The atomic crow
This is one of those scents where you have to trust the process to give you something much better than what you smell in the opening. The opening smells like an Atomic Fireball candy covered in bandaids and sprinkled with a little powder. Luckily, it starts developing in about an hour into something lovely that you’ll want to keep sniffing. I think the bandaid smell is supposed to be the smoky wood smell mentioned in the notes, but I don’t smell any wood. In about an hour, the harsh cinnamon and bandaid smell turns into a pleasant, powdery aldehyde smell. It’s never smokey or woody for me, but it’s still extremely pleasant. It also loses the fake cinnamon bandaid smell. It’s especially nice in my hair, where I’m still sniffing remnants three days later. I was dubious about this one to start with, but after it had some time to evolve, it’s won my heart. I can’t make myself associate it in any way with a crow, but at least the name got my attention.