Mary Read

Musk forward rum with marine facets, a very unique and feminine-leaning unisex scent. Fresh, smooth, atmospheric, photorealistic, clean, wet, old, slightly salty, slightly effervescent, and slightly herbal. It has good sillage and longevity. I like how the musk serves as a base without disturbing or overpowering other notes. The note composition is put together around the unique rum and marine note, helping them blend and contrast. This might be the first successful and well-put-together boozy marine bottle I have come across from this house. It gives off a scent of an old lady, who runs a bar by the shore. Edit: It also reminds me of Sea of Gray by Solstice Scents, they share a note or two. I prefer this as it's much more well-blended marine with no vanilla note to bother.

Ack! I feel like I smell like a craft store! get it off of me!

Soapy aquatic green, fading to fresh cut grass with fainter soap note and that slightly rotten edge you get with damp grass in piles. Salt comes in at about 15 minutes, but doesn’t appreciably change the scent. If I really sniff nosebleed hard, I can get a sense of patchouli that is aged like old leather and a hint of leather and plastic/metal that might be representative of gunpowder. Overall though is the rotten leaves/damp cut grass smell with a soapy aquatic edge. Not nice, not special and not for me.