Bloody Wood

This perfume got my attention because of the notes in it. I was thinking that it has to be something extraordinary and it is. Bloody Wood has a beautiful opening with a bouquet of roses which changes quickly into the scent of Rose Oxide together with aroma of Cherries and Raspberries. Rose oxide is a fragrance chemical found in roses and rose oil and it has a little bit sweet and fruity smell, like the flavour of some wines - such as Gewürztraminernot - as well. Bloody Wood is not the deep and dark, thick smell of wine straight from the glass but it’s like a wine with a lot of Raspberry and Cherry juice diluted a little bit with a water. That makes this utterly enjoyable, sophisticated and classy scent despite of the cold, bloody like gothic feeling in the background. Raspberry and Cherry are not jammy or sticky nor too sweet. The base of the scent is woody but I visited last time in Italy in one friend’s wine cellar which was full of old dark oak barrels and i bet you don’t want exactly that smell in your perfume. It’s beautiful for sure but it’s as well damp, musty and aged. Oak barrel and woody note here is younger and smooth, Sandalwood making it even smoother. It’s anyway transparent and the colour of the juice tells actually the intensity of this concoction. I adore this scent but if you want a very long-lasting scent you may be disappointed. This last few hours and it’s enough for me during those days when I need to change the scent during a day. Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more. 🤗

This one is a big surprise. On the test strip, it was middling: a little citrusy, a little cherry, slightly boozy (but not as winey as its counterpart, Bello Rabelo). On my skin, this thing turned to a beautiful fruity, rosy bomb. I dare say, I like this more than Amouage's Lyric Man. Don't get me wrong though, they are very different beasts. Whereas Lyric Man is the dusty, dryer and greener end of the rose spectrum, Bloody Wood is the jammy, sweet and bright end. On my skin, the opening is carried by a bright, zesty citrus note that stings you like a rose's thorns and lets you know it's there. The fruits come soon after. I personally don't detect as much of a winey note as I did from Bello Rabelo. Rather, I get very juicy cherry and other red fruit notes. Then the rose shows up a little more, maybe helped to stand out by the fruits. It's quite pleasant, not overly rosy as to turn feminine but not dry or soapy as some masculine rose fragrances either. The drydown is fruity and nice, less rose but a soft tinge of wood (sandalwood) but not as to become creamy or powdery (there's none of that here), just to support it and make it last a bit longer. I got maybe 6-7 hours total wear time from it, which is very good for a fruity scent, my acidic body chemistry usually destroys those. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought and I had someone at work tell me it's quite appealing! This one's a keeper for me.

Before reading! I am no perfume expert and am very new to perfumes! This perfume is everything I could want in a scent. It evokes a mood and a feeling. I feel confident and safe while wearing this, which resonates with how I want to be perceived. It feels playful and extravagant yet grounded and mature. I like the image of a Victorian princess dancing at a ball. I have never gotten the rich initial spray from other perfumes. I believe this might be one of the best perfumes out there. There is depth to it while still being such a bold fragrance. I feel like this is something you can wear out casually or also on a fancy date. The scent itself is a rich fruity yet dry smell. it honestly smells like cranapple juice to me funnily enough. It has that layered scent of sweet richness but also a bitter kick. It does not overwhelm me but seems to hit its high point of strength when sprayed and settles down as it rests on your skin. The woody notes are there throughout the entirety of its wear but show up more as it stays. To me, the woody notes are not very noticeable but they are definitely there, just more in the background as something complimentary to the bitterness. If you read this far thank you!

This smells exactly like an old communist perfume my grandfather had in his pantry and macerated for 15-20 years. This opens as a newly opened bottle of wine and as it dries down it becomes so sweet it’s intoxicating. I’m slowly falling in love with it. The woody noted and the fruity ones peek through but the main stars are the wine and rose notes. This smells exactly like a dinner at Vlad Țepeșea’ castle, vintage wine and a table decorated with roses and dried fruit snacks. 100% the perfect fragrance for anyone’s vampire fantasies. I’m very picky with my perfumes and I prefer gourmet ones, but this one... Oh this might just become my signature fragrance because it awakens a rollercoaster of emotions in me. I just wish it lasted longer. - also I don’t get any blood whatsoever. Wine brewed in my grandfathers garage tho? That is what it reminds me of. Edit - after wearing it for a couple of hours the only notes that persisted are the rose and sandalwood. It went from vampire fantasy to Sunday mass at the back of the church listening to the grannies gossip about the way women dressed for such an event .

A delicious concoction of rose, red fruit, wine and wood. Smells like slipping into the Count’s velvet-lined coffin for a very good time. I’m not usually one for ‘made-up’ notes such as wine, I find them cartoonish and revoltingly millennial; but here it translates very cleverly through the rose. Rose oxide, after all, is a chemical compound that lends its distinct aroma not only to roses, but to certain wines as well. The metallic edge common to both roses and wine also evokes the eponymous blood. The wooden base is clever, too; it warms up and deepens the fragrance without sweetening it and paints the olfactory image of a wine barrel. There is a faint animal note that emerges after a few hours. Despite its heady notes, this fragrance is surprisingly comforting, transparent and also rather well-behaved with a discreet sillage. You’ll need to get close to someone’s pulse to smell this. The most beautiful part of this is that at the end of a very long day, this scent will unexpectedly bloom once again during a hot shower, like a farewell.