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assigTootte – :
@ gabbi4god. I love your description. Just had to tell you. I love this perfume very much also. Reminds me of fall air and Halloween. My favorite time of year.
Devilinidethespan – :
I was weary of blind buying this, as it would be my first purchase from Solstice Scents and I’ve had an -okay- experience with indie oils before. Most of the indie oils I’ve sampled basically smell the same, easy to pick apart and mostly composed of EOs. Botanical, pleasant, most of the time very headshop-y.
Foxcroft Fairgrounds does have this mark of indie oils–it reminds me of a headshop with low lights and sweet incense burning. It is a lot more complex of a smell than what I’m used to, however, and tells a story as it unravels. It really does smell like cream soda (rootbeer-ish, sometimes) at first, then journeys into cotton candy, and fall air (smoky like late September nights as we head into Halloween). It develops all the way here and arrives at the incense stage, fruity at times while retaining some black sweetness. It is an evocative fragrance.
I was afraid that this would smell something like Pink Sugar or other conventionally sweet gourmands. It does not: this is a goth witch with a sweet tooth. Absolute love.
EDIT: This has very little throw but great longevity. I can still detect the incense on my skin 12 hours after applying.
FilippoviK – :
Buttery cream soda, fluffy cotton candy, a bit of woodsmoke carried on a breeze, this is the smell of an Autumn carnival. As such, it’s perhaps a bit too heavy for a warm day but that’s never stopped me before lol Solstice Scents have wonderful silage and longevity for oil perfumes and the high quality of the fragrances oils used is obvious. This might become one of my favorite sweet scents of all time.
Shef-javenga – :
This is one of my favorite perfumes and I am elated to have a full bottle in my collection.
There are definitely notes missing in the profile – make sure to read the website description because it is more accurate.
I smell dead fallen leaves, incense-y smoke, cream soda, and sugary treats. SO good. I get compliments on this a lot. Not so much like “what perfume are you wearing?”, but rather “something smells REALLY good.” and I KNOW IT’S ME, OKAY? There’s no way they are referring to anything else cos this perfume is freakin awesome.
tonievih21 – :
What a deliciously fun scent! I get Smokey (cream soda) with hefty doses of very realistic cotton candy. This is a scent with a buttery, luxurious texture.
From a distance, the smoke and cream soda are most prominent, up close it gets sweet and almost waxy. I think that’s the fall air accord. I’m sure I will be reaching for this quite a bit on cold nights.
djadise – :
Wow this is a really great scent, gourmand lovers should definitely give it a try.
Some notes are missing and they are all listed on the Solstice Scents website.
It starts out with a blast of smoke and dirt almost smelling like actual fairgrounds.
It dries down to a creamy sweet scent with cotton candy, cream soda and funnel cakes, while the smokiness is still in the background. This is honestly the best cotton candy scent I’ve smelled.
Alex46 – :
WOW! I love this House! Every single scent I received has been absolutely incredible. 100% perfection to my nose. This one is no exception.
With Fox croft Fairgrounds I smell the gorgeous scent of spices and incense and sweetness rolled into one. It immediately brings me to a dream I once had where I could fly. I remember being very aware of my dream, some say Lucid dreaming. I was flying all around and I swooped down dipped my finger tip into a puddle of cold water on a black pavement just before arriving at a sort of flea market. There were caravans and ornate stands everywhere and I could, literally in my dream, smell this very scent. It was a Gypsy spiced atmosphere with gorgeous clothes and roasted spices. I will never forget that dream and this brought me immediately back to the memory of such a surreal moment in my life.
This scent is complete perfection!
camoxih – :
When I got my sample of this back in summer I found the smoky & fall air notes dominated. I put it aside to test in Autumn. Intermittently testing there was no real change & I decided this one wasn’t going to be for me. An opportunity came up to get it in a swap with some other Solstice Scents. I took it as part of the bundle but not because I particularly wanted it. The bottle I swapped for was a few months old & well rested & what a difference that makes. Now I get the delicious cotton candy & cream soda but they intermingle with the smoky fall air notes. It wafts around me sweet & dark keeping it all very interesting. Great performance & projection from this & it lasts all day long. One of my favourites now. The moral of the story let them rest
Loodofoubre – :
I have never actually had cream soda so I wouldn’t know about that, but it smells like the sweet incense they use in the Indiska stores in Sweden and Finland. Very pleasing and uplifting, makes me think of hippies in colorful print leggings doing hula hooping at festivals. It blooms beautifully in the heat.
svoiak – :
Without disrespecting the previous reviewer, I would like to say that it is probably a better idea not to review indie perfumes while being sick with a head cold and an impaired sense of smell. Especially if you are going to leave the first review here. People really rely on reviews to order fragrances “blind” and one has to be absolutely sure before leaving negative feedback. Especially for a one-woman operation like SS. Not cool, dude.
This said, it took me a couple of months before I made certain I understood this atmospheric scent before I left a review for it. So, first, there is a strong cream soda and cotton candy note here, with a touch of cold smoke but the main player on my skin and to my nose is the fresh air note which is quite like petrichor. Demeter Thunderstorm comes to mind for this note, but Demeter’s has more of a wet aspect while SS’s is more like Autumn Air. The scent is cool/sweet and a vivid visual experience for me. Night time, cold air, country fair, East of North America. I believe if you are not familiar with a petrichor-type note, it may come across as very strange. I personally think this is genius. The Air+smoke effect is indeed disconnected from the food notes and I wouldn’t want it any other way. This is a scent of place. This is a personal indie creation. I see people on forums asking if this smells like Pink Pugar… Yeah… maybe. A little. If you’re wearing Pink Sugar by the campfire at night. But it’s nowhere as “powdery sweet”. A really sweet scent, to me anyway!
And as with all indie oils, please let your samples sit before trying them on and making a final judgement.
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