Oil and Blood

[Seajewel]

 There are no saints here: thick blackened rivulets of blood soak through linen winding sheets and cold clay.

[Prolixity]

In the bottle: Hmm. Sweeter than I expected, and I'm not sure I like the linen note. Is the blood note dragon's blood?

On skin: The sweetness settles, smelling clean and slightly metallic. Oh hello, there's the clay, a strong earthiness amping up.

Drydown: I mostly get the clay note out of this, the "blood" secondary. I don't like the scent wet in the bottle, but wearing it is very different, very pleasant. A rather neutral scent, not too strong.

[Area51Fugitive]

I swear I mean this positively: Dracula’s freshly cleaned and dried laundry. On me the linen comes through the strongest, with clay in the background and what I think is dragon’s blood showing up just a smidge.  It’s like the clean linen room in the subterranean parts of an ancient haunted castle.  They gotta keep all that red damask clean somewhere.  I personally really like it.  When you want to smell clean and fresh, but make it goth.

[zankoku_zen]

You smell bloody musk and petroleum. I don't get laundry, but definitely an empty wearhouse and blood. Medium throw and wear length.

[whisperstilled]

I absolutely get the 'laundry' quality from this - think the 'linen fresh' scent of any major manufacturer but more subtle, with a splotch of dragon's blood and a whiff of something faintly resiny, which I'm guessing is the clay. My skin, at least, isn't amping the metallic quality, but I get a touch of salt.

 

'Clean laundry' scents aren't usually my thing, but this one errs just cool and goth enough to be a keeper. This would smell divine as a room or linen spray. As it continues to dry, I immediately had the sense memory of being in an expensive home goods store. 

[Juushika]

In the bottle, wet, dark, dirty. Upon application this goes sharp, dark, the way tobacco is when first applied, but it's distinctly not tobacco. It loses that harshness in drydown, the clay rising to temper the blend: damp, dark, thick, a little smoky, ominous, with a borderline salty tinge, a hidden organic warmth. I don't get clean laundry, it's way too claggy and dark for that - "empty warehouse" is a better fit. I file this alongside Ezekiel 16:49 (<i>Blood musk and ashes</i>) in my mental catalog: blackened blood has a vetiver/smoky/blood musk vibe, but harsher, deeper, dark with earth. It's aaaaalmost unpleasant, but I reach for it regularly.