweet, plummy-purple smell! In the bottle it's all sugar plum, and then on my skin an almost grapey aroma joins the plum - maybe that's the currant? The cardamom joins in as it dries down, but at the same time, the freshness of the fruit diminishes, so it's a little more candy-sweet (and candy-spicy, if that makes sense).

 

I never really get any snow with this one. Eventually it dries down into an indistinctly sweet fruit smell.

[welcometothefamily]

In the Imp: First sniff is sharp and perfumey, almost camphorous. I'm scared of this one :/.

 

Wet: Still camphorous but not as sharp. This is one tart plum o.O

 

10 minutes: Toilet cleaner.

 

Drydown: Sharp plum and aquatics. Maybe a hint of cardamom. Softer and slightly sweeter than wet application.

 

Verdict: This does soften a bit, but I'm not really a fan. I get no sugar out of this at all, and the plum is too sharp for me. The toilet cleaner stage lasts a long time and lingers into the drydown. Not for me.

 

1.5/5

[BoneBone24]

Wet: Gummy bears in the sky, I can fly twice as hi-igh...uhh, right... I’m smelling purple gummy bears and ozone.

 

Drydown: The purple fruitiness softens a bit, becoming more palatable. Meanwhile, the ozone is joined by citrus and juniper. Bright, high-pitched, and slightly fruity.

 

Dry: This is not slush or flurries, but rather an icy, crystalline ball of snow whizzing through the air. Icy, sour, chilly, and sweet. Only a barest hint of plum and cardamon color the edges, while at the core this is all ice and snow.

 

 

 

 

7.5 out of 10 bones

[astarinel]

I need to stop trying the Snowballs scents, because they share the common snow note that just isn't great on me.

 

As with the other snowballs, I find this one lovely in the decant and quite well-balanced, but on my skin the snow note just takes over and becomes SNOW OZONE SNOW with the shade of purple fruitiness lingering in the background.

[thekittenkat]

In the decant: Lots of ozone, hints of the other notes.

 

Wet: Now lots of cardamon!

 

The dry-down: Mostly the sweet ozone note, with a touch of sugar plum and currant. What a morpher! I like it, and might go for a bottle. I adore the Lab's ozone note.

Edited January 31, 2014 by thekittenkat

[Victory]

Plum can be a hit or miss note on me, so I was a little nervous ordering this. Luckily, the plum doesn't turn on me. Mostly maybe because there isn't a whole lot of plum or currant or cardamom here. Sure, the snowball has a faint purple tint, but the emphasis is on the snowball rather than the purple. And this isn't the snowball from Pink Snowballs, unfortunately. That snowball was like its description- soft. This snowball is piney to me and sharp- there are shards of ice packed into this snowball. You don't want to get hit in the face with this one.

 

Also, not a comment on the scent, but I find the label of this perfume to be virtually illegible. Trying to read dark purple text on a mostly-black background is a tough task.

[Ajila]

In the bottle - Cardamom and something fizzy

 

Wet on me - A bit soapy with that cardamom on top

 

Dry on me - Cardamom scented soap

 

Overall - I never really get past that soapiness

[Monster]

Purple Snowballs could almost be part of the Luau Lounge collection. This smells like a fizzy gin concoction with a dribble of fruit. Unfortunately, my skin eats this up and after only an hour I'm left with a very faint powder note.

[milo]

I detect the lab's snow note right away, along with purple fruits. This reminds me of Skadi at this point, icy berries! Dry, more fruity than icy, but still very much a cold scent. There is some kind of floral here, kind of like violets, but it's very faint, and may just be my imagination. Ends up to be a powdery, purple fruit, with a touch of ice and floral. This is just a teeny bit too fruity for me, but it is quite a nice blend, and those who like berry blends should give this a whirl.

[PumpkinGuts]

Yep, this is the same ozoney, piney snow note from Yellow Snowballs, but with plum instead of citrus. Strong, sweet, and fizzy.

My skin is apparently hungry for fruit, because after a short while I'm left with nothing but dryer sheets. My favorite snowballs are still pink.

[sunlitgarden]

In the bottle I am getting what I call "Christmas fruits", which I guess is the plum and currant - it smells rich, dark red, and spiced. There's also something that smells like pine or a Christmas tree note. I almost feel like there's orange in here, though I think that might just be my nose filling in the blanks for what goes into a lot of the "Christmas fruit" blends.

On my skin, it's sweeter than in the bottle, right away. The fruit and spice combination are still reminding me of a Christmas candle, but not in a bad way; I enjoy those scents. Cardamom is normally a pretty distinct scent to me but here it just smells "spicy" without really smelling distinctly like cardamom. I have Blue Snowballs on my other arm and the snowball note here seems different; Blue Snowballs is more mint and cold air while Purple Snowballs is more piney, though there's a trace of that "coldness" in Purple Snowballs too.

Blue Snowballs is more of an all-year-round refreshing scent to me, but Purple Snowballs is much more "Christmasy" because of the spices and pine.

Edited September 26, 2015 by sunlitgarden