I like candy, but in general, I’m a chocolate kind of person. I love dark chocolate, the darker the better, but I’m not a snob about it: I also love Hot Fudge Pop-Tarts, and several other treats that might more properly be called “chocolate food product” than “chocolate”. Fruit candy doesn’t interest me at all — to eat or to wear as perfume — so the recently released Demeter Jelly Belly Collection didn’t seem like likely to wow me, and by and large, it didn’t. The fragrances are based on Jelly Belly recipes, which call for popping a specific group of flavored jelly beans into your mouth to produce the desired taste effect…
Demeter Jelly Belly Collection ~ new fragrances
This month, Demeter introduces the Jelly Belly Collection, a new set of fragrances inspired by Jelly Belly jelly beans:
Eating one Jelly Belly jelly bean at a time is yummy, but Jelly Belly aficionados know the pleasure of combining different flavors to create “recipe” combinations for new gourmet taste sensations. Devised with definite flavors and proportions in mind, Jelly Belly jelly bean recipes provided the inspiration for creating the Jelly Belly Collection by Demeter Fragrance Library.
There are six fragrances…
Demeter Apple Blossom & Cherry Blossom, Des Filles a la Vanille Imma ~ new fragrances
Demeter has launched two new soft florals for spring: Cherry Blossom (shown) and Apple Blossom:
Enjoy the Rebirth of Nature with our Sheer and Sensual Cherry Blossom fragrance…
Demeter Gingerale ~ brief fragrance review
I’ve slowly been working my way through the many recommendations I got the last few times I posted about Demeter scents, and so far, the clear winner is Gingerale.
As with any Demeter review, this will be brief: it is not a complicated fragrance, and does not require any lengthy description. Still, some of the Demeters are better than others at evoking whatever it is they are supposed to evoke. This one is perfect. It smells like — drum roll, please — ginger ale, and the opening is almost astonishingly effective at calling up the carbonated part; it literally tickles the nose. Admittedly, the fizz part is not long lasting, but the dry down is far from dull. It is a soft but bright ginger…
Demeter Thunderstorm & Cannabis Flower ~ fragrance reviews
Continuing with yesterday’s theme, here are two more fragrances from Demeter:
Thunderstorm was released by Demeter a few years back. It is an extraordinarily evocative scent, almost uncanny in its ability to call up a thunderstorm in early spring: the electricity, the humidity hanging heavy in the air, the almost-metallic rush of ozone. The really fun part — the part that actually smells like a storm — doesn’t last long, but while it does, it is eerie enough that you could probably cause a small child to have a nightmare by spraying it in their room as they were sleeping.
The dry down is the smell that is left after the storm, largely wet leaves and water-soaked earth, and something vaguely chalky that almost mimics the smell of rain drying on hot pavement…