bottle: anise-y licorice (some reviews here mention twizzlers so i wasn't sure what kind to expect. this is definitely black licorice.), the cotton candy & rum soup in the background. but really, LOTS of anise.
wet: more of that anise, but it gives way to more candy smells- circus peanuts and marshmallows, but not scorched. the smoke is becoming very apparent, at this point it resembles woodsmoke more than anything tobacco.
dry: very masculine booze, bootsoles, and what smells to me like the very same smoke from my modern-day Hellfire. still sweet on the edges, hazy. almost no licorice left, but some lingers. this lasted about 1 1/2 hours.
overall: one of my very favorite poems is The Wild Party, by Joseph March. if you're familiar, this is exactly what Burrs must smell like to me (and now I need one for Queenie...)
" A clown
Of renown:
Three-sheeted all over town.
He was comical as sin;
Comical as hell;
A gesture—a grin,
And the house would yell,
Uproarious:
He was glorious!
So from the front. People in the wings
Saw him and thought of other things
Coldly—
Most coldly:
Many would say them boldly,
Adding in language without much lace
They’d like to break his god-damned face. "
