Lord of Misrule

Oh my beloved Lord of Misrule ❤️ It embodies everything I love about Lush fragrances, its blending is not sophisticated, it's not seamless, each note is very much in your face. I can smell the patchouli, pepper and vanilla without any trouble, it is very simple and straightforward. Although I don't really like most of the other offerings from Lush, I really do respect how they are unapologetically different, somehow they have an amateur feeling to them, like the perfumer behind them is new to blending and his/her creations end up being a little brash and rough around the edges. I say this to give them a big compliment. It is truly refreshing to smell them when I find that there is a big lack of originality going on in both the designer and niche fields. And obviously their perfumers aren't novices, this is just the Lush style that you'll either love or hate. At first I smelled Lord of Misrule on my boyfriend who had the shower gel and I immediately went to the nearest Lush store to buy some for me. At the time Lush wasn't selling it regularly, but some time later I managed to get the perfume oil but I lost out on getting the perfume that time. I only managed to finish 1/4 of the bottle in a year, with using it a ton. The oil was also potent enough to get me compliments in the first hour after applying it. I still craved the perfume so I could spray it and get an ever bigger projection and finally a couple of months ago Lush added it to the permanent collection. I immediately grabbed a bottle and now I layer the oil and perfume together when I want extra strength. Sadly the oil seems to be discontinued. This is a masterpiece. Lush really created something more special, interesting and beautiful than I have smelled in a long time. And with such limited ingredients. When using the perfume I get a very good projection, the sillage is great and so is longevity. People can actually smell it on me from an arms length for 4-5 hours and then it sits a bit closer to the skin. At the same time it's not loud or obtrusive. I'll put it on in the morning and I can still smell it a bit when going to bed in the evening. The scent is intoxicating. The pepper note stays through the whole experience but becomes more subtle after the first 20 minutes. The rest is the gorgeous combination of vanilla and patchouli. It is kind of hippy, carefree and makes no excuses for not being a "regular" perfume. And that's the beauty of it, it just is what it is. And despite being the way it is, it has drawn very different people in. The people that give me compliments on it are the most diverse group, ranging from the clean smelling sophisticated lady, and "I don't like perfumes" guy, to the suit wearing corporate guy and the jock. People in general just seem to be drawn to it. I don't usually get many compliments on my perfumes in general, just the occasional one, but Lord of Misrule seems to draw people in. And I can understand why. It's amazing. I will always have a bottle of it from now on.

♠️ WARNING: UNSTABLE FORMULA; PERFUME WENT BAD IN 11 MONTHS ♠️ Yeah, so, after a year of owning this fragrance, something went very wrong with it. Now it's like a bubblegum that went and took a roll in dirt. It was stored properly - the perfume was sealed, and was kept out of sunlight. 11 months. I am talkign about the liquid 30ml perfume. You can find my positive review from last year here. And yet. WHAT ISSS THIIISSSS The pepper note is completely gone, MIA, and the sweetness from vanilla completely flattened. This is very odd, considering that vanilla usually intensifies with perfume age. Moreover, while I usually like and don't particularly mind patchouli, the fragrance became very patchouli-centred, medicinal and slightly reminiscent of sweaty, pungent feet covered in Tiger balm. It feels more like Reminiscence Patchouli, which is fine if you're into deeeep patchouli-centric chocolatey medicinal scents but ... no. There is a comment below that said that this perfume reminds him if mould and mildew, and I am heartbroken to say I get it now. But in the begininng, it was so, so beautiful... I'm kind of sad about it. A fragrance is supposed to be stable enough to last a year, especially seasonal stuff like this. It just smells incorrect now? The smell changed so much... The drydown is still wearable, but it makes me slightly nauseus. WHY. WHYYYY I'm sad to not rebuy it as it was my wish to have if for quite a while, but I think I'll keep to the solid or the shower gel to get my kick of black pepper. There are worse things in life, but what the f*ck. Fix your formula. ♠️ WARNING: UNSTABLE FORMULA; PERFUME WENT BAD IN 11 MONTHS ♠️

for the longest time, I thought this was a The Legend of Zelda collaboration, after all, Lush has partnered with Nintendo before you see, my dyslexic ass read Misrule as Hyrule so, I went out and got it, and I wore it for several months fully convinced that I was wearing Lord of Hyrule anyway, it is very TLoZ ngl it’s exactly what I imagine Twilight Princess' Link would smell like I laughed a bit reading a review that described this as a "nothing" fragrance (derogatory) not too cold, not too warm, not too spicy nor clean, neither safe nor risky, and honestly, I do agree with that to some degree, but in a complimentary way -- I think the blend is so well-executed that there's something about its simplicity that makes it quite unique you know how amber is actually a blend of balsams and vanilla, I think this is very much that type of vanilla mix, but with earthy, spicy patchouli substituted for the styrax or labdanum, and that’s how you get this scent, so I'd describe it as a true patchouli-amber rather than just patchouli plus vanilla it's not quite as pleasing as the green body lotion or the green solid fragrance version, I must say, but it's pretty damn close, and I do appreciate it as a whole Link and Hyrule are bound to be on my mind every time I wear this, so it'll always have a special place in my heart !!

I have the solid version of Lord of Misruel, and the opening is so bright and herbal, my fiance calls it my "perfume that smells like green." No, he did not see the solid before naming it this. And it really does smell like green-- the fresh Pancholi is very strong. The vanilla is noticeable in the opening, but not at all sweet, and same with the pepper-- not too sneezy, like with Death and Decay (though I do love that about the perfume). As the day goes on, I notice myself gravitating to sniffing my wrists-- it's really a smell that wakes you up when you're in a three-hour evening class, but without being too sharp. The vanilla becomes more obvious, maybe a little sweeter, at least with my skin. By the end of the day, the pepper and the Pancholi are the dominant notes, if the perfume is even still there at all. This is quite a masculine perfume. I don't get many compliments on it , they're usually from men, and they ask what I'm wearing. On a very cutesy, princess-like, small women, this could be a disorienting and weird scent, but I'm quite a masculine and naturalistic, so I feel like it works on me. It could easily work on any man, though. I'm sure my fiance would wear it if he didn't think matching perfumes with your girlfriend was a little weird.

Back in November, when I was online shopping for a bottle of Tiger By Her Side, I made the grim discovery that the house of Sana Jardin appears to have shuttered. TBHS is one of my very favorite fragrances. And it’s sold out, all over. So I took to Reddit for some insight and commiseration. Someone wrote that Lord of Misrule scratches their TBHS itch. So naturally I sampled it a week later at a Lush store. Right at first sniff, it scratched that itch for me, too. So I brought home a travel spray for some more testing. Once it’s empty? I’ll be adding a bottle to my collection. Disclosed notes are black pepper, patchouli, and vanilla. Not complicated, but it’s so exquisitely blended and feels gloriously lavish and complex. I, for one, am absolutely cuckoo for patchouli – and I’d say this is a good one for the patch averse. The vanilla here reminds me of the vanilla in Profumum Rosa Gioiosa. It’s a gourmand vanilla. So thick, robust, and buttery it tempers the composition into one that’s resemblant of an amber blend rather than a polarizing patch explosion. Earthy, creamy, and a little bit powdery. An affordable change-up from Grand Soir on cold days when I’m seeking that same warm, spicy-sweet, cocooning comfort. It’s gorgeous. Big love for this one.