Lavender Figgy Pudding

[doomsday_disco]

We won’t go until we get some! Dense and chewy, lively with spices and sticky with figs boiled in wine, decorated with pomegranate seeds and dried lavender petals.

[SamKotik]

When it first goes on it has an almost vinegar scent that quickly dries down into a lovely fig and mulled wine sensibility 

 

The lavender and pomegranate give a nice depth

 

In my quest for a Witch's Repast analogue I've been compare and contrasting this with Mari Lwyd and Hildegard's Cakes - this scent has the wine note I really like that I'll perhaps try to layer with some of the others

[Little Bird]

Lavender Figgy Pudding is strange in that I don't get any lavender or fig from it (or any of the listed notes).  It's like a bone dry, not at all sweet, golden pastry that someone is using as a cigarette ash tray.  No wine or pomegranate for me either.  Dry pastry and ash, for some reason.  A couple hours after first applying, it just leaves behind a powdery, dusty, bone dry skin scent.  

[SmellsPrettyGood2Me]

More pomegranate than fig? Any brightness or sweetness fades very quickly. Agree with @Little Bird that the pastry note here is very dusty, like something that was leftover from last year's festivities and kept in a dark cabinet where it started to cobweb. No discernible lavender, either, somehow.  

[doomsday_disco]

I didn't review this in a timely manner, lost the decant, only recently unearthed it so I could retest it and write a review.

 

I got decants of all of The Lavender Kitchen scents (from both years), just for the sake of trying them all, although I would have typically avoided this one due to the fig.

 

Surprisingly, despite this being a figgy pudding, I'm not getting a ton of fig from this. This goes on as a blast of lavender, pomegranate, and wine, but the lavender is pretty quickly shoved into the background by the pomegranate and wine, and the scent quickly becomes about those two notes. There's one point where I can smell the fig, but it is pretty fleeting, and also quickly beaten back by the pomegranate and wine. I'm not getting anything reminiscent of a baked good here -- this is predominantly a fruity scent on me. But that could be my skin running away with the wine and pomegranate notes.

 

I didn't feel the need to upgrade this Lavender Kitchen scent, and I won't be keeping my decant, but I am glad that I decided to try it.