I would like to write about "witches' ointment", as the discussion about it so far has amused me greatly.
You want and expect the witch with excitement and who comes tapping out of the forest instead? Johnny, the idiot. (Also called "Liquorice Johnny" by Parfuma Brida in this context). If that's not a nice surprise ?!
What I have tested so far, initially with excitement, of "witch scents", has smelled disappointingly bitter and smoky and I didn't like it at all. Yes, Marieposa, who wrote "Hex sell's" was right. The name is appealing.
That's why I want to murmur in my sexiest Hexy voice: Johnny, where's the ointment? This midlife-crisis-plagued fifty-something is telling me in all seriousness that he's just had a shower in the woods...
With a witch?! I ask, struggling to overcome my jealousy. "No, with herbal shower cream," he grumbles, cool as usual, and I can't help but sniff him a little and pretend to take a selfie of us. He seems to be used to it and looks impassively into the camera with dilated pupils (he's eaten deadly nightshade?!). He smells pleasantly medicinal. Gentle. Like herbs. In fact, like the medicine cabinet with natural remedies mentioned by Charle Ambre. Very pleasant. I can't say whether he also applied Sauvage, as Scenteniell suspects. Never tested.
"Hex sell's" applies to me, Johnny doesn't.
Nevertheless, I'm a bit pleased about Johnny, here in the role of the Shaman.
Yesterday I smelled a sweet floral at the beginning, which I had attributed to tuberose. And belladonna, although I never sniffed any of them.
The fragrance is quiet, unobtrusive and complex. Woody, herbal, a tiny bit floral, delicately spicy. Not unlike a classic men's fragrance (Merida).
You expect the wild, a little bit crazy witch and get the nature-loving Johnny in an identity crisis, who has just retrained as an office clerk....ere are worse things - right? ;-)) I like it and the fragrance sparked my interest in the Stora Skuggan brand, as I immediately found it strikingly beautiful. After today's test, where the flowers have made themselves scarce and I only notice the herbal mixture, it will probably not be a candidate for purchase. Perhaps I will secretly spray it on my unscented husband once in a while. He'll cope better with it than he did with
Bandit (2012) Eau de Parfum. Also a great fragrance, but that's another story to be told another time....
Thanks for reading and have fun testing and discussing!
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