Ugh, so soapy and waxy. Crayon-like. Stuffy. Had to wash it off, remaining smell a bit like a blackcurrent lolly.
This was thrown in as a freebie in an order. Suspicious.
Sel_Vanille
David Maruitte
Maison Tahité
2020
17 Feb 2024
Warm evening, dinner out
1.5ml sample
Some boring vanilla smell. A slight hint of saltiness later. Can’t people just get shit like this at the Body Shop or something? Personally offended someone would pay $250 for a bottle of this.
Tea Tonique
Lyn Harris, Mathieu Nardin
Miller Harris
2015
16 Feb 2024
Warm day
1.5ml sample
Pleasant, fresh, lemon scent. A little bit of a generic, soapy moisturiser smell. A little bit woody if you put your nose right to the skin. I don’t smell tea, unless you count a lemon herbal tea smell; it’s that kind of lemon. Nice enough, but not unique, not at all worth $288.
After a couple of hours the only remaining scent is a faint musk that reminds me a lot of a part of Another 13 by Le Labo.
Musc Invisible
?
Juliette Has A Gun
2020
15 Feb 2024
Warm day
1.5ml sample
A quiet, sweet, powdery musk. Tiny bit soapy if you really get close and breath in, but it doesn’t bug me like that usually does. Doesn’t seem to change. It’s a pleasant scent to wear when you don’t want to wear much, but nothing interesting or exciting.
Vanilla Vibes
?
Juliette Has A Gun
2019
14 Feb 2024
Cold Summer day
1.5ml sample
It’s a cold Summer day, so I thought a musk or vanilla could be nice. Starts with slightly synthetic vanilla essence smell. Listed top note as salt, but I don’t get that at all. Once it dries there’s a really sharp, hot element that I like, maybe that’s the salt. Almost feels like someones rubbed salt inside my nose if I breath it in deeply. Pretty boring otherwise, just a thick vanilla. Hasn’t changed.
Humboldt
Julian Bedel
Fueguia
2010
13 Feb 2024
Hot day
1.5ml sample
Sugary, clear-lolly-sweetness. Fizzy. Shower gel, but the lollyness dulls the freshness a little. Not me.
Melon lolly?
Wood Infusion
?
Goldfield & Banks
2016
12 Feb 2024
Cool night
2ml sample
Wearing Wood Infusion again—I like the opening so much i want to love the whole thing. Working really well: cool night after a hot day. Enjoying it a lot again, it’s stayed sweet and creamy.
Eau de Gingembre
Alberto Morillas
Mizensir
2015
12 Feb 2024
Hot day
1.5ml sample
Nice citrus, a bit of a ginger sting, goes floral but nicely. Citrus actually lingers. Wearing it on a very hot day, walking to shops etc. nice, light.
All these citruses are starting to smell the same, could probably buy any of them…
Seems discontinued.
Velvet Splendour
Wessel-Jan Kos
Goldfield & Banks
2019
11 Feb 2024
- -
2ml sample
Soapy and bitter, very close to dog soap again. Feels a purple colour…fades away to very light nothing pretty quickly, thank fuck.
Blue Cypress
François Merle-Baudoin
Goldfield & Banks
2016
10 Feb 2024
Night
2ml sample
Bodywash and toothpaste. Fresh and minty. It’s not unpleasant, but why would I spend money to smell like a bit of old chewy.
Sunset Hour
Honorine Blanc
Goldfield & Banks
2021
10 Feb 2024
Sunset
2ml sample
Big sweet smell, sharp like caramelised sugar, slightly soapy, rubber/plastic. Raspberry, bitterness of quandong. Not enjoying this, okay if you smell in passing rather than put your nose right up to it. If you can stick with it for a few hours it gets creamy and sweet with a little bitter edge, but i don’t think i can again. Nothing sunset about it.