Scent review: Hungry Hungry Hippies
Feb. 3rd, 2011 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nilchanceI haven't written about perfumes in a long while, because a) migraines and b) no moneys. A locket scent-diffuser helped a lot with the perfumes causing me headaches. I've found a new online perfume source (because of winning a Wincon raffle, yay Wincon!) that has a sense of humor and a quick turn-around time, plus great customer service, and I thought I'd do a scent review.
Smell Bent has a collection of perfumes based on "the usual characters", which could just be them being smartasses, but it's basically classic perfumes tropes: the pirate perfume, the incense perfume, the devil perfume, the shiny-happy-people perfume, the hippie perfume.
Scent description: freshly baked pot brownies dusted with cassia over an earthy dose of finely aged patchouli. not bad for someone who hates to wear shoes.
(Don't judge my bare feet, Smell Bent.)
Straight out of the bottle, this smelled like freshly cooked brownies, all dark and chocolate-y. Like the EDGE brownies. The oil is deep brown, almost black. The chocolate smell stuck with me for about 4.5 hours, until I was about to leave work, where it smelled chocolate-y and flowery (the cassia? I wouldn't recognize cassia if I tripped over it), and then it turned... herbal.
Not like "oh, it smells green," like perfume people say; it smelled like weed. It smelled like I had been smoking up in my car. It made me wish I was in California and had access to medical marijuana, is what I'm saying. I have nostalgia. Nobody noticed, so it didn't have much carry, but this is a weekend smell for me.
By the time I got out of my car, it had switched to patchouli. It was like an entire pot brownie trip: mmm chocolate, Phish concert in my car, oh shit I think somebody called the campus cops so let me splash on patchouli.
I give it 4 stars out of 5. Mostly because it didn't come with a little baggie of "oregano".
Smell Bent has a collection of perfumes based on "the usual characters", which could just be them being smartasses, but it's basically classic perfumes tropes: the pirate perfume, the incense perfume, the devil perfume, the shiny-happy-people perfume, the hippie perfume.
Scent description: freshly baked pot brownies dusted with cassia over an earthy dose of finely aged patchouli. not bad for someone who hates to wear shoes.
(Don't judge my bare feet, Smell Bent.)
Straight out of the bottle, this smelled like freshly cooked brownies, all dark and chocolate-y. Like the EDGE brownies. The oil is deep brown, almost black. The chocolate smell stuck with me for about 4.5 hours, until I was about to leave work, where it smelled chocolate-y and flowery (the cassia? I wouldn't recognize cassia if I tripped over it), and then it turned... herbal.
Not like "oh, it smells green," like perfume people say; it smelled like weed. It smelled like I had been smoking up in my car. It made me wish I was in California and had access to medical marijuana, is what I'm saying. I have nostalgia. Nobody noticed, so it didn't have much carry, but this is a weekend smell for me.
By the time I got out of my car, it had switched to patchouli. It was like an entire pot brownie trip: mmm chocolate, Phish concert in my car, oh shit I think somebody called the campus cops so let me splash on patchouli.
I give it 4 stars out of 5. Mostly because it didn't come with a little baggie of "oregano".