Burial v2

[zankoku_zen]

This is a Cobwebby exclusive from back in 2012, and it's been six years and no one seems to have reviewed it. And since there were a few bottles on Etsy, I went ahead and grabbed it.

 

Burial v2 starts off with a very smoky vetiver note, which calms down substantially. I get dirt... and HOLY HELL BATMAN, I am getting the same weird grapefruit note that I get from Capricorn 2004. Capricorn 2004, which is almost impossible to get your hands on, and it starts off as a weird woody blend that MAGICALLY BECOMES GRAPEFRUIT ZEST on my skin and I think it may be the aged cedar. In other words, if you age cedar for 10+ years, the citrus notes in the cedar transform to a strange grapefruit-like scent that just sort of stays around.

 

Dirt, grapefruit dust, and cedar. Yup.

 

So, I'm off to go score my own whole bottle.

[bookandbroom]

In the vial this smells ... like smoke and vodka. Honest to god, vodka. Maybe grain alcohol. It's burny as hell and the throw is intensely hot-chemical-mess, whooooa. And then I put it on and it smells like WINDEX, but on fire. I'm so jealous of z_z's results - I love grapefruit and vetiver!

 

Obvs, YMMV.

Edited June 17, 2018 by bookandbroom

[doomsday_disco]

This Burial prototype is heavy on the vetiver. It's very bold and smoky at first, but becomes more grassy over time. I also get some grapefruit after a while, like zee_zee mentioned. It smells realistic, and I vastly prefer it to the strong, smoky vetiver phase. I didn't get any of the dirt, pine, juniper, or patch that I got from the final version of the scent.

 

I prefer the Burial that made it into the GC over this prototype, but it was fun to get to try this and try to sniff out the notes in it. I wonder how many iterations Burial went through before it made it to its final iteration.