Kahlika

About to swap the last of this I have away so I should probably review it first.

It smells like flowers and ozone. Can't pick out the individual flowers, just an overwhelming floral smell. It's too heavy for me and a bit cologne-y.

Definately not a favourite, I can see why it's just been hiding unremembered in my stash for so long.

Can any of you who have had a bottle of Arkham a good long time review how it tends to age? Right now I’ve got a bottle that’s a couple of months old and it has –- both in the bottle and on my skin -- a cloying, sickly sweet note that I find unpleasant. I was hoping it would be more woodsy, dry and earthy. (More like Burial is the closest way I can describe it.) But I’ve got a hopeful hunch that it might go that way as it ages. So I’m wondering if I should just take it out of my current rotation and be patient to see if time improves it. Does time tend to bring out the forest and tone down the floral in this one?

I have a bottle from the original Springtime in Arkham run (2005). It has always been sweet and 'pink' on me, and always smelled very similar to Pink Moon (the first one) for some reason. They both share phlox and columbine as notes so I'm guessing that's what I'm getting. That said I actually always really liked it, I'm an aquatic person, not a floral person, so I never wore it much, but I did/do like the scent. I tried a bit tonight and it was a little dryer smelling on drydown than I remember, but still sweet and pink. It is different to what I remembered, but not massively so. I don't know if that helps at all, but that's how it was for me anyway.