Female leaning I like to wear this scent during the summertime and I fell in love with two years ago while testing it in hot Italy weather. How is this beauty? It opens up with a juicy Strawberry and Wild Strawberry notes and I love it. It’s quite sweet since there is a caramel note as well but woody and leather notes push the sweetness down after the dry down. I think this is so special for me since wild strawberry brings me back to my childhood memories when picking up those and when stringing them into the hay. I don’t get any Raspberries but I think it blends into Strawberries. This is not typical light girly Strawberry scent, it’s unique like all SHL:s creations. There is all the time certain kind of depth in the background. Juice vibe turns into soft Vanilla and Tonka but I can smell the hint of the Strawberry until the end. During the cold days this is not so beautiful but it’s just my opinion. Anyway this is really different in cold than in really hot so I recommend to test how it differs in your skin. All that synthetic feeling disappears in hot and all the notes are blending better. The hotter the better. Strawberry and caramel melt on my skin into very intoxicating sweet aroma. In wintertime I'm wondering why I even have this perfume and when the summer arrives I remember why I fell in love with this scent. I have noticed that some people compare this to La Capitale by Xerjoff and even think that’s this is redundant if you already have La Capitale but imo there is nothing same how these two perform. There is many same notes in those two and it looks like a same but especially Strawberry note is very different in those. La Capitale is really delicate compared to this. This has more character and a deeper woody touch. I think there is different occasions to wear those. Thank you for reading and I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes
Venom Incarnat is a very interesting and unique perfume, but to me goes in the wrong direction. It opens instantly with an intensely sweet strawberry and raspberry combination, with a juicy blackberry and thick caramel supporting this. There’s a gentle spiciness from the cinnamon, while the base is comprised of a smooth and thick leather and vanilla combo. It’s not particularly unpleasant and I can see they were really trying to push the boat out by utilising such a unique set of notes; however, a natural strawberry does not exist, and so by making it the main note of the fragrance you’re left with an extremely synthetic and low quality fruitiness that’s more reminiscent of strawberry flavoured medicine than a natural strawberry. Unfortunately to me this fragrance smells very plasticky and does not live up to the high quality ingredients that I know this house uses in its other releases. I would not recommend this perfume unless you really want to smell like fake strawberries.