NCD: Witches Utility Blends 2019 Review
Witches Utility Blend 2019
The owners of Nui Cobalt, Forest and Joshua have very generously sent me another batch of scents, so this time I'll be covering a few scents from their recent collections, the Witches Utility Blends.
As a thank you to my readers, I've collaborated with Nui Cobalt to bring you a discount code for these scents and their beautiful new Fall collection as well!
Use the checkout code: AUTUMN19 for 10% off your entire order - you can use this for your entire checkout, and it will be valid until October 15th so be sure to pick up something you like before then!
If you want to find out more information about how or where to buy their scents, click here, or here for some more reviews! If you're looking for Critters 2019 review, click here!
Replenish
A splashy scent to refresh the spirit and revitalize the mind. A champagne sangria of tart cherry, blackberry, elderberry, and tangerine awash in cool effervescence with a spritz of lemon. Put it on when you need to wake up, reset, and get in gear.
Wet: Sharp medicinal cherry, topped with a demanding citrus with its acrid zest, and the acerbic opening of champagne's bubbling acidity. It's all sharp edges and piercing tartness paired with natural bitterness.
Dried down: Usually dry down occurs around the first 10-30 minutes of a scent, but this specific scent takes a little longer: around an hour. My skin chemistry typically amps sweeter notes as well, so YMMV.
The dominant top notes of cherry are tempered, sedated by the champagne, and the bitter tinge of green from the tangerine lost in the growing sweetness of a little too much champagne. The champagne is a saccharine, alluring affair, but the effervescence is only a faint few bubbles on the edge of the glass, yet the fruit stays as a tame, quiet note, sprinkling the scent with a few hints of sweet, bitten cherries, crushed blackberries and a touch of sourness of lemon to cut the sweetness a little.
This scent calls to mind the start of a New Year's party, a small flute of champagne, when everyone brings fruit over because the resolution for the year is to eat less pudding and a little more fruit for that diet that doesn't last quite as long as it should. Replenish also reminds me a lot of Strawberry Ginger Fizz (Haus of Gloi), albeit a little less sweet but the overall fruit profile has quite a few overlapping features.
Perfect for: fans of sweet fruit blends, it's a delicious, refreshing fruity adventure.
Dried down: Usually dry down occurs around the first 10-30 minutes of a scent, but this specific scent takes a little longer: around an hour. My skin chemistry typically amps sweeter notes as well, so YMMV.
The dominant top notes of cherry are tempered, sedated by the champagne, and the bitter tinge of green from the tangerine lost in the growing sweetness of a little too much champagne. The champagne is a saccharine, alluring affair, but the effervescence is only a faint few bubbles on the edge of the glass, yet the fruit stays as a tame, quiet note, sprinkling the scent with a few hints of sweet, bitten cherries, crushed blackberries and a touch of sourness of lemon to cut the sweetness a little.
This scent calls to mind the start of a New Year's party, a small flute of champagne, when everyone brings fruit over because the resolution for the year is to eat less pudding and a little more fruit for that diet that doesn't last quite as long as it should. Replenish also reminds me a lot of Strawberry Ginger Fizz (Haus of Gloi), albeit a little less sweet but the overall fruit profile has quite a few overlapping features.
Perfect for: fans of sweet fruit blends, it's a delicious, refreshing fruity adventure.
Beauty
This fragrance is the magical complement to our enchanted candle of the same name. It illuminates your charms and amplifies allure, encouraging self care and the avid appreciation of your finest qualities. An exquisite air of Caribbean teakwood, nectarine, water lilies, Magdagascar vanilla, heirloom roses, tobacco flower, and lavande de Provence over smooth tonka bean. Wear any time you need to be reminded of your innate perfection. Employ in rituals of attraction to awaken your inner radiance.
Wet: Teakwood, earthy aromas and a woody base grounds the floaty, every so slightly aquatic floral - water lilies, with a hint of sweetness from the tonka bean. To me, this scent takes on a slightly musky, vintage quality.
Dried down: The heart of this scent is the wood and teakwood, grounding the scent which makes it a little more unisex than I imagined. The water lily and tonka bean are the middle notes - the water lily is a little intoxicating, faint sweetness, a touch of citrus, a little aquatic, with the speckled vanillin qualities from the tonka bean. Despite the lack of musk in the notes, I picked up a little bit of musk, and an almost 'aged' quality about this scent, which could be the tobacco flower, or the general quality of Caribbean teakwood. While this is a little too masculine and woody for my personal taste, and the wood grows stronger the more you apply, this is an elegant scent : think antique vanities, delicate floral perfumes, scented face powder and crushed flowers between pages of aged books.
Perfect for: Those who lean towards vintage, woody scents.
This to me leans unisex, and it's a scent that calls to mind the intricately carved wooden tables and chairs in a Jane Austen novel, a romantic story, but one that's about falling in love with yourself.
Disclaimer: The brand has sent these for me to review, but I am not sponsored for this review or affiliated with this brand, and all opinions are my own.
Dried down: The heart of this scent is the wood and teakwood, grounding the scent which makes it a little more unisex than I imagined. The water lily and tonka bean are the middle notes - the water lily is a little intoxicating, faint sweetness, a touch of citrus, a little aquatic, with the speckled vanillin qualities from the tonka bean. Despite the lack of musk in the notes, I picked up a little bit of musk, and an almost 'aged' quality about this scent, which could be the tobacco flower, or the general quality of Caribbean teakwood. While this is a little too masculine and woody for my personal taste, and the wood grows stronger the more you apply, this is an elegant scent : think antique vanities, delicate floral perfumes, scented face powder and crushed flowers between pages of aged books.
Perfect for: Those who lean towards vintage, woody scents.
This to me leans unisex, and it's a scent that calls to mind the intricately carved wooden tables and chairs in a Jane Austen novel, a romantic story, but one that's about falling in love with yourself.
Disclaimer: The brand has sent these for me to review, but I am not sponsored for this review or affiliated with this brand, and all opinions are my own.
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