November in the Temperate Deciduous Forest
House: For Strange Women
My Rating: 4/5
Weird thing to say, it smells exactly how I remember my grandpa's little red coupe smelling when I got in after school growing up. It's got a fragrance like a sweet tea with so much sugar in it, you can practically taste the sugar before you even drink it, mud, and a warm feeling you can't shake. It's actually really charming despite how it sounds, like mid afternoon day in late September right after a rain shower..

Notes


Woods

Forest Floor

Rain

Tea

Decomposing Leaves

Where the Wild Things Grow
House: Sorce
My Rating: 1/5
It's giving like. Strawberry scented body soap from TJMaxx. It's fine... Its got an artifical strawberry ting to it that I am not fond of

Notes


Strawberries

Vanilla Cream Soda

Green Grass

Ambrette Seed

Saint Julep
House: Imaginary Authors
My Rating: 4/5
Bias here, I LOVE the smell of fresh herbs and this perfume smells like sitting on the porch where your mom's mint plant is flourishing right beside you. It's fresh, its sweet, its delicious in a way it almost cools you off in the middle of summer the way it smells.

Notes


Sweet Mint

Tangerine

Southern Magnolia

Bourbon

Grisalva

Sugarcube

Gnome
House: Fantôme
My Rating: 2/5
I want to really like this one, I LOVE the idea of a blackberry bramble note with cinnamon bark but this is kind of a miss for me. I can't smell the citrus in it very well and I think the cilantro is messing with the tone in a way I'm not fond of. It feels more antique store in an old strip mall that has a mold problem.

Notes


Blackberry Bramble

Grapefruit

Cilantro

Patchouli

Green Tomatoes

Cinnamon Bark

Greymist
House: Pineward
My Rating: 3/5
This smells like a walk through a pine forest at the end of fall or right at first snow. There isn't anything wrong with this perfume, it's giving Oregon grandpa in a cozy and brisk kind of way.

Notes


Noble Fir

Scotch Pine

Expressed Citron

Blond Tobacco

Botanical Musk

Vetiver

Black Death
House: Arcana Wildcraft
My Rating: 5/5
I can't express how much this one smells like you stepped into a witch's cottage at a Renaissance Faire. It's warm and captivating and I wish my skin could smell like this all of the time.

Notes


Clove Smoke

Bergamot

Amber

Vanilla Powder

Musk

Toffee


Don't Whistle in the Woods
House: Sorce
My Rating: 3/5
This is just a hair too sweet for me. It's a rich woody sweet scent that is inviting and warm. My only complaint that keeps this from being any higher is it's too sweet for me

Notes


Cedar

Sandalwood

Amber

Cypriol

Fir Balsam

Black Vanilla

Sugar

Ambrette

Fur

Ephemera
House: Sorce
My Rating: 5/5
I don't know how to describe this one because it smells like all of these things but none at all. It's sweet but not too much and smells comforting with the notes of cashmere and pumpkin, and warm with acorns and notebook paper, with the black soil only there to bring you back to Earth. This is the perfect warm perfume that I genuinely get compliments on every single time I wear it out.

Notes


Cedar

Fresh Carved Pumpkin

Brown Sugar

Notebook Paper

Black Soil

Acorns

Vanilla Absolute

Cashmere

Milky Musk