I recently received a togo of spaceland as part of a trade I made earlier and when I smelled it, I know it was the same EO that is available to add to putatives a few years back. I hated the smell back when I got it and I hated the way spaceland smells. However, I applied some p93 with the Herbal EO today and I got something different then when I first received the bottle. This time, while i could still detect the weed scent, I also noticed that it smelled… sweeter. It appears to have caramelized or something like that and now it smells “like candy”. Are there any old regulars here that might explain this phenomenon to me?
The two scents mixed together. Sometimes when two scents are mixed right, they create a new scent instead of it smelling like a scent covering another scent. It could also be because of your body sweat mixing with the scents, which would definitely alter the scent. When I put A314 on, the more oily and damp parts of my body (sounds gross) it changes the scent into this irresistible scent. At least on my body. If I put some on the inside of my arm (opposite side of the elbow) and if I happen to fold my arms and get some on my knuckles and I put my knuckles near my nose. I will pick up the scent, then it becomes more and more irresistible, to the point where I look like a freak who it sniffing their knuckles. But that is the effect I get from A314. Instead of it smelling like that really Alpha-Manly smell it has when first applied, it turns into this musky, addicting scent from mixing with my body sweat. The scent at that point is literally the best scent ever. I can’t take my nose away from my fingers. I describe it as someone smelling the skin of someone they love and not being able to resist. That is why on the bottle, it says synthetic human musk. This same concept is probably happening when you mixed the two scents together.
Spaceland has an hippie EO called clary sage. It varies considerably depending on the company that made it. But basically it always still smells like hippies at a Dead fest. The only EO more hippie/new age is Patchouli. Both are so strong they can be used as the base fixer in perfumes. If you mix the right notes above it they totally transform into something nice. There are a number of commercial colognes based on these EOs and they’re surprisingly good. Not hippie at all.