Jesus del Pozo Halloween
I would have even accepted this:
But there’s no black magic here of any sort. I really had hoped for something bewitching, something witchy. Del Pozo’s Halloween opens with light florals, primarily freesia and lily of the valley on me. But per usual, freesia goes to die on my skin. It faded fast, as did the lily of the valley. There’s some note in this scent that smells a lot like ozonic steamed rice - and I can’t quite explain beyond that weird description, I’m afraid. I then get a sensation of rose, a wee touch of green something-or-another, woodiness, and cleanly musk. And soon enough its just the cleanly musk. It’s perfectly pleasant, but if I crave freesia and musk I’ll stick with Lulu Beauty’s Lulu Mae, and for a clean skin musk, I will take Helmut Lang parfum over this any day. Halloween in general wears as a sheer, slightly foofy scent. Hm, on second thought, it IS witchy:
Just like that famous line in The Wizard of Oz, “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” is the question I should have been asking of it. Halloween is the equavalent of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Sure, she’s the pretty nice one, but really, who doesn’t find the Wicked Witch so much more interesting?
So my picks for pleasingly wicked scents today will be Escential Lotions and Oils of Portland’s Dragon’s Blood, Vicky Tiel Sirene, and Dior Poison.
I leave you with a link to a scanned copy of a favorite Halloween book - we’ve worn out so many copies of it by now that I’ve lost count. The Hallo-Wiener, which can be found easily through Powell’s Bookstore.
October 31st, 2005 at 7:01 am
Hi K! Does JdP do a different Halloween scent every year, or just a different bottle every year with the same juice? I do love some of the bottles, but the fragrance sounds hardly worth trying!
October 31st, 2005 at 8:07 am
Eeeew…ozonic steamed rice…it IS scare, K, what are you talking about LOL
Happy Halloween!!!
October 31st, 2005 at 9:16 am
Katie, it frightened me with its amount of ozonic notes. Of course, they make me almost physically ill (with some exceptions, of course), therefore perhaps I am biased. :)
October 31st, 2005 at 3:14 pm
R - excellent question, but one I don’t know the answer to. I presume the juice remains the same, since general reviews of it on the various sites and msg. boards all sound like they’re describing the same thing through the years.
M - yeah, I dunno… it’s like the smell of steamed rice, but sharper? Gah, I am not feeling articulate today. Me talk pretty one day.
V - it’s not THAT ozonic, and it does wear closely to the skin. My husband smelled it on me yesterday and commented that it smelled like deodorant, and he spent the whole evening trying to rack his brain and mine for precisely which deodorant he was thinking of.
November 1st, 2005 at 1:45 am
I’ve always been curious about this scent, as I’m a big fan of freesia. It’s certainly an odd choice of notes for a scent named Halloween, but apparently it was named for the date Del Pozo created it rather than the contents.
Thank you for posting that adorable kids book! Put a big smile on my face.
November 1st, 2005 at 4:01 pm
Huh, well that explains the name - thanks cheezwiz! It’s a pretty enough scent, it just seems like it’s not anything exceptional to me. You might feel differently being a freesia fan, though.