Christmas Lustre

[doomsday_disco]

May Christmas shed lustre around you.
 

Amber-illuminated roasted chestnut, cardamom, caramel, and allspice.

 

[Follow My Nose]

 Sniffing right out of the bottle, the cardamom and amber give a tingly sweet spice and resin combo.

 

Wet on skin, the sweet roasted chestnut shows up immediately and I'm already in love with this scent. It only gets richer, warmer and sweeter as it dries and the caramel shows up.

 

This combo is just so lovely and cozy! This is the perfect perfume for staying in when it's extra chilly outside and you'd just rather cuddle on the couch in your flannel pjs with your cats and drink some spiced hot beverage.

[ghoulnextdoor]

Thomas Dambo's wooden trolls spend their days in the elements, rain-soaked, moss-creeping up their knuckles, lichen settling into the grain. By nightfall, they're sodden all the way through, rotting slowly like any forgotten sculpture left to the weather. But they have a place to go when darkness falls, a sanctuary no one else knows about. Inside, the air is warm and impossibly dry. Cured wood, glossily lacquered, polished and gleaming. Spices whisk and whirl—cardamom and allspice, toasted and bronzed and blistered. A warmth that draws the damp, straight through to heartwood. They settle in, creaking and groaning, and feel a glow kindling in their hollow chests, the feeling inside when you're finally, finally home.

[SmellsPrettyGood2Me]

I think BPAL Nation is sleeping on this one. She's the perfect blend of sweetness and spice, leading with the toasty roasted chestnut and cardamom in the bottle, even though all notes can be teased out with the right sniff depth and concentration. Once my skin gets ahold of her, the allspice races to the front of the line for a few minutes before politely returning to the rest of the group. 

 

And then, poof! She dials her whole self back from a 9.5 on the intensity scale to a modest, demure 6.5-7 (depending on which way the air is blowing) after only 20 minutes in. The amber and caramel start to appear with cozy, almost powdery warmth, and they carry the scent alongside the chestnut for the next 5 hours or so.

 

This is a November 18th to December 31st scent that you won't have to think twice about putting on when you want to feel snuggly and festive. Another Yule 2025 offering that begs for multiple backup bottles so that you never have to let these feelings go!