Die, Sweetly Die

[doomsday_disco]

Inevitable surrender. Opening with a heady blend of blood orange and black cherry, the heart of this perfume pulsates with narcotic jasmine, sinuous tuberose, blood amber, vanilla silk, and deep red labdanum.

 

In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die — die, sweetly die — into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”

 

And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.

[SamKotik]

I really love this scent.

 

I was worried it would be too sweet as I often amplify sweet and fruit notes, but I was very pleasantly surprised how balanced it is. The mix of citrus and darker tones feels like a voluptuous and gothic vacation to the Amalfi coast.

 

In sense (but not in specific scent) it reminds me of Endymion and Oberon

 

After the initial burst of berry and citrus it settles into a slightly spicy dark floral that on me feels masculine in a Dionysus way

 

[doomsday_disco]

Ugh, I wish this had stayed as it was for the first few hours. The blood orange takes the lead on me, backed by the cherry, and together, they remind me of sangria, but there's no booze note, of course. Unfortunately, the jasmine and the tuberose end up emerging and competing with the blood orange, and the cherry ends up disappearing. The resins aren't main players on my skin, and I could not detect any vanilla.

 

I am basic and just want the blood orange and cherry without any of the heady florals.  

[theseagrows]

this opens with a lot of cherry along with orange. after a minute or so i get a slightly indolic jasmine which grows stronger over time, then the tuberose. amber and vanilla are fairly subtle and this is primarily a cherryish heady floral with an amber background. dries down to cherry-tuberose. i love white florals and haven't smelled many with cherry and i like this a lot. it's heady and sweet. 

 

[Ennikar]

Disclaimer: this is a same-day test, and I tend to be sensitive to all sorts of sweetness including fruits.

 

Cherries. When it first goes on the cherry (maybe with a little orange) is absolutely dominant, and for the first hour or so it remind me strongly of fruit candies. After that, some florals (white ones, though I caught only the barest whiff of indoles for a moment) and a touch of vanilla come forward, but the cherry is still king. Two hours in, it reminds me a bit of strawberry flavoring. It's not exactly "girlish" because it does have some heaviness or headiness, but it's definitely a sweet fruit-floral. Decent throw.

[Little Bird]

Tart, slightly sour cherry that reminds me of cherry Kool-Aid powder, but the blood orange also quickly joins in, and then it smells more juicy, fresh, and exotic.  I would really love a single note of this blood orange, or a blood orange and vanilla.  As Die Sweetly Die dries down, the blood orange unfortunately disappears and the scent turns towards a very powdery amber with hints of that cola smell that resins can sometimes have.  I thought that this would be more floral but the jasmine and tuberose quietly linger underneath the ambers as a haunting, cool toned breath of flowers.  I'm not getting any of the soapiness or rubbery sharpness that tuberose and jasmine can sometimes turn to.  An hour in, though, the scent loses all of the little touches that I enjoy, and I'm left with baby powdery amber swirled with a little cherry Kool-Aid powder. 

[sunshinedaisybliss]

  On 10/30/2024 at 5:58 PM, doomsday_disco said:

I am basic and just want the blood orange and cherry without any of the heady florals.  

 

Having written a few reviews lately where @doomsday_disco has posted theirs before me, I am beginning to think we may have some kind of skin chemistry DNA in common! I agree completely with this, because I too am basic sometimes when it comes to my favourite notes. 

 

So for me, this one announced its arrival with a big blast of black cherry and blood orange – you would think it impossible for them both to be so ballsy together rather than one dominating the other, but it’s quite magical how they each hold their own. And they were magnificent – dark, juicy, intoxicating.. like a rich liqueur – so good!
 

However.. five minutes in, the black cherry and the blood orange have blurred together, and now the florals are here and – this makes me very sad to say – all I can smell is potpourri. Waaah. 
 

But it got worse. After about 10 minutes, it smelled like I have walked into a bathroom immediately after someone has done A Very Big Poo and tried to cover up the stench with one of those air freshener sprays named something heinous like “Fruit of the Forrest”. 

WHYYYYYYY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?

 

I know exactly why. That little bastard jasmine is the culprit. Every now and then I get a jasmine that plays nicely on my skin, but mostly it comes out as A Very Big Poo and here it is, doing exactly that. And because of the Very Big Poo Phenomenon from the jasmine, nothing else stands a chance – the beautiful black cherry and blood orange have run away from it like “OMG let’s GTFO this smells BAD!!”.
 

But then I waited another 15 minutes, and summoned up enough courage to go in for one more sniff because I refuse to give up hope, and the Very Big Poo jasmine has calmed down! It hasn’t disappeared completely, but now I can pick up the slightly peppery tuberose and the warm glow of the amber. The vanilla is subtle but smooth, and yep there’s the musky sweet labdanum too.  
 

A full hour in and I have a lovely warm amber with a hint of black cherry and blood orange, and a teensy tease of silky vanilla, which is actually very nice but overall quite faint. It’s not what I was loving at the start with that luscious big heady wallop of black cherry and blood orange, but I’m going to keep this for now and see whether aging it for a while will change anything. 
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Edited March 21 by sunshinedaisybliss