Dr. Janice

[Mechanical Death]

An elegant transformation: honeyed ylang ylang with black tea, orris, dark gum resins, lavender absolute, and a twist of white grapefruit.

Lovely! As usual, BPTP has some of my favorite perfume blends.
This reminds me a little of blacker than ravens wings, I think the black tea note is similar, but where that is smokey and rich, this is fruity, slightly herbal, with a candy like edge that I always associate with grape fruit. The resins are beautiful, I get something almost like plummy incense from that, and the honey ylang ylang is mostly honey with faint floral in the background. I initially grabbed this because I love lavender everything, and lavender + citrus is one of my favorite combinations. I figured this would be lovely and I was not disappointed. If you are afraid of lavender, it's not an overtly strong lavender smell. This is not a medicinal lavender, it's a sweet sugared lavender, and blends well into the rest of the notes.

It doesn't have a ton of throw, but it has a good amount of lasting power.

Overall this is a fantastic fruit-candy but sophisticated girly blend. definitely a keeper.

[savage_rose]

This was my favorite of the Hallowenches perfume oils! Light, fruity brightness paired with the lavender. It just sparkled.

[fetish911]

Very pretty scent. I feel like this is more of a "whole scent" than individual notes I can pick out... First sniff it reminded me of Black swallow tail, even though they don't share notes. I do smell ylang ylang & sweet lavender. Seems to have a good bit of throw on me too. I like this one too. So far I have loved all the Hallowenches!

[theseagrows]

at the beginning i get ylang ylang, tea and grapefruit primarily, with a hint of gum resins. the lavender is subtle here. this is one of those light sparkling scents which is a bit champagne-y, probably due to grapefruit + tea. it does smell more on the summery side to me. it's nice, light, pretty and uplifting.

[zankoku_zen]

Tea, grapefruit with lavender and gum resins. On wet, its a very light sparkling scent, but it dries down to a lavender/resin with black tea scent. Low throw but good wear length.

 

Dark, cerebral, contradictory.

[milo]

Resins, lavender and something that smells like anise at first. The anise fades, and its mostly lavender and resins. It is nice and soft, though, and would probably make a great sleep blend.