Violette Market reviews: White Ghost Pumpkin and Golden Autumn

Though of course as an active member of the "Other Perfumes You Love" thread at the BPAL forums I've heard a lot about Violette Market, this is the first opportunity I've had to actually try anything of theirs.  So I was excited to snag White Ghost Pumpkin from the Diablo Canyon Autumn collection, and Golden Autumn from the Hallows 2009 limited edition releases with my etailer forum haul this week.

Since there were only two VM bottles and two scents are all I can efficiently test without confusing my nose, I'm going to do these reviews first.

White Ghost Pumpkin was one of this year's Diablo Canyon releases that I was most intrigued by. However, I never got around to ordering it, so I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to get it on the second hand market.

(Oh, and I'm back to testing/applying with swizzle sticks...I am already out of wandcaps). Which doesn't have anything to do  with anything else except that I find it amusing.  Or slightly scary, considering how many wandcaps I JUST bought.)

White Ghost Pumpkin's description was:  Glows and haunts, neighbors and unsuspecting visitors! Gives off a nostalgically sweet smell of warm rice milk, creme, and newly-plucked gray mini pumpkins.

Sniffing the bottle I get rice milk and creme.
On but wet, a sort of floral note shows up.  I'm assuming it's supposed to be gray mini pumpkin?  As it dries, though, the rice milk and creme show back up (thankfully!), and the almost floral goes to the background.  I'm getting no traditional pumpkin smell at all.  Don't get me wrong, it's nice - but it's definitely not what one would expect from a pumpkin scent.  It reminds me a bit of squash blossom, actually - which would be appropriate, I suppose.
This one morphs sort of like Haus of Gloi's Troika.  One sniff I get creme and rice milk, the next I get that floral-y scent.

Golden Autumn's description (found online) says: The yellow hues of the season, especially the leaves. Aged golden amber, vanilla, yellow and brown leaves dried in the cool afternoon, and autumn spices.

Out of the bottle I get autumn leaves and the spices.  There really is sort of a "cool afternoon" vibe going on.  How does she do that?
On but still wet, still getting a ton of spices (and not just cinnamon either, which is nice). Hopefully the amber and vanilla will come out to play...
Dry: Ah, there's the amber and vanilla. I really like this.  A very yummy blend of golden and spice notes, plus vanilla.  I can see this one getting a lot of wear.

Next up - Arcana reviews.

And the winner is....

...Haus of Gloi's Pumpkin Eater!  The title, of course, is "Shel's Choice of ONE Pumpkin Perfume for Autumn, 2012". 

However, Pumpkin Eater kind of won by default - I had finally found some reviews that sounded delicious, and had planned on doing a bit more comparison shopping, but then I checked the site and Pumpkin Eater was ...*gasp*.... GONE.  Panicked, I dashed off a message to Haus of Gloi's facebook wall and got the reassuring reply that it was already restocked.   After refreshing the page, there it was, so in a moment of complete relief, I placed the order.

I don't even have a shipping notice yet,  so reviews will have to wait.  I'm still waffling over a couple of Violette Market's Diablo Canyon pumpkin blends as well... Peach and pumpkin, pumpkin and rice milk, plum and pumpkin....

Speaking of plums, I wish I could find a good plum/cream/pastry blend, or possibly a plum/light musk/white floral blend.  I think Haus of Gloi's Hex has a bit of plum in it, but it's not as strong as I'd like.   Several of the companies that I'm familiar with offer customs, I might have to try that route.