The Great Battle of the Vegetables and the Fish

[doomsday_disco]

Aomono sakana gunzei ô-kassen no zu: a chaotic clash of peppers, komatsuna, kabu, and daikon splashed by salt water and kelp with a dash of wasabi.

 

 

Utagawa Hirokage

 

[Biocarbons]

The veggie scents are always the ones I'm most curious about the lupers, and this is basically a Shunga.

 

Upon sniff: fresh, breezy aquatic with lettuce and what smells like jamica instead of radish, and pepper spice.

 

On me: I like it so far. It's fresh and light. I can smell wasabi, but it doesn't have that burning quality of horseradish (most wasabi in the US is mostly horseradish). I get a bit more starch as it dries down and the aquatic becomes a bit perfumey.

 

It's settled, and it's a radish starchy aquatic. Still fresh, but that slightly spicy edge is mostly gone and that's what I liked most about this scent.

[flumphlord]

I'm a big fan of kelp scents, so I couldn't resist trying this.

 

In the vial: Spicy grapefruit.

 

Wet on skin: If you’re familiar with R’lyeh (the scent, not Cthulhu’s place), this is basically R’lyeh with wasabi. So yeah, spicy grapefruit. (Actually, for all I know Cthulhu’s place smells like this too.)

 

Dry: The grapefruit dies down, as citrus is wont to do, and reveals the briny vegetal reinforcements lying in wait. The kelp is the same as the kelp note as in R’lyeh, very approachable without any funkiness. The wasabi remains in the mix, though it’s less sharp than before. I think I might get something radishy, though that could be the wasabi leading me astray. If the other vegetables are in there, they are subsumed by the other notes. All in all, it's not actually significantly more green than R'lyeh in its dry stage, though it maintains more of a kick.  

 

Post-workout: Sweat brings out the brininess already present.

 

I’d recommend this to someone who likes the opening of R’lyeh and wishes it hung onto its brightness and spiciness for longer, since the wasabi keeps going for quite awhile after the grapefruit fades.

Edited March 8 by flumphlord

[roseus]

In the imp this is surprisingly fruity; salty, slightly spicy, grapefruit. I can also detect a dead-on radish scent, like dry spicy dirt. On my skin the salt and grapefruit fade way back and this is very much a fresh green vegetal scent on me. Something is *almost* like tomato leaf, sun-warm and green but without that ¿muskiness? I associate with it. There's a touch of salt that keeps this from being a pure garden scent. More like coastal vegetable patch. There's something crisp and watery, sort of cucumbery? Really fresh and beautiful. Was not expecting to like this so so much.