Secret Adventure in the Walled Garden

[doomsday_disco]

Bamboo, green fig, narcissus, white patchouli, tobacco flower, white tea, lemon verbena, and oakmoss.

[Meerkat]

Out of the bottle, it is aggresively green fougere, so green, it's bitter. My brain keeps telling that me that it's burned amber. It reminds me of Fragment 38, a scent that has a complicated history for me. The amber in that was so acrid smelling ot my nose, it blew through my covid induced anosmia several years ago. I still remember thinking that if Fragment 38 can't do it, nothing else will. Wearing it felt like a team of miniscule gnomes blowing up a tunnel through my fully congsted nose. And I still can't figure out if it's fig in the blend that's more aggressive.  When it came to Secret Adventure, it left me confused. So, I spent a few days sniffing my arms like crazy. It must be the fig. As the wear time progresses, oakmoss adds muskiness and creaminess, and I could detectect olfactgory glimses of floral notes. It was like seeing a flash of color in a facent of a precius stone- a brilliany flash of floral, which is very bright and prominet, and then it's gone--only to suddely reappear again, just as you start getting used to the scent. I would say the scent is pretty musculine, and would be good for a really hot summer weather. And, inexplicably, I can't stop wearing it, even though my brain tells me that we don't like it.