Celestial Beings Making Love Above the Sea

[Jenjin]

Eucalyptus blossom, salty foam, ambergris accord, blue spruce,

white mint, lotus root, and blue musk.

Edited February 27 by Jenjin

[MayQueen]

I thought this would be cooler and more green, but it's more floral than I wanted--maybe the eucalyptus blossom? Sadly, it's a no for me. 

[roseus]

Gorgeous cool, airy scent. It comes across cool and crisp from the mint and eucalyptus blossom but not overly *minty* or in anyway astringent in the way eucalyptus bath products can be. I get more spruce in the bottle than I do on my skin, it is still there but softer and a bit sweeter. This leans aquatic with the blue musk, and every so slightly salty. It's very much a wash of scent, not faint but sheer. The ambergris gives a nice body and halo to the scent, sort of blurring everything together. I swear I get a bit of lime or bergamot as well. It makes me think of looking at the sun glittering on the sea in the distance on a cool, crisp day.

Edited June 3 by roseus

[flumphlord]

I purchased a decant based on the listed blue spruce note, hoping for a conifer-based aquatic along the lines of, e.g., Jolly Roger. But alas, there is a prominent unlisted citrus. (I agree with roseus that it seems to be bergamot.)

 

In the vial:  Soapy, with a lingering hint of citrus once the initial wave of ambergris and musk passes.

 

Wet on skin: Soft citrus (bergamot, I think?) lounging on a cloud of floral soap suds. A more mellow cousin of Cthulhu, less aggressive on both the floral and the soap. I don't get any of the listed spruce, or any saltiness. Unfortunately, as with Cthulhu, to me the citrus feels a little discordant with everything else in the blend, a little too bright and sharp.

 

Dry: Dries down to a powdery, mentholic musk. There's a floral overtone from the eucalyptus blossom that shows up in the sillage, but not so much up close to the skin.

 

Post-workout: Sweat does this a favor, taming the citrus and bringing everything together into a more unified scent, but it also leaves things a little sour.

 

Ultimately, too floral and traditionally perfumey for my taste. I can definitely see the appeal for someone more drawn to clean floral scents, though.

 

 

[feyofthefellwood]

Maybe I'm slowly becoming more of an aquatics person, but I really like this. It's crisp, a little floral, and has an almost melon-y scent on my skin. Over time the ambergris and salt foam become a lovely, bright skin scent, made a bit "colder" by the mint and blue musk. I didn't expect to like this one so much. It's a bit like Sea of Glass meets Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. I think it will be great for summer weather when I want to smell like something clean and cool. 

[kelpsoda]

A really nice aquatic with lotus.  Lovely and fresh,  But not too "cold".  There is a hint of coolness from the mint, but it's balanced by the juicy lotus (and maybe by the ambergris, not sure what I'm getting). 

[KuriousKat]

Herbal floral opening, underlying it is mild, fresh saltiness, soon mellows to a powdery minty-ness. Interesting bright opening. Settles into a mildly mineralic herbal scent that might be a good fit for the gym. Will try again in warmer weather, still too cool to allow this to fully come through on the skin. 

[Jarek]

This is so beautiful.

 

Pretty early I can tell there's mint but it's not overly minty, not even close, which I was hoping for because I can find too much mint overpowering. There's gentle floral and s bit of cool aquatic. The eucalyptus is also pretty gentle. I can maybe pick out the sprice but once again it's not overpowering, just gentle and cool. It's really lovely.

 

As it dries on my skin I think I can pick out the musk, and the ambergris is a bit more noticeable though it is doing a lot of support work. So is the musk. Blue musk is an interesting variation I've not smelled before.

 

I fell in love with this at the first sniff and I definitely want a bottle before the Lupers go away.

[theredkilt]

This would fit in the HP Lovecraft serie of blends.

 

Ambergris and salty foam. Very aquarium like scent. Reminds of a melange of Abe Sapien, Ogygia and Cthulhu.

[Assimbya]

I definitely second @roseus's beautiful description of this as "looking at the sun glittering on the sea in the distance on a cool, crisp day"! It's a very distinctly blue scent to me; the well-blended combination of mint/spruce/eucalyptus is the central note on me, but it's distorted, edges blurred by the salty floral notes like ripples of seawater. There's a nebulous fruity quality which might be from the musk or lotus, which intensifies as it dries but doesn't ever overpower the scent. It's less earthy than Ogygia, more a fantasy of perfectly blue sparkling water than Ogygia's more physically grounded island. Though I often amplify astringent notes, the mint/spruce/eucalyptus combination stays soft and gentle on me, balanced nicely with the other aspects of this blend.

 

Celestial Beings feels like it comes right up against the boundaries of a very conventional aquatic scent, but veers slightly to the left into something lovelier and a little stranger, while at the same time remaining very pretty. I like this rather more than I thought I might, though I don't think it's one that I'm likely to wear often and so I probably won't need more than my decant. I think this could be a nice transition scent for someone moving from mainstream fragrances into BPAL - it's more unusual and distinctive than, say, Embalming Fluid, but maintains a friendly bridge to general aquatics.