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A controversial body and hair mist, to say the least. I originally wanted it because I have been on the hunt for a "sweetener"--a perfume to act as a little bit of sugar when using my non-sweet scents. I had come across Heavy Cream's page and felt like the notes were perfect for this task. I had read plenty of reviews and thought to myself that it surely cannot be that bad.
For context, a lot of the reviews mention "spoiled milk" and "butter." I am someone who inherently believes in the goodness of everything, whether it's people or products. And anyway, my nose is weird in comparison to others; I can very much detect the despicable skatole in most realistic white floral perfumes while others can't. Surely, it cannot be that bad.
I have awful anxiety related to going out in general. It spikes up even more when I'm in stores like Sephora and Ulta. I will never not feel that I do not belong here. But I mustered up the courage to go out and at least test this mist. It had taken me a bit to find Phlur's section in Sephora, but when I did, I immediately tested Heavy Cream.
Long story short, I did feel that it was underwhelming in terms of what I was expecting, but still wanted to at least have the smaller 3 FL OZ bottle because something in me felt drawn to the scent despite everything. They only had a full 8 FL OZ bottle. Being so anxious and also trying to accomodate for the employee who had unlocked a drawer with the bottle in it for me, I impulsively said "yes, I'll take it."
Here I am now, still with my 8 FL OZ bottle that barely has a dent in it even after pouring some out as a sample. It is not that bad.
I think the issue, as silly as it sounds, is that the scent is just too photorealistic. It quite literally smells like heavy cream--and as a reminder, heavy cream is a product that has a very high percentage of fat and is used to make whipped cream. It is not whipped cream in itself. In order to create whipped cream, you need to add sugar to heavy cream.
That is all to say, people buy this product expecting a sugar overdose, not a hyper-realistic cream. And yet, I've come to love it despite my heavily sugar-esque preferences.
What it should've been advertised as is a comfort scent. Something worn at home. Something I like to call a "bedtime scent"--quite literally a perfume or mist you wear before going to bed. That is the ideal usage of Phlur's Heavy Cream in my eyes.
There have been countless nights where I sprayed it on me before crawling under my blanket and immediately felt as though I was making my primordial return into the womb; I already sleep in a very tight-knit fetal position and like to keep my room cold so that I feel as cozy as possible under my blanket (sometimes several in the winter). All of these things combined have led me to have such deep sleeps that I sometimes wake up wondering if I am still an adult human being. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized why this mist invokes such primal imagery in my mind. The strangely fatty, creamy, mildly sour scent is something that I can only describe as a baby's breath.
Not the flower, but a literal baby's breathing.
Comforting, sleepy, maybe a little unpleasant but soothing and gentle regardless. A scent that you might not have smelled recently, but can still somehow visualize exactly what it is. It's something so distinctly gentle that I could swear it only made me fall asleep faster than I already do. That is what Phlur's Heavy Cream is to me, and what it should've always been. Something not so different from melatonin, teddy bears, and slippers. It's something that I've grown to love despite my original search for a sweetener.
If more people saw it that way, I think they would come to like it too.
TLDR; Heavy Cream is a misunderstood scent that should have been advertised as something to wear to bed.
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