Coraline Jones

[roseus]

At first I get mostly warm, slightly sweet skin musk. On the skin it's both fresh and warm, and reminds me of summer rain. Not an aquatic scent, but it reminds me of warm, rainy days in a forest in the PNW. A warm green dampness. As it dries it gets more of a prickly dry grass edge. I'm in love. 

[sprout]

On this is a sleeper hit for me--who knew I wanted to smell like a kid again? As advertised, this smells like clean skin musk with good bit of moss and barely there berry. Slightly sweet, very musky in I just showered and I am so clean way.  Not in a too much artificial musk BBW kind of way--which is good.  I enjoy a nice scent from BBW now and again, but they smell all so similar and remind me of being a tween in the mall in the 90s.  Not that there is anything wrong with that, but this is a more natural, organic,  mature version on that theme.  I like this much more than I thought I would.  I think the musk is like the Velvet Nudie we had some years back.  Yes, I want to smell like a kid rolling around in the grass.  While I would not call this a man's cologne, it is pretty unisex.  This is the sort of fragrance that says that you are clean, well-groomed, and want to smell good but not to offend anyone.  Like, my skin but better?  I wish there was more grass in this and I got a nice whiff at the beginning but it was gone too soon.  I can see a real niche for this on those days when I want to smell nice and clean but it is too freaking hot to wear anything cloying or resin-y.  The joys of moss as a basenote in the hot ass summer cannot be overstated.

[PumpkinGuts]

I must amp the fruit, because I smell like a berry smoothie + skin musk. A smidgen of moss, and I'm missing the grass. Reminds me a bit of my toddler daughter. This would make a wonderful soap, but I don't think I'd wear it as a perfume.