No Way To Say Goodbye

This has become an instant-classic in my rotation. I still can't decide if I like it more than Space Girl (therefore landing it in my top 5 fragrances of all time, of any brand) but it is HEAVENLY!!! No Way to Say Goodbye does indeed smell a little bit like the Comforter, a little bit like Amelia Mae, but also in the dry down reminds me of American Cream just a smidge. It starts off with a blast of mouth-watering (I mean this literally lol) jammy blackcurrant that lacks the acidity/sharpness it often has - which is present in the Comforter - and lifted slightly by the rose which is reminiscent of Amelia Mae (as the reviewer below says, just swap raspberry for blackcurrant). After a half hour or so the benzoin starts to creep in and mingle with that initial fruity blast, and to me the benzoin reads super buttery and savoury! Like slathering jam on a freshly baked croissant. And that leads me to my next point - I can't access Snif here in the UK but I'm eagerly awaiting this getting into Americans' hands because I am SOOOOOO curious to know if this is at all similar to Crumb Couture! Will my FOMO finally be laid to rest?!? But to get back on topic - about 5 hours in the fruitiness is completely gone and all that's left is a delicious vanilla-like scent, and it's here I'm somewhat reminded of the silky deliciousness of the vanilla found in American Cream (try to imagine it without the lavender and clary sage). As the cherry on top of this delicious baked delight, this is priced the same as Sun (£20/30ml, £40/100ml), AKA their cheapest offering!!! This is simply unbeatable in price ESPECIALLY for this level of quality - a very realistic fruity gourmand that you'd usually have to pay top dollar for. If you're within the UK (we don't have many options here for truly high quality 'fumes at an affordable price point) I think you would be hard pressed to find something of this calibre at this price elsewhere!

syrupy blackcurrant bares a resemblance to rose jam. it’s so sweet and refreshing i love it! update: i ended up ordering it a week later because i couldn’t stop thinking about it i now have it and the one i got is more lemony thanks to the litsea cubeba but it’s still jammy, sweet and floral. i have the rose jam solid perfume i think these would go great together because nwtsg has that extra hit of jammy sweetness whilst rose jam leads more marmalade. i love this perfume can’t wait to wear it all the time especially now spring is around the corner :) as it dries down it smells like that one sweet grandmas have where the wrapper is like a strawberry (red with white spots and green at the top) but the flavour is blackcurrant, it smells almost identical to that lol it’s still really nice

It starts out juicy blackcurrant, then turns fruity/floral. It very much smells like 'Junk' without the herbal, almost cough-sweet dry down at the end. Instead, it turns powdery. Pretty frustrating to see LUSH keep doing very similar fragrances (it's been a while since something has blown my socks off!), however, I love Junk and I was always wishing for a version like this. At £20 for a 30ml bottle I couldn't say no. It's a light perfume that I'd wear in the day - most likely Spring and Summer. Personally, this also smells like a modern LUSH shop to me (I know '29 High Street' is described as a LUSH shop but I think that's the old school version of LUSH). It's simple and not overpowering, it's just very pretty!

This is a very gothic smell to me. It smells like the tombs in a Minster. It's very sweet when you first spray it. As it settles, it dries down into a very sour, murky blackcurrent smell, which I personally love but can see others despising it. It's completely different to anything I've ever smelt at Lush as I feel like they focus on very sweet and overpowering scents a lot of the time, which makes sense as one of their most popular selling scents is snow fairy (which I hate tbh). As I smell it more, it smells exactly like when you'd rub your fingers on a blackcurrent bush leaf and there's that very earthy smell. It's a gorgeous perfume and I'm very happy it's in my collection.

I created an account on fragrantica because of this smell. It's like walking through a beautiful sunny garden in early summer when blaccurrant is ripe and wild roses bloom. On the dry-down you also get this beautiful buttery resinous smell that reminds me of a blackcurrant pie crust. This smelled fresh to me at first but now I get the gourmand notes too and it is even better! Tbh I think the people who smell this and think of cat pee just never smelled or tasted raw blackcurrant :D And I say this as someone who also has cats. If you know and love blackcurrant, you will love this I promise. An underrated gem from Lush indeed. I love it forever and always <3