Wednesday, January 2, 2013

The Saw is Family - The Morbid The Merrier




Details:
The Saw Is Family
Halloween 2010
The Morbid The Merrier (now defunct)

Notes:  
A murderously beautiful blend of 5 musks, 3 sandalwoods, a tiny hint of Texas earth, the bite of a steel blade, and a ribbon of cold, hard fear binding them all tightly together.

When I bought this two years ago, I loved it. I meant to get a full bottle and was kicking myself when I realised I hadn't and it was gone. So I've been stingily hanging on to my meagre little vial, barely daring to use it. In hindsight, I should have, because it's changed. A lot.

Here's what I said about it back then:
On me, this is a gorgeous sandalwood musk saved from being too hippyish by a sharp metallic note. I really, really love it.
And now? In the vial it smells musky, but a rather uninteresting musk. A musk I'd expect to smell in one of those $15 perfumes near the front counter of Chemist Warehouse. A pleasant enough smell, but ordinary. There's a tiny hint of something shiny and metallic, an icy steel note that has all but faded away. It's so fleeting and hard to catch, sadly.

When applied, the metallic note is undetectable. Just the musk is there. Once it dries down, it's soapy. Again - something I'd find in a cheap chemist. Just... eh. How disappointing.

Rating:
2/5. I don't out-and-out hate it, but it really didn't age well, and it's very ordinary and unspecial. Probably just as well I never did get that full bottle.

Day 2! 

11 comments:

  1. Oh. That´s sad! Both the end of TMTM and the aging of a favorite scent... I´ve had this happen to me with only one scent this far, but then again I´m only one year into my perfume discovery...

    Still, sounds like it was an interesting scent back when it was new!

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    1. I am sad that TMTM is no more - I loved their scents and I only have a couple of them (I have two full size bottles that have aged much better). She also made one of the few lip balms I could stand to use. :-(

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  3. It is sad that the ageing has made the metallic note vanish in this perfume. Have you tried Possets Silver Carnation? I had a sample of it long ago and from memory it had that beautiful 'silver' note with spicy carnation!

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    1. Now that sounds like a nice perfume!

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    2. Ooh, no I haven't tried that one, but it's going on my future shopping list now!

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  4. Sad to hear that it lost the edge you liked before you could enjoy it. I often 'save' my perfume or makeup for special occasions, but have recently been using the 'special' things every day, and really loving them hard. Better to have loved and lost and all that, right?

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    1. Ah, see Emma - you have to get out of the 'saving' habit and use your beautiful things before you lose them! That's a common thing among collectors of perfumes and makeup, I find - we buy these gorgeous things and then we don't want to use them. I'm guilty of it a lot as well. Crazy.

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  5. I do miss TMTM so much! My pets there were Kristina and Kirkos.....So sad! I still have a few drops of each left!

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    1. I miss them too - so many full bottles I'd intended to get at some point. And one of the few lip balms I liked too. *sigh*

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