Sunday, March 17, 2013

Monster Mash - Solstice Scents



Details: 
Monster Mash (discontinued)
Solstice Scents

Notes: 
Monster Mash is a blend of the Mahogany paneled walls in Dracula's castle mixed with a background note of musk and some other dark and mysterious incense smoke and spice. Notes are Mahogany Wood, Amber, Vanilla and Cedarwood combined with Essential Oils of: All Spice, Black Pepper, Sandalwood and Cardamom. All these scents meld together to create a dark, rich wood with a hint of sweetness and a pleasing spice note. 

This was one of the perfumes that Rachel sent me recently to play with, and I was a bit excited because I've really come to love Solstice Scents. For some reason, I expected this to a sweet, candy kind of smell. I assumed that with a name like Monster Mash it would have been a Hallowe'en perfume, and they're generally foody. So I was pretty surprised to sniff it and find it was actually spicy and woody.

I wanted to like this, and in the vial, it seemed promising - a smokey, spicy resin smell sweetened by a dab of vanilla. I can get down with that. However, applied to my skin it's... fly spray. It stays that way for about half an hour and then completely disappears. It was so weird that I decided to try it again a few days later, thinking that maybe something I'd eaten or some other product like a body lotion or soap or something on my skin already was affecting it. The exact same thing happened. I want the scent in the vial, damn it! The second it hits my skin it turns to fly spray and stays that way. It's so bizarre!

Rating: 
2/5

Day 75!

7 comments:

  1. I didn't like this one either... It was very masculine on me.

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    1. I wish I'd gotten what was in the vial, then I might have liked it. :-/

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  2. Sorry this didn't work for you! I'm fairly sure fly spray isn't in this season ;) I don't think it worked all that great for me either, but I was so distracted by Manor in all its glory that I truly don't remember!

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    1. Haha, it might come in handy for keeping the mosquitos away!

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  3. I wasn't sure about it when I first smelled it either, but I let G wear it and it smelled awesome on him! He went through a whole full size bottle and now I'm sad it's discontinued :(

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    1. It seems to be popular on the SS forum, so I'm sure it's just a weird quirk of skin chemistry for me.

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  4. You know I love this in the bottle, but it is a bit too heavy on me. But I do adore the smell of it just to sniff under my nose. I think I will try the sample on my husband...although my sample of this is two years old now.

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