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November 14, 2008

Pink Plague

With all the hubbub surrounding our recent release, I’ve completely failed to properly introduce a really stunning scent we designed for Cindy over at Scent Addict (Cindy also handles Magical Omaha.).

Pink Plague: Toothache Sweets- Candy Floss, cherry cola, candied apricots, and blackberry jam - numbed with clove, warmed by cleansing incense and laced with earthen decay.

Cindy’s been telling me she wanted a sweet scent for a while now. “Cavity inducing sweet” were her exact words. This took a little doing. First, there are a wealth of really good gourmand scents out there, if we can’t bring something new to the game… I’m reluctant to play. And then, we’ve certainly presented our fair-share of sweet, gooey, gourmand fragrances. How do you top your own work?

In this instance, I took a good long time feeling out the concept. And then took it a little literally. You can do sweet, sure. But cavity inducing? That involves some dental caries. Some decay. Some rot. That was our cue to take this in a fruity/pink/hard candy direction (rather than a vanilla/baked/dessert one). By layering cherry, apricot, blackberry - a melange of pinkness - we had a perfect opening to weave in notes of overripe fruit. That took care of “cavity inducing sweet,” but we wanted to make it a bit more substantial. I could only think of burning incense, grave dirt and due to a friend’s recent dental adventures… clove oil.

I am pretty well pleased with the overall effect. We did the soap up in a pink and cocoa swirls, polished the whole thing in bubble gum. We’ve got Whipped! and perfume oil ready to ship out to the Scent Addict crew (yes, along with Black Out perfume oil ), and we’re putting the final touches on a fabulous too-sweet Smooch! this week. Keep an eye out!