Pumpkin Tombstone

[Jenjin]

I’m yer pumpkinberry: dried pumpkin leather with vanilla, balsam and sassafras layered over Virginia cedar.

[doomsday_disco]

Tombstone is one of my favorites, so I took a chance on this despite not knowing how heavily spiced, pumpkin-y, or leather-y it would be.

 

I am pleased to report that this is not weird.

 

The pumpkin in this is not spiced... it is syrupy! So it actually just makes Tombstone be even more like Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener because it goes on like you've been hit in the face with a bunch of root beer barrel candies. The scent stays that way for a really long time, and eventually I think I'm smelling a bit of leather, but if I didn't know there was leather in it, I wouldn't have gone looking for it. Actually, I wasn't sure if this would actually contain leather or if it would be like... dried pumpkin rind or something. Anyways, what little leather I do think I'm getting reminds me of a leather in one of the GC ____ Rider scents, but I no longer have any imps of it around to know for sure. And again, it's so light that I wouldn't know it existed if I hadn't seen the scent description. Eventually, this settles into a syrupy scent. It's not vegetal, buttery, or spiced. My brother thought I was wearing maple, but I didn't think it was like that, but more like if the syrup you'd put in a pumpkin coffee drink got mixed with some soda machine syrup.  

 

I don't think this is as swoonworthy as the original Tombstone, but as a root beer ho, I'm still happy to have it in my collection... especially since it has still been over 100 degrees here in OCTOBER FFS, and it's nice to be able to actually wear a Weenie scent that isn't too heavy.  

 

 

[Elspethdixon]

As doomsday_disco says, this one is syrupy rootbeer to the face.

 

Testing this with regular Tombstone on the other arm for comparison.

 

In the imp/wet: Regular Tombstone is equal parts rootbeer/cedar/vanilla, warm and snuggly and perfect. Pumpkin Tombstone, in comparison, is warm, leathery pumpkin spice and cedar in the imp, then blooms into a strong, toothpaste-y rootbeer on my arm - if standard Tombstone is a vanillic rootbeer, Pumpkin Tombstone is a spiced one.

 

My bottle of Tombstone is at least 3 years old, so the difference in the strength of the rootbeer note may be more due to aging than a difference between regular Tombstone and Pumpkin Tombstone per se

 

Five minutes in:

The rootbeer blast has calmed a bit, but Pumpkin Tombstone is still a fall-spiced rootbeer forward scent. It’s like my wrists are two different bottles of rootbeer, one mild and vanilla-flavored and one strong and spicy. 

 

Pumpkin Tombstone isn’t as amazing as aged regular Tombstone, but I like it anyway and bet aging will work wonders on it just as it does for the unpumpkined variety.

[Akurarei]

PUMPKIN TOMBSTONE

 

The GC Tombstone is lovely, and I was really hoping this variety would be a perfect Halloween/Fall version of the GC version.

It is surprisingly subtle at the outset, and I don't really detect much of the original scent at this stage.

 

I get a blast of something sweet once it dries down somewhat - but I cannot discern what that 'sweet' actually is...maybe the sassafras?

 

After fully dried down and worn for a couple of hours, this perfume oil has practically disappeared.

I can still smell it, very, very faintly, but I have to put my nose upon my wrist to smell it at all.

Kinda disappointed with this one RN I must say.

[aberrantvirtue]

I ended up ordering this on a whim, and now I think it may be the perfect Thanksgiving scent. The mix of Tombstone and pumpkin leather has immediately evoked the sense memory of a long drive home after a holiday dinner, childish face still sticky with the remnants of pumpkin pie and whipped cream as I dozed to sleep in a station wagon blasted by a heater that only had one temperature, high.

 

I love that this is a scent that reminds me of how a pumpkin pie tastes, rather than how it smells as it's baking!