SB4

[Mellifluous]

What I get from this is a cool sweet lemon. Not tart at all, a sweet hard candy lemon.. like lemonheads, but frozen. Lol. It does start off with a scent that can lean towards pinesol, but after a while it is very much like a nice lemoncello over ice. At the dry down I do pick-up a slight white or yellow floral quality, thats waaay light, and possibly slightly herby. hmm, it actually might be carnation, lol or maybe melissa. But overall its a cool sweet lemon.

[flyby]

Based on Mellifluous's description and the SB part, I was hoping this might be a Lemon Scented Sticky Bat proto. Having tested it, I'm about 90% sure it is - to my nose it's the exact same sweet lemon note.

 

In bottle: Mmm sweet lemon, with a cool liquid edge; it really is a lot like limoncello, which is a total YAY for me because I've been looking for a lemon-granita kind of a scent.

 

Wet on skin: The lemon comes out, as does the sugary note, and there's a hint of the cakiness that LSSB does on me, but only a hint. Mostly it smells like a nice lemonade with a spike of limoncello - there's something of a resemblance to Geek.goth in this stage, but it doesn't last more than half an hour or so.

 

Dry: Alas, this fades really fast, much faster than LSSB proper. After about an hour the lemon had got a lot fainter and overall it became less noticeable, and it started to develop the Dreaded Thin Sour Smell that amber does on me. That's gone now (9 hours after application); all I get when I huff my wrist is a faint hint of the aforementioned cakey smell. I think I'd like another bottle, because in a scent locket it'll still work for the summer lemonade smell I want, but I won't be heartbroken if I don't get more.

[zankoku_zen]

SB4 is definitely the Lemon Scented Sticky Bat proto.

 

It has the same cool sweet lemon note, followed by notes of white and brown sugar cake. There's a swirl of a slight white floral to it.

 

This ends up smelling more like lemonade than anything else. LSSB ended up with a weird furry musk that didn't work for me.

 

Sadly, my skin eats all the citrus up in no time.

[Wench457]

I agree, I think this is a prototype of Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat. This is a softer, gentler lemon to me than the released version. I adore LSSB, which has a lovely musk base on me. This doesn't seem to have that musky undernote, which makes it feel less grounded and more ethereal to me. It is a very pretty, light citrus scent, but I think I prefer the more in-your-face lemon of the released version.

Edited September 14, 2016 by Wench457