Sucreabeille: "You're In A Cult, Call Your Dad"

"You're In A Cult, Call Your Dad": "Flannel, Sedona trees, bergamot tea, snickerdoodle cookies."

No.

No, absolutely not.

NO.

This scent is a resounding no.

This isn't an "ehhh, not really my thing" scent, it's a NO scent.

I was really excited for this because I've been actively looking for a bergamot scent and I enjoy the smell of bergamot tea. (One of my favorite scents is a beard wash that Nesko has that's bergamot, grapefruit, and black pepper.) I was wary of the "snickerdoodle cookies" part because cookie-related things can be SO sweet smelling. I have no experience with "flannel" or "sedona trees" as scents so I'm not sure if either of those are specifically to blame.

I've washed my arm three times and the scent lingers. I'll give these perfume oils that - they are tenacious.

This has a warm smell, but suffocating warmth instead of a rich full bodied warmth like "amber." There's kind of a toasty smell... not like toast. Not like char. But it makes me think "toasty" or "toasted," something that's been near fire. It's a VERY familiar smell and it took me about an hour but it smells a bit like female gingko biloba trees maybe? Or one of the other trees that emits a smell that's more funky than it is floral or green.

Ugh, this scent is oppressing me. Depending on how long ago Nesko ordered it I might be able to return it. But even if I can't these were only like $8 each.

I want to go someplace and spend a few hours sniffing individual scents and taking notes about them. That'd be really cool.

Update:

I used some rubbing alcohol to wash this off. It's still very slightly present but not much at all. I think some rubbed onto my laptop. Scents tend to... I don't know if they linger in my nose or I just smell certain things and keep remembering having smelled them. So the faint presence might be that, too. I'm not sure.

Anyway, on to the next scent.

Sucreabeille: "Sea Hag"

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.