Brand: Nui Cobalt
Scent Description: Swift and skillful, her instinct’s artistry glimmers with deadly precision. This beguiling blend empowers you to ensnare the objects of your desire and attract every manner of earthly delight. Slender strands of cotton flower hung with trembling dewdrops, cold crystalline musk, and tiny black vanilla beans.
Released: August 2018
Indie Scent Library 
This review is for the 🕸2020 version of Starlight & Spidersilk🕸. According to the Nui Cobalt website, due to issues with ingredient sourcing, S&S has since been reformulated for the 2021 batch. This gives me vibes of 3 Possets perfume oils…Beatrice, Silver Vanilla and my beloved discontinued Arcturus. Starlight & Spidersilk definitely has similarities to the three previously mentioned Possets perfume oils. I really like this blend. It manages to be musky, clean and vanillic all at the same time. How to describe the vanilla in this? It’s sweet and creamy but I wouldn’t call it a gourmand or a floral vanilla note. The cotton flower is meshing with the crystalline musk and the vanilla and doing wonderful things on my skin. I initially slathered this on, as I do with pretty much every perfume oil, and I was surprised at the strength. It was a bit cloying at first and it took a little bit to settle down on me. The vanilla does indeed become more prominent as this oil wears on my skin. This is still going strong at the 9 hour mark on me. Very impressed with the longevity of S&S.
This and Black Squirrel are my ultimate favorite scents from Nui Cobalt. It’s a cold, non-fruity, clothy vanilla. It starts off with a strong cotton flower note which meshes into my skin as time goes on. The vanilla gets stronger and clearer as time passes on my skin. It’s definitely one I want to let waft up to me instead of huffing as it is quite strong. I haven’t smelled anything like it.
Review posted as part of the Ashes Decants promotion. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own.
Copying my review from the sub for posterity:
Starlight & Spider Silk (Slender strands of cotton flower hung with trembling dewdrops, cold crystalline musk, and tiny black vanilla beans). Initially: VERY clean and cotton-y, light, fresh. The vanilla starts to blossom within about 10 minutes of wear, and it’s almost like a creamier version of Stekkjarsaur. It becomes a pretty, clean cotton-vanilla, sort of what I imagine BPAL Antique Lace to smell like. It’s VERY strong for the first hour or two, and I found it slightly overpowering, personally. When it calms down, it stays true to that pretty clean-vanilla, maybe with a smidgen less of the cotton note.
Additional impressions – creamy vanilla with prominent cotton/linen notes, clean-smelling. VERY strong throw, lasts all day. It was a little too strong for me, with the linen giving me a bit of a headache, but I did think the vanilla was pretty.