L’Homme Fut Solitaire Dans un Paysage de Nuit

[doomsday_disco]

Lilac-stained labdanum casting a long shadow across a flicker of frankincense smoke and ambergris accord.

 

 

Odilon Redon

[OxfordComma]

Fuuuuuck this is so pretty. Lilac is the star on me but this lilac is being anchored by the other notes. The labdanum is not cola, the frankincense smells like the one from Midnight Mass etc, but it's not as much in the spot light.  This notes list sounded like a slamdunk for me and I was right!  Throw is great, longevity seems solid. All around win. 

Edited February 10 by OxfordComma

[roseus]

All resins in the decant to my nose, sticky sweet but somehow light and sort of airy at the same time. A slight fizz. Labdanum has been something of an It Girl note for me lately and this blend is no different. I find it a touch fizzy in this blend, made a bit lighter I think by a brighter leaning frankincense (not quite lemony but not super woody either) and airy-musky ambergris. The lilac is not prominent on me, just a light touch of it in the dry down. Resin lovers take notice!

[SmellsPrettyGood2Me]

Soft, and sweetly pretty in a delicate powdery sort of way, it whispers instead of shouts. A very wearable summer "floral" that would also make for a great bedtime scent. The smoke is definitely incense based and not charred or harsh in any way. Ghostly and ephemeral, but with moderate longevity. Sits quite close to the skin.

[sudenmorsian]

Somehow I managed to forgot I had a decant of this one and found it yesterday. When I got my decant couple of months ago, I thought this is nice but needed to investigate it further later, and the later seems to be now, when it's almost too late.

 

But this is so good I'm lacking any words. If you like labdanum and resins in general, you're going to like this, but lilac makes this scent slightly sweeter, a bit floral and lighter, this is not at all heavy. Frank smoke is gentle and church incense-like. This is incense scent for summer. Truly beautiful.

 

This is so freaking good, just go and grap yourself a bottle while you still can! 

[Jarek]

I bought this based on notes alone. And it's really lovely.

 

In the bottle I smell mostly frankincense. There's more to it but that's most of what I get from the bottle.

 

On my skin the rest comes out. The lilac is delicate and floating on top of the labdanum and frankincense, the labdanum is a bit like a leathery amber, the frankincense is smokey and airy and a bit bright, next to the darker labdanum. The ambergris is surrounding and getting in everything, but more of a supporting note than a huge player.

 

The resins are really prominent and have a fair amount of throw. They last a decent amount of time on my skin, I was smelling it after four or five hours and that was without putting my wrist up to my nose.

 

Really glad I grabbed a bottle of this.

[carrioncupid]

(goblin sniff ie. fresh from the mail) lovely meditative lilac. i feel like if i focus i can smell all components of the blend, with the lilac and the ambergris and maybe the labdanum   being most apparent to me. while the smoke is most certainly present but it doesn't read as BBQ at all. gorgeous, it's not sweet at all. very promising, but i want to see what more rest would do for it. just the barest kiss of lilac atop a bed of ambergris and resinous smoke on the drydown.  oh the frankincense has registered in my mind, it shows up more on the dry down. i don't usually care for "churchy" scents but this is really nice. 

 

(after a few hrs) it's an explosion of lilac (and ambergris is there too)! but mainly slightly sweet lovely lilac, i love how BPAL does it. it's reminiscent of the one in lady amalthea to my nose. i feel they do lilacs really well, i didn't know i liked it before i tried BPAL's rendition of it. i would love to explore their other lilacs as well.