Vampire Wife

What a lovely fragrance! I love vintagey, floral, powdery fragrances and Vampire Wife definitely sits within that particular perfume genre. The slight fruity, citrus note from the blood orange and star anise make it quite different from other vintage style perfumes I have tried. It's really interesting how they managed to use these notes without this being a fruity fragrance. This reminds me of a slice of cake offered by someone's grandmother from an old family recipe. And when you taste the cake itself, it tastes like the dust, the mothballs, the old perfume owned by said grandma, basically the entire aroma of her house absorbed by the cake itself having been made in said house. I compared Vampire Husband, another fragrance released alongside Vampire Wife, to an old, forlorn vampire's crypt. Vampire Wife is probably what Dita Von Teese's house would probably smell like in 40 years. Dare I say Vampire Wife is blind buy safe if you also like vintage, powdery fragrances like myself (I blind bought this and love it).

If Elena Gilbert was a perfume, she would be this one. This perfume is so special. It's very light, yet also quite rich and decadent. It's powdery, smooth, soft, sweet, with a little zingy spice to keep things interesting. The cake note comes through so delicately, adding a sweetness that lingers beautifully on the skin. It's not heavy at all, even if you spray quite a bit. And it's almost... cold? It's hard to describe, but when I smell this one clinging to fabrics, it smells cold to me. In a good way. Vampire Wife has a similar base to Sorce's Ephemera (which I also adore), but whereas Ephemera is ripe pumpkin rind and paper, Vampire Wife is soft, spiced orange. They're both whimsical, airy, light but still sweet and yummy, with a warm and cozy dry-down. Not quite skin scents but not quite full gourmands either. The notes make them sound entirely different, but just trust me on this one - they're definitely cousins (maybe even sisters). Love love love love loveeeeeeeee.

a long time ago, people described Lolita Lempicka as a beautiful scent with a anise/licorice note. I always imagined LL to smell like this but it didn’t at all. this fragrance, vampire wife, is just beautiful. it definitely reminds me of Ex Idolo Love and Crime except it’s less aggressively citrus. Vampire Wife is a semi-sweet citrus-anise/licorice vanilla that leans more oriental at the start but ends mostly an airy gourmand vanilla. the initial spray is the most interesting with all the notes showing up (orange, anise, tonka, heliotrope) but it dries down to a sweet airy vanilla. I wish it could remain how it begins but overall I still truly love it. it has moderate longevity and projection which is a win these days. Brava Caitlin!

OH MY GOSH I love this scent. Especially the opening on first spray it smells almost like a chocolate orange and I was immediately in love. Once it has dried down it is a very nice spiced powder smell. The star anise was very prominent on my skin. I found myself smelling my wrist constantly while I had this on. While there is certainly a sweet cake element I find it to be much more elegant and complex then some of Sorce's other gourmand scents (nothing wrong with them I just don't personally prefer straight sweet scents). Will definitely be adding this too my list of Sorce scents that I need to get full sizes of.

On the initial spray it's very citrus but as it dries I smell the cake and powder more than anything. It's mainly blood orange the first few minutes, orangey/powdery cake the next few hours, and then fades to a slightly sweet powder by the end. It's definitely eternal on me, I can still smell it over 24 hours later. I loooove sweet gourmand scents so this being primarily cake to me makes it one of my favorite perfumes :) The powder notes are also really nice to me. Overall this is a very nice elegant and sweet perfume with amazing longevity and strength.