Vampiric scents / gothic heroine scents

[PrinceofcatS]

I've been trying to hold off on this kind of post until it was closer to the Halloween update, but I've fallen down a rabbit's hole of being super into vampires in a way I haven't been since I was a teenager (before Twilight exploded :/ no shade, it's just that I got super burned out on vampires when they got really popular!).

 

What are scents that are either vampire-themed, or really evocative of vampires for you guys? I mean vampires as supernatural entities and gothic horror monsters, not as specifically hot seducers, as they've sort of become in popular culture.

 

I picked up an imp of Nosferatu and a bottle of Sanctus in my last order, and I have an imp of Penny Dreadful I keep meaning to bottle purchase, and I got The Vampire Bride last Halloween as a birthday present, but I'd really like to see a comprehensive list of all the scents that remind people of crypsts, exsanguination and dubious romances on misty moors!

 

Also related but not the same, what are the best running-away-from-a-haunted-castle-in-a-nightgown scents? I have a lot - a lot - of the Crimson Peak scents, and I think Maiden is really evocative (as well as the discontinued Moon Rose :C). And Lucy's Kiss! Which I guess unites both categories pretty well.

[sprout]

My faves:

Count Dracula (from the long ago Halloween series, Order of the Dragon)

Lucy, Kissed (also old, from the Post)

Carfax Abbey from Order of the Dragon for a vampire's castle

[VetchVesper]

Blood Kiss is a fav of mine and definately has the sexy, seductive vampire thing going on. In Deep Earth has a really nice earth/loam smell w/ a touch of florals that I could see being old school vampire. Destroying Angel smells cool and earthy and white to me. I could see it evoking a vampire or a damsel in a filmy nightgown sort of vibe, as could Phantom Wooer, which has sort of silvery, soft quality to it that makes me think of night air and moonlight.

[stellamaris]

Tombeur.

Vampire Bride

Brides of Dracula

Blood Countess

[Arachnae]

These scents are evocative of beautiful vampire ladies for me, and incidentally are among my all-time fave bpals:

 

Blood Countess Corrupted black plum, smoky opium and crumbling dead roses covered by a deceptive veil of Hungarian lilac, white gardenia and wild berry.

 

Lady Lucille Sharpe Faded red roses and a glimmer of garnet with black lily, ylang ylang, smoky plum musk and black amber.

 

The Vampire Bride Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.

 

Penny Dreadful Soft perfume evocative of noir heroines over rich red grave loam.

 

And as for a running-away-from-a-haunted-castle-in-a-nightgown scent, the one I think of most is Edith Cushing Pearlescent vanilla musk with white sandalwood, grey amber, white patchouli, ambrette seed, and oudh.

[ziggystardust13]

Mircalla, Countess Karnstein!