#baruti

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So I grabbed a discovery sample set from Baruti... And I'm so excited and polarized that I can't even wait to get through the whole set before I start writing about it!

I've heard all kinds of fantastic things about Baruti's Hot Cotton. It sounds like it might be my perfect match for a perfume that smells like MMX6 Gate, which I'm always on the prowl for. But I'm sooooo excited about that that I want to save it as my last one to try. There's four other scents that I chose from the discovery set.

(Full disclosure, I bought the pick five set directly from Baruti. But after having paid for it, having the set in my hands, and having already tried on one of the samples, I found out about a much better "deal" through Perfumology which is all of the EDPs from the house. I'm still happy with what I got, I spent less money and have less clutter, but I figured I should let people know about both versions and both price points. $30 for 5 or $55 for 13.)

Anyways, the other night, I tried Perverso on my skin. I was pretty hype for this one. To most people, it's a gourmand bomb.

Look at that, more figs! And I love all these notes. A musky chocolate hazelnut fig sounds just delicious to me.

Unfortunately, on my skin? Burnt rubber! It smells like a fucking tire fire! It was awful. Just awful. I left it on for hours, hoping it would perhaps transform and blossom into something else, but nay, just smoke and toxins and Springfield. Not a hint of musk or food in sight.

I let my wife have a sniff. She didn't hate it as much as I did, but it wasn't great. She said it smelled like "antique furnishings". Not bad, just very eerily specific and not a smell she associates with me. I agree, it's not a very me scent. I scrubbed it off of me before bed to make sure it didn't tarnish my bed sheets.

So, today I had very low expectations for my next pick. Another gourmand from this house, but one I was very skeptical of.

I like the idea of a Chai perfume, but leather and rose are notes I'm always wary of. In conjunction with anything I seem to enjoy, these two notes often dominate and smother. Even when perfumers claim that there's just a teensy bit of rose or leather, that never actually seems to be the case, and the rose and leather become the most noticable things about the fragrance.

But this one, oh my god.

This is such a photorealistic milky tea. It reminds me of the one my Kuwaiti friend made for me. It was spicy, it was milky, and it was full of the best cardamom I've ever had. This smelled so much like that and it flung me back to sleepovers at her grandma's house. And that rose note in there didn't upset me at all! It was almost just a little splash of rose syrup in my drink.

This feels like a tight hug.

I saw a lot of people claim that this is a fragrance only suitable for cold fall days and the dead of winter, but I completely disagree. On a nice, warm, sunny spring day? This reminds me of my friend and her love of all that is green and flowering. This scent is beautiful and it brings me such joy. The contrast of milk and spices feels so perfectly balanced that I think this is totally a year round perfume.

That being said, I kind of think every perfume should be good year 'round? But I'm getting off track here.

Now, my wife thought that this was very herbal. She didn't pick up the milkiness at all, so maybe that'll vary from nose to nose! But she thought it was a fine fragrance, at least a closer fit to me than Perverso was.

So yeah! Don't let one massive disappointment with a house sway you away from trying anything by them. They might do something really good by you in a place you don't expect!

I'm so happy to get to try three more scents by them!

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Baruti Oh My Deer

Nose: Spyros Drosopoulos

notes: black pepper, aldehydes, sichuan pepper; metallic notes, lily of the valley; animal notes, incense, musk, amber, vanilla

Oh My Deer! is a furry animalic musk scent, but it also goes on with a cooling, almost medicinal conifer forest scent and the hot-cold note of Sichuan pepper. This deer is in a dreamy, misty, chilly morning forest.

I find the effect cold to the point of being a bit unfriendly. It's as much an herbal/forest scent as a musk scent, without the warm touches that can make musks feel glamorous in a fur-coat-and-diamonds way.

[frozenaltarss]

So, uh, remember that little sketch canvas I posted a few days ago? Yeah, that was outdated, LOL. Here's the current and up-to-date canvas, and I have to admit that CSP is actually taking a minute to load it up, which means I need to start on another canvas.

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Some Dream Weavers!

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Baruti from the Spyro series, who is visually impaired

[cwgames]

Lofty castle

Lofty castle has many fairies are in this world but it seemed to have been captured.

[thesheepbroadcast]

With the political corruption leaked, Zoe and everyone around her is faced with the consequences of her action.

Any feedback, suggestions, ideas for series I can do and etc. are always very much appreciated. =)

Challenge: Help me out by reblogging this, and I’ll go through the notes and follow some of you back to say thanks! ^^