Be My Cookie

Went down to the perfume store initially just out of curiosity to smell L’animal and Be my cookie On the strip, Be my cookie was really giving cookie vibes - Maybe a tad bit too gourmand for my taste but I left with a sample to give it the "on skin" test Applied a single dab shortly after in the car while waiting at a red light on the way to get coffee For the first, I wanna say 20-30 minutes, I got this lovely cookie smell and it was less gourmand or sweet than on the strip - Really enjoyable But where it took me by surprise is an hour or so in - I got tobacco leaves ... Went to check the notes... no tobacco. But, raspberry... and I was like, I think I know what’s happening here When I got home I went straight for a book that I have about molecular pairing of wine and ingredients - Looked at raspberries and lo and behold, they share some of the same molecular components as green tobacco leaves - Ha! As I had a date later on, I decide to wear it and apply more, even though it’s described as animalic - Let’s be bold! All evening long I enjoyed that dance between sweet cookie smell and tobacco leaves - More tobacco than cookie though ( cookie dough - pun intended ) As the night ended and I walked her to her car, we hugged and she said: "Oh, you smell so good" - And she shoved her nose in my neck and kept it there for a good 5-10 seconds - As I live in a part of the world where any slightest tiny hint of body/foul odour is very highly frowned upon, that's quite telling as far as the "animalic" properties of the fragrance goes in my opinion. In the sense that there are animalic undertones but they're not skanky Back home, I applied three fresh dabs on the back of my hand to try and get a deeper feel for it Same sweet cookie smell in the opening which seems to hover quietly over the rest of the composition and at it’s heart tobacco leaves from the raspberry extract - And when I smell it really close to the skin, the leather is noticeable and the animalics are present but, like mentioned, not skanky - More like horse hair-ish All in all, very surprised by it, in a very good way and I’m really enjoying wearing it

This. Smells. Like. A. Cookie. But not some abstract perfumey "cookie accord" nonsense. No. This is full-blown cookie realism. We’re talking: Freshly baked. Buttery as hell. Slightly crispy edges. Chewy center. Brown sugar and childhood trauma. I sprayed this and thought my oven turned itself on. I walked past a group of kids and one of them followed me. A man at a bakery asked if I “worked there.” But wait — it doesn’t stop there. The sillage? Nuclear. Like someone dropped a gingerbread nuke. BUT THEN... oh lord. Then it morphs. Around hour 3, the cookie dies. It crumbles. Literally. You can hear the snap in your soul. And what emerges from the sugar smoke is... something dark. Something feral. The Cookie Monster awakens. It’s no longer “Be My Cookie.” It’s: “Be My Instinct. Be My Sweat. Be My Sticky Skin Memory of a Cookie That’s Gone.” The sweet top becomes this gourmand beast, like a brownie with a hidden agenda. Like you got seduced by a pastry demon and now you’re running through a forest in nothing but whipped cream and existential dread. It’s edible. Then it’s animal. It’s inviting. Then it’s invasive. It’s your grandma’s kitchen. Then her house burns down, and the smoke gives you a headache. Should you buy this? Yes, if you’ve ever said “I want to smell like baked goods but also like I could fight God in a scented alley.” 10/10. Would wear to brunch, in school, at work, on public transport — because I lack empathy for people and my surroundings. And yes, I’m definitely wearing this to my grandma’s funeral, as a tribute to her inhaling this beautiful burnt dirty cookie scent as her last breath, while her house blazed behind her in one final attempt at making a sweet treat. Rest in yeast, Grandma. You’d have loved this one.

Definitely a polarizing fragrance, not uncommon for BTSO to do. Right off the bat, love this. It isn't necessarily warm-baked cookies as shown in the marketing, nor is it some kind of porta-potty as many people as making it out to be. To me, it's quite realistically portraying cookies heavily-dipped (and I mean sopping wet) in creamy milk, because I get a very prominent lactonic note. Either that, or my brain visualizes raw. dry cookie dough. I can sense the raspberry when I actively search for it, but when taking a step back and taking the scent in as a whole, it almost seems like the perfumer used raspberry not to add a distinct raspberry note for its own sake, but to amplify another aspect of this fragrance. Again, perhaps it's the raspberry that's oddly mixing with other notes/accords to fatten up that cookie/lactonic smell for me. Now, the same goes for the castoreum. Something just tells me that the perfumer chose this to amplify the core idea of the fragrance, not necessarily trying to go "wow look how stinky we can make cookies haha". So going back to that "raw cookie dough" smell I get, that's when I just relax the thinking part of my brain, take a step back, and experience the scent as a whole. Quite photo-realistic.

Finally got the chance to try this one. After all the reviews and noise surrounding it, I was honestly expecting a disaster. But I kept an open mind and took a sniff without judgment. And guess what? No disaster here! BTSO is a different and outstanding house—of course they weren’t going to create a gourmand without a twist. And this scent is exactly that. It opens sharp and piercing, even a bit overwhelming. Synthetic raspberry hits first, mixed with dark chocolate that’s still cooking, animalic notes peeking through, smoky and ambery, loud and projecting. I get why this stage could feel too much or even off-putting to some—but trust the process. Give it time. The chemistry with your skin will shift it into something truly beautiful: a warm cookie straight from the oven. Now’s the time to mention—Be My Cookie loves body lotion. It projects and melts much better that way, compared to dry skin. This is a very sweet, drippy-sweet perfume. Think baked, warm cookies with gooey chocolate and juicy raspberry. On me, the raspberry lingers all the way to the end and it softens into something more natural and realistic, less synthetic. Performance? 10/10. One for the books—interesting, unique, and with that unmistakable BTSO edge.

I'm in love. I took a risk and wore this for the first time to work a christmas eve shift because i like to live on the edge. The majority of the day it was indeed a smell of cookie with a tinge of raspberry, a lot of melted syrup, and of course a little animal as well. This is not light and delicious, this is a thick, sticky, and kinda boozy situation that's on the sexy and sinfull side as the wearer. Although, my coworker stood a few feet away and said it smells like hubba Bubba. Lol. In my experience this is gourmand heaven with a dark edge, which is just the kind of sweet scent that keeps my interest. If youre like me and like sweets, but get bored without a little something extra, I would 100% sample this. Longevity was pretty strong and lasted a good 7 hours at full strength, and the next morning after a clothing change, I can still smell an airy bit of raspberry (amazing because perfumes never last on my skin). Thumbs up for a long lasting and potent baby.