Cracked Mirrors

[zankoku_zen]

A blur of white sandalwood, orris, ambergris accord, and muguet passing behind shattered silver gilt.

[Dark Alice]

This is gorgeous. It smells like glass...I guess that's the amber and then I know this will sound weird but it smells like there is a crack. Like something off with the glassy amber. That's what's the visual I get when I wear it... perhaps it's the silvery note on the final drydown..but either way.. it's lovely.

[Casablanca]

Cracked Mirrors immediately reminds of glass, offering a silvery, reflective orris and muguet.

 

Borderline aquatic at first, the blend brings something more chalky or porcelain on my skin as it starts to dry down, as though I can smell some of the glass backing. The white sandalwood blends well with this. I can find ambergris, but only if I go looking. I also seem to smell narcissus, though none is listed.

 

Evocative of its name.

[VetchVesper]

This really is lovely.  It's an unusual, silvery floral with a touch of gentle powder.  I suspected muguet would make this smell soapy on me, but it hasn't, and I'm waffling on needing a bottle.  I'm almost positive this has cucumber in it, giving the blend it's shiny, slippery, sort of synthetic feel.  It's also probably what Casablanca was picking up on as "aquatic", which I can get behind, but think more clear freshwater pool vs. briny ocean (a.k.a. soap) aquatic.   

[AprilB]

Describing this as a blur seems pretty spot-on. There's something blurry, silvery but opaque, and soft about this scent. I was expecting some sharp edges in this, but it's a very gentle sort of scent. To me, it conveys an antique mirror with age spots and cobwebs on it--you can just catch your reflection in it, but distorted and shadowy enough that, for a moment, you think it is the figure of a stranger. It does read as aquatic while wet, but as it dries the sandalwood begins to come out a bit and ground the scent as something less watery. This is a very lovely combination of notes.

[Dark Alice]

This smells like the spookier, lightly sweeter version of House of mirrors. I love this scent. Spooky Glass for the win.

 

[SophieCedar]

This is softer than I assumed it would be? I mean its great..but I was thinking more pronounced shattered sharp dangerous glass? Its not Sea of Glass sharp, for sure.

 It dries to a gorgeous soft white musky chypre floral, reminiscent of high-end commercial perfumes like Bulgari etc. Silver note- yes. Glass note- not as much on me? I still love it though.

[puellacaerulea]

This is strange (but also very evocative of the name/description) in that it seems both blurry and sharp at the same time. After a brief period of amping the muguet like whoa, giving me sharp, white floral, the sandalwood and orris creep back in, blunting the white florals and giving the scent a soft, hazy quality. Blurry, silvery white floral and orris, with some soft sandalwood in the background.

[zankoku_zen]

Aquatic, silvery mirrors, and gilt. This is very much like House of Mirrors, but slightly wispier and more ghostly. Good throw and wear length.

[aphrodisms]

Clean, thin and icy white florals with an aquatic edge.