Part of the September 2024 Legacy Collection. This was originally part of their general catalog in 2014 but was removed from their permanent lineup in late 2019 due to seasonal component availability. It is one of their most-requested reissues. Shadow Show was inspired by Ray Bradbury's fascinating "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Shadow Show is a gourmand, fruity, smoky, metallic, dark fragrance that features notes of kettle corn, spun sugar, apple, machine oil, rusty metal and dirt. It is a parfum.
Sixteen92 produces small-batch fine fragrance inspired by history, literature, lore and magic.
Indie Scent Library: "Personally, the apple note is not present in this blend for me. The kettle corn and spun sugar notes would be unbearably sticky-sweet without the metallic dirtiness brought to the table by the machine oil, rusty metal, and dirt notes. The sweetness is the forefront of this scent, with the grittier notes adding a promise of a little danger beneath the innocent facade. A favorite of mine."
Indie Scent Library: "This is a curious blend of metal and kettle corn. The metal is slightly more prominent at first, and after an hour or so it smells like fresh made farmers market kettle corn. About halfway through the day a crisp apple note soared into the air and confused me lol. It lasted about an hour before going back to kettle corn. At the end of the day it settled to a dusty sugar scent."
Indie Scent Library: "My go to Farmer’s Market scent. This evokes chilly air, fresh picked apples, kettle corn, and dirt. It took me awhile to decide if I liked it or not. It is completely atmospheric and the realism borders on being eerie. A brilliant blend."
Indie Scent Library: "In a way, this almost reminds me of a more complicated ghost puffs. at first, it’s mostly kettle corn with the sweeter edge of the spun sugar, but there’s still that undercurrent of dirt and metal, though they don’t smell overpowering. i don’t think i ever got any of the apple note in this."
A Malcontent's Drivellings: "Oh man. Oh, golly. This is the one. I love this smell. I’d read about people having ‘holy grail scents’, but nothing from my first order really hit me quite that hard, but this. This is that. It was love from the second I opened its lil’ vial. Oh boy. Ohhh, geeze. In the bottle it smells mostly like the kettle corn and spun sugar. The kettle corn’s got that warm starchy, well. Kettle-corn smell, with just a hint of butteriness, far from overpowering or nauseating like I feared it might be. There’s also the spun sugar, which is bright and gives a friendly sweetness to that kettle corn. On the skin it’s just UGH. IT’S. IT’S SO GOOD, SOB. Of course because i’m me I put this on the minute I got those bottles, before it had a chance to settle, and it smelled just as good but in a different way: all that sweetness vanished, and the machine oil with just a bit of dirt appeared, leaving a scent that was like a bright, smooth… Almost clay. I keep thinking clay, the way the machine oil and kettle corn interact. It smelled wonderfully earthy in a weird way. After a week, the sweetness now stays on my skin, so I get the brightness that’s in the bottle as well as the smoothness of the machine oil, eventually drying down to that subtle not-sweet clay smell. This smells like a fairy’s carnival that will only exist until dawn on a cold autumn night. The only downside to this perfume is that it doesn’t stay super long before fading down to a subtle smoothness, maybe an hour or two, and it stays pretty damn close to the skin - I don’t think i’ve ever just caught whiffs of it without huffing at my wrists, even when i’m wearing a lot. But, see, here’s the thing: it smells so good that I don’t care about this. 8/5, i’ll be fullsizing the H E L L out of this."
Starless Lovers: "This is a great carnival scent as it’s heavy on popcorn (in a good way) and light, sweet notes due to the sugar and apple! I do get the hints of oil and metal but it adds to the carnival atmosphere. It reminds me a lot of Solstice Scents Foxcroft Fairgrounds if you’re looking for similar carnival scents."
Fragrantica: "The fragrance smelled like the most delicious, almost sickly taffy mixed with something a little dark and metallic."
Reddit: "I was hesitant about this scent at first because any scent with sweet gourmand notes tend to give me pause. And apples. Any scent heavy on apples just gives me the most painful middle school Bath & Body Works flashbacks and I cannot handle that shit. But I love this scent. LOVE IT. Did not anticipate this reaction, but here we are. It's sweet, the kettle corn and spun sugar are strong in this one. I don't get any apple (thank god). I get a bit of the oil and the metal, which is lovely because it tempers those sweet notes that could easily slide into sickly territory without something that can ground it, such as metal and machine oil. This is such a weird, sweet scent and I love it so much. 10/10"
