doomsday_disco Report post Posted August 11 Opoponax, ebony, and black galbanum cast black shadows across mineralic amber and glittering sand. František Kupka Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gentle-twig Report post Posted Tuesday at 07:30 PM Impressionistically: A wind blows over the desert. It is night, but the heat of the day lingers. Above, the stars shine, below the sand sparkles. You are a hermit, and you are French. The wind brings with it the scent of the formal garden in which you have ensconced yourself, turning a wild oasis into an ordered landscape of stiff hedges. More regular style: Puckery galbanum against a jet black yet somehow airy background. I get a weird peanut butter effect for about 5 minutes shortly after application (the woods and resins doing something weird?) but it dissipates without a trace. Further along in the drydown, the “airy” quality somehow reveals itself to be a play of amber and opoponax—how?! This is one of the lab’s lighter ambers, similar to some of the ambers that were deployed in this year’s Lupers (Lesbian Maidservants, Mars and Venus). And yes there is a subtle sparkly mineralic component, brightening the scent (along with the bright galbanum—black my foot). I would describe the overall mood of this as abstract, detached, meditative but with an active edge. Angular, architectural, but with an atmospheric quality. Slightly masculine, and I have been loving in hot weather. Definitely FB worthy for me, in part because it’s so unlike other BPALs I’ve smelled, almost in line with a CDG fragrance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
