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[doomsday_disco]

A sensual, luxuriant scent that stays close to the skin: Australian sandalwood, tonka bean, benzoin, Siberian iris, bourbon vanilla, cardamom-infused amber, and mimosa petals.

 

 

Egon Schiele
 

[valpal]

This wears like a clean, fluffy comforter, like a big blanket you can sink into. It’s a “your-skin-but-better” scent that stays soft and close to the skin. It reminds me of Gloomily Gloomily, but without the lavender: the same calming, smooth, lightly clean, comforting profile.
Although it wears close, I've been getting lovely wafts of warm skin and freshly laundered fabric with a gentle sweetness. Clean fabric scents don’t typically work on me, but this one does. The sweetness is balanced, so it never turns into dryer sheets

[KarenWalker]

I have no clue what happened because I got 0% of these beautiful notes. It's 100% strong soap on me. Kind of a fancier dove bar. 

[Assimbya]

Agreed that this one feels very clean. It goes on quite soapy on me, in line with @KarenWalker's experience; as it dries I can pick out the notes a little more. There's a woody smoothness which I think is the sandalwood and tonka, a slight sweet fruitiness which is probably the mimosa, and this almost mentholated fresh quality which I think is responsible for the impression of soap, though I can't identify it for sure with any particular notes (a combination of the iris and mimosa?).

 

It's pleasant and very well-blended; the cleanness gives an inoffensive quality which reminds me of Embalming Fluid (though the actual scents are not particularly similar), but the ambiguous complexity of it makes it feel more sophisticated and adult than it otherwise might. But at the same time, it's not grabbing me. I'd like it to be more something - more distinctly floral, more leaning into the skin sent quality which a musk, I'm not sure. I can see it being very lovely on someone, perhaps someone who wears a lot of beige silk and their hair in a French twist (this got very specific suddenly, not sure where that came from, sorry everyone!). But I don't think that someone is me.

 

I want to spend some more time with this scent to understand it better; I also imagine aging might make this one more exciting, perhaps bringing out the vanilla which right now is undetectable. But I'm, to tell the truth, all that let down by not falling in love with this one - I wanted to try it because the note combination sounded intriguing (and I don't have a mimosa scent and am obliged to ravenously go after all florals), but I am not a Schiele fan and that idea of ending up with a bottle with his art on it made me a little uneasy. So perhaps it just was not meant to be! I think there will be people for whom this is the perfect scent, and I hope that it makes its way to them.

Edited 13 hours ago by Assimbya