Moonalisa Funnel Cakes You to Hell (or sometimes just called funnel cakes) Perfume Oil Review!
A couple years ago on fragrantica I entered a lovely giveaway that I actually won, I believe the username was Arrogant Cat who supplied me with a trove of Halloween themed goodies. One of the treasures was a sample sized perfume oil of Funnel Cakes You to Hell by Moonalisa. Immediately upon trying I feel in love with both the scent and the concept! I have never been funnel caked to hell this hard before, the blast of butter and cinnamon sugar was truly out of this world. A junk food lover's ethereal dream of being able to wear one of the junkiest of all carny food. This scent does indeed remind me of that october part of fall, one of my favorite times of the whole year, and it is really damn cozy. I think of sweaters, turning leaves, dates, all the things I like to do in the fall season. I know dates is kind of weird, idk I think fall is really romantic somehow.
Anyway so the perfume oil opens with a BLAST of cinnamon & sugar, about 20 seconds in you get a strong melted butter note, and then 5 minutes in you get mostly cinnamon, sugar, some butter still, and salty fried dough that is kind of vanilla-y but it's subtle. I would say out of all the notes the cinnamon is the strongest, sometimes it even teeters into red hot cinnamon kind of smell that I don't like too much, but thankfully the other notes steer it into the right direction as soon as it seems like too much. The fragrance oil smell wise would be almost perfect to me if it weren't for that wax paper dry down. In a way it's a little whimsical and cute, because when I think about fried funnel cakes ARE usually served on wax paper, so it really is like having the whole thing. Still I can't get completely on board with that hint of wax paper funnel cake smell I get 6 hours later. Funnel cakes you to hell has lasted a full 24 hours on me. I put it on at 2 p.m on my neck one day and woke up the following morning at 11 a.m and the first thing I noticed as I was laying half awake was that something smelt like cinnamon toast crunch cereal...(it was me). The silage and projection is very good too. Overall great performance & amazing smell; with the minor exception of that touch of odd waxyness.
There is just one problem with funnel cakes you to hell that I just can't ignore for this review; I'm allergic to it. I did notice some burning and tingling on my neck when I used my sample in the first place but I shrugged it off. I had only put on 1/2 mL of the oil so the reaction was subtle. So after ordering 4 of the 5 mL perfume oil rollerballs I was in for quite a surprise when I broke out in a bright red burning rash everywhere that the perfume oil had been applied. I have it figured out now that it's the cinnamon oil, because I have a oil from Nature's Garden that does the same thing to me (Pumpkin Crunch Cake). Apparently sensitivity to cinnamon oil is very common thing and most fragrance oil manufactures will include whether or not a perfume oil is "skin safe" with it's cinnamon. Pumpkin Crunch Cake was marked at not skin safe, I ignored them and learned my lesson, although I reacted a lot less bad with Pumpkin Crunch Cake because I think there was less cinnamon oil. I have a skin safe cinnamon oil fragrance called Gingersnap Cookies that I love that causes no reaction in me at all. I think it's a little uncool moonalisa didn't have some kind of warning about the cinnamon oil in there not being rated skin safe, if she was aware. Another thing, I wore Funnel Cakes to work and my sushi coworker had what I think was a terrible allergic reaction by standing right next to me. He had sneezing fits, runny eyes & nose and was completely miserable. I have never worn that perfume or anything with non skin safe cinnamon oil to work again and haven't seen him react like that since. I can't point the finger on Funnel Cakes, but I feel sure enough not to risk it.
I've decided to hang on to my 20 mL's of yummy oil and wear it how I can by avoiding tender areas like the side of my neck, decollete, and wrist. I can wear the oil on the tops of my forearms, rubbed on my clothing, or on the tops of my breasts without getting much reaction. It's such a drag that a perfume oil I like so much causes me to get red and nasty, but I can work around it. It's lucky that the perfume oil is so powerful that no matter where it's applied on my upper body I can still smell and enjoy it. The scent is very hard to find, esp. because it's been d/c and even removed from moonalisa's scent list inventory.
Oh, and a cute little fun fact, I wore this to a horse show today, and the horses seem to really love it! I think the smell reminds them of spiced oatmeal cookies they get as treats. Phoebe tried to eat my shirt lol!
My Rating: 4/5 Stars BUT be sure to check out if you have cinnamon allergies first!
Grip tightly your carnival ride seat before this salty sweet confection blend of Salty Caramels & Vanilla Bean with Funnel Cakes takes you to Hell and back!
Anyway so the perfume oil opens with a BLAST of cinnamon & sugar, about 20 seconds in you get a strong melted butter note, and then 5 minutes in you get mostly cinnamon, sugar, some butter still, and salty fried dough that is kind of vanilla-y but it's subtle. I would say out of all the notes the cinnamon is the strongest, sometimes it even teeters into red hot cinnamon kind of smell that I don't like too much, but thankfully the other notes steer it into the right direction as soon as it seems like too much. The fragrance oil smell wise would be almost perfect to me if it weren't for that wax paper dry down. In a way it's a little whimsical and cute, because when I think about fried funnel cakes ARE usually served on wax paper, so it really is like having the whole thing. Still I can't get completely on board with that hint of wax paper funnel cake smell I get 6 hours later. Funnel cakes you to hell has lasted a full 24 hours on me. I put it on at 2 p.m on my neck one day and woke up the following morning at 11 a.m and the first thing I noticed as I was laying half awake was that something smelt like cinnamon toast crunch cereal...(it was me). The silage and projection is very good too. Overall great performance & amazing smell; with the minor exception of that touch of odd waxyness.
There is just one problem with funnel cakes you to hell that I just can't ignore for this review; I'm allergic to it. I did notice some burning and tingling on my neck when I used my sample in the first place but I shrugged it off. I had only put on 1/2 mL of the oil so the reaction was subtle. So after ordering 4 of the 5 mL perfume oil rollerballs I was in for quite a surprise when I broke out in a bright red burning rash everywhere that the perfume oil had been applied. I have it figured out now that it's the cinnamon oil, because I have a oil from Nature's Garden that does the same thing to me (Pumpkin Crunch Cake). Apparently sensitivity to cinnamon oil is very common thing and most fragrance oil manufactures will include whether or not a perfume oil is "skin safe" with it's cinnamon. Pumpkin Crunch Cake was marked at not skin safe, I ignored them and learned my lesson, although I reacted a lot less bad with Pumpkin Crunch Cake because I think there was less cinnamon oil. I have a skin safe cinnamon oil fragrance called Gingersnap Cookies that I love that causes no reaction in me at all. I think it's a little uncool moonalisa didn't have some kind of warning about the cinnamon oil in there not being rated skin safe, if she was aware. Another thing, I wore Funnel Cakes to work and my sushi coworker had what I think was a terrible allergic reaction by standing right next to me. He had sneezing fits, runny eyes & nose and was completely miserable. I have never worn that perfume or anything with non skin safe cinnamon oil to work again and haven't seen him react like that since. I can't point the finger on Funnel Cakes, but I feel sure enough not to risk it.
I've decided to hang on to my 20 mL's of yummy oil and wear it how I can by avoiding tender areas like the side of my neck, decollete, and wrist. I can wear the oil on the tops of my forearms, rubbed on my clothing, or on the tops of my breasts without getting much reaction. It's such a drag that a perfume oil I like so much causes me to get red and nasty, but I can work around it. It's lucky that the perfume oil is so powerful that no matter where it's applied on my upper body I can still smell and enjoy it. The scent is very hard to find, esp. because it's been d/c and even removed from moonalisa's scent list inventory.
Oh, and a cute little fun fact, I wore this to a horse show today, and the horses seem to really love it! I think the smell reminds them of spiced oatmeal cookies they get as treats. Phoebe tried to eat my shirt lol!
My Rating: 4/5 Stars BUT be sure to check out if you have cinnamon allergies first!
Grip tightly your carnival ride seat before this salty sweet confection blend of Salty Caramels & Vanilla Bean with Funnel Cakes takes you to Hell and back!
