Boney Moon: Piñon and Blackened Lavender

[doomsday_disco]

Pinon and Blackened Lavender.

Edited April 2 by doomsday_disco

[marared]

This was a little punchy on arrival and I had to let it settle down for a couple days before I could review it.

 

In the bottle: very dry lavender.

First on the skin: very intense dry lavender, with piñon wood behind it. After a few minutes, the wood comes to the forefront. The two notes battle it out for dominance - every few minutes they swap, and it goes on like this for 10-15 minutes until they finally decide to play nice together.

 

Piñon is a southwestern pine tree with edible nuts. There's a wonderful incense of it that you can buy from shops in New Mexico, California, etc, and it has a campfire quality to it, with a hint of burnt sugar sap - I don't smell any of that that slight sweetness here. It settles into bone-dry lavender incense. There's enough throw that I can smell it when my hands move at normal working distance from my face. I don't find it "relaxing" in that I wouldn't wear this to bed the way I do other lavender blends, it's just a bit too strong and distracting. It's very pretty, though, after it's had a chance to settle on the skin.     

[biggnerd]

First it's a young, pliable, sticky pine bough, right where the needles meet the wood, then an herbal lavender starts trying to emerge, at one point the two notes are balanced and it's perfect. Then the clean lavender sits down and it's a sweet, almost fruity scent. The smell is familiar, but I can't put my finger on what it is. It's almost like a fruity amber. Maybe hardened pine resin? 

[doomsday_disco]

I really thought this would be a win and almost blind bottled it, but I ended up going the decant route, and I'm glad I did. I get lightly smoked lavender and pine and then, wham! An unlisted red musk note emerges, and I amp that note, so it is a very musk-swirled lightly smoked lavender with a hint of pine on me.

 

WHY

Edited Monday at 11:30 PM by doomsday_disco