Electric Maenad

(sigh) In my opinion, this smells great on my husband - like an antique cedar-lined apothecary chest with drawers that still smell faintly of rare and expensive alchemical ingredients. Tragically, he thinks it smells like Old Spice.

Wow. This smells exactly like a martini, which is not as good a thing as I'd originally anticipated. I got it for my husband because he likes martinis and he's not a huge fan of typical "guy" colognes. Unfortunately, this makes him smell like an alcoholic. Might save the imp for our next Roaring 20s theme party though. [edited] It also fades pretty fast, at least on him. It was gone after about one and a half hours.

First review ever, although this is from an order I'd placed back in the spring. I was really looking forward to trying this, because I'm a big fan of this particular period in history. Belle Epoque starts off strong as hell and really perfumey. It smells nothing at all like White Shoulders, but my grandmother wore a stifling amount of WS late in life when her sense of smell was starting to go, and I get the same feeling from this, if that makes any sense. After an hour or so, it tones down and smells... nice. Woody and spicy mainly, with the vanilla sweetening it up a bit. It's very rich and opulent, which fits the period perfectly. Definitely doesn't smell like any modern perfume I've tried. Unfortunately, it just isn't me, or at least not me on a regular basis. This is me when I actually bother to put on makeup and dress girly as opposed to practical. I'll finish off the imp, especially when I go out with my husband, but I think I like Bastet from this imp batch just a bit better.