Caramelized almond
Rose hip
Vanilla
Heliotrope
Honey
Sandalwood
Tea05/20/2025
ClaireV
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ClaireV
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Almond sponge cake
Mercy Lewis is a wodge of the softest almond sponge cake you can imagine – the kind that is six layers deep and sandwiched with vanilla buttercream so sugary it makes your teeth hurt just to look at it. But for something this foodie, it is also remarkably light and gauzy in feel, as if it has been double-sifted to introduce air into the composition. Heliotrope, which has a naturally fresh fluffiness that aerates its doughier, marzipan-like core, has clearly been roped in here to do its thang. The scent does eventually develop a salty cherry playdough facet, but for the most part, any potentially leaden bits are whisked into the ether by a flurry of powdered white tea.
Mercy Lewis makes me wonder about its namesake inspiration. Was the real Mercy Lewis innocent and sweet in an unworldly way? Because this scent is a childish pleasure writ large – a nursery pudding rendered in scent form. The Internet tells me that the real Mercy Lewis was one of the girls who accused women of being witches during the Salem trials, possibly in revenge for her husband having allegedly sold goods to the Native American tribes who had slaughtered her parents. Interesting backstory, although it doesn’t explain why a scent named for her would smell like almond cake. Perhaps the scent represents a desire to return to a simpler, more innocent time, before her accusations shot out of her mouth, as impossible to take back as bullets from a gun.
Mercy Lewis makes me wonder about its namesake inspiration. Was the real Mercy Lewis innocent and sweet in an unworldly way? Because this scent is a childish pleasure writ large – a nursery pudding rendered in scent form. The Internet tells me that the real Mercy Lewis was one of the girls who accused women of being witches during the Salem trials, possibly in revenge for her husband having allegedly sold goods to the Native American tribes who had slaughtered her parents. Interesting backstory, although it doesn’t explain why a scent named for her would smell like almond cake. Perhaps the scent represents a desire to return to a simpler, more innocent time, before her accusations shot out of her mouth, as impossible to take back as bullets from a gun.
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