I am continuing on my quest of trying most of Sorce’s special order fragrances today with Dark Skies. I got a decant of this oil perfume from Ajevie. There were not many reviews for this one, so I decided to give it a shot! I don’t know what agave and saguaro smell like but I am intrigued. Dark Skies should be available from Sorce during Augusts and the special order windows. 

Notes: desert sage, agave, tuberose, saguaro, sandalwood, vanilla

As soon as I opened this up, I realized I do know what agave smells like. I have agave syrup at home and this perfume really smells like this in the bottle. On my skin, I still get that agave syrup smell but also something else. I get haribo gummy bears. I grew up eating those so this is actually very nostalgic for me. It doesn’t smell crazy sweet, believe it or not. This is like smelling the green strawberry gummy bears, with a super realistic waxy note. I think the wax must be the tuberose. After it has sat for a bit, if I put my nose up to this and smell deeply, I can get maybe a hot sand note or something woody. This was described as green but I don’t think I am really getting any green. Just a sweet and slightly fruity scent that is tempered by the wax and sand. I don’t get a sage either and there is maybe vanilla sweetening the perfume as well but not a lot. The gummy bear smell is so realistic that I feel like that would be an awesome theme for another perfume from Sorce. It seemed like the only other reviews on this perfume weren’t too into this so I wonder how this smelled to them. I got faint whiffs of this throughout the day, but this is definitely not as strong as other scents from Sorce. I think Dancing Under the Full Moon from their special order catalogue reminds me of a desert a bit more than this one.