Brand: PULP Fragrance
Embrace’s darker sister at the other end of the woods, who lures you in with the promise of maple sugar sweets then latches the door behind you. Rich dark oud, labdanum, and a line of salt at the door.
Released: Autumn 2020
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Wow the salt in this one jumps out at you immediately upon application. It’s so bizarre and surreal to smell this perfumey-ness along a saltiness. Once it dries I actually find this surprisingly lighter than I expected. It’s got a lighter sillage/throw than some of PULP’s other scents, but the notes are so intense that’s not necessarily a bad thing. This definitley smells sinister, and has a slight patchouliess perhaps? Definitley witchy, with the sliiiighttest hint of sweet maple, but I really have to inhale to find it. It is androgynous and I’m thinking my bf might enjoy this, but I think it’s a little dark for me. However, as it dries it does go a bit warm/woody on me, and is more pleasant. Same with Ensnare, this improved by 1000% after a longer resting period. I know these 2 were newer in her Autumn collection so maybe they needed a bit more time to develop!
I didn’t like this too much but after a year i enjoy it more. It is a salty base with a hint of apple. But more like apple skin not juice/flesh
This one is so interesting. On initial application I get a bit of blast of maple and Oud and I like it but I don’t love it BUT only a few minutes later it’s settled down into something very beautiful. Thematically it’s so on point it smells like a character springing a sweet but evil trap in a dark fairytale but it’s still a very wearable perfume. I like how this settles nicely after a couple of minutes and the wonderful proportions of this perfume settle in. It’s part maple, part smokey woods, part laudanum and cauldron smoke with a little bit of Oud, which is not a note I normally wear on my skin because it’s already potent and I tend to amp it but it works really well here and it enhances rather than drowns out the other notes.
Ensnare, teach me your ways! I smell like smokey peppered maple sugar and salted butterscotch. Now, this is marvellous and I love the resins that come out to play on the dry down with the amplifying maple sugar and butterscotch. There is certainly something naughty in this with a bit of leather and an almost acidic-balsamic entwined pine which is giving all the aforementioned sweet notes something wickedly grounding and unique. Good thing I have fallen under Ensnare’s spell because she lasts a good 15+ hours and I’m perfectly okay with that.