Today, I tried Scylla, the other half of the new Nui Cobalt (haha, new new) Fae Folk and Otherworldly Beings 2026 that I bought. There are a few more but with no reviews on them, I only took a chance on Scylla and Charybdis. You can read my review for Charybdis here. I have had a few perfumes from Nui Cobalt but I feel like I have a hard time imagining what they smell like from the notes so I prefer a review to tell me what it smelled like. Scylla sounds like it is a cold aquatic perfume. 

Notes: Shards of a frozen ocean, salt-crusted coral, coastal neroli, splintered driftwood, and inky musk.

Initially, this is sharp and bitter. It smells like herbs but not specifically one in particular. Most closely, it resembles mint and basil combined. It has a cold, wet vibe to it. I can’t really smell any wood but I think it would have tipped the scent into cologne territory. After the initial bitter herb, it mellows out into a white floral scent. It wasn’t too perfumey or flowery, it stayed tempered by the green herby note. This lasted a good amount of hours into my shift too! I was pleasantly surprised. This past week, I have been trying these Nui Cobalt scents and the first one was Red Admiral Butterfly which faded quickly so I have been paying a bit more attention to the strength and longevity of these other perfumes. This is a beachy aquatic like I expected but I was not expecting the florals. They are very nice though and it adds a bit of a feminine vibe to it but not overly. It is white flowers that I assume is neroli and greens over a musk, and maybe I do get a bit of a woody musk when I sniff deeply. Overall, this is a very nice beach floral scent, it is out of my comfort zone but I can’t wait to wear it more this summer.