Details:
Marzipan
Alchemic Muse
Notes:
A truly delicious confection of sweet almonds creamed with raw sugar and delectable notes of buttery vanilla, almond milk, shortbread and a touch of sweet cherry.
This was a freebie sample - I would never have bought it in a million years, because I detest marzipan. It's smell, its taste, its very existence is offensive to me. I am eternally grateful to the person who discovered in the 1990s that wedding cakes did not legally have to have almond icing on them. Finally, marzipan began to die the slow painful death it deserved.
In the vial and when first applied, that hideous almond stench is all it is - marzipan, marzipan and more marzipan. I stuck it out, wondering if that's all it was going to be (I hadn't looked at the notes yet), but finally it started to mellow and that sharpness faded into the background. The drydown is a sweet pastry vanilla. I like quite a few of the Alchemic Muse perfumes but they almost all have a synthetic smell about them, sometimes not an issue (for me), and sometimes kind of "Ew, cheap scented candle!". This one is somewhere in between. It's not unbearable, but there are so many better sweet desserty vanilla scents out there. The longevity and sillage was thankfully quite low on this one.
Rating:
2/5 Not quite a scrubber, but not impressed.
Day 84!
I love almond! I hate that it disappeares so quickly on skin... So almond scent without great base to back it up... nah!
ReplyDeleteUgh, my almond is your chocolate, haha. ;-)
DeleteIt sounded so good....it almost made me hungry. I may have to try it though anyway.
ReplyDeleteIt really comes down to whether or not you like marzipan/almond scents because it's pretty true to that at least to the dry down.
DeleteReally, you don't like marzipan? I am a sucker for that sweet almond stuff, but in perfume form it can get right up there in your sinuses if it's too strong. I find HOG Troika to be delicious but borderline that way - maybe I will grieve for Almond Milk with it ;)
ReplyDeleteI love Troika (and of course Almond Milk), but I find the almond notes in both of those are quite muted.
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