Perfume Review: Smelly Yeti Jeeves!

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Back to the Hellmouth for this week's perfume review--Jeeves (the product page is called kiss-the-librarian!) from Smelly Yeti.

Price: $15 for a 7.4 mL bottle of perfume oil with glass applicator wand, featuring the art you see at the top of the post.
Samples: You can buy a set of 5 samples (pick your own) for $15. The samples come in cute, squat 1.3 mL amber glass mini bottles. They do not have an applicator wand or polyseal or reducer cap.
Description from the website: ""I've been, uh, indexing the Watcher diaries covering the last couple of centuries. You would be amazed at how numbingly pompous and long-winded some of these Watchers were.'"

When there's something strange in the neighborhood...go to the library. A cup of tea, the dusty smell of leatherclad demonology books, a woody medieval weapons cabinet, and the unmistakable smell of LEARNING. Unisex."

Leather, wood, tea, and paper? Yes, please!

This smells like a mixture of smoke and green and black tea when applied. There's something oddly savory about the scent, reminding me of bacon--I think that's the leather note, with the smokiness amplifying the bacon-y impression.

There are various types of leather accords out there, with some leaning more sharply realistic (to my nose) and others leaning more smoky and abstract--BPAL's The Black Rider falls into the former category, and this into the latter, along with Chanel's Cuir de Russie, whose leather note I didn't much care for, honestly.

As it dries down on my skin, the tea scent seems to intensify. The tea smells great, if sort of fruity. The scent reminds me a bit of Conjure Oils' Earl Black, though less sweet. A woodsy note, oak maybe, starts making itself known once the scent dries down. Maybe a touch of paper, but I don't get that at as a particularly strong presence.

I don't like this all that much when it's wet because of that savory impression, but it's quite nice on the drydown! The smoky tea combo reminds me of Lapsang Souchong, and I think it would be a good unisex perfume.

For other reviews of Jeeves, you can also check out Beauty on a Beer Budget, Sultry Suburbia, More Tea, Wesley?, or Scents and Sea Spray.

Note: this scent is vegan. Ingredients: Rice Bran Oil, Jojoba Oil, Fragrance Oil, Essential Oil