I received my first ever perfume haul yesterday from a lovely user on /r/indiemakeupandmore by the name of Joy – if you’re reading this, Joy, you’re amazing – and they contained a few perfumes by Sixteen92 and Smelly Yeti which I bought, and she added a bunch more freebie perfume samples and 10 free full sized eyeshadows and a full size of Shiro Intertube! Yep, you heard me, she gave me all of that for free, and didn’t say anything about giving me all this things so you can imagine how surprised I was when I found them in my package! I was so confused to the point that I had to ask her for clarification on whether she was meant to give me those items, but nope, it was definitely for me! People like Joy make IMAM such a wonderful community, and I’m so glad to be a part of it.

Now, onto haul pictures and first impressions! Just to let you know, I am very new to indie perfumes, and perfumes in general. I’m not a person who likes very strong scents to the point that I have to use my deodorant spray outside my room because I feel like I’m suffocating if I smell too much fragrance. That being said, I have found indie perfumes to be a treat to smell.

Anyway, here’s what I specifically paid for:

Smelly Yeti Not the Bees

Not the Bees Sixteen92 Blood and Honey | Coconut Cream Hot Chocolate | Red Velvet Hot Chocolate | Toasted Marshmallow | La Llorana | Black Sugar

What I received as gifts:

Sixteen92 Mexican Hot Chocolate | Southern Gothic | Salem

Mexican Hot Chocolate Southern Gothic Salem House of Gloi Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin Patch FuturePrimitive Soap Co. Festival | Sylph

You can tell by my blog name that I’m a sucker for honey and floral-y scents, so I bit the bullet and bought 2 full sized honey perfumes! I’ve never heard of gourmand perfumes until I stumbled upon IMAM, so I was very interested in what they would smell like which is why I got a bunch of gourmand samples, mostly just cakes. I’m very interested in House of Gloi’s Ghost Puffs, and hoping to grab my hands on that sometime soon. I’m still not quite sure how to feel about “strange” scents like dirt, tobacco, or anything atmospheric/environmental (grass, plants etc.), but I might delve into those sorta scents when I feel like I’m ready. For now, I’ll stick to “safe” scents like the ones I purchased.

On the first day that I received my perfumes, I was literally smearing it all over my arms to smell each and every one of them. It was pretty overwhelming! I’m not a pro perfume reviewer by any means and am still not sure of the many terms used for reviewing perfumes (sillage, throw etc.), but hopefully one day my knowledge will expand!

I really enjoyed the hot chocolate perfumes, especially the Coconut Creme Hot Chocolate. The non-gourmand smells were very interesting, especially Pumpkin Patch, which smelled really earth-y on me. I’m planning on trying one perfume per day, as it was pretty hard on my nose to sniff all the perfumes in one go, but I had a lot of fun with them all! So far, it seems that I really like sweet, floral/fruit/gourmand scents! I’m hoping to branch out to more interesting perfumes some time though! I can only do “proper” reviews of of Sixteen92’s Blood and Honey and Smelly Yeti’s Not the Bees below:

Sixteen92 – Blood and Honey Smelly Yeti – Not the Bees I wore Blood and Honey yesterday but since I had other perfumes all over my arms, it was pretty hard to get a proper sniff of it. The blood orange was much more prominent than the honey, but once it wore off after a few hours, I could smell hints of honey coming through. Definitely a lovely spring scent (Spring just started today here in Australia!) and I’m really happy I got the full size since I blind bought it. Today I wore Smelly Yeti’s Not the Bees and holy moly, this is my favourite smell out of all of them! I really frickin’ love honey and to have it on my own skin is just a wonderful experience. I don’t smell any citrus, which I’m glad, because I was hoping for Not the Bees to be different to Blood and Honey. It’s a lot more sweet and subtle compared to Blood and Honey and it’s honestly the most perfect scent for spring. Don’t take my words to heart, though, since I am a perfume newbie. It’s been about 8 hours since application and it smells even more subtle and I can feel the vanilla coming through, still no hint of citrus as far as I can smell.

Now, onto my makeup freebies:

Shiro Intertube in Three Wolf Moon

Intertube in Three Wolf Moon Dreamworld Hermetica Molpadia | Torment | Vampire Heart

Molpadia Torment Vampire Heart Hello Waffle Debussy | Pachelbel | Enaudi | Vivaldi | Rachmaninoff | Mozart

Debussy Pachelbel Enaudi Vivaldi Rachmaninoff Mozart Aromaleigh Uktena

Here’s what the lovely Joy sent along with my purchases! I was itching to buy Hello Waffle’s Musician eyeshadows but had to limit myself since I don’t want my bank to cry, so I’m really happy that she included half the Musician’s collection for me! Also can’t wait to dip into Dreamworld Hermetica’s and Aromaleigh’s eyeshadows, since I’ve never bought from them before! I have bought mineral foundation samples from Dreamworld Hermetica, though, but that’s for another post. Seriously though, just look at how much she gave me! I played around with the makeup for a bit and this is what it resulted in:

My overall thoughts: I am 110% hooked on indie perfumes! I’ll definitely be buying more perfumes in the future, but I’m totally in love with what I already have so I’ll be hanging onto these until they run out. I’ll definitely try and write up proper reviews of them all when I get the chance, so stay tuned! Thanks again Joy for being super lovely and generous, you’re the best!