Psuke

A BPAL frimp In the bottle: This smells like cherry cordial, which is almost Cherry Nyquil, but far more pleasant. Wet: Candy, but with an edge, and the warm golden honey that I have come to love. Dry: Cherries and honey, honey and cherries. There is that sharp note that keeps this from being too candy-sweet and makes this a wearable scent for me. In fact, it makes me smile whenever the scent wafts past my nose.

In the bottle: warm, sharp and woodsy. Wet on skin: something spicy. Not cinnamon. Clove maybe? Or one of the spicier woods/resins, and a hint of bergamot playing in the back. Drydown: this becomes pretty much a spicy resin on me, and I'm quite happy with that.

I love this scent, I think it's become one of my favorites. On me it's more like a rich fruity wine, not green at all, with the resins in the back keeping it from becoming overly sweet. If this were a bath oil, it would be a bath oil that made me think of the rose petal bath scene in "American Beauty", but without the pederasty. Not because I smell roses, that's just the atmosphere it evokes for me..

I love this scent. It's an odd one, though. It smells like nothing much in the bottle to my nose. Something sharp - hay, maybe? And some other notes I can't really identify, all very disparate. But it warms up so nicely, everything coming together. And it morphs as it wears. I reminds me of what I think a Victorian Gentleman's Parlor might smell like, with highback leather chairs and very high quality pipe tobacco. Then the gingerbread/fruitcake wafts in, but just enough to provide atmosphere, not enough to take this anywhere near the "food-y" category. If it smelled like this in the bottle I'd say it would make an amazing atmo spray. As it is, I think this probably the most classically masculine BPAL scent I've come across (granted, my experience is limited), and I'd be tempted to glue my nose to the neck of nearly any man wearing it. That said, I do like it on myself, too. I keep sniffing my wrists, enjoying the cozy and complicated smell.

Interesting, wet in the bottle I smell cherries - like cherry cordial. Wet on the skin I get the fruit note, with a bit of powdery floral, and then after dry down I smell chocolate-y caramel, the fruit note is all gone, and the patchouli/musk/tobacco keep this from being an overly foodie scent. I'm very happy with it.

Imp review: Wet in bottle: Fruit, like the black currant in Eat Me, but no vanilla cake, just fruit. Sometimes with a back tang and maybe some oiliness? Not necessarily unpleasant. Sometimes with more of a honey note (I smelled this several times before wearing it, and it changed subtly from sniff to sniff) Wet on skin: fruit. Definitely fruit. Not overly sugar-y, but sweet, and with a dollop (small dollop) of the rich honey note. Dry down: Fruit. It's fruit all the way. Not food-y fruit, but fruit all the same. It's practically a single note scent for me. Cherries or black currant my nose isn't trained enough to tell. But it's definitely fruit.

In the bottle: Beignets with powdered sugar. The coffee is very much in the background, but there enough that I'm only a little nervous to try it (i'm not much of a foodie scent person). Wet on skin: Still mostly pastries, with a little more coffee. Dry down: I smell like a coffee shop & bakery - in the best possible way. I'm glad I got this - I almost didn't because, well, not a foodie and the pastry almost put me off. But someone on FB compared it to Cafe Mille et Une Nuits and I love that one so I took a chance and yay! Pastries are definitely a component, but the coffee (and spice?) keep it from being overwhelmingly food. A nice comforting scent for wet, snowy & cold days!

I got this as a frimp, because it's not something I would order, I am not a fan of smelling like food. And I'm so glad I did, because it turns out I love this scent! It does smell like fragrant vanilla cakes - sometimes with raspberries? (jam every other day) - but *not* (and I don't know how this works) in a way that makes me feel like I'm about to end up like the girl in that Tom Petty video. Which, come to think of it, was also Alice themed. Hmmmm... It dries down into something a little sharper - like amber/vanilla/tonka bean with bite. Even if you are not a big fan of foodie scents, I highly recommend giving this one a try!