The Unheavenly City

[Zii]

Wet: Green roses. This is not the usual rose that goes ouchy on me, but there is something off about the green sappy scent.

 

Drying: Now this is spicy rose sap...blech... There is also something unpleasantly sweet hanging around. Off it goes before it turns my stomach...

[mishi-bear]

This smelled bizarre in the bottle. It literally reminded me of tzatziki sauce. A yogurty green scent. It was pretty hard to get past that scent and try it out, but I pressed on.

 

Thankfully, it gets a lot better when it's actually on skin. I get no musk from this, and only one floral, which I know isn't the jasmine. It's either the gardenia or the magnolia. It's a very white-and-green scent. It really does smell like there's a milk note to this, and it definitely hangs on the edge of being yogurt like.

 

Overall it's certainly unique. I considered keeping it, but I really don't think I'll be able to get past that bottle scent much. Hopefully it works out better for a friend of mine.

[Geminirubyshoes]

I have been wanting to try this for years and finally snagged a bottle from the Etsy store.

 

The oil is definitely very red which always means a good thing to me

 

I saw a previous post saying the notes are red musk, gardenia, magnolia and jasmine. I swear I also smell tuberose. These floral notes are pretty much the only ones that work for me so I find this to be very pretty and traditional smelling. I'm also wearing it on a 90 degree day in VT so maybe it will be different on my skin on a cooler day. 

[ralenth]

I finally have my hands on this thanks to the Lab's Etsy, and I am thrilled.

 

The Unheavenly City is a luscious, creamy marriage of magnolia and jasmine, with just a bit of gardenia for good measure. Although the oil is a lovely reddish shade, the red musk is barely a whisper on my skin.