Details:
Black Pearl
Bewitching Brews
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab
Notes:
Evocative of the sea's unplumbed mysteries. Gentle and lovely, but menacing and profound. Coconut, Florentine iris, hazelnut and opalescent white musk.
In the imp this is a sweet, candy-ish coconut, like a particularly froofy cocktail. Once applied, the sweet tropical coconut smell is still there but there's also a note that smells vaguely synthetic, like you sometimes find with really cheap makeup products. It's quite odd, and not all that pleasant. I wonder if it's the iris? It's kind of floral, but not really - very hard to pin down. I don't get the hazelnut at all, and I was a bit surprised by that because that's usually a note that tends to be fairly dominant on me. The dry down is a slightly floral, watery musk. Sillage isn't high and it doesn't last long either. Kind of a dud, really.
Rating:
2/5
Day 72!
What a bummer, the notes sounded yummy!
ReplyDeleteI know, I should have loved it. I'll send it on to you.
DeleteSorry to hear it was a dud! I'm not big on coconut scents (which is weird, because I love eating coconuts and coconut water is one of my favorite things)... But I have Moon Dog pumpkin butter by HoG and I adore it. :) It has coconut and some other notes that I can't recall.
ReplyDeleteI like coconut scents, but when it starts heading into the more tropical kind of note I'm out.
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