Equivalent No. 314

[doomsday_disco]

An intangible vapor, an obfuscating mist: grey iris, ambergris, mallow blossom, white tea blossoms, and scorched milk.

 

 

Alfred Stieglitz
 

[bheansidhe]

This painting's canvas is firmly in the "scorched milk" family of Snake Milk, Ghost Milk, Mummy's Milk, etc. It's layered with a soft iris that, combined with the white tea blossom, lends an Earl Grey bergamot vibe, like tea mixed into clotted cream. There's a perfumey musk middle section that I assume is the ambergris. Overall low throw, but very discernable on the skin.

 

Verdict: soft, creamy, "if milk was a perfume." 

[VioletChaos]

In The Bottle, milk, mallow and white tea are all quite prominent, but in this surprisingly unobtrusive way, which really fits the mood of the painting it's based on right out of the gate.

Wet On Skin: The iris and ambergris start to come out, but the whole things stays...hauntingly low-key. Which is a weird way to put it, but when I re-look at the artwork, it feels like an appropriate description for that, too, so I'm keeping it. 

Dry Down: It all evens out in the end. 
What I mean by that, is, following a period of morphing, where various notes came to the front then slipped behind again, once it sorted itself out, I can say that all notes are here and accounted for- something of a rarity, as usually something just disappears on me, or I amp something but lose something else. This one, I can pick out all the elements, and they all play nicely together. The scorched milk is a *little* bit out in front, but not massively. The iris and possibly the white tea pull it back and ground it, stop it from being a variation of Milk Moon (circa a billion years ago  )

In All: a lovely skin scent with low throw that I will wear for cozy summer days when a thunderstorm sweeps through and I sit near an open window reading a book. ❤️