Tranquility

[Boudicca]

Totally-not-healthy breakfast cereals, spilled milk, a smushed bit of banana, and the last gloopy bits of latte foam.

This starts out totally bananas! Someone in another thread mentioned getting a sort of red licorice vibe in the bottle and I can see that. While still being bananas, the cereal note comes out next. I don't know what kind of cereal, it's basically a sweet wheat type of note. A hint of milk, it's good & fresh & creamy. Takes a while for the latte to emerge on me, it's kind of subtle. Drying down, these things all work together as a nice, comforting foody scent without any of the notes totally taking over.

[suki]

In The Bottle: Super-delicious banana taffy.

 

Wet On Skin: The banana is already becoming less candy-like, more real fruit, and added to the mix is the faintest hint of...Fruity Pebbles?!

 

Dry Down: Breakfast in a bottle. The milk steps in at this point and it's mixing with the others to form a sort of sugary-banana-milk.

 

In All: Low throw. A sweet, comforting, gentle scent. The coffee notes this year don't seem to be taking hold on my skin, which is a little sad, but I really love this scent. It's Saturday morning cartoons and watching TV in pajamas and eating bowls of sugary cereal. Well done, Puddin!

[Blood onmy hands]

This doesn't really remind me of cereal, latte/coffee or milk. For the first half hour, it smells like those banana flavored sweet tarts candies with the hard shell, sort of creamy and powdery banana.

The drydown is really buttery & salty, like those candies thrown on top of a piece of banana nut bread slathered in a buttery sauce.

It reminds me a lot of the "banana nut bread supreme" dessert at Bahama Breeze, actually, which is: "Sliced bananas and vanilla ice cream on warm banana nut bread with hot butterscotch brandy sauce."

Very sweet and warm fragrance.

[Mountaingrrl00]

It's Banana Laffy Taffy, milk from bowls of Trix and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and steamed milk (but no coffee - my nose says it's a steamer instead of a latte). This is fun and comforting and I think it will go into my sleep-scent rotation.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Mountaingrrl

[ellocentipede]

In imp and wet: banana moonpies! When dry, the banana recedes into the background and allows the cereal and milk (I agree with Mountaingrrl that it's steamed milk)) to shine. The cereal smells like Lucky Charms and Cheerios to me. I'm really enjoying this oil--it's sweet (but not too sweet), cozy, and nostalgic.

[sprout]

My experience is pretty similar to reviews up thread. Initial notes are synthetic banana, the Laffy Taffy one is on point. It became more like an actual squished banana as it dried.

 

Later, I smell breakfast cereal, Lucky Charms to be exact or maybe Honeycomb. A hint of latte foam is suggested. This becomes more dry and sweet as it wears, eventually more vanilla marshmallow.

 

Final analysis: This was very true to the description, impressively so, quite realistic. Unfortunately for me, banana is not my jam. I was fearful actually that the coffee would be too intense but I barely detected it. This was a delightful and whimsical scent that captured the back story with accuracy and beauty. I'll keep my decant but the banana note holds me back from the bottle upgrade. That I would keep the imp is a testament to the beauty of the rest of the scent since I strongly dislike banana fruit and especially synthetic banana flavoring like the candy.

[zankoku_zen]

Banana, sugared milk, vanilla cereal.

 

This smells very... whimsical. On wet, it smelled more strongly of banana, and it has dried down to a sugared milk, maybe a touch of marshmallow, vanilla and something that smells like soggy cereal. In some ways, it has a very comforting kid vibe. I can see younger BPAListas really going for this.

[steelgoat]

This might just be me, because I found out recently that I'm expecting, but this smells just like a baby eating those puffy baby cereals. It's slightly milky, sweet, and so very comforting and happy. This smells just like my nephew did when he was an infant.

I got more banana in the bottle than on the skin, now I think the banana is mostly just adding to the sweetness, sort of like a gooey smear on the face of said baby, mixed in with the cereal. It's like that banana sludge that gets stuck in the corners of the high chair. That might sound gross, but it isn't.

Basically, like huffing an infant. It's adorable. ♡

[vanilla323]

I get banana at first and I LOVE this note. I love banana in any scent! As it dries down the sweetened milk from cereal comes out. It's amazing how it does that. I don't get too much latte but it may be in the back grounding it all out. This is a fun scent that really makes me feel like it's morning in a cute little kitchen, and I'm ready to have a good day. So unique. I love the Liliths scents! They are a favorite.

[fullforcegalesburg]

First sniff: Banana! Like banana laffy taffy. I don’t know what’s supposed to be tranquil about this.

Wet on skin: There’s that candy banana, and then underneath that I’m getting something nutty and crunchy, like a toffee nut latte with a banana whipped cream. It’s coffee, watered down with a lot of milk and something just a tiny bit of something chocolatey? I like this a lot more than I expected from that first sniff, getting hit in the face with banana didn’t inspire confidence in me, but it fades right away upon application for me and other notes come out to play.

Drydown: This reminds me a lot of cocoa krispies somehow? It definitely has a wheaty, crunchy smell to it, and I’m still getting hints of milky coffee. This is weird. I like it, but it’s really weird, because it smells almost too realistic for a perfume. It’s like cocoa krispies with milk and a splash of coffee, no trace of banana left at this point. I like it but I genuinely don’t know how often I’d wear it, so I’m thinking a decant will be enough.

Final thoughts: Yep, it’s all there! The cocoa krispie unhealthy cereal, the candy banana, the latte foam, it’s all wonderfully blended! I’m glad I picked up a decant of this, it’s nice! Weirdly enough, I wish the banana stuck around just a bit longer on me, it would go so nicely with the cocoa note here! I’m not usually one for banana, but I prefer the banana candy note to a real true banana, and this is the best banana scent I’ve tried! Tasty but weird, pick it up while you can!

[dementia_divine]

In the bottle: Banana candy (like banana Laffy Taffy) and cereal milk.

 

Wet: I'm getting a lot more of the cereal and creamy milk on my skin, along with the banana candy. After a minute, the latte foam appears. Forunately, the banana scent, while present, isn't as strong on my skin as it was in the bottle.

 

Dry: Sugary cereal (is that Cocoa Pebbles I'm smelling now?), spilled cereal milk, latte foam, and some squished banana, which smells more realistic now, and not candy-like.

 

Verdict: Sufficiently cereal-y! I had been putting off testing this one for a while because I was afraid of the strong banana note, but it didn't end up being a problem on me. I don't need more of this, but I'm glad that I was able to try it!