Shells

[Seajewel]

Crushed pearls, shimmering birch, and pink abalone draped in a thick, velvet mantle of russet musk, peru balsam, tonka bean, labdanum, and oud.

[LavenderCoffee]

Another sneaky gorgeous blend from the August paintings! It really does smell pearly pink, but it's unexpectedly warm and sweet, in spite of the cool, inorganic* shell quality dancing around the periphery. How does she do that?! The russet musk, labdanum and oud create a soft, stunning base - it's absolutely not a scary oud. Stays close to the skin. Great for date night or anytime you want to feel shell-pink pretty.

 

*I guess technically shells are made of both organic and inorganic stuff, but hopefully you know what I mean. it smells like shells!

Edited October 10, 2022 by LavenderCoffee

[Casablanca]

At first, Shells is pearlescent pink abalone, with whiffs of salt and musk.

 

The musk creeps in more noticeably during drydown:, at first just salty, then shifting closer to its own russet musk thing.

 

However, sometimes I amp salt, and this is one of those salts. The salt soon overtakes most of the russet musk and pearly abalone on my skin, and the blend becomes mainly a sea-washed-and-dried salt scent. It's a thin outline of salt crusting a shoreline as the tides ebb, though without much of a salt-crystal granular texture.

[zankoku_zen]

Pearly sand, salt, and musk. This smells like expensive sand. Medium throw and wear length. 

[Lunameth]

I was not sure about this originally, it had a heat note to it that put me off, especially after the opening notes had been pretty and pink and shimmery. A few months later I'm testing again, and whilst that heat is still there at the beginning, it's much softer and fades back. I end up with this beautiful sophisticated 'pink shell' scent, like a mermaid Queen surveying her kingdom. This is warm beaches of an evening, restaurants and fancy drinks along the front.