doomsday_disco Report post Posted February 5 How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst. A heart made sweet with hunger and thirst: honeyed red musk, red fig, sugared tuberose, and piercing neroli. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roseus Report post Posted March 18 Fruity red musk and sticky fig are the main notes on my skin initially. As it dries the tuberose peaks out, heady and rich. I thought the neroli was missing for a while but I think it is blending somewhat into the musk and fig, it doesn't have the bitterness it sometimes has. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VioletChaos Report post Posted 14 hours ago In the bottle I get the neroli right away but there's something (based on listed notes) that I cannot name, that reminds me of...red pepper? It's completely bizarre. but then again, there's often aspects in a bottle-sniff that only make sense later, after application. Soooooo... Wet on skin: literally, the same. Orange blossom and red pepper. I. Am. Flummoxed. 🤷♀️ Dry down: Okay, finally at full dry down things have started to shift. I am getting some of that fruitiness mentioned in the previous review. I was expecting the red musk from Smut, but this is more blended with the fig here. And that's another thing- I was anticipating the HAI, FIG! that I have encountered in blends like Eden, but this is ALSO not the same note as I've previously encountered! There's a LOT of wild cards in this blend for sure. In all: What I've come too learn about the Prophet scents in general is that, for whatever reason, they seem to require more aging than many blends. It's possibly because if the richness or the complexity of the notes involved. For whatever reason, there's initial impressions and then there's what happens weeks or months later. For now, I am encountering a nice daytime musk, fruity and red, not intense, but not to be dismissed as simple, either. Given the listed notes, I believe this will definitely deepen and bloom with age, and I'm excited to see where it takes me, later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
