ScentNebula

I've been wearing this scent a lot and what I love about it is that different facets come out each time I wear it. Sometimes it's airy and aromatic with lavender, sometimes it's a sweet powdery rose, sometimes it's dirty and mossy, sometimes it's kinda spicy, sometimes kinda metallic, and sometimes it's dark and woody (this last might be my favorite). It does an incredibly good job, in my opinion, of capturing the scent of rotting leaves on the ground and the cool crisp air of early autumn. One of my favorites from this house.

The overall scent profile of this approximately resembles Karma by Lush, with an added pepper note. I haven’t tried Karma on skin but it smells similar on paper. However, it’s hard to really say WHAT At Night We Dance smells like because of its ever-shifting nature.

I have never been so confused by a fragrance as I have been by At Night We Dance. Right from the first paper test I noticed that it smells like someone threw 10 different essential oils in a pot and mixed them up, and then random combinations of notes emerge at whim for no particular reason. The problem with this is it’s hard to judge whether I like the smell or not when it KEEPS BLOODY CHANGING!

What I can tell you is this fragrance is all-natural. It smells CONSPICUOUSLY of naturals. I’m not sure how to explain this, I can just tell. That’s not a bad thing, I love and even prefer naturals, but it is a very specific kind of scent profile that not everyone will enjoy, which can probably be summed up by “hippie-ish”. If you like essential oil diffusers you’ll probably like this.

Up top, there’s a strong sweet orange note, with a hint of spice. As it warms up on the skin, a strongly oily note begins to emerge, which may be some kind of wood but it’s hard to tell. For me the pink pepper is the main heart note, though it comes and goes. In the background is sometimes sandalwood, and a dirty earthy note that I am 100% sure is patchouli despite it not being listed as a note, and sometimes there’s a vague sense of floral-ness too. Sometimes when I wear this, I get a hint of beautiful smoky frankincense, but it doesn’t happen consistently or seem to stick around. Sometimes in the drydown, it becomes a beautiful, sexy sort of musk, and other times I find the drydown to be kind of annoyingly sweet citrus-patchouli with pepper.

This is what I mean about this fragrance being confusing. I just can’t figure out what’s going on. I love some of the note combinations that pop up, but I’m not too sure about others. And I can’t decide whether it’s a good thing or not.
Poor blending, or mystique? Who knows.

This smells exactly like the skin of someone who covered themselves in sunscreen and then swam in the ocean - creamy, salty, a bit sweet and very white floral. The juice even looks like sunscreen. They really went all in on this theme.

Initially, I thought this scent was exceptional. The performance is beasty and the recreation of that summer-holiday beach skin-scent is flawless. But 12 hours later, I was beginning to get tired. This fragrance is SO STRONG and SO PERSISTENT and it honestly gets a bit sickening to me. I don’t think I can wear it again because I find it kind of disgusting now. But then, beach scents aren’t really my thing. I’m a goth who never leaves the house and runs away screaming from sunlight.

If you love realistic SPF-inspired beachy scents and want something that will last you all day and all night and scream at everyone within a 20 foot radius that I JUST WENT TO THE BEACH, this is the one. You can’t beat the price either.

Well this was a big disappointment. I love tobacco, whiskey, etc scents and I thought this was a safe blind buy. On opening the bottle it was hard to judge the scent due to the strong alcohol smell but at that point I mainly got a sharp terpenes sort of smell like in L’Orpheline (which is not my thing, but it could turn out nice so I wasn’t put off yet).
Unfortunately, the moment it hit my skin, all I could smell was something almost like burning rubber at first, and then a rotting, earthy smell that resembled one of the more stinky kinds of cannabis (and I can appreciate a cannabis smell, but this ain’t it). It wasn’t sweet on me at all, and I didn’t get tobacco, and only a hint of something whiskey-like. It just smelled bad.

Luckily it’s not very strong so even after using it on my face I didn’t have to put up with the smell for long. I did also put some on my wrist and after a couple of hours, I discovered that it had dried down to something more pleasant - a rather old fashioned (to my nose) masculine woody/earthy scent, maybe a bit tobacco-ish, but I couldn’t really tell you what it smelled like tbh. It was mediocrely pleasant.

This stuff made my face feel great, but it smells so bad on me that I don’t think I can even bring myself to use it as a skin toner/aftershave. At least it was cheap!

At first, I was underwhelmed by the simplicity of this fragrance. After the others I had tried from this house, it felt basic and uninspiring. With this one, what you see is what you get - it’s straight lavender and cashmeran. On my second wearing of it, I began to realise how pretty this scent is, but it wasn’t until my third wearing that I really started to appreciate it. I’d had a really rough day and was feeling tired and emotional, and I just wanted something soothing that wasn’t so distinctive that I’d be likely to form negative associations with it due to my mood. I sniffed everything in my fragrance wardrobe but nothing was quite right…until I came to Bat Song. It’s the perfect soothing scent for a time like this, and with its intimate sillage and aromatic lavender, it’s light and fresh enough to be suitable for the hot summer nights we’re having here, while still feeling sort of cosy. To me this is the ideal bedtime fragrance, for you alone (and perhaps a partner) to smell.
P.S. I've noticed this seems to smell a lot better in the heat or on warm, fresh-out-of-the-shower skin!