doomsday_disco Report post Posted August 11 Golden Amber and Plum Blossom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akurarei Report post Posted August 31 Lightning Moon 2025 - Golden Amber & Plum Blossom Duet In the Bottle: Very Plum Blossom heavy Application: Shook my bottle well, then applied a dot of oil from the rubber button from the cap on my wrist, then smooshed wrists together and then rubbed wrists behind my ears. On my skin, wet: A burst of the Plum Blossom, and a burst of the Golden Amber - I get pretty equal measures of each component. On my Skin, dry: Dries down to a lovely, delicate resin with a fruity floral element. Verdict & additional thoughts: A great scent on it's own! and strikes me as a little bit like a 'shunga adjacent' kind of scent. I adore the golden amber note from the GC 'Haunted', and this amber seems to be the same one. I love the fruity, juicy plum blossom too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miyabi Report post Posted September 12 It's got plum blossom, but only for the first hour or two. Eventually it dries down to straight up golden amber, which is nice, but since I got the decant hoping for ALL THE PLUM BLOSSOM, I don't think a bottle's in my future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Assimbya Report post Posted October 5 Like @Akurarei, I found this to be a pretty evenly balanced blend of the two notes, though the plum blossom takes center stage. And what a gorgeous plum blossom it is too - gently tart fruitiness with a silky wafting perfumey floral from the petals. Definitely the same plum blossom note which I loved in Lingering Plum Scent in the Sleeping Chamber from this year's Shungas but, just as I hoped, given space and prominence to really shine. The golden amber here is very smooth, gently and subtly vanillic, with a gleaming resinous quality. I would agree that the amber takes a few moments of drying down to come forward, but I definitely get both notes quite quickly. The complexity and sophistication of the two notes makes this feel like a very complete perfume to me despite being a duet; I didn't get the main Lightning Moon scent and don't feel a particular need to layer this, since it's beautiful and full on its own. (Also - just laughing at myself from a year ago who looked at the duets and thought that I would never be interested in one when there were so many more complex blends out there! How wrong I was.) Very much what I was hoping for, and I'm so glad I took a chance on blind bottling this. I will say that at the moment the longevity of this one is quite low, fading after only a couple of hours, but since my experience has been that this is often true of BPALs that are closer to pure florals before they've aged, I feel quite hopeful that the longevity will increase with time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bheansidhe Report post Posted Friday at 03:05 PM I LOVE a big round amber perfume to roll around in -- but I wouldn't categorize this one as such. For me it's solidly in the floriental category, and the first act is all plum blossom. The plum blossom note initially gives me that sweet-seductive-but-bitter, "sexy assassin's perfume" edge that I caught in White Sandalwood & Black Poppy, so I'd call it an opium floral. The second act warms gradually on the skin, like plum blossom smoke rising from a golden amber lamp that's slowly being lit. The third and final act is recognizably an amber perfume, but a muted and mellow one, still twinned with the aerial note that cools it down. In this stage it settles low on my skin, a pleasant faint thrum. Balanced, gentle, equally good for date night or office wear. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
