Inyo Gozasso Nozu

[doomsday_disco]

Teakwood, tolu balsam, beeswax, lilac cream, polished amber, and spiced honey.

[LavenderCoffee]

this is absolutely stunning. it's pretty darn close to Glowing Vulva but it has gorgeous dollop of LILAC! the spiced honey is only very delicately spiced, and the tolu balsam sort of snugs up to the teak, and do not fear the polished amber! it doesn't smell fume-y or lacquer-y to me at all. I could do with a bit more lilac cream, but it does bloom out nicely on the skin. the scent overall is rather subtle: not quite as soft as a "your skin but better," but like a pair of fancy knickers, you might be the only one to enjoy it unless you plan to get up close and personal.

[theseagrows]

this opens with a subtle tolu balsam and a faint hint of the lilac cream. it's very subtle at first, then the lilac cream gets stronger. there is a hint of spiced honey that is really lovely and the other notes sort of make up the background. the teakwood and and beeswax get stronger deeper into the drydown, adding some depth. overall a subtle creamy floral with hints of spiced amber/honey. really pretty!

Edited April 29 by theseagrows

[gentle-twig]

The lilac cream is the first to element hit my nose, followed by the “polished” aspect of the polished amber. It seems that lemon is a subtle through line in this year’s shungas, and I think that citrus is a subtle part of the sheen on this scent. I love BPAL lilac but find it difficult to wear, too blowsily feminine for my construction worker ass. Here it is wonderfully subdued by the soft cream and (probable) lemon, and soon by the spiced honey. Honey and beeswax haters of all but the most extreme stripe need not fear—I don’t get beeswax at all from this, and from the spiced honey I mostly get the spices, and even these are subtle. But they are there, and their effect is to turn Inyo Gozassu Nozu into almost a fougère. The oakmoss is absent, but there is a hypnotically paradoxical calm yet thrumming quality to this blend that emerges from the contrast between the lilac cream and that almost astringently spiced honey. I don’t know tolu balsam well enough to recognize it, but I may love it! There is a bittersweet balsamic quality indeed supporting this quasi-fougère that works with the cream to smooth everything out and fill in every gap between any potentially sharp notes. I never do get teak or beeswax specifically. 

 

In my BPAL pantheon, this is like the unexpected child of Lesbian Maidservants Cavorting With a Tortoiseshell Dildo and Dumb Cake. The fougère quality of the latter meets the airy and spiced amber of the former, and the mosses in both must be recessive because this is all smooth balsam, cream,  lilac, and subtle spice with no moss to rough things up even to the level of velvet. 

 

This is such a wonderful blend and definitely FB worthy. I wonder for myself it it is too similar to Dumb Cake to justify a purchase. It also reminds me strongly of Hiram Green Arcadia, a spiced fougère fragrance I was already considering purchasing for late summer/fall (my fougère season). I will be death matching this against those fragrances, but mostly I will advise this is just a pure shunga delight. If you like shungas and like the notes here this is a no brainer. It is just lovely, dreamy, yet alive and buzzing with interest.