Showing posts with label candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Candy Mountain - Common Brimstone
First sniff:
Just a very sweet, lollyish smell - nothing more to it, really.
First applied:
Still very lollyish. It's not terrible but it seems like a perfume for a 10 year old. There's nothing else to say about it at this point.
After 30 mins:
It's turned into plasticky lollies now. Other than that I've got nothing.
After 3 hours:
I literally have nothing more to say about this.
Longevity:
Not much more than 3 hours.
Actual notes/description:
Take a magical trip to a place of sweets and joy! With a fluffy bed of vanilla bean and toasted marshmallow and zingy notes of candy floss, banana and cherry, Candy Mountain is sweet, warm and a little whacky.
Availability:
Common Brimstone
Permanent
Full size and sample size
Labels:
banana,
candy,
cherry,
common brimstone,
etsy,
lollies,
marshmallow,
sweet,
vanilla,
young
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Perpetual Orgasm - Possets
Details:
Perpetual Orgasm
Possets Perfume
Notes:
The divine honey which the bees make on the dry and craggy plains is the starting point for such a melting blend. Malta is an arid country and the non populated expanses are covered with tough aromatic growth which needs little rainfall. It is in that hard herbal mat that the bees wrestle the tiniest drops of nectar out of sparse light blue flowers and somehow manage to manufacture honey of such brilliance it̢۪s almost as if the sun was captured and liquefied. Added to this is a shard of sharp lemon zest and the smooth modification of orange, both citrus which can be found in abundance in the Mediterranean, and which naturally compliment Maltese honey, and you will have found a paradise in a bottle.
So apparently a perpetual orgasm smells like orange sherbet. There is a dab of lemon, and something a bit.. not minty but kind of icy that just wafts through every now and then. It's bugging me no end what that is actually - it's right on the tip of my tongue but I just can't... quite... get it. AGH! I'm not a big fan of citrus scents generally, but there's a sweet edge to this from the honey that makes it much more palatable to me. I like it a lot. It really is just basically sherbet though. Who knew that's what an orgasm smells like? Sillage is quite high at first but mellows after 30 minutes or so. Longevity is good - 8 hours or so.
Rating:
4/5... and what the heck is that note?
Day 141!
Chapiteau - Nevermore Body Company
Details:
Chapiteau
Nevermore Body Company
Notes:
The wild, musky scents of the Big Top Circus are combined in Chapiteau as you take in Patchouli and musk accented with hints of violet and sandalwood.
In the vial this is sweet and candyish - it reminds me a lot of the carnival scents I have. There's violet, but it smells more like sugared violets like you'd put on a cake than the flower just growing in a garden - there's not that tart green note. I never did get patchouli in this, thankfully as it's not a note I enjoy. I did get musk in the dry down but again it was a sweet candy musk, and the sandalwood gave it a bit of depth so it wasn't just a straight up lolly scent. This is a very pretty, foody perfume but it's far too young for me - I think Noodles might like it.
Sillage was medium and it lasted about 6 hours or so.
Rating:
3/5
Day 140!
Labels:
candy,
etsy,
food,
musk,
nevermore body company,
patchouli,
sandalwood,
sweet,
violet,
young
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Puce! - Possets Perfume
Details:
Puce!
Possets Perfume
Notes:
THE popular color in the 18th century. No self respecting dandy would dream of having a waistcoat of another color, no lady would think of ordering a moire silk dress in any other hue. Reviled and lauded, snickered at and loved, puce is the color of controversy. A moderate value bluish red at a low intensity. Slight spice and a hint of raspberry cozy up to a distant and ditsy pressed floral whiff. Captivating and romantic as only puce could possibly be. Live the legend of PUCE! Sweet, foody, gourmand, fruity.
In the vial this is spicy and fizzy, and reminds me of sherbet. Once applied it’s very sweet and lollyish, with a bit of light bright fruitiness (the kind I hate). The dry down smells exactly like Fruit Tingles. I haven’t eaten those for years, but after smelling this perfume I wanted to go out and buy some. Overall though, this was definitely not me. Maybe I would have liked it if I were 12 years old – I feel like even Noodles is too old for it. Sillage was fairly low, but lasting power was good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) – it stuck around for about 5 hours or so.
Rating:
2/5 Not quite a scrubber, but a little on the sickly side.
Day 64!
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