Catching the Post

[doomsday_disco]

Here’s hoping 2026 is less an endless replay of spectacular wipeouts and fail videos and more a year that finally sticks the landing.

Leather tack, saddle soap, bay rum, carmine wool, black silk, crushed winter grass, a billowing cascade of pipe tobacco, and a shot of adrenaline.

 

[ellocentipede]

This is a surprisingly gentle scents in spite of the punchy notes--it's a supple, soft, smooth brown leather with some glowing warmth from the rum and tobacco, and a touch of airy cleanness from the soap and wool. The clean notes do not overtake the scent at all. Neither does the grass, which just provides a nice greenness in the background. I swear that I can smell some fragrant, warm hay in the sun, but maybe it's in my imagination. A beautiful blend!

[SmellsPrettyGood2Me]

When I placed my order, I admit I was not at all expecting to get Back To The Future 3 in a bottle. 
 

Great Scott! This the silk accent on Clara's hat when she finds the model of the DeLorean (surrounded by the hay in Doc Brown's barn), the saddle Doc Brown puts on their horses, the shot he takes in the saloon (ok, creative license here: maybe Doc was a rum guy and not a whiskey guy after all?) while surrounded by the tobacco smoke wafting around the room, and the poncho Marty wears in his shootout with Mad Dog Tannen. 

 

Leather, rum and tobacco forward, it is the ruggedly masculine-leaning scent of a gentleman scholar with a barn workshop who has the good fortune of falling in love with a teacher in possession of a telescope,  and a passion for what science can mean for humanity's dreams. Fans of BPAL's tanned hide and bay rum notes will not be disappointed here; the initial burst of saddle soap quickly dissipates, and I have to work hard to pick out the black silk note even an hour after drydown. I do get the slightly animalic wool about an hour in, but it's unrefined textile, not dirty sheep. There is definitely some shared DNA with Carved Wooden Livery Stable present (perhaps the saddle leather and dusty straw?). 

 

Bold sillage, going very strong for 6 hours and moderately strong for another 3 hours before it fades into obscurity. I like this, but do not love this, purely on the basis of the bay rum note. I actually think I would prefer a whiskey instead, like Doc Brown.