Brand: Solstice Scents
Scent Description:
The austere and formidable Gibbon’s Boarding School will be opening its doors for the annual Mischief Night: a night of Halloween costumes, live music, apple bobbing and games of hide-and-seek within its extensive rooms and gardens.
The main notes are sugar cookies with vanilla frosting, white chocolate covered popcorn, lightly toasted marshmallows rolled in graham cracker dust within the atmosphere of Gibbon’s Boarding School (Dusty Wooden Desks, Paper, Carefully Hidden Tobacco Pouch, Dying Fire, Dried Leaves, Leather Chairs, Autumn Breeze) and a touch of bourbon, pear brandy and cream soda.
Gibbon’s Mischief Night is a very sweet and delicious gourmand scent. It is tempered with a little bit of our Gibbon’s Boarding School fragrance to transport you to the refreshments table within the institution. Just a little nip of bourbon and pear brandy (top notes) and rounded out by a soft vanilla cream soda. No autumnal spice, no chocolate, just pure white sugar focused desserts.
On initial application, you are greeted with the scent of Gibbon’s Boarding School with a very light waft of warm, golden, oaky bourbon with a trace of vanilla and a little pear brandy. Just underneath, you smell the promise of a saccharine evening full of sugared goodness: the sugar cookies topped with orange colored vanilla frosting, white chocolate covered popcorn, toasted marshmallows rolled in graham cracker dust, vanilla cream soda. After a few minutes, you get closer to the refreshments table and the gourmand aspects of the fragrance become even stronger as you indulge in the spread of treats. The sweets are a very dominant part of this blend and they waft around beautifully. The sugar cookies are the predominantly detectable sweet, though all of the offerings waft in and out. The Gibbon’s fragrance adds atmosphere but also adds complexity and keeps the gourmand aspect reigned in without interfering too much.
Indie Scent Library 
This is definitely very white confection, and white sugar! I loved this so much, sweet and vanilla and everything I want in a perfume. However, it really didn’t last that long. It was my perfect perfume, but only for about 2 hours. Then it faded into nothingness. A real bummer, because it’s a beautiful smell. I wonder if the EDP would last longer than the oil.
I really wanted to like this, but I think it’s gross. Initially, it’s a marshmallow & white chocolate popcorn, which is okay but has that weird buttery tang to it. Then, it turns into that same popcorn + pear, which is nasty to me. Hours later, it’s just a nice marshmallow/white chocolate, but the journey to something so simple is a little much for me.
Persephonal is right – this is very white confectionary forward. The powdery aspects of the white chocolate popcorn and sugar cookies jumps out at you first, running a little musky over the cream soda and the worn leather + autumn air components of Gibbon’s Boarding School. The pear brandy eventually shows itself when the scent starts drying down, and boy is it ever warm, decadent, and smooth. It really balances all of the other elements along with the bourbon to make this an adult party scent. Definitely an atmospheric gourmand.
When Angela said this was a lot of white confections and desserts, she meant it, and strangely I really love it. The sugar cookies and vanilla are very similar if not the same to the ones in Snowmint Mallow (one of my winter favorites), while the white chocolate popcorn and frosting add some delicious buttery undertones and the toasted marshmallow and graham cracker lean so close to a smores (but no chocolate!). The cream soda is subtle but definitely a nice edition underneath (and rather realistic), and I only get the slightest hint of sweet, silky brandy and bourbon adding a playful adult touch. It’s strange, but the Gibbon’s is very much a background atmosphere which I have no idea how Angela accomplished that. It is very much sweets-forward but placed inside Gibbon’s in such an interesting subtle atmospheric way.