Vampire Blooms

Vampire Blooms is my favorite as a room diffuser (after trying out about a dozen of theirs). It smells like orchids, carnations, gentle amber, and a little dustiness - makes me think of a funeral parlor. It's also my favorite orchid-forward scent of Demeter. I wouldn't really like it as a perfume but I love it in my walk-in closet, had it in my office before that. I think it fits into the idea of old 70s/80s movie vampire women in a white nightgown, slinky and dangerous. Demeter lists the notes as red ginger orchid, midnight orchid, twilight orchid, oud, amber, yuzu, pink grapefruit, jasmine. I don't really smell citrus myself though.

I have never smelled belladonna in real life, but I think I would expect it to smell like this. To me it's flowery, but in a heady, intoxicating way. It's not vampire in the way of gothic castles and caskets, but in the feeling of walking through a stone walled garden full of flowers in rain at night, in something that smells good but slightly off, as if there is some hidden sense of danger lurking, like vampires who are human, but not really. I love this one, I think it's perfect for the alternative/goth people who like a little bit of uncanny in their perfumes.

i got a sample of this last year and became immediately addicted, something about it just deeply resonates with me lol. i’ve been meaning to get a full size bottle. but if you like a sexy, vampy fresh but dark floral scent, you’ll be all over this <3

Well, I'm not sure this smells like something a vampire would wear, and it doesn't make me think of vampires or anything dark or spooky. It's a fresh, sweet floral blend that's very pretty and feminine, but in my opinion leans much more to the light than towards darkness. Dracula Orchid and Maile Leaves are two notes listed for Vampire Blooms on the Demeter website which do not appear here on Fragrantica, but all I can really smell in this is white flowers, regardless of what's listed or not listed. I'm thinking that when Demeter said "Nicotiana plant", Fragrantica heard "tobacco leaf", but Demeter really meant "white tobacco blossom". At any rate, being that white flowers are just about my favorite accord in perfumery, I like this scent a lot, but I don't think it embodies its dark & spooky theme as well as does Transfixed, also from the Dark Flowers collection. I understand that white floral bouquets are often associated with funerals, but that's not so for me. To me, white flowers are simply the ones with the strongest & sweetest scents I know, and the ones I feel the most connection with because they've always grown in & around places I've lived. I wish I could get the belladonna note in Vampire Blooms; I think if I could, it might go a long way towards helping this fragrance live up to its name and make it a little more exotic and mysterious, like I'd hoped for. But if I forget about the concept and concentrate just on the scent itself, it's beautiful!

White flowers and MORE white flowers! Definitely disregard the notes listed here on Fragrantica; they're not accurate. There is no tobacco leaf here; it's white tobacco -blossoms- that overwhelmingly dominate this fragrance. I can't get anything else from this but sweet white floral goodness, in fact- no belladonna, no musk, no vanilla, nothing else. I do adore white flowers, but I've got to say, this is not very "dark". Not very "vampiric". White flowers have never meant "funerals" to me; I've always associated them with the sunny climates where I've seen them growing. I don't get the mandarin peel Witching Hour is supposed to have, but I do get a hint of something like orange blossom distinguishing itself within the white floral chorus being sung by this perfume. Blooms? Definitely! Darkness and vampires? Keep looking! UPDATE: 3/23/23: Vampire Blooms is great layered with Demeter's Kitten Fur!