Monster Bait - Coulrophobia: Knockout Drops
Bourbon vanilla, white mint, and white chocolate with a squirt of lemon meringue and a dribble of absinthe.
In decant: I'm liking this a lot! Strong sweet lemon pastries, this is so yummy and foody, I had an instant craving for lemon cream cookies. It starts out minty but mellows to the lemon cream sweetness at the end of the sniff.
Wet on skin: Huh, not so pastry-like or cream-like on my skin, it's definitely mellowed down here. I'm getting the while chocolate now, and I'm not sure about the other notes. The lemon is sometimes the kind of lemon smell you get from soaps and detergents, but goes back to being lemon cream. Fainter now.
Dry: mostly true to the wet on skin smells I'm getting, but the vanilla came out more, especially at the start. This is pretty promising, but as it ages on my skin, it's gone down to a somewhat flat-smelling lemon. This is a bit sad. I think I recognize this flat lemon smell from other liked blends...I must go and revisit them and hope they're not as flat.
Verdict: maybe this blend needs a bit of aging, but as it is, it dries down rather flat and unexciting for me.
In decant: I'm liking this a lot! Strong sweet lemon pastries, this is so yummy and foody, I had an instant craving for lemon cream cookies. It starts out minty but mellows to the lemon cream sweetness at the end of the sniff.
Wet on skin: Huh, not so pastry-like or cream-like on my skin, it's definitely mellowed down here. I'm getting the while chocolate now, and I'm not sure about the other notes. The lemon is sometimes the kind of lemon smell you get from soaps and detergents, but goes back to being lemon cream. Fainter now.
Dry: mostly true to the wet on skin smells I'm getting, but the vanilla came out more, especially at the start. This is pretty promising, but as it ages on my skin, it's gone down to a somewhat flat-smelling lemon. This is a bit sad. I think I recognize this flat lemon smell from other liked blends...I must go and revisit them and hope they're not as flat.
Verdict: maybe this blend needs a bit of aging, but as it is, it dries down rather flat and unexciting for me.