Velvet Pink Kitty
BPAL description: Pink rock candy, strawberry cream, and splashes of gin, vermouth, and grenadine.
Sniffed: Sweet, creamy, and - but not as boozy as I expected, nor as sweet. The strawberry smells natural, not fake, and seems to merge with the grenadine. There's a sugary note that's quite light. More vermouth than gin, though both are a little herbal.
Wet: More boozy-herbal, and the gin especially is stronger, junipery. Tarter fruit, and overall this is much less sweet. It's really not that sweet generally. The grenadine is stronger and smells almost limey to me. Still nicely creamy, in a delicious, almost foody, vanillic way.
Dry: The gin is strong especially in close proximity, but from a distance this is all vanilla cream and sweet-tart red fruit. The strawberry isn't going plastic on me, and I definitely get lime. The sugar level is just right; pleasantly sweet but not cloying. This reminds me a lot of Deck's 'Innocent' fragrance, actually.
Summary: After an hour, it's mostly sort of musky, herbal vermouth-tinged, junipery gin - again, this is close up. A few inches away, I get wafts of lovely lime, sweet red berries, and rich vanilla cream. The creaminess holds, too, which is rare with BPAL's cream note on my skin. Good throw, but fades rapidly.
I'm glad I got a bottle, but one will probably suffice. This is the first strawberry blend that has ever worked on me!
Sniffed: Sweet, creamy, and - but not as boozy as I expected, nor as sweet. The strawberry smells natural, not fake, and seems to merge with the grenadine. There's a sugary note that's quite light. More vermouth than gin, though both are a little herbal.
Wet: More boozy-herbal, and the gin especially is stronger, junipery. Tarter fruit, and overall this is much less sweet. It's really not that sweet generally. The grenadine is stronger and smells almost limey to me. Still nicely creamy, in a delicious, almost foody, vanillic way.
Dry: The gin is strong especially in close proximity, but from a distance this is all vanilla cream and sweet-tart red fruit. The strawberry isn't going plastic on me, and I definitely get lime. The sugar level is just right; pleasantly sweet but not cloying. This reminds me a lot of Deck's 'Innocent' fragrance, actually.
Summary: After an hour, it's mostly sort of musky, herbal vermouth-tinged, junipery gin - again, this is close up. A few inches away, I get wafts of lovely lime, sweet red berries, and rich vanilla cream. The creaminess holds, too, which is rare with BPAL's cream note on my skin. Good throw, but fades rapidly.
I'm glad I got a bottle, but one will probably suffice. This is the first strawberry blend that has ever worked on me!