darkalleyvampire

in the bottle: i get straight up berry hand soap with an unpleasant astringent twinge to it (maybe it's the tea note i'm getting, like it's been oversteeped?) dried down: the berry mellows out and the astringent-ness goes away, but it's still a very bold syrupy blackberry with bright green fuzzy vines wrapped around it, there's a faint under current of "this tea might be poisoned", but it feels very much like a youthful, fresh summery smell to me, not the decaying fall feel others have described, it brings me back spending summers with my grandparents in rural norcal, picking berries straight from the vine with my cousins while we "helped" them in the garden, crickets and cicadas chirping all around us in the afternoon sun i don't think i see myself wearing this too often but it's definitely interesting nonetheless, if you love blackberries this is the scent for you

in the bottle: i get clove and aquanet hairspray front and center with a little champaca incense mingling in the background dried down: the champaca incense and plum velvet come out more, the clove becomes less like sticking your nose in the bottle of whole cloves in your kitchen and more like the gentle swirling smoke of a clove cigarette, the plum velvet gives it a slight floral-y sweetness feel that keeps it from falling into headshop territory, i was a little worried about the hairspray note, but it moves into the background as it dries and blends nicely with the other scents this is so gorgeous; i think i'm gonna have to buy a back up or two, it's smokey and velvety and ethereal, i love it