Monster Bait: Underbed

[rayvn1]

Cassia-caked cocoa coconut over angel food cake.

 

I have a decant from the lovely saralaughs and it went on pretty much the same as it did for her More of the cocoa going on at the beginning and bright, sweet smells that could have gone synthetic but most definitely did not. It dried down to sweet crumbles of coconut on top of white cake and frosting. Delectable and comforting!

[SerendipityHQ]

Scored a whole bottle of this! My first MonsterBait, mmmmm- let's see how this goes.

 

In the Bottle: Cinnamon schnapps? Errr. A super sharp, unpleasant blast of booze-y red hots. Cake? Are you in there?

 

Wet: ARGH! Cinnamon explosion! This is *not* nice. It's a super dry single note cassia- it smells like I covered myself in spice rack cinnamon and nothing else. Sharp- like a cinnamon room spray. No way is this supposed to smell like this. Maybe it's gone off?

 

Thirty minutes later: And it burns too. Boo. This might win the prize for single worst BPAL on my skin.

 

Dry: I should just go wash this off this is just disgusting...HOLY CHRISTMAS! I smell gorgeous! Where did this come from? It's coconut pound-cake drenched in maple syrup. Seriously though, this goes from horrible to perfect at *exactly* the 45 minute mark each time I've tried it. It's the strangest thing. Loving it now- I can live through the wet stage to smell like this. It smells foody but totally grown-up, sophisticated foody. The only issue is the fact that it's still burninating my wrist a bit. This goes away at about the hour mark.

 

Final Tally:

Wet- 0/5

Dry 5/5

Skin- Burninating.

Edited September 19, 2012 by SerendipityHQ

[MiasmaResonance]

When first on, this is ALL CASSIA ALL DA TIME.

 

It's cinnamon like dry nutty spice, but with a hint of dry cocoa and dark chocolate.

 

I actually really like this after the first initial seconds of going cassia crazy. It's a really comforting and nostalgic scent, for some reason. It's very unique for a foody.

[theredkilt]

This is not a foody scent! If you are expecting a cackey chocolatey coconutty smell - FOGETABOUTIT !

 

This oil, imho, is ANDROGENOUS. I can see confident, extrovert and badass people ONLY wearing it!

 

It smells like a slice of angel food cake sprinkled with cocoa-cassia powder and drenched in gasoline.

 

WOW!

 

 

 

 

 

[LizziesLuck]

I like this a lot. It's super foodie on me, which I love. I recently rediscovered my love for it after almost selling it by accident, yikes! I get cake, which is a favourite note of mine, and tons of cassis and sweetness. Spicy-sweet goodness!

[ramblingrambler]

Ow. I want to love this because it smells so friggin good, but my entire arm is a red stinging mess right now. I scrubbed it off with a regular soap and a surfactant and applied some carrier oils to area, but it is still red and stings bloody well bad an hour later. Just a warning to anyone with cinnamon or cassia sensitivities! (I only recently got these sensitivities, and I felt emboldened by my last test of Loved To Death which only gave me the smallest tinge of redness and stinging directly where applied. This one was all out hellfire on my whole arm—either because it traveled while wet or because my skin hated it, not sure!)

 

BUT!!!!

 

It does smell great . It’s a yummy angel food cake with coconut, cocoa, and cinnamon (cassia) frosting. Too bad I can’t wear this, but yay for someone else!

[windbourne]

I don't especially like the Lab's cassia note. It's like cinnamon, but not quite, a little bit earthier, and it sits on my skin very strangely. I do like coconut, cocoa, and cake, however. This starts CASSIA, then drops back down into light, coconutty cake with a soft cocoa powder note plus CASSIA. After a while, it's mostly just fluffy coconut-laced cake with a hint of cocoa dust and cassia. Much later and it's earthy cassia powder with a li'l touch of cake. Hours later, it's just a hint of mildly gritty cassia.

 

Sooooo Underbed is not something I need to hanker after. Whew. ;}

 

Disclaimer: I've had this half-decant for probably ten years and tested it once or twice with similar results. If you have a more full decant or, better yet, a bottle, and, most importantly, you like cassia, you may have a different experience.