This is a refreshing, light feeling perfume that was recommended by the niche perfume retailer Arielle Shoshana in a tiktok about video game fragrance pairings! She connected fragrances to popular games and connected Sci-Fi to Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. It’s a perfect match, it smells like wide open adventure with a sweet and honest vibe. The green tea note with vanilla is my favorite thing about this perfume. Typically I dislike perfumes with a green as a main accord but it’s beautifully balanced here. Perhaps one of the most balanced perfumes in my collection. I truly cannot say enough about this perfume.

It is airy and beautiful and sits close to the skin, which I love. The wear time is about 4-6 hours for me, so I sometimes reapply during the day. Because of that I recommend you buy in bulk ;) I was so sad to have run out of my first sample I immediately repurchased.

I discovered Ellis Brooklyn at the start of the pandemic and decided to buy the discovery set. I noticed that every single one of the perfumes (including the new ones I got samples of in this recent order) have a very potent chemical/synthetic scent embedded in them. The only one with the least detectable "toxic-gas" like scent is Sci-Fi and so I decided to buy the travel size bottle and give it a shot again two years later. The bottle is great for on the go and lasts a good amount of time, which is far better than those little sample bottles that last about 2-3 days. To get a really good understanding of a fragrance and how it works with your body, you need at least a solid 7-10 days. Because with Sci-Fi, the first three days, I got nothing on my skin but the bergamot. I couldn't even smell vanilla. It was just like an orange creamsicle scent, but a more mature version, which I appreciated. It wasn't till about day 5 or 6 that I began getting any vanilla and I think that's because my skin and the perfume were starting to create their chemistry. Now the vanilla is really potent and sometimes a bit overpowering, like cheap vanilla sprays, but so far I'm giving it some time before deciding whether or not to invest in the full bottle. I just don't think this will become a signature scent, but it's the only EB perfume I can tolerate.