doomsday_disco Report post Posted April 25 Iris and Wild Patchouli. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SmellsPrettyGood2Me Report post Posted May 9 Simply gorgeous. I tested this 3 hours out of the mailbox and am completely infatuated with it. In the bottle, the patchouli hits first with a chewy greenness, while the iris hides around the corner waiting for her turn. Wet on skin, the iris comes out to play in an sunsoaked, dirt filled earthen pot. She stays fresh for about 20 minutes before transforming into a cut flower in a crystal vase and turning much more sweet and powdery. This lasted on my skin for more than 8 hours and just got even more lovely with every hour. If I close my eyes, I am a goddess gardener in a wide brimmed straw hat kneeling in the back yard while harvesting big, beautiful purple blooms. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gentle-twig Report post Posted July 15 This is instant love for me. I have been dreaming of this scent perusing this year’s releases. Lace Lichen, Serpent in the Lilacs: both are lovely, but this delivers what I had hoped each would be before I tested them. The patchouli here is fully dimensional. I don’t get one or two aspects like I often do even in simple blends. Instead I am seeing a full picture of every patchouli I have known. There is that phantom mushroom that patchouli can conjure, that green hissy quality I get in the blends I most enjoy it in, an almost woody huskiness that I enjoy far less when that’s all I get from it, a dark chewiness I have read about but not experienced in the BPAL universe, and a confounding shimmering glow that I am starting to appreciate as an effect of patchouli that I love but never thought to credit it with. But the iris changes everything! The iris is more abstract than the patchouli. I don’t get powdery or earthy orris, but an abstract iris accord made up of cool, steely, and violet purple components. Ther is a definite resemblance to the lab’s paper accord. Somehow the iris makes this into an airy, glassy blend—I definitely understand the associations with the “crystal vase.” I would say the blend veers even a little bit into soap territory (but in the most delightful way) with those violet facets of the iris accord. I’m fascinated by the interplay between the iris and patchouli accords, the way the iris elevates and transforms its wonderfully earthy comrade into something airy, light, dazzling, and clean! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lucchesa Report post Posted August 31 I love patchouli but avoid iris; this scent was a gift from the ever-wonderful @Teamama and I'm really glad I got to try it. I'm not sure it's for me, though it's certainly a thing of beauty. Galadriel would wear this. This is Lothlórien patchouli, not your hippie variety -- it's much greener and airier. This is a silvery, dry blend, no sweetness at all, and it conveys earth and sapling and light and breeze. @gentle-twig's review above is a masterpiece, and my experience is quite similar to how they describe theirs. This is the most unusual patchouli I have tried, and I will keep my decant and see if I find the magic of this combination outweighing my reluctance towards iris and its violet-adjacent tendencies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
