Sunday, March 10, 2013

Snowdrift - Alchemic Muse


Details: 
Snowdrift
Winter Collection (2012)
Alchemic Muse

Notes:
White jasmine and crisp heliotrope floating over rose, carnation, gingered peach, and juniper berry in a sheer base of aged patchouli, smoky vetiver, sandalwood with a stray drop of black vanilla.

In the vial, this is sweet and lollyish - no idea what in the notes is making that happen. It smells like a candy carnival sort of perfume. Applied to my wrist it changed to a snowy white floral peach. Ugh... I think peach is pretty much my most hated of all fruit notes. The heliotrope makes it smell a bit synthetic as well, which is not always a bad thing (to me - I know it's an instant deal-breaker for many), but in this case combined with the peach it's not great. The dry down is a little nicer - it mellows to a slightly smokey vanilla blended with a light patchouli that doesn't overpower. Sillage is quite high on this - again I was wearing it when I was with Ben the perfume hater and he complained about it. It lasted about 4 hours.

Rating:
2/5 - maybe 3/5 I'm not entirely decided how I feel about this. I hate the peach, don't love the heliotrope, but the dry down is pleasant. Not a full bottle, though.

Day 69!

6 comments:

  1. I agree, peach is tricky, done badly it and some other citrus fruits smell just like rancid body odor to me (TMI!) The only peach centric scents I've really liked have been Chantilly Cream and Kitchen from SS. This one sounds like it should be nice even with the peach though...sad.

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    1. Apparently Chantilly Cream is coming back and I can't wait to check out that one. Hopefully it will be a peach one I actually like!

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  2. I like about half of the notes mentioned, but heliotrope is a real deal breaker for me, although I have friends who adore it. I agree on Kitchen by SS...heavenly!

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    1. Heliotrope just almost always smells like a bandaid on me. It's so weird.

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  3. This one sounds so pretty in theory, too bad it wasn't the best. It's kind of ironic how the smells we aren't sure about are always the strongest, huh? ❤

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    1. Haha, the ones you want to hurry up and go away are always the clingers!

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