Brand: Nui Cobalt
Scent Description: The warm-weather sister to our beloved Arctic Fox. A shrewd blend for wit, resourcefulness, and acumen. Warm chai with steamed almond milk nestled in sumptuous cashmere, crimson musk, sarsaparilla, and budding birch.
Released: Critters 2019
On my skin 🦊Copper Fox🦊 smells like a blend of root beer (probably the sarsaparilla and the birch) and cinnamon and or allspice (probably the chai). There’s something in the background that softens this as it wears but I really can’t pick out what “it” is. Copper Fox leans to the masculine on me. It’s spicy but not sweet. The spices from the chai in Copper Fox reminds me of Alkemia’s Epicee Boheme, with the latter being MUCH more cinnamon dominant. I’m missing the creamy and perfumed aspects that I was expecting from the almond milk and the cashmere notes. I’d like CF more if all of the notes had shown up on me. I think this is a case of my skin amplifying certain notes in this particular perfume oil. I’m a fan of the sarsaparilla and the birch in Copper Fox but the chai is coming across as a cinnamon holiday candle. Copper Fox is definitely an oil that I would layer. It’s not a fail but it feels unfinished the way it wears on my skin. I’ll be actively searching out other Nui Cobalt scents with sarsaparilla and birch for sure. This lasts around 5 hours on me.
Review for Nui Cobalt’s 🦦River Otter🦦 from the Critters Collection.
Notes: languid amber, dark patchouli, sandalwood, Peru balsam, teak and homemade maple fudge.
If you’re a fan of maple then you need to experience River Otter. That maple fudge note is the absolute star of the show. I was wondering if I would get any chocolate out of this since the word “fudge” is in the mix but there’s zero chocolate in RO. That maple fudge note reminds me of my childhood vacations and the shops on the boardwalks of the east coast beaches (looking at you Ocean City, MD and you Wildwood, NJ) that made saltwater taffy and different kinds of fudge in their front windows. I was thinking that River Otter was going to be a sugar bomb but it’s more of a cozy snuggly scent than a gourmand on my skin. The amber in RO is one of very few that agrees with my skin chemistry. Usually ambers go powdery and rancid and ruin everything but I had no problems with the amber this blend. RO meshes and wears on my skin much more favorably than CF. I’d personally wear RO year round but it will make a wonderful cozy sweater weather scent. It’s a wonderfully balanced blend of sweet, woody and resinous together.
At first it’s a bit perfume-y, not in a harsh way, but in a way that reminds me a bit of grown up lady perfume counter smell. I’m guessing that’s the cashmere and musk combo, maybe. It gradually smooths out and the sarsaparilla and birch come more forward. On one wearing the sarsaparilla was most prominent, and I do get that almost root beer aroma. Another day it was the birch, which is very clear and just this side of wintergreen. Longer in, everything gets creamier and sweeter, but the whole effect stays pleasantly bright. I’m left with creamy tea, musk and just a hint of birch. You know how foxes have those elegant pointy noses and dainty paws? This blend really nails “foxiness” to me; it’s clever and elegant yet also grounded and soft.
This smelled like chai and soap to me, which is not how I think it was meant to smell.