Sixteen 92: The Garden Party, The Tea Party, Party At The Moon Tower 2019 Review

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As always, these were 2oz bottles of Sixteen92's AURA Room and Linen sprays. 

The Garden Party: Meyer lemon honey cake soaked in rosewater and jasmine simple syrup, topped with a citrus glaze and candied rose petals.

Wet: Jammy, honey cake.

Dried down: Honey! Smooth, whipped honey, delicious honey syrup drenched vanilla cake, topped with a few petals of candied rose and a dab of rose jam and the faint scent of white florals, a light and breezy aroma. To me, the citrus is more of a grated zest in the honey but mostly largely absent. 

When I first blind tested this, this smells very similar to Nui Cobalt Design's The Bee's High Tea (notes are : Delicate vanilla cakes with rose petal preserves, elderflower wine, and Earl Grey tea with a dainty drop of spring harvest honey). They both feature honey and cake as their dominant notes, with a light floral and jammy rose, except Garden Party is definitely a smidge more floral and a little stronger on the citrus (and this also varies according to skin chemistry as well!) 

For Garden Party, I definitely imagine myself sitting in a beautiful garden enjoying an afternoon tea of honey cakes, surrounded with sweet fragrant jasmine and a quaint glass of rose and lemon infused iced water. 

Perfect for: Fans of The Bee's High Tea (NCD) or anyone who likes a floral gourmand, or sweeter florals. 

The Tea Party: Vanilla almond birthday cake topped with Earl Grey buttercream

Wet: A sharp, boozy almond/amaretto note soaked in vanilla cake. 

Dried down: Upon initial wear, there's a slice of vanilla sponge cake comes peaking through, with a rich lemon glaze dripping down the sides, on top of almond buttercream. During wear time, there's a slightly richer, tannic "brewed" quality from the Earl Grey that unfolds, a delicious cup of piping hot tea. The vanilla is the same light fluffy vanilla cake, recognisably sweet and plenty indulgent. 

The Earl Grey note weaves in and out with the almond essence, but it's pleasantly indulgent and sufficiently comfy with its combo of tea and cakes. 

I imagine a dense vanilla cake, piped with almond buttercream, and sparsely doused in amaretto with a porcelain cup of freshly brewed Earl Grey tea. It's simple, but it hits all the notes I'd want in a perfume, a beautiful tea note paired with a sweet vanilla and cake. 

Party at the Moon Tower: White cupcakes with popping candy frosting, spiked punch, faded sunscreen, lake breeze, a distant Summer bonfire

Wet: Fruit punch, lemonade, a hint of fizzy and pineapple syrup.

Dried down: It smells like sitting next to a pool.. yet there's something else. This is purely a personal, self indulgent memory but I am proceeding with this description anyway: it reminds me of sitting in my aunt's pink car. She always smelt like a mixture of alcoholic sanitizing wipes, the smell of the air freshener in the car, her laundry powder and a variety of hair products. In some, strange evocative way, this scent delivers spades of nostalgia. But I suppose they do say, smell is the closest senses to memory. 

While it's not a scent I'd see myself wearing often, there's something unshakeable about the scent that signifies something intensely nostalgic to me - so I may be the slightest bit biased on this. 

My own indulgence aside, this scent has the faintly sweet base of cupcakes which isn't very noticeable at all, and mostly overshadowed by the punch. I picked out pineapple syrup, and a touch of orange, and what smelt like fizzy fruit punch must have been the popping aspect of the popping candy. The faded sunscreen is one of the most interesting aspects of this scent, because it actually smells like sunscreen, with the skin musk. On my skin, I amp the sweet fruit punch notes a little more, but on linen I get more of a faint aquatic (lake breeze) but the sunscreen is equally prominent on both skin and fabric. 

The resulting image is sitting at the side of a middle school pool party, sipping dodgy fruit punch out of a plastic cup, smeared sunscreen, and the very faint hint of the surrounding sea. 

Perfect for: Fruit/Atmospheric lovers. This is a summer party in a bottle, smeared sunscreen, and underage drinking. 

Disclaimer: I am not sponsored or affiliated with this brand, and all opinions are my own