Stereoplasm: Declassified Summer 2020 (Review)

Released as part of the Summer 2020, it's particularly well timed for the arrival of summer in Australia. I love how these also aren't your typical summery scents - they're a little more mysterious but definitely still as fun! This is just half a review due to a badly timed nosebleed, but that's how life works. 

Autokinesis: Blueberry ozone, wild ravensara, crushed daisies, silver fir and phenolic cat nip

This opens up with a burst of atmospheric goodness, the ravensara with its rosemary like profile, green clipped lavender stems, eucalyptus, grass, a breeze of cold air and meat. The resulting effect is like a cold winter's day, powdery snow, crushed blueberries and smoked herbs and vegetables in wooden pots. It has a little chill, and a light fall of snow dusted on top of the scent. 

After about half an hour of dry down, the blueberry starts to creep in from the sidelines, like Violet Beauregarde. It blossoms and blooms and grows until there's nothing else in the scent besides the puffy, chewy shade of blueberry, and canned blueberry syrup. I like that the scent really matches the cute blue label on the bottle too - it's very fitting for the sweet, fruity scent that emerges from behind the herbaceous opening. 

Perfect for: the 2005 remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there's only one pot of watery vegetable broth, a lot of snow, and one giant and ever-expanding blueberry. 

The Ghost Rockets: Fresh marshmallow, candy rockets, cuckoo bread, meteor dust, lily of the valley and hazel

This is definitely one of the scents I was fascinated by - I love Stereoplasm's marshmallow notes, and the blend of candy rockets with lily and cuckoo bread (a plant with white and purple flowers, otherwise known as the oxalis acetosella) and a smidge of meteor dust just sounds like a cool space adventure.

I find this a super interesting scent - it has all the sweet squishy marshmallow elements, candy rockets (you know, the long stack of multicolored sweets) with an almost bread-like sweetness to the body of the scent, but the base notes are all soft florals, with a heap of lily of the valley and a touch of woody hazel to round it out. After dry down it softens up and turns a little sweeter on my skin, with a little bit of meteor and marshmallow dust, on a base of lily of the valley. 

This is probably my own personal favorite out of the collection - I'm not usually a big fan of flormands, and I wouldn't really consider this a straight flormand either, but the way this is blended I really love. 

Perfect for: It's summer. You're decked out in some nondescript perfume from the drug store down the road, on a date in an empty field, sat on your dad's busted up vintage car, setting off sparklers and watching the meteor showers at dusk. 

Missing Time: White thyme, dalmatian sage, burnt sweet birch, rosalina, belladonna petals and petitgrain

The opening of this scent reminds me a lot of a roast chicken on a spit in the middle of a pine forest, it's super fragrant and incredibly herbaceous. There's a lot of thyme, sage, wood, a whole herb shelf, a bit of smoke, a drop of citrus and the fragrant wafting of pine. There's something oddly minty and biting about this scent when it opens up, but it gradually mellows out on my skin. 

All the notes in this scent are fascinating - the rosalina here reads as a sort of rosewood and pine combination, the belladonna has an intoxicating, soft fuzzy quality, and the petitgrain is an enigma of neroli, lime, black pepper and citrus. After half an hour, it ends up softening into a soft pine, birch, thyme and sage blend with a touch of petitgrain/neroli, topped with a little waft of something smoked. 

Honestly, this is not a scent I'd usually gravitate towards at all, but I kind of love it in a way, that it has a delicate essential oil quality that just feels a little bit like an unorthodox day at the spa. 

Perfect for: the time you and your friends went camping, made your own campfire and accidentally set the thyme and spice mix for the chicken on fire. 

Disclaimer: These scents were was sent for review. I was not sponsored for this review or affiliated with this brand, and all opinions are my own, and do not reflect the brand's opinions or interests.