The Fourth Veil

[Jenjin]

Conjunction, the veil of reunion.

Ripples of sage-green silk covered in a mossy velvet-burnout pattern of wildflowers and slithering ivy.

[ghoulnextdoor]

The Fourth Veil conjures a very specific, very private sanctuary of nostalgia for me. When I was very young, there was a moon-shaped waxen knick-knack... I think it was meant to be a room freshener of some sort, but it hung from a cord, and my mother was using it as a curtain pull. I used to hide behind the dusty, pleated fabric and drag my nails over it, scoring the smooth surface, collecting the sweet, powdery floral wax on my fingertips, which I would then run through my hair so that I could smell it all day. This scent echoes that pleasant waxiness and builds on it with something that smells like a wildflower and algae shampoo, sweet and brackish and slightly herbal, and a note that channels the olfactory version of arsenical wallpaper, verdant trompe-l'œil tendrils climbing over a musky base of translucent, chalky minerals that seem to trap light and transform it into something vaguely bioluminescent.

[Jarek]

I've tried one other Luper with a silk now, and though they both take different approaches to it (this one green, the other one charred) I think I have an idea of what it smells like now. And I really like it.

 

This evokes the idea of sage with its "green silk" concept, smooth and shimmering. The whole thing manages to smell green without being quite like any green notes I've smelled from BPAL before, since that's mossy *velvet*, velvet carpet of wildflowers and ivy. There's a bit of a texture to the scent so it's not all smooth, with some elements almost bitter and a bit darker green.

 

I wasn't too sure what I thought of this one during my first test, but I really love it now. I am gradually accumulating a massive amount of bottles that I want but this is hopefully going to be one of them.