BPAL - Serpent's Kiss review
2) Serpent's Kiss
Seething with passion, yet utterly cold-blooded. Dragon's blood, vetiver and spice.
I mainly got curious about this one because I have no idea what dragon's blood and vetiver smell like, and because the perfume sounds so evil. (And also because I'm a Slytherin! :-P) Today I still don't know; the one note I detected was so vicious that I could smell nothing else.
I also thought, "Oh, cool, I can pretend that this is snake's venom..." Childish, I know.
At first this perfume wasn't too bad. (Or at least, I was trying to keep my mind open.) Easy to imagine the venom; very spicy (and I was never one to like spicy fragrances). It smelled like a very obvious spice, something that I'd use in the kitchen, but my nose is so untrained that I couldn't figure out which - if it was cinnamon, clove, cardamom, or something else. Later on it hit me: this smells exactly the same way that hot cinnamom candy *tastes* (if that makes any sense). It's not the same cinnamon I'd use in desserts; it's an artificial, industrial one.
My husband made the lovely comment that I smelled like a cheap dollar-store potpourri... :-(
It didn't take 20 minutes for the nausea to make an appearance. I was at work, trying to get things done, and that strong cinnamon candy kept invading my nostrils and making me slightly dizzy. At some point I thought I might lose the breakfast. I just kept praying that the smell would go away soon. (Unfortunately I applied it liberally, on many places - I couldn't just wash it off.) The smell lasted many hours. This experience will make me think thrice before ever wearing a cinnamony frag again!!!
Other people feel (and BPAL's description states) that this is a cold-blooded smell; I feel the opposite, this is red hot.
Still no clue about which part the dragon's blood and vetiver took in this. But unless proven guilty, I won't assume that they are bad, of course.
Color: Brownish red
Images evoked: none, besides the obnoxious, round, strong red candy.
Veredict: Straight to my swap box.
Seething with passion, yet utterly cold-blooded. Dragon's blood, vetiver and spice.
I mainly got curious about this one because I have no idea what dragon's blood and vetiver smell like, and because the perfume sounds so evil. (And also because I'm a Slytherin! :-P) Today I still don't know; the one note I detected was so vicious that I could smell nothing else.
I also thought, "Oh, cool, I can pretend that this is snake's venom..." Childish, I know.
At first this perfume wasn't too bad. (Or at least, I was trying to keep my mind open.) Easy to imagine the venom; very spicy (and I was never one to like spicy fragrances). It smelled like a very obvious spice, something that I'd use in the kitchen, but my nose is so untrained that I couldn't figure out which - if it was cinnamon, clove, cardamom, or something else. Later on it hit me: this smells exactly the same way that hot cinnamom candy *tastes* (if that makes any sense). It's not the same cinnamon I'd use in desserts; it's an artificial, industrial one.
My husband made the lovely comment that I smelled like a cheap dollar-store potpourri... :-(
It didn't take 20 minutes for the nausea to make an appearance. I was at work, trying to get things done, and that strong cinnamon candy kept invading my nostrils and making me slightly dizzy. At some point I thought I might lose the breakfast. I just kept praying that the smell would go away soon. (Unfortunately I applied it liberally, on many places - I couldn't just wash it off.) The smell lasted many hours. This experience will make me think thrice before ever wearing a cinnamony frag again!!!
Other people feel (and BPAL's description states) that this is a cold-blooded smell; I feel the opposite, this is red hot.
Still no clue about which part the dragon's blood and vetiver took in this. But unless proven guilty, I won't assume that they are bad, of course.
Color: Brownish red
Images evoked: none, besides the obnoxious, round, strong red candy.
Veredict: Straight to my swap box.