Clue Perfumery Warm Bulb Sample

We are not affiliated with Clue Perfumery. These are decants from a genuine bottle of Warm Bulb being sold from our own collection. If you like it, we recommend supporting them - they're an awesome indie fragrance house!

Our Review:

Warm Bulb is so good! It checks off all the boxes we look for in a fragrance: unique, interesting, evokes the concept it's going for, makes you feel something and has a sense of nostalgia (without smelling dated), and above all smells good!

It really does have the vibe of the pages of a book under a warm lightbulb. We almost get a sense of a heated electronics type of smell (think paper fresh from a copy machine), but in a really fun way and very wearable, surrounded by cozy pillow amber vanilla.

Yet the ambery vanilla is done in an elegant way, so it doesn't come across cloying or too sticky sweet either. The tobacco and immortelle here, to us, combine into smelling almost like the tinged edges of a piece of paper that would be referred to as papyrus (ha!). Not at all offputting even if you're not into those notes in general - they just add nuance and shadows here. 

We're impressed! Everything used in Warm Bulb is so artfully blended. It has a toasted quality, but in a very smooth way, and it's soft yet sturdy at the same time. It's cozy yet gets a feeling of creativity flowing. An all-around fantastic fragrance!

Part of our Best Unique Fragrances list.