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rookesbane · 4 months

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perfume mini-reviews: lemon gourmands

i spent most of last month looking for a perfume that reminds me of lemon bars and these are the samples i got my hands on. eating lemon bars as i type this for a full immersive experience

🍋 Xerjoff Lira 🍋

there’s no lemon listed in the notes but it smells like lemon cake with vanilla frosting

dry down lowkey reminds me of indult tihota

after the citrus fades, it becomes a bit too sweet and vanilla for my taste

(literally smells like vanilla but also vanilla in the sense that it’s pretty basic)

lasts long tho!!

smells delicious but it’s missing something

🍋 Akro Bake 🍋

opening is lemony fresh. smells so much like pure lemon EO that it’s bordering on lemon scented cleanser

where’s the rum???? :/

akro bake: you think lira’s dry down is basic? hold my nonexistent rum

there’s a hint of that metallic sharpness from those ambroxan-adjacent synthetic woody ambers that i’m so fracking tired of

i feel like i’m dragging this perfume too much but it’s actually a nice scent

it’s just that it falls flat compared to the others on this list

🍋 Kerosene Unknown Pleasures 🍋

oh my goddd????

toasty edged-lemon bars with a bite of ginger

+ caramel custard that also kinda smells like heated condensed milk

served with earl grey tea on the side

lira: who are you?

unknown pleasures: i’m kinda like you but i’m so much better

longevity isn’t as good as lira’s but idc idc

i like that the projection doesn’t punch me in the face

🍋 Dolce & Gabbana Devotion 🍋

the least “foody” scent on this list

joins akro bake at the nonexistent rum table

remember when i said akro bake’s lemon was toeing the line between lemon EO and lemon cleanser? this one crossed the line

the lemon fades after a while and all that’s left is a floral vanilla

smells nice when i get whiffs of it from a distance

if the others on this list were trying to replicate the scent of a lemon pastry, devotion is the stylized rendition of one

i think i’d like this more if i weren’t so averse to white florals

FINAL RANKING:

Kerosene Unknown Pleasures

Xerjoff Lira

Akro Bake

D&G Devotion

#i’m gonna be honest #i went on a lemon gourmand hunt because of heartless by marissa meyer #anway unknown pleasures is exactly what i was looking for so i immediately got a full bottle #perfume review #perfume #kerosene #kerosene unknown pleasures #akro #akro bake #xerjoff #xerjoff lira #dolce & gabbana #dolce & gabbana devotion #mine

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