Bewitching Brews: Blood Pearl
Lustrous, sanguine, soft and lavish: soft orris, blood musk, and coconut.
In imp: my notes say, “booze! wine! liquor!”, because I don’t drink and thus I’m not totally sure which is the best word to describe what I was smelling. It’s an interesting scent, quite sharp, and something I didn’t expect at all.
Wet on skin: it started off as sharp as in the imp, but swiftly went creamy on me (within half a minute). I started getting the coconut then, with whiffs of a pleasant sort of greenness. It’s a dry, soft, creamy scent, these characteristics heightening the longer it is on my skin.
Dry: it’s gone to a very round, soft, creamy scent, almost grandmotherly to my nose :/ it was also, at times, smelling slightly “oily” to me. I’m not sure if it’s just today, or the orris on me-I tested two scents and they both had orris (my first time with orris) and they both had a touch of oiliness to my nose. This scent seems to be warring between sharp and powdery, and sometimes I catch a whiff of something wonderfully sweet and enticing but it’s very fleeting-the moment I catch a wee note, it’s gone instantly. Much much later, it’s turned into a definite grandmother scent for me :(
Verdict: Sadly, not for me. I’m not yet sure what note made this smell not work for me, so I’ll have to cross check them with other scents as I try others.
In imp: my notes say, “booze! wine! liquor!”, because I don’t drink and thus I’m not totally sure which is the best word to describe what I was smelling. It’s an interesting scent, quite sharp, and something I didn’t expect at all.
Wet on skin: it started off as sharp as in the imp, but swiftly went creamy on me (within half a minute). I started getting the coconut then, with whiffs of a pleasant sort of greenness. It’s a dry, soft, creamy scent, these characteristics heightening the longer it is on my skin.
Dry: it’s gone to a very round, soft, creamy scent, almost grandmotherly to my nose :/ it was also, at times, smelling slightly “oily” to me. I’m not sure if it’s just today, or the orris on me-I tested two scents and they both had orris (my first time with orris) and they both had a touch of oiliness to my nose. This scent seems to be warring between sharp and powdery, and sometimes I catch a whiff of something wonderfully sweet and enticing but it’s very fleeting-the moment I catch a wee note, it’s gone instantly. Much much later, it’s turned into a definite grandmother scent for me :(
Verdict: Sadly, not for me. I’m not yet sure what note made this smell not work for me, so I’ll have to cross check them with other scents as I try others.