Irish Sea Mermaid

I’m just getting my sense of smell properly back after being sick for ages, but I have to say - do NOT sleep on Northern Lights, it’s beautiful. Abd this is coming from someone who traditionally “doesn’t like citrus”… 🍋 In the bottle : light white musk with lime lollipop or startburst sort of smell Wet On skin: Soft lime with light floral and a lemony but musky bouquet and as it settles the ambergris enters the party and he is beautiful. This gives the lemon/lime some depth and the floral musk a slight edge so as not to be “girly”. Dry down : It’s fresh and full and deep all at the same time. The bergamot and Jasmine are dancing away the night with the musk and ambergris and this party is lit with twinkling candles sparkling ✨ in mirrors and crystal candelabras. Then the green apple 🍏 slinks in, handing her dance card to the Jasmine. Ooof. This is good!!! I can’t smell the moss or spruce so much (still sick and smell not 💯) but there is a bright green silkiness to it, for sure. Like a beautiful Classic Hollywood Satin slinky dress, accented with pearls and Diamonds. As the day goes on it gets more white muskish while still staying bright and sparkling. This blend is pure joy.

My little bottle just arrived with me yesterday. It was sent over in a combo order with a friend so it’s been resting at her house for a few weeks already. I probably should give it another few days, but I couldn’t wait! So going on wet - on me - pure Play Dough (which I have learned is what Snow White smells like on me. I think it’s the Almond/Marzipan note). Then dries down to a sort of “wet” yet green and almost creamy?? patchouli. Kind of smells like melting snow/ice on earth fresh with spring crocuses sprouting, mixed a with a bottle of patchouli that was spilled there before the snow. Waiting to see if it develops any further. Quite close to skin. Nice. And an interesting adaptation of Goblin, and I will definitely wear it. But think I prefer Goblin on its own. But this may change. I will pop back in a few weeks to see if I’ve changed my mind!

From my TAL Group Post from Jan 17th 2023: Today I got to try The Phosphorescent Fires in the Far Mist out at my first songwriting session with a new partner. It was utterly magical. We worked so well together and created 4 beautiful new pieces. Both of us challenging each other and working in ways we wouldn’t have if we’d been on our own. And all through the day I could smell this beautiful blend around me bringing me joy and inspiration. I’m working the whole week with her, and ill be using up every drop of this decant as I do. Bottle on the horizon for sure. I am truly bowled over with the blessings today and this gift of an oil. 🤍 and on April 13th 2023 Been struggling with a lot lately and confidence has been in the proverbial 🚽 - but today I layered Charisma 💗 and Phosphorescent 🌌 Fires 🔥 to teach today and I feel amazing. And for the first time in ages, I’ve felt like myself. This oil is everything 🩵🤍💛

Ive just tried my new bottle today having received it on Friday (it’s Sunday). On paper this is a slam dunk with the notes that are listed. However…On me the Nag Champa is doing the highland fling all over the other notes. It’s all I can smell. Champa is tricky on me so I’m not too keen so far. I’m probably going to let it settle a bit longer and revisit. Will come back and edit when it’s had a bit more time. Watch this space…

I’ve been looking for a Gardenia blend for a while and I’ve struggled to find one that smells enough like the flower without being too “tangy” (if that makes sense). This is the Gardenia 🪴 I have been looking for!! It’s got that true to the flower essence, while being softer and more sultry, more “glamorous” if you will… Its only just out of the mailbox so I’m very much looking forward expérience this as it ages. Beautiful 🤍🤍🤍🤍

Omg - Poetry Lady is DIVINE!! It’s as if Wreath of Snow and Lilac wood had a beautiful lavender baby!!! And I am here for it! I’m in love 💜💜💜💜💜

Loving Schrödinger’s Check Mark ✔️ It’s got a similar vibe to Chibi Skul, MPF 13 HG, Cupcake Splatter and the ever glorious Revenant Rhythm (gasp). I’m a patchouli FIEND so for me, anything that smells like it (even loamy dirty gnarly Patch) is magnificent!! A sweet yummy patchouli. But not too sickly or foodie. Still keeping that gothy patch edge. Just right! 💙💙💙💙💙💙 I’m so glad I got one before they flew off!

Trying this today Wow! I’m never quite sure about coconut 🥥 but this is just lovely. Really smells “white”. I’m not sure I’d wear it all the time but it feels like it has a place. And doesn’t smell like sun tan lotion! Which I don’t have a problem with - but just not sure about it outside of a summer/sun situation. This does have that distinct 🥥 smell but it makes it almost elegant instead of sticky, sweaty and sandy (which, again, I enjoy - it’s just this is something more regal sophisticated.

This may be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever smelled. It’s sweet but almost smoky with the thread of incense. There’s also a hint of the “juiciness” I find in The elephant is slow to mate. But instead of a “red” scent it’s definitely Purple! I can’t stop sniffing myself! Definitely getting a back up bottle!

So floral, but fresh and aquatic too! It reminds me of a warm garden full of blue flowers surrounding an ornamental pool. Like the Vasca dell’ Isola in the Boboli Gardens in Florence. It’s so fresh and watery for a floral, but without going “cologney” . This is really gorgeous and makes such a change to the usual deep, wet, hothouse florals I usually find myself gravitating towards. It makes me feel light and Willowy, even though I am neither of those things… Thank you labbies for dropping this in for me!

So, all I can smell on me so far is Cucumber 🥒… Not exactly what I was hoping for, but interesting?? I can just about make out something resinous, but yep, mostly green cucumbers… ah well.

In the bottle - as soon as I smelled this it evoked a deeply emotional reaction. Of something long forgotten from a life far away in time. Wet - It’s the salty, wet deck of a ship mingling with the musk of ropes and barrels full of spices with wood ages by the sun and sea. Dry dow - this is probably one of the most gorgeous scents to come out of this collection. (It’s a tough call between Haul on the Bowline and this one TBH). The patchouli is there singing in the background, without upstaging the other notes. It’s got an “oily” feel to it, like the traditional Oilskins (not the modern ones) worn by fisherman mixed with a musky spicy alluring scent. To me, it is the scent of a selkies skin, hidden between rocks on a beach as they dance in the moonlight... It’s familiar and foreign at the same time. It’s beautiful yet rough, it’s salty yet sweet. It is land and sea and sky. I think if my soul had a smell it would be this. I think I may need all the bottles. All. Of. Them.

In the bottle - hot-house flowers 🌺 with something resinous Wet - Incensey Floral BURST!! Dry down - oooh. Warm and resiny - deep heady rich floral but also classically “perfumey” - like something expensive and chic that would come out of a Parisian Fashion House. This is just stunning! It makes me feel like a glamorous, beautiful movie star ⭐️ I am so glad I got this!! ***edit*** I can really smell the White Patchouli now. God this gorgeous!!! (In fact - if you are a fan of Tom Ford’s White Patchouli perfume - this has a very similar feel to it - but way nicer and much more complex!) ***edit 2*** Oh and here comes the Pink Champa!! OHMYGAWD - I need 6 bottles of this!

Ok - Am I the only one who is getting Fennel??? 🤔 it’s so strange! At first it’s dirt dirt dirt - then bam 💥! FENNEL PLANTS!!?? Whaaat?? As it warms up, something really gorgeous and chewy emerges underneath it - probably the warm sweet tobacco blend. But the Fennel (or whatever it is that smells like that on me) is really going to town. As I write the tobacco is warming up on me... and now it’s just starting to become a bit cocoish a d sweet from the bourbon cream, so it’s a warm, sweet, gloopy , earthy mud pie. Going to leave this for another week (it only arrived here two days ago) and see what happens and report back