Sucreabeille: "Sea Hag"
Dec. 28th, 2022 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigid Sea Hag: "Cool rain on the fierce ocean. Petrichor, sour limes, and sweet oranges."
I'm not a huge fan of this scent but I don't hate it. I might like it more in the summer time. It has a wateriness to the smell... not "smells like water" but "somehow has the scent version of being watery, like something diluted or thinned with liquid." I'm not picking up any petrichor at all. It does smell salty. The "sour limes and sweet oranges" is weird. It doesn't smell citrus-y per se. But when I sniff my wrist I think "ah, citrus. wait. citrus?" I'm not sure if I just associate this particular very slightly sweet salty smell with lime or what, but it's more of an impression of citrus than an odor of citrus. I don't know if that makes sense. Like someone waved citrus vibes over things. It's got that "clean" smell that's really popular right now, that kind of hits the back of my nasal passages.
I'll try wearing this again when it's warmer.
Years ago a nail polish company... Revlon?... had scented nail polishes. Pretty cool, right? I got a gorgeous color called "Beach" or "High Tide" or "Surf Spray." Something like that. I was all excited. This was back when my nails weren't horrifically brittle and dry and I could grow them to a decent length without them shattering.
I got the cap off the nail polish and whomp. I was hit in the face with a SMELL. Ok, so, nail polish smells bad sometimes.
I painted my nails.
Even after it dried, it still smelled awful.
Mostly it smelled like salt water and decaying kelp.
When I returned it the clerk was nasty about it, asking me a bunch of questions. "Well, it's a scented nail polish. Why buy it if you didn't want a scented nail polish." Look, lady, it smells like low tide. I made her smell it. She refunded me.
I was a LITTLE worried that "Sea Hag" would be similar but thankfully it's not.
I'm not a huge fan of this scent but I don't hate it. I might like it more in the summer time. It has a wateriness to the smell... not "smells like water" but "somehow has the scent version of being watery, like something diluted or thinned with liquid." I'm not picking up any petrichor at all. It does smell salty. The "sour limes and sweet oranges" is weird. It doesn't smell citrus-y per se. But when I sniff my wrist I think "ah, citrus. wait. citrus?" I'm not sure if I just associate this particular very slightly sweet salty smell with lime or what, but it's more of an impression of citrus than an odor of citrus. I don't know if that makes sense. Like someone waved citrus vibes over things. It's got that "clean" smell that's really popular right now, that kind of hits the back of my nasal passages.
I'll try wearing this again when it's warmer.
Years ago a nail polish company... Revlon?... had scented nail polishes. Pretty cool, right? I got a gorgeous color called "Beach" or "High Tide" or "Surf Spray." Something like that. I was all excited. This was back when my nails weren't horrifically brittle and dry and I could grow them to a decent length without them shattering.
I got the cap off the nail polish and whomp. I was hit in the face with a SMELL. Ok, so, nail polish smells bad sometimes.
I painted my nails.
Even after it dried, it still smelled awful.
Mostly it smelled like salt water and decaying kelp.
When I returned it the clerk was nasty about it, asking me a bunch of questions. "Well, it's a scented nail polish. Why buy it if you didn't want a scented nail polish." Look, lady, it smells like low tide. I made her smell it. She refunded me.
I was a LITTLE worried that "Sea Hag" would be similar but thankfully it's not.
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Date: 2023-01-06 09:10 pm (UTC)I feel like citrus in scents is more of a vibe than truly citrusy, especially in mood scents like this. There’s an archived scent from Witchbaby that did lime well, snake in the grass maybe?