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Sweet cinnamon dessert
Tiger By Her Side landed on my test list because I was looking for scents that contained both incense and vanilla. Since I also like to sniff spicy orientals and the comments/statements pointed in this direction, I organized a sample.
Scent:
At the beginning the bergamot comes through very briefly, but also disappears again very quickly. The cinnamon is completely different, standing directly on the mat, loud and present. The cinnamon is also very noticeable throughout the entire fragrance and is for me the main motif of the fragrance
Although there is nothing fruity in the pyramid, I could swear I smell apple. All in all, I combine this with a deliciously over-sweetened apple compote/fried apple with plenty of cinnamon and a good shot of high-proof
I can hardly smell patchouli and resins as individual components, they combine for me rather to a warm, balsamic foundation. Only towards the end a more earthy note is noticeable.
After about 4 hours the scent becomes more skin-tight and loses some of its sweetness.
Conclusion:
All in all, the scent is already very sweet, but for me personally it fits to the contained scents, but you should definitely go for sweet scents, otherwise it will be too much for you.
The scent is also heavy, rich and dense, which makes it more like a winter scent.
Although Tiger By Her Side has oriental touches, I would rather understand it as a cinnamon dessert and less as an oriental bazaar because of its (for me personally clearly pronounced) fruitiness, and for me it even falls more into the Christmas corner.
Since both incense and vanilla are rather well interwoven and not the main protagonists, the search for incense vanilla continues for me.
Scent:
At the beginning the bergamot comes through very briefly, but also disappears again very quickly. The cinnamon is completely different, standing directly on the mat, loud and present. The cinnamon is also very noticeable throughout the entire fragrance and is for me the main motif of the fragrance
Although there is nothing fruity in the pyramid, I could swear I smell apple. All in all, I combine this with a deliciously over-sweetened apple compote/fried apple with plenty of cinnamon and a good shot of high-proof
I can hardly smell patchouli and resins as individual components, they combine for me rather to a warm, balsamic foundation. Only towards the end a more earthy note is noticeable.
After about 4 hours the scent becomes more skin-tight and loses some of its sweetness.
Conclusion:
All in all, the scent is already very sweet, but for me personally it fits to the contained scents, but you should definitely go for sweet scents, otherwise it will be too much for you.
The scent is also heavy, rich and dense, which makes it more like a winter scent.
Although Tiger By Her Side has oriental touches, I would rather understand it as a cinnamon dessert and less as an oriental bazaar because of its (for me personally clearly pronounced) fruitiness, and for me it even falls more into the Christmas corner.
Since both incense and vanilla are rather well interwoven and not the main protagonists, the search for incense vanilla continues for me.
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Walk in the pine forest
Recently I went in search of incense scents with vanilla undertones. After thinning through the database for the fragrance "incense" and reading all relevant advice threads in this direction, I found Soul Batik on my test list.
So we got a specimen and we were ready to go.
The smell:
The bergamot in the top note is shy and quickly evaporates, the cardamom is slightly medicinal here and this also continues to be weakened by the fragrance.
Soul Batik quickly turns out sweetish and very dense with vanilla and amber. The present incense darkens the fragrance.
All in all, the scent makes me think of heavy, dark fabric, a thick winter scarf or a cuddly blanket in front of a crackling open fire.
With time, Soul Batik becomes drier, warmer and spicier and also slightly woody, in the background a soapy aftershave note plays along, but it is really only very subtle.
I can't smell patchouli or earthy notes.
Conclusion:
When spraying it on, I feel transported directly into a cool, dark coniferous forest. The air is rain moist and resinous-spicy. In spite of vanilla and amber, which try to warm up the scent in a sweet and spicy way, the overall impression of the scent remains cold, just like a cold, dark, misty autumn forest
I personally see the fragrance, despite its sweetness, more on a man, due to the subtle, subliminal racial water/soap note.
Although it is rather heavy spicy and dark, I find the scent quite wearable during the day, as long as one doses sparingly. I can well imagine it as a signature with recognition value, for example, if you like to travel in the fragrance direction.
For the incense/vanilla scent I'm looking for, the focus of Soul Batik is not enough on the combination of incense and vanilla, but rather on the resinous impression.
So for me the search continues.
So we got a specimen and we were ready to go.
The smell:
The bergamot in the top note is shy and quickly evaporates, the cardamom is slightly medicinal here and this also continues to be weakened by the fragrance.
Soul Batik quickly turns out sweetish and very dense with vanilla and amber. The present incense darkens the fragrance.
All in all, the scent makes me think of heavy, dark fabric, a thick winter scarf or a cuddly blanket in front of a crackling open fire.
With time, Soul Batik becomes drier, warmer and spicier and also slightly woody, in the background a soapy aftershave note plays along, but it is really only very subtle.
I can't smell patchouli or earthy notes.
Conclusion:
When spraying it on, I feel transported directly into a cool, dark coniferous forest. The air is rain moist and resinous-spicy. In spite of vanilla and amber, which try to warm up the scent in a sweet and spicy way, the overall impression of the scent remains cold, just like a cold, dark, misty autumn forest
I personally see the fragrance, despite its sweetness, more on a man, due to the subtle, subliminal racial water/soap note.
Although it is rather heavy spicy and dark, I find the scent quite wearable during the day, as long as one doses sparingly. I can well imagine it as a signature with recognition value, for example, if you like to travel in the fragrance direction.
For the incense/vanilla scent I'm looking for, the focus of Soul Batik is not enough on the combination of incense and vanilla, but rather on the resinous impression.
So for me the search continues.
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snuggly Christmas tea
Even with scents there is sometimes love at second sight...
At the moment I'm testing my entire collection of samples and bottlings again to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I remembered that my first attempt with Tobacco Vanilla resulted in only one thing: salty, dust-dry tobacco!
Since I don't like to smell of pure tobacco in everyday life, my expectations were not too high when I tested again.
So I sprayed the scent on and to my amazement was directly received by a variety of spices.
My first thought was, "Oh, it smells like that Christmas tea!"
If you like to buy tea with names like "roasted almond" or "orange marzipan" at Christmas time, you know what I mean and I can't get this tea association out of my nose until the end.
I mean clearly clove and cinnamon to smell out and also the vanilla is present for me already early.
The vanilla note, together with the dried fruit and cinnamon, ensures that after a few hours the fragrance is reminiscent of Christmas baking.
The smoky tobacco smell was also clear in this test, but it blends perfectly into the fragrance composition and a spicy-sweet round scent is created.
Tobacco vanilla may not be a fragrance for everyday use, but it is a wonderfully cuddly, spicy-warm winter or Christmas scent with a balanced scent composition.
At the moment I'm testing my entire collection of samples and bottlings again to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I remembered that my first attempt with Tobacco Vanilla resulted in only one thing: salty, dust-dry tobacco!
Since I don't like to smell of pure tobacco in everyday life, my expectations were not too high when I tested again.
So I sprayed the scent on and to my amazement was directly received by a variety of spices.
My first thought was, "Oh, it smells like that Christmas tea!"
If you like to buy tea with names like "roasted almond" or "orange marzipan" at Christmas time, you know what I mean and I can't get this tea association out of my nose until the end.
I mean clearly clove and cinnamon to smell out and also the vanilla is present for me already early.
The vanilla note, together with the dried fruit and cinnamon, ensures that after a few hours the fragrance is reminiscent of Christmas baking.
The smoky tobacco smell was also clear in this test, but it blends perfectly into the fragrance composition and a spicy-sweet round scent is created.
Tobacco vanilla may not be a fragrance for everyday use, but it is a wonderfully cuddly, spicy-warm winter or Christmas scent with a balanced scent composition.
