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VELVET
bewitching brews

Envelop yourself in the soft, sensual embrace of gentle sandalwood warmed by cocoa vanilla and a veil of deep myrrh.

It's very soft and gentle and in a good way. It's not sweet which is a surprise because the cocoa/chocolate makes me expect it (conditioned much?) but once I can lean into that it's very nice. Soft and sensual as the description says.

VELVET CLOWN
limited edition
the salon

Rum-soaked cotton candy, boot-stomped licorice whips and circus peanuts, scorched marshmallows, a dribble of corn whiskey, cigar smoke, and greasepaint.

Rum at first and then the greasepaint comes through for a short while. It dries down to sweet and boozy. It smells a little like BUTTER RUM COOKIE but a little less foody.

VELVET BANDITO
limited edition
the salon

Dust, tumbleweeds, cedar, and tobacco.

It's spicy and yeah I get clove, and I think cedar. It's much sweeter than I thought it would be, and there is something familiar in here that I can't put my finger on. Oh it's TOMBSTONE, without the vanilla. I swapped it away though, for SUNBIRD. It was so worth it, it's almost painful.

VELVET DOGS PLAYING POKER
limited edition
the salon

Smooth wood, sweet pipe smoke, tonka, and Irish coffee.

This is the second time I test this. The first time I was on blood pressure medicine and I think it did something very undesirable to my chemisrty because this one morphed into a stinky mess I just had to was off. It was sour and disgusting.

This time it goes on in coffee and booze, and it's good. It fades kinda fast though. Okay i'll put more on and in all my places and see what it does, now that I'm not scared of it any more. It fades into smoke. Or tobacco. With a tad coffee thrown in. No I like. It's good.

VELVET NUDIE
limited edition
the salon

Skin musk and flowering sugar cane.

Man this one is horrible right away, it smells cheap and perfume-y. It dries down to very feminine and nauseating and immensly annoying. I think the skin musk is telling me goodbye forever in this one. Linn loved it though.

VELVET PANTHER
limited edition
the salon

Dark musk, star anise, agarwood, styrax, vetiver, gaiacwood, King mandarin, violet leaf, and black vanilla.

This is naturally the first one I test since the black panther is my inner animal.

She keeps close to the skin, slinking through the dark almost undetected. But if you listen closely you can hear her purring, dark and low. She is not sweet at all until you get to know her and then she emits a dark musky sweetness. It's possible I need a backup of this one. It's breath-taking but not in an obvious way.

At some point I became unable to wear this one. Maybe it was a change in my chemistry, I don't know. It's sad because I really did love it for a little while.
 

VELVET TIGER
limited edition
the salon

Spiced Satsuma orange, tangerine, rich amber, black licorice, teak, cinnamon, and vetiver.  

Oh yeah, spicy orange. In the very beginning more smoky orange though, because vetiver is strong in this one at first sight. It doesn't take long for it to simmer down and let other notes through though, and orange sweetens up and shows a spicy face. It doesn't lose the smokiness though, I can smell the vetiver even after drydown, which is not all that common on my skin, it usually dies down after a while and gives room for sweetness. Here it still does that but it stays around at the same time. It's good and yeah it's feline and a little dark.  

VELVET UNICORN
limited edition
the salon

Spun sugar, sparkling rainbow candies, strawberries, merangue, and cherry fluff.  

This could have been a great candy blend if it didn't have a nasty, acrid aftertaste on my skin. It's like a musk in there going really really bad on my skin. I have nieces who love candy though. There is a great home for this in the future. I'm thinking Marlene, I just have to save it until the right occasion is here.