Iceblocks

Top notes are all juicy artificial "peach flavour" joy held against a darker, dry, woody, slightly smoky black-tea base. It has the tang of tannins but maintains a touch of something 'wet' about it - the slight bitterness of strong tea blended...

Boronia Megastigma (‘Heaven Scent’) is one of my favourite flowers. Small and unassuming, nevertheless, when it blooms it is _stunning_. It is also, unfortunately, one of the fussiest plants to ever exist and I have never been able...

I don't wear fragrance for compliments - I wear it for me - but still, there's something to be said for the ones that garner them. For the scents that actually push people to take time out of their day to express delight, for scents that push people...

Crystalline sugar. This is iced raspberries and rose petals paired with candy floss, a pink macaron adorned with cream and artfully arrayed pomegranate arils. It's light, airy, and somehow "clean" despite the above - there's something...

The first thing to hit my nose was strawberry jam! That only lasted a moment before the woodier elements came through - there's still a rich-sugar-fruity undercurrent to this, but the top of it is all hay / tobacco / woods (which slowly become...

Smells like a cross between liquid smoke and BBQ sauce. Very strong, immediately rose to fill the space around my arm when I sprayed. Smoky, but a honey-umami-woody underlay - this is clearing out a firepit that had some incense sticks thrown into it at some...

The opening honestly reminds me of (yellow) Tiger Balm. I say this as a compliment - I like the scent of Tiger Balm - and that's honestly where my mind first jumped to. Vanilla, and Tiger Balm. It's a tiger that has its claws sheathed, however....

As seems to be a trend with their fragrances, this is both light and "polished" - however, unlike the fragrances I've tried so far, this is slightly sharper and with a bit more of a "kick". This is a pepper fragrance so it's not too surprising,...

Stale, burnt popcorn lightly flavoured with disinfectant. Like the inside of a trash can at a state fair, or the built-up grime on 90's neon arcade carpets. Cinema seats that have been wiped down, but never properly cleaned. I will...

I've never scrubbed a sample so fast. Just for that alone, it's kind of impressive! This is unpolished and rough as guts. Feels like three essential oils were thrown into a shaker, stirred with a stick, and poured into a bottle....

Transparent, light, and very warm. This isn't a "sharp" ginger, but a warm-smooth-base of ginger, like a soft spicy blanket wrapped around a vase of flowers. It's not quite a watercolour of a fragrance but it's getting there - it's very present,...

I know that 'Amber of Wonders' is literally the name, but seriously, there's something magical about this one - something I just keep coming back to (hello signature fragrance!). It somehow works with everything - it's as at home in a casual...