Pumpkin Smokestack

[Jenjin]

Burnt pumpkin skins, creosote, coal, and industrial waste.

[Elspethdixon]

Testing this against regular Smokestack.

 

Wet: Regular Smokestack (which is probably one of my all-time favorite perfumes from the lab) is resinous tobacco and probably vetiver, which become sweet and velvety once they hit my skin. Maybe a hint of conifer resin as well? Pumpkin Smokestack, on the other hand, is a blast of buttery pumpkin with a hint of tobacco on the wand.

 

Freshly applied: Once it hits my skin, Pumpkin Smokestack is strongly pumpkin spice with a hint of smokey tobacco underneath - those “burnt pumpkin skins” were seasoned with pumpkin spice before they went into the fire. This is a better robust fall pumpkin spice than pumpkin latte, honestly, I’m already wondering how it would layer with a coffee single note.

 

Drydown: Regular Smokestack is fairly linear, staying rich, resinous, almost spicy tobacco with a hint of something camphoraceous even hours later (and I do mean hours, it’s still detectable on my skin eight hours later). Pumpkin Smokestack is a much softer version, with sweet pumpkin replacing some of the robust tobacco. After the first hour or so the spice element had gone and it’s all buttery pumpkin + tobacco again, like it was in the imp. It doesn’t last quite as long as regular Smokestack either, maybe about half the overall wear time.

 

I love it. It’s distinctly different from Smokestack despite obviously sharing the same base notes. I’m definitely getting a full bottle.