Incense as f***
One sniff of the bottle, and I wasn’t sure I was ever goth enough to pull this off because it smelled like straight licorice. I was still worried once I got it on my wrist because it smelled old lady as f*** — like a sniff of a powdery old cat lady’s purse filled with wintergreen mints. However, you have to trust the process for this one. In about 15 minutes, it sheds the licorice, cat pee, and wintergreen smells and develops into something very pleasant … thank goodness! So, what does a goth as f*** person smell like? Well, imagine that you’re in your favorite new age shop picking out incense sticks and you find a few you like. One is going to be this scent. It’s got that powdery incense stick smell to it that skews more floral and musky than patchouli. There is a bit of a patchouli scent to it, but it’s more new age than hippie. If I’d never smelled an incense stick for comparison, I’d probably call it an old lady scent. It’s okay, but it doesn’t make me want to keep trying samples from this house.