Warm Bulb

while drying myself from the cold and harsh wave that The Point slapped me with, I notice a light at the end of the tunnel, maybe not everything is lost. at last, it has carried me over to the place that started my deep interest for Clue as a brand. my love for niche and indie perfume houses is still very recent, but concepts like Warm Bulb are what made me realize that art comes in different shapes and forms, and the sense of smell is something I hadn't realized could be used for that purpose as well. as a vanilla disliker I can proudly say this is a vanilla I can't get enough of. the dust, paper and electricity in the air wouldn't be as enjoyable without it. how could someone trap static in a scent? it's quite unexplainable but fascinating to me how perfumes can have texture, it feels crinkly but at the same time there's something soft and comforting too. it's usable in the sense that this reads as a perfume, but I suppose finding the right moment to wear it could be challenging as well. it's so liminal, otherworldly and REALISTIC, this really does smell like how that one photo of the backrooms looks like. leaving the best for last, I end my journey through their discovery set on a high. my only gripe is with the brand itself because their bottles are too expensive for their size, they include a discount towards a full bottle if you purchase the discovery set but I still wish their prices weren't so high either way. unfortunately, for my wallet, this one will be a beautifully weird addition to my collection and I'll gladly wear it even if it's just to enjoy it at home by myself. oh what a joy that I'm able to breathe, smell and experience the magic of inspired projects like these. 10/10 💡

For a while I didn't recognize much of a paper note until about a week ago when I printed something out and took a whiff of the page while it was still warm. Warm bulb does not smell like a light bulb to my nose, but it does smell exactly like freshly printed paper! When I first got this perfume I was a little let down as I had expected it to smell more... metallic? Definitely more burnt. I was picturing the smell of my snakes old heat lamp when it died... the bulb, not the snake. In reality, Warm Bulb is much more approachable. I was actually a bit shocked by just how wearable it was. It has such a lovely, dusty, peppery opening that hits you high in your nose. The more I smelled it the more I fell in love. It dries down to a very cozy sandalwoody vanilla. Sweet, but not gourmand or heavy. Extremely smooth... a little creamy, maybe? I cannot stop smelling my wrist when I put it on. It's just so interesting. On first impression the sandalwood and vanilla notes together ever so slightly reminded me of the bath & bodyworks bonfire bash lotion I wore in middle school which had notes of both LOL Overall an extremely beautiful and well blended perfume. Stupid addictive. The only drawback is that she's gone in an instant. You really have to douse yourself to get proper mileage, and even then it's never long enough...

"she took the wires to my playstation, she doin too much..." this smells like the air coming out the back of a ps4. in the best way. it literally hits the back of your throat in that same way that dust does, and accompanying the olfactory signals you anticipate the texture of dryness and powdery dust to irritate your nostrils but it never comes, instead opening up into the warm powdery tail end of the scent. there's something - immortelle, i think - that spoils the fantasy just a little in that it smells ever so slightly more bitter and less powder, veering into the territory of canned black olives or pickles for a little while, but it seems to twist and change and alter itself with time, and by the time it's dried down it smells ghostly, industrial, electric, and a bit like a museum archivist after a shift at work. clarified car exhaust. hot glue gun. objectum erotica. if ELDO's ghost in the shell is an uncanny valley silicone robot girl, this is a janky old steam-powered automaton with lightbulb eyes and a burning coil of red-hot wire for a heart. doesn't last very long but what can ya do. DUST!!!

this is like my absolute favorite fragrance thus far there's really nothing like it. i don't think it smells like a lightbulb (when i smell lightbulbs for comparison which to be fair i've been doing a lot of lately because people who don't feel strongly about this say that they have to admit it DOES smell like a lightbulb) but it's just so good. i want to smell like this all throughout the cold weather times which is why: i hate that this doesn't come in a bigger bottle and like i get that clue is indie but 30 mls only is a little crazy. also ofc the clue bottle design is beautiful but i don't like that the cap isn't flush with the glass bottle. EDIT: literally morning after i posted this i started getting the REAL warm bulb that smells like olives. i miss my girl but thats what you get for wearing this every day fuck me for not wanting my 140 dollars to go to waste i guess

I ordered a few Clue samples from Lucky Scent and was captivated by this one in particular. I've read accounts of fragrances evoking vivid imagery or childhood memories, but I'd never experienced it myself...until now! This one transports me back to my parents' guest room/office, playing on the family computer with the desk lamp on. It was an old incandescent lamp, usually tilted so the bulb faced up, which meant it collected a lot of dust. Somehow Clue has managed to capture exactly that smell -- burning dust on a hot lightbulb -- and I'm genuinely impressed, both by the feat itself and by how precisely it conjured that specific time and place. I'm also reminded of dust settling on warm electronics -- the old modem, the computer -- all from that same room. This is a really cool, cozy fragrance. I'm seriously debating committing to a full bottle come fall and winter.