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.