DurAnorak
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If I didn't know better (as in, I have tried different samples of Shadwell from different containers, before adding it all to one bottle and GUARDING IT WITH MY LIFE because I love it so), I'd say I'd been wearing a different oil to everyone else who's reviewed this!
What I don't get :
Milk, tea, mildewed raincoat, caramel, moss, aquatic notes of any kind, treacle, cologne.
What I do get :
High church incense.
Seriously. I open the bottle and it's like being hit in the face with everything Henry VIII tried to ban. Huge vaulted ceilings and chanting and statuary and marble tombs - the works.
After ten minutes of that, it does, admittedly, turn into 'I have accidentally taken a bath in cigars', but I like that about it. I take it it's just me, though, with the incense?
Danse Macabre
in Ars Moriendi
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I'm obsessed with the piece of classical music that goes under this name (the version with sung lyrics is even better than the violin one that's more well-known) and I was beyond thrilled to open this imp and discover that it is exactly, precisely, what I would have wanted the scent of Danse Macabre to be.
It's deep green and gleeful, dark, dead and unnerving - while I'm wearing it it's like there's a shadow just out of the corner of my eye all the time. waiting for me to give in and dance with it. I seem to be in a minority here, but this is one of my favourite of all the lab's scents - it's perfect, not only cypress trees but the weaving dance between them as well. I love it and would wear it all Autumn and Winter if the damn lab didn't do so many other brilliant seasonal scents...