Scentsy's New Fall Scents
Just got in my shipment of Scentsy's newest scents in the fall catalog. This is my impression of them on cold sniff. Totally could change once they are melted. Individual reviews forthcoming once I've melted these. The description in italics is how Scentsy describes them:
Ambrosia (the September sotm):
The sweetest fruit salad ever: tropical pineapple, mandarin orange slices, juicy pears, and ripe concord grapes with hints of jam and fruit nectar. Very, very sweet. I get lots of pineapple and grapes on cold sniff. Did I mention it is SWEET? Not sure this is up my alley.
Autumn Blaze Maple A bountiful harvest of crisp apples and earthy pumpkins with golden maple syrup, warm cinnamon, and a ribbon of smoldering oak. Cold sniff detects a LOT of maple with a bit of cinnamon. Not getting much else.
Boho A bohemian fragrance of clove-studded winter apples entwined with juicy black plums, candied mulberries, and cinnamon sticks. Very interesting scent. Think this will be a keeper. I get just a tiny dab of clove, lots of plum and berries, and something just a little bit earthy--maybe the cinnamon. A little apple, too, but not gobs. I'm not an apple scent person, so that's a bit of a relief.
Cedar Cider An autumn medley of the reddest apples, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla beans nestled among fragrant white cedar branches. This was my most looked-forward-to scent of the whole bunch. A little disappointed in the cold sniff. I mainly get apple and cinnamon. Really hoping the cedar develops when warmed because I love cedar scents. Not unpleasant, but not what I had hoped for. C'mon cedar!!!!
Crumb Top The perfect blend of oats, butter, and brown sugar to top your favorite dessert. Smells like melted butter and brown sugar. Very realistic. Not unpleasant, just not what I usually choose to melt.
Everything Nice Sugar and spice and everything nice: deep caramel and swirls of butter with roasted pumpkin and glazed pecans. Well, kudos to Scentsy for photorealism in their scents this year. Boy, they have been spot on with their bakery scents. Smells just like the description. It is very sweet, and not my thing, but I can see that bakery-scent lovers will go wild for this one. Buttery caramel, lots of glazed pecans, and a smattering of pumpkins and spices.
Love you Berry Much A fragrance to crush on: bursting red berries, dreamy white peach, and tart cranberry finished with a splash of vanilla. Not sure why Scentsy places this in the Romance category--it is one of the least romantic scents I can imagine. . Not loving it at all. I really can't pick out any one scent note, just an overall impression of very sweet fruit that has been made into perfume. Perhaps warming it will warm it to me.
Orange Amber An alluring blend of bitter orange and clementine, exotic wild ginger, cozy cardamom, and sultry amber. I definitely get the orange and the cardamom. Not much else, but I am hopeful that warming it will bring out the ginger and amber and get rid of that "I'm an orange cleaner" impression. We shall see. I am very hopeful and wanting to like this one. A strong maybe.
Pomegranate Pear Sweet nashi pear garnished with violet petals, pomegranate seeds, and curls of orange zest. A totally surprise like! From the description, I thought this would be a strong "No", but wow, am I very surprised. This is a very well balanced blend and none of the scent notes overpower the others. Excited to melt this one. Not a sweet fruit, but almost gives a barely detectable woody note that is fallish and extremely pleasant.
Salted Caramel Cupcake Creamy golden caramel with hints of cocoa and delicate pink sea salt crowns a buttery cupcake. I've never had a salted caramel cupcake, so I can't say whether this smells like it or not. It is a very very sweet bakery scent with lots and lots of caramel, and I can definitely smell cake. It doesn't repulse me, but not being a sweet lover, I can say with certainly that warming it won't be my thing.
Shimmer Get your girly-girl on! Sweet cherries, velvety apricots, and sensual white musk crowned with a tiara of shimmering spun sugar. This reminds me of those fruity perfumes that are so popular in places like Victoria's Secret. It is not at all unpleasant, and actually, I find myself drawn to scents like this at times. It is like a cross of Surfer Chick and Flirtatious.
Sno-leil A merry mélange of sparkling citrus, iced nashi pear, and decadent marshmallow mousse. Everyone has to have secret indulgences--you know, like watching (and loving) b-grade disaster movies, or eating red licorice, or loving marshmallow scents. This reminds me a lot of the now-gone My Wish, which was a secret indulgence of mine. In spite of my distaste for sweet scents generally, I love love love marshmallow scents, and this is a really really good one. What makes it different from My Wish is the strong citrus note. Yum! This reminds me of baking goodies at Christmas time, and I'm looking forward to melting it.
It's not that this isn't relatively pleasant. It is okay. But, the name is misleading, because this is really meant for floral lovers. I like the soft florals, not the violet petal florals. In fact, I still have a lot of Violet Leaves from last year's scent of the year that I just can't bring myself to melt. I just wouldn't be inclined to ever seek Pom Pear out because it is not my thing. I was picturing a fall cornucopia overfilled with pomegranate and late season pears surrounded with vining fall leaves on a crisp fall day. Pom Pear is an old-fashioned perfume spritzer on my grandma's vanity. 
Of course, we all know Elf has had Grandma wrapped around her little finger for a goodly while now. Girlfriend is a wee version of a Mad Scientist these days....what happens if I stick this in the cabinet? Will it be there when I open the door back up? Why Yes! Yes, it's there! Oh wait! Hey, it's me in the mirror! Look, I can spear watermelon out of the serving bowl myself! Her Mom and Dad are amazing at letting her do things for herself, and she does! She handles a fork better than most adults, fergoshsakes. Here she is sitting on her favorite "chair"--a FoodSaver box, lol.
