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EAU DE GHOUL (Graveyard Book): (Company says: Dessicated skin coated in blackened ginger, cinnamon, and mold-flecked dirt, with cumin, bitter clove, leather, and dried blood.)

In bottle: This is almost teeth gratingly bitter. I am wondering if that skin is really grated citrus skin. The ginger and dirt aren’t kidding either. This is not an easy scent to handle. Wet: The initial bite sweetens as the resin warms up, bringing the other spices with it. There is still that grating citrusy scent, but it hovers over a cookie or perhaps a cinnamon bun. Dry: the dirt is lovely and the ginger/blood/cumin combination intriguing, but that intense unpleasant “desiccated skin” note makes this distracting and impossible to wear.