BunnyVelvet

I'm from Florida, and was (am still!) searching for that perfect beachy ocean smell. This one seemed like a good starting place. Initially, I tried this on my husband and thought it a)smelled AMAZING on him, and b)was waaaaaay too masculine for my own use. On him, Jolly Roger takes on a sharp, spicy quality that seems exactly right for a ocean-sprayed pirate. It was very masculine and fresh, but with that sexy leather-y undertone that was just VERY nice on him. A couple days ago, we went to the beach and I grabbed Jolly Roger to do a live sniff comparison. I put a little bit on my wrist, sniffed, and was blown away. This smells SO DIFFERENT on me! It's like it's a completely different perfume. On my skin, the fresh notes (? Mah untrained nose!)are more prominent, and it has a sort of sweeter, powderier smell. It honestly smells less like a sexily dirty pirate and more like, well, the actual beach. That soft sandy smell mixed with the salty air. I would still say the scent is more masculine than feminine, and much more 'sharp' than I'm used to. But if you're a lady, don't fear this one! It really is a unisex scent that seemed to work equally well (albeit very differently) on my husband and I. We both love it!

My husband and I just recently made our first BPAL order; Miskatonic University was one of the imps that he chose. He was drawn to the 'library' aspects of the scent-- the wood and the books. He works in a coffee shop, so he figured that the Irish coffee scent would quickly fade into the normal cacophony of coffee smells hovering around him, and he hoped the woodier, deeper notes would become more pronounced. Alas, on him this was ALL coffee. He claimed that for a brief, shining moment he thought he could smell the oakwood, but then the scent shifted back to the coffee smell. Staying power on him was limited as well-- he couldn't smell anything after a few hours at work. On me, however, it was a different story. We got five imps, and this was the only one that I TRULY didn't like. I'm already not a huge fan of overly foody smells, so I wasn't expecting to love this one. But my skin amped up the Irish coffee right off the bat, and as time passed it seemed to get more and more overpoweringly, sickeningly sweet. I kept Miskatonic U on for a couple of hours before a headache and slight nausea had me running to wash it off, and I never got anything other than that overpowering coffee note. Unlike my husband, this seemed to only get stronger on me as time went on-- I can only imagine that it would have great staying power on my skin. The throw likewise was quite good on me-- moreso than on him. So if this kind of smell is what you love and your skin chemistry works like mine, you'd probably adore this! For us, it was not a winner.