Warm Bulb

I finally bought the full bottle. A year ago when I bought my first sample of this I was unimpressed but it was something I kept coming back to. The dust on a light bulb thing wasn’t instantly recognizable to me and I think the reviews claiming photo realism are exaggerating, but it’s a really lovely warm perfume. Very wearable modern and chic.

Warm Bulb smells exactly as advertised: like a warm incandescent light bulb. A thread of vanilla runs through the composition, making it surprisingly wearable and cozy. I don't know how they perfectly recreated such a specific, oddly comforting smell, but for anyone who remembers the scent of a hot bulb, this is astonishingly photorealistic. Now, if they made a flanker that smelled like Barbie hair melted on the bulb, I'd buy a decant too... purely for scientific purposes and definitely not because I also know exactly what that smells like.

This is a favorite of many for a reason! Definitly gives a peppery static feeling but in a scent! Over time it sweetens and gives more vanilla. I have been looking for a fragrance that smells not like laundry but like the smell of clothes out of the dryer. This is the closest I've found but not exactly that. Definitely recommend though!