#colornoise

First impressions: These perfumes shipped out super fast, and the packaging is ultra cute - some of the nicest indie packaging i've seen! The sample vials are also shaped slightly differently than most - they're only mildly easier to open than others, but they are EXTREMELY easy to close. They're also... Real cute. No spills, everything securely packaged. Even the package envelope they sent it in was fancy and holographic, fitting with the brand. No complaints here.

The one thing i'm confused about is that these are perfume oils using a fractionated coconut oil base, but they're in spritzer bottles? I'm fairly new on the indie scene, but to my understanding, this is something places tend to avoid? Regardless, i've had no trouble spraying it thus far.

Anyways, here we go~

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MATCHA LATTE (PERFUME OIL)

NOTES: Fresh matcha powder, sweetened cream, green tea leaves, tea with friends

IN THE BOTTLE: Honestly it's hard to sniff this in the bottle since it's, y'know, a spritzer. From the faint whiff I can get, I smell very light, slightly creamy green tea.

IMMEDIATE APPLICATION (BECAUSE I AM A GOON): For the most part, this is just green tea leaves. Doesn't go creamy, the matcha is only a little detectable. It's a bit soapy in the way that actual green tea is, and a hint zingy, almost citrusy. It basically stayed like this throughout my whole wear - herbal, clear green tea.

AFTER RESTING: As soon as it hits my skin, I immediately get an herbiness verging on soapiness, but within a couple minutes it's easily identifiable as the green tea leaves and loses that soapy-threatening edge. Over the next hour or so, the sweet cream comes out! Hooray! But I wouldn't call it too sweet, just enough to balance out the herbal tones of the tea leaves. The matcha gives it a bit of powderiness, too, and I just faintly pick up that signature matcha scent. Ultimately, this smells... Maybe not like a matcha latte - there's nothing remotely coffee-ish about this, of course - but a really nice, semi-sweet, creamy green tea. Super lovely, very realistic.

This is really, really light though. I can only lightly smell it with my nose against my wrist - it's just strong enough that I don't necessarily have to go searching for it. The night I tested this, I literally put it on because I needed something light, refreshing, and not too sweet - and it absolutely did the trick.

RATING: 4.5/5. This is super nice - really, the only issue with it is that it's just a bit too faint.

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BRONZE (PERFUME OIL)

NOTES: Bronzed embers, warm patchouli, cedarwood spice.

IN THE BOTTLE: Interesting! Bright, sparkly, a little bit warm.

IMMEDIATE APPLICATION (BECAUSE I AM A GOON): Wow this might be the first patchouli scent I like. This is warm and pretty, the spices are tingly and absolutely lovely and compliment the very subtle wood notes really well. It's definitely a very stylized perfume, but it fits the color bronze to a T. For its notes, it's not a particularly dark or dirty scent - i'd actually qualify this as pretty sweet and clean. It smells like red goldstone looks. I like this a lot.

After wearing this for a few hours - it dries down and smells exactly like a very slightly citrusy southern sweet tea. It's delicious.

AFTER RESTING: This doesn't dry down to a picture-perfect lightly citrusy sweet tea anymore, which makes me sad. :(

That being said, it's not a bad scent or anything, and honestly matches the notes a little more closely. It's a warm and lightly spiced scent - my roommate said it smelled like cinnamon, which I can definitely see - with a woodiness sitting under it from the patchouli and cedarwood. Those Apparent Woody-Earthy Notes are stronger on the drydown and make this a little bit dirtier than before, but i'd still call this pretty clean and refreshing. It's also still got a hint of that citrusy tang, but like, it's way way way in the background, just kinda accenting anything else: what i'm sayin' is, if you're like 'ooo a citrus scent, imma buy that!' this is not a citrusy scent.

Re: the cinnamon, it's a little subdued and candy-like, but I wouldn't say it goes Red Hots on me. (because Red Hot smell makes me kinda ill, and this does not.)

At the time of writing this, i've been wearing it just over four hours and all i'm picking up is the faintest hints of a warm, fuzzy, subtle sweetness.