(Multi) reviews
I got my order! Review time....
Candy Butcher
In the bottle: toasted hazelnuts! Oh my god, this is *fantastic* - foody and delicious without being overly sweet.
On my skin: fantastic for a few seconds, then suddenly....wtf? Where's all the FRUIT coming from?? For a few minutes I waft around in a cloud of juicy fruit, which turns gradually into mango-scented hairwax (really), then suddenly my skin gobbles it all and just leaves the smell of shampoo. Nooooo!
Dry-down: thank god! The toasted hazelnuts have come back, and they've brought chocolately friends. It does still have a bit of fruity sweetness, but not overpowering. It's perfumey enough that I don't smell like a chocolate shop, and chocolatey enough that I want to snack on my wrist. At the weekend I got given some very flash Armani chocolates, and it smells like them.
LOVE.
The High Priest Not To Be Described
This is wonderful. Straight on I get a burst of chamomile, pepper and cypress - and the chamomile smells like the actual dried plant, not an oil - and then it settles down through leatheriness to smell like the back of a spice cabinet. I get that underground note that Nightgaunt on the forums mentioned too. I'll need to wear it more to get a better idea of throw and so on, since it's currently fighting with the waft of Azathoth on my other arm. But this gets a big thumbs up.
Azathoth
In the bottle: omg YUM. Tangerine and saffron over vetiver.
Straight on: VETIVER VETIVER VETIVER. Fortunately I love vetiver, but I'm hoping this is going to mellow, because right now it's just like a vetiver single note.
Drydown: it *does* mellow. The cedarwood comes out and gradually bitchslaps the vetiver into place, so taht it becomes a rumbling sulky base. I can smell the tangerine again, too. The saffron is eluding me - I keep thinking I get wafts of it, then changing my mind. This is very dark, very masculine; part of me thinks I'm far too faggy to wear this, and part of me wants to keep my nose jammed under my arm.
Right now it's making out with Nyarlathotep, who's further up on my arm. They go together really well. N is citrus and ozone and cleanness; he's tidying Azathoth up, making sure he's not drooling too much and telling him to lighten up a bit. Taking care of the boss.
The Music Of Erich Zahn
Okay, unlike Azathoth, this *does* smell of saffron. *mystified* My girlfriend makes a thai prawn dish with lots of saffron, coconut milk and lemongrass, and it smells like this. I can't smell the vetiver, but maybe that's because I'm still reeling from Azathoth yelling VETIVER at me so very loudly. It's foody and spicy and warm, and with a sweet note that doesn't make it sugary or flowery or girly. I was worried about the mimosa & opoponax, but they're behaving themselves - beldning rather than going sickly. I'm wondering if the saffron smell is the tamarind?
I'm going to have to go and find some food before I start eating my own shoulder, which is where I'm testing this.
This. Is. Awesome.
Nyarlathotep
Uhhhh....evil lemons?? :S To be specific, the lemon scent from sherbert lemons.
As it dries down, it gets more complicated and cologne-y. I like it. It's a sharp, expensive, men's cologne, together with a faint hint of almost soapy cleanness (not soap like jasmine goes on me, more like a guy who just stepped out of a shower), plus the lemon. It's like a very clean evil lawyer in expensive leather shoes, eating sherbert lemons.
Right now it's making out with Azathoth, which I have on the same arm, giving me wafts of vetiver and saffron under the inexplicable leather. Makes sense that they go together well. ;)
Candy Butcher
In the bottle: toasted hazelnuts! Oh my god, this is *fantastic* - foody and delicious without being overly sweet.
On my skin: fantastic for a few seconds, then suddenly....wtf? Where's all the FRUIT coming from?? For a few minutes I waft around in a cloud of juicy fruit, which turns gradually into mango-scented hairwax (really), then suddenly my skin gobbles it all and just leaves the smell of shampoo. Nooooo!
Dry-down: thank god! The toasted hazelnuts have come back, and they've brought chocolately friends. It does still have a bit of fruity sweetness, but not overpowering. It's perfumey enough that I don't smell like a chocolate shop, and chocolatey enough that I want to snack on my wrist. At the weekend I got given some very flash Armani chocolates, and it smells like them.
LOVE.
The High Priest Not To Be Described
This is wonderful. Straight on I get a burst of chamomile, pepper and cypress - and the chamomile smells like the actual dried plant, not an oil - and then it settles down through leatheriness to smell like the back of a spice cabinet. I get that underground note that Nightgaunt on the forums mentioned too. I'll need to wear it more to get a better idea of throw and so on, since it's currently fighting with the waft of Azathoth on my other arm. But this gets a big thumbs up.
Azathoth
In the bottle: omg YUM. Tangerine and saffron over vetiver.
Straight on: VETIVER VETIVER VETIVER. Fortunately I love vetiver, but I'm hoping this is going to mellow, because right now it's just like a vetiver single note.
Drydown: it *does* mellow. The cedarwood comes out and gradually bitchslaps the vetiver into place, so taht it becomes a rumbling sulky base. I can smell the tangerine again, too. The saffron is eluding me - I keep thinking I get wafts of it, then changing my mind. This is very dark, very masculine; part of me thinks I'm far too faggy to wear this, and part of me wants to keep my nose jammed under my arm.
Right now it's making out with Nyarlathotep, who's further up on my arm. They go together really well. N is citrus and ozone and cleanness; he's tidying Azathoth up, making sure he's not drooling too much and telling him to lighten up a bit. Taking care of the boss.
The Music Of Erich Zahn
Okay, unlike Azathoth, this *does* smell of saffron. *mystified* My girlfriend makes a thai prawn dish with lots of saffron, coconut milk and lemongrass, and it smells like this. I can't smell the vetiver, but maybe that's because I'm still reeling from Azathoth yelling VETIVER at me so very loudly. It's foody and spicy and warm, and with a sweet note that doesn't make it sugary or flowery or girly. I was worried about the mimosa & opoponax, but they're behaving themselves - beldning rather than going sickly. I'm wondering if the saffron smell is the tamarind?
I'm going to have to go and find some food before I start eating my own shoulder, which is where I'm testing this.
This. Is. Awesome.
Nyarlathotep
Uhhhh....evil lemons?? :S To be specific, the lemon scent from sherbert lemons.
As it dries down, it gets more complicated and cologne-y. I like it. It's a sharp, expensive, men's cologne, together with a faint hint of almost soapy cleanness (not soap like jasmine goes on me, more like a guy who just stepped out of a shower), plus the lemon. It's like a very clean evil lawyer in expensive leather shoes, eating sherbert lemons.
Right now it's making out with Azathoth, which I have on the same arm, giving me wafts of vetiver and saffron under the inexplicable leather. Makes sense that they go together well. ;)