More Villainess Megashipment Reviews
Arsenic & Lace (Villainess): One of our very first blends. Sweet black cherry tarts with warm, clinging honeymusk and a soft wisp of old-fashioned perfume - roses, honeysuckle, gardenia and chamomile.
Canaan (Villainess): Warm milk, sticky bronzed honey, succulent grapes and berries, and exotic perfume - Tunisian jasmine, tuberose, the indolent lily of the valley, and Madagascar cloves.
Datura (Villainess): An intoxicating blend of crisp, regal gardenia, sweet frangipani, verdant tuberose, and soft, beguiling pikaki lani.
Decadence (Villainess): An indulgent vanilla - alcoholic, buttery and bittersweet with delightful undertones of tonka and coconut. Our favourite vice.
Ginger Snapped (Villainess): A slightly psychotic blend of sweet cinnamon, rich cardamom, spicy ginger, and a faint touch of innocent vanilla.
Malsala Smooch! (Villainess): Smoky, single-estate Keemun tea liberally spiced with cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, ginger, and aniseseed, softened with milk, and barely sweetened with dark cocoa.
Neisthai (Villainess): Sultry evenings, sweet iced tea in glasses beaded with sweat. Age-old roses and magnolia blossoms. Fallen peaches and wild blackberries. Honeycrisps and banks of honeysuckle. Acres of cut clover, mown grass and old, musty wood. Neisthai, to return - the homecoming. This fragrance fuses classic Southern archetypes with the scent-memory of my own picturesque homestead garden. More than the sum of its parts, Neisthai draws on rich, gourmand notes, delicate florals, crisp fruits, and traditional base notes to create an evocative whole.
Shanghaid (Villainess): A faint breath of perfume - jasmine, strawberry, peach, rose and lily of the valley swallowed up by a citrus frenzy of bergamot, lemon and tangerine. And then a backdrop of exotic woods, spices, and resins - bamboo, cedar, ginger, nutmeg, sandalwood, pine and coriander.
Silk & Cyanide (Villainess): Almond. Crisp, barely sweet, pervasive and altogether sinister.
Truffle Trade (Villainess): A neglected box o' chocolates - cherry cordials, coconut creams, almond clusters, raspberry parfaits - covered in dust, tossed aside for bigger game
- I am in love already. The sharp stick of the 'arsenic' part sticks out and yet this is syrupy gorgeous, decadent summer (tart) with lace and pearls and curtains. The flowers are all over it, the honeysuckle and the honey musk, warm and crawling like tendril vines in a southern garden mingling all the clear, true note flower scents. (I cannot get enough of villainess flower scents. I vaguely want to inquire into her not supplier *hrm*)
Canaan (Villainess): Warm milk, sticky bronzed honey, succulent grapes and berries, and exotic perfume - Tunisian jasmine, tuberose, the indolent lily of the valley, and Madagascar cloves.
- I feel like I've hit the place where Supervillainess can do no wrong. Once again. In the imp and on my skin, this is heaven. The cloves and the lily, grounded and turned over by the honey. I have been searching for something with an amazing lily note that was not headache inducing for a long while now, and this makes me so so so pleased. On dry down it's a little fainter than I'd like and sort of mixed like incense.
Datura (Villainess): An intoxicating blend of crisp, regal gardenia, sweet frangipani, verdant tuberose, and soft, beguiling pikaki lani.
- While this one was nice and crisp, it was not the resoundingly amazing winner that I loved in Datura Whipped!, which does yes set the precedence again for getting samples in most of her products and not just one or two specifics to see how scents translate. I'm pretty plain jane and mediocre on this one. I could take it or leave it in the perfume (where as I find the Whipped to die for).
Decadence (Villainess): An indulgent vanilla - alcoholic, buttery and bittersweet with delightful undertones of tonka and coconut. Our favourite vice.
- This is the kind of vanilla scent that makes me so delighted I cannot even form sentences. (And flailed when all my for year olds stopped the beginning of story time to sniff my wrist). It's so so so gorgeous. Vanilla is truly *the* scent that I find fitting an alcoholic wave. The same can be said about tonka in vanilla scents. The coconut is either so smooth I can't tell, of its mixture with my body chemistry has eradicated it. Either way, this scent is totally perfect for me and on me.
Ginger Snapped (Villainess): A slightly psychotic blend of sweet cinnamon, rich cardamom, spicy ginger, and a faint touch of innocent vanilla.
- Very gentle and sweetly spicy with just the faintest hint of something awry. The blend is so smooth and precarious gentle I'm drawn to continually breathing this in again and again and again. I don't even like ginger in any form at all in my life and this is gorgeous. Maybe it's the cinnamon bring it up or the vanilla smoothing it out. But this is just truly, truly gorgeous. This is the perfect spark of incense and the hint of scent right before you bite into a ginger cookie.
Malsala Smooch! (Villainess): Smoky, single-estate Keemun tea liberally spiced with cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, ginger, and aniseseed, softened with milk, and barely sweetened with dark cocoa.
- Very tea lovely. A scrub but it was not all that aggressive like the others. The warming agent in the first few seconds is greatly distracting though. The scent was heavenly tea and chocolate and other things under the water. On my skin post shower, this is the first Smooch to actually leave a scent. It took me a few minutes to realize it was my skin that I was smelling when it confused me that I hadn't adding glossing or imped my wrist but was suffused by something.
Neisthai (Villainess): Sultry evenings, sweet iced tea in glasses beaded with sweat. Age-old roses and magnolia blossoms. Fallen peaches and wild blackberries. Honeycrisps and banks of honeysuckle. Acres of cut clover, mown grass and old, musty wood. Neisthai, to return - the homecoming. This fragrance fuses classic Southern archetypes with the scent-memory of my own picturesque homestead garden. More than the sum of its parts, Neisthai draws on rich, gourmand notes, delicate florals, crisp fruits, and traditional base notes to create an evocative whole.
- This scent is quite Southern. There's the parched, dark black tea, sweetened in the sunshine and too much sugar. Where the taste is high, but the scent is still traced in shadows and dirt. I'm drinking tea in gardens basked with sun, in a sweltering summer here in this scent. The kind of summer I've missed in my heart this year. (You can take the girl out of a Texas, but can't take Texas out of this girl.) Fruits and flowers.
- prix_etoile; this is the one that reminds me of you. I think you would love this one as much as I am at the moment.
Shanghaid (Villainess): A faint breath of perfume - jasmine, strawberry, peach, rose and lily of the valley swallowed up by a citrus frenzy of bergamot, lemon and tangerine. And then a backdrop of exotic woods, spices, and resins - bamboo, cedar, ginger, nutmeg, sandalwood, pine and coriander.
- This one is really lovely in the bottle, flowers and earthy foundation, which on my skin bursts into flowers and citrus instead. I love the citrus notes in here, all of them pop so clearly and yet not painfully. A few hours later it's soft citrus and flowers mixed with the woodier and warmer scents as this amazing almost incense wafting through them.
Silk & Cyanide (Villainess): Almond. Crisp, barely sweet, pervasive and altogether sinister.
- Gorgeous and lovely. This is warm and sharp. It's just an edge of sweetness creeping over the corners, but it's a heady savory type of sweetness. It's very plain and perfect and I really love it.
Truffle Trade (Villainess): A neglected box o' chocolates - cherry cordials, coconut creams, almond clusters, raspberry parfaits - covered in dust, tossed aside for bigger game
- Sweet and syrupy at first, I can definitely get the cherry cordials note that’s slathered into the mixed chocolates. The cream is less strong but still there, reluctant and almost rebellious in the way it slides away, forgetting and forgotten. I walked to work wearing this one. It's very much my kind of V-day scent. Especially given how much I love and how my last few Valentines have seemed to go.