Happy Friday everyone! Today is a snow day, so I am working at home. I have been on campus a lot so far this term, so a day to catch up on some things is good!
The perfumes I have for you today are from the Blood Concept line, a niche perfume collection from Italy. I got samples of A and AB from Luckyscent...I am blood type A- and Phil is blood type AB+. The adcopy of the company is a bit ridiculous, and hard to follow - part of the pretentiousness that sometimes comes from niche perfumery. The whole idea is that the perfumes correspond to your blood type and are best suited for you. I do not believe that for a second, just like I don't believe in horoscopes, but thought I would try the scents to see if they were appealing. What drew me in was the description of metallic notes in the scents, which is quite unusual. The other notes in A were a little more common, while the notes in AB were so strange and unique, I had to give it a try.
You can see the samples are small, but still enough for me to get 3-4 wears out of them. (My nail polish is Sephora X Chaotic over Quo Free Spirit, in case you are a nailphile. :))
Blood Concept A is listed as having the following notes: top - green, middle - basil and tomato leaf, base -star anise and metallic notes. When I open the vial I smell the green notes, a bit of sharp spicy tomato leaf, and an overlying sweetness of fruit and spice. I do not get much of the metallic note. On my skin, it is the anise that stands out the most, while the other notes seem to blend into a sweet fruitiness like an apple pie, or almost a cookie dough blend. It smells really good, and lasts a long time on me. I do not get a metallic base note at any time from this one, nor does it remind me of blood.
I really like this fragrance, but probably would not buy it given the expensive price tag - close to $160 for 40mL. So, I would say 4/5 for the way it works on me, but only buy this if you absolutely adore the scent on your skin.
Blood Concept AB has these notes listed on Fragrantica: aldehydes and aluminum top notes; water, slate, and pebbles in the middle notes (rocks, wtf???); and Virginia cedar and metallic notes in the base. This sounded like the most bizarre and interesting perfume I had ever heard of, and the reviews were either LOVE IT! or really HATE IT! Controversy is always exciting to me, so I had to give it a whirl. When I open the vial, I definitely get the scent of cedar and the aldehydes, which have a clean zesty citrus smell - more like the common fresh zing of lemons and limes rather than something you can pin down. And, yes I can smell the rocks and metal - to me it is like being beside a metallic spring, with the water smelling of all the elements that are in it. This one transports me to a snow-laden mountain top, covered in evergreens, with a mineral-laden river running in a valley below and all the scents awakening my lungs and clearing out any bad feelings I may have percolating inside me.
I utterly love the images that AB invokes, and it is such a clean unique smell that it makes me smile. After a while, it smells a bit like clean, blue soap - if that makes any sense - and is still pleasant. While I do adore this, again I am not sure I would shell out for this scent, to mainly get the imagery. I think it is wearable, and seems a bit more masculine than unisex. It would be a great aromatherapy scent if it were not so pricey - the same cost as A. I would give this a 4.5 for the way it makes me feel.
I highly suggest getting samples if you are interested in these scents to see if they work for you. Fragrance is such an individual thing, and recommendations of others are always going to be biased by their own feelings.
Have an excellent weekend, and thanks for reading!
ETA: Yes, A smells better on me...more feminine, not because of the blood type concept....I don't think. :P
The perfumes I have for you today are from the Blood Concept line, a niche perfume collection from Italy. I got samples of A and AB from Luckyscent...I am blood type A- and Phil is blood type AB+. The adcopy of the company is a bit ridiculous, and hard to follow - part of the pretentiousness that sometimes comes from niche perfumery. The whole idea is that the perfumes correspond to your blood type and are best suited for you. I do not believe that for a second, just like I don't believe in horoscopes, but thought I would try the scents to see if they were appealing. What drew me in was the description of metallic notes in the scents, which is quite unusual. The other notes in A were a little more common, while the notes in AB were so strange and unique, I had to give it a try.
You can see the samples are small, but still enough for me to get 3-4 wears out of them. (My nail polish is Sephora X Chaotic over Quo Free Spirit, in case you are a nailphile. :))
Blood Concept A is listed as having the following notes: top - green, middle - basil and tomato leaf, base -star anise and metallic notes. When I open the vial I smell the green notes, a bit of sharp spicy tomato leaf, and an overlying sweetness of fruit and spice. I do not get much of the metallic note. On my skin, it is the anise that stands out the most, while the other notes seem to blend into a sweet fruitiness like an apple pie, or almost a cookie dough blend. It smells really good, and lasts a long time on me. I do not get a metallic base note at any time from this one, nor does it remind me of blood.
I really like this fragrance, but probably would not buy it given the expensive price tag - close to $160 for 40mL. So, I would say 4/5 for the way it works on me, but only buy this if you absolutely adore the scent on your skin.
Blood Concept AB has these notes listed on Fragrantica: aldehydes and aluminum top notes; water, slate, and pebbles in the middle notes (rocks, wtf???); and Virginia cedar and metallic notes in the base. This sounded like the most bizarre and interesting perfume I had ever heard of, and the reviews were either LOVE IT! or really HATE IT! Controversy is always exciting to me, so I had to give it a whirl. When I open the vial, I definitely get the scent of cedar and the aldehydes, which have a clean zesty citrus smell - more like the common fresh zing of lemons and limes rather than something you can pin down. And, yes I can smell the rocks and metal - to me it is like being beside a metallic spring, with the water smelling of all the elements that are in it. This one transports me to a snow-laden mountain top, covered in evergreens, with a mineral-laden river running in a valley below and all the scents awakening my lungs and clearing out any bad feelings I may have percolating inside me.
I utterly love the images that AB invokes, and it is such a clean unique smell that it makes me smile. After a while, it smells a bit like clean, blue soap - if that makes any sense - and is still pleasant. While I do adore this, again I am not sure I would shell out for this scent, to mainly get the imagery. I think it is wearable, and seems a bit more masculine than unisex. It would be a great aromatherapy scent if it were not so pricey - the same cost as A. I would give this a 4.5 for the way it makes me feel.
I highly suggest getting samples if you are interested in these scents to see if they work for you. Fragrance is such an individual thing, and recommendations of others are always going to be biased by their own feelings.
Have an excellent weekend, and thanks for reading!
ETA: Yes, A smells better on me...more feminine, not because of the blood type concept....I don't think. :P
I love everything about this post! It's difficult to describe a perfume online, but you've managed it beautifully... and thankyou for the nail data :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you my dear pinky! It is definitely not easy to describe scents online, so I appreciate the complement!
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