Another G&B with that creamy moisturisery, lipsticky smell. This one has some pepperiness and freshness to it at least. A bit of sandalwood, gets a soft leather smell later. Smells a bit like the inside of a handbag.

Only one more to go from this crew before I don’t have to think about them every again.

I don’t know. I don’t hate it. Has that creamy moisturisery smell I don’t like. Sweet. A hint of oud. A floral note I don’t like. I guess as far as vanilla smells go I don’t mind it.

But Vanilla is the most boring smell to me. My flight from Melbourne to London had vanilla pumping in from somewhere. When I walk past someone wearing it I just think they must be boring. The definition of inoffensive.

(I’ve been on holiday. I tried lots of things and not quite sure how to work them into this blog yet. Thinking I’ll backdate some things, and do a big summary post on my main blog)

Very sweet, creamy. Quite soft, ended up spraying 5 times, but it was a nice amount for having dinner indoors.

Scared me because it was a bit shampooy for a sec., but that went away. Mostly warm, creamy, smooth fruitiness.

Reminds me of dried fruit (sultanas, dates…) soaking in brandy or Pedro Ximénez or something.

Fruity, a little smokey at the start. But mostly moisturiser cream, sour, stuffy. Kinda reminds me of old person home.

Lovely sweetness and fizzy, smokey patchouli to start. Gets woody. Has that nice sharp sweet/sour/green note Gualtieri seems to like. Subtle powderiness, maybe rose and very sweet notes that sits really nicely on my skin, or maybe it’s lavender. Smelt like an old lady perfume plus smokiness for a bit, then went back to the nice smokey sweetness from the start

It’s nice, but the way some people talk about this guy’s perfume had me expecting a lot more.

Not as accurate as I was expecting, so only an alternative to Philosykos because it costs ten times less. A slightly watery, slightly soapy fig tree smell. It sweetens. Sometimes smells soapier, sometimes powdery.

Missing the sharp earthiness I like about fig smell, but nice like taking a bath full of fig leaves.

Very fruity, floral smell to start, fresh but without the Lynx smell. A sweet, white floral scent once it dried, very fake citrus, not normally me, but it’s been nice to wear walking round to different shops. Smell hung around me in a nice way. Gets a little soapy, like that soapy, powerdery, iris or something. but still fresh.

About an hour in I get an interesting heat, notes say Sichuan pepper—

Dunno what it’s got to do with gin.

Another case of notes saying cardamom but me not getting anything like cardamom. Starting to distrust Europeans RE cardamom.

Got a bit nervous after the last one, just just did half a spray. But this is really interesting. A very sweet lolly smell, with burnt wood from a campfire, and something else that’s familiar but I can’t place, but something warm and a bit animalic, maybe stuffy. Intriguing smell. Or is it a vegetable soup? Someone’s leather jacket? Maybe it just reminds me of being in a shisha bar, it’s that kind of sweetness, but the smokiness is too woody.

Probably a bit too simple for me to want to buy, even though it’s interesting.

Just smelling the bottle’s been a bit off-putting, very alcoholly smell. Right after spraying it’s not nice either, very harsh citrus.

Yeah, had to wash it off after giving it a chance for a couple of hours, just got harsh cleaning chemicals the whole time. People raving about it online though :/

Whisky! Yum! Sweet, caramelly whisky, not a peaty one, but still a sharp alcohol element. There’s a nice herbiness, too. Gets sweeter. Has that great projection thing ll the kids are talking about, lovely whisky smell wafting around me at my desk. You can smell the oak barrel.

Supposed to be cognac rathar than scotch, don’t think I’ve ever smelt that though.

This was recced by the staff at Lore because another sample I wanted wasn’t available. Nice choice.

Another freebie, but it sounds more interesting, earthy, unusual green notes, spices, florals, oud…

Yeah, I really like this so far. Sparkling smokeyness, reminds me a bit of the smell of fresh bandages. Makes me think of a morgue.

Background sweetness comes out later. Kinda fruity, juicy. Vanilla comes out.

Overall really nice aftershavey sharpness and dryness, warm and resinous. And smells like bandages. Really like it.

Hmmm. Gets much more floral later. Still wood and incense and vanilla, but powdery rose is the main smell. Makes me like it less, but If I was going to get a perfume this’d be it. Maybe that’s why I made the colour for this post a grey-red; I knew it was coming…