Pickman Gallery: The Wiley Grasser
Pine needles, wildflowers, and cotton candy.
In tester: whoa. super sweet syrupy cotton candy, a touch of pine and faint flowers. Quite dead on.
Wet on skin: hello, cotton candy! This is far too sweet for me, for sure, although it's a very pleasant cotton candy smell. The sugary-ness has faded a little from the tester scent to let the pine and wildflowers take a bit more of the spotlight, but it's still predominantly a cotton candy scent. But it's definitely better IMO now than it was in the tester.
Dry: sadly, with my skin chemistry, the sugar goes all burnt :( but the pine and wildflowers hold their own, and is quite pleasing. It's a bit saddening really: the wet phase, when the sugar wasn't too sugary and the pine and wildflowers were not cowering in the corner was quite nice--if the sugar was dialled down a bit, that phase would probably be a bottle scent. And I think, if the sugar did not go burnt on me, in time it would have been that way on my skin.
Verdict: spot-on, but my skin chemistry messes it up.
In tester: whoa. super sweet syrupy cotton candy, a touch of pine and faint flowers. Quite dead on.
Wet on skin: hello, cotton candy! This is far too sweet for me, for sure, although it's a very pleasant cotton candy smell. The sugary-ness has faded a little from the tester scent to let the pine and wildflowers take a bit more of the spotlight, but it's still predominantly a cotton candy scent. But it's definitely better IMO now than it was in the tester.
Dry: sadly, with my skin chemistry, the sugar goes all burnt :( but the pine and wildflowers hold their own, and is quite pleasing. It's a bit saddening really: the wet phase, when the sugar wasn't too sugary and the pine and wildflowers were not cowering in the corner was quite nice--if the sugar was dialled down a bit, that phase would probably be a bottle scent. And I think, if the sugar did not go burnt on me, in time it would have been that way on my skin.
Verdict: spot-on, but my skin chemistry messes it up.