Lestat

[doomsday_disco]

Grand gestures, zero apologies, and one unifying appetite: to be adored. Glamorous leonine amber glimmers with impossible beauty, threaded with an unexpected flourish of sultry blooms.

 

His scent opens with a theatrical blaze of warm cognac, aged beeswax candles, and feral lupine musk. At the heart of his perfume beats Medieval French church wood, incense smoke still clinging to the stone, all aflame with the black leather, sweet brandy, and glam-glittered crystalline musk of a rock god.

[wilhelmscream]

In the bottle: Hard to detect any specific note. More that you activate another mood layer which each inhale. It's warm and sweet, it's musky and woody, it's smoky and cold, it shifts and it shimmers in the darkness.

 

On the skin: At first, I pick up on the cognac and brandy, and the leather and stone. Faded, stale incense smoke and wood begin to show. The lupine and crystalline musks work together, creating something both dark and luminiscent.

 

Overall: I mean, that's Lestat. Intoxicating and mysterious, still hard to pin down a specific note, it's just an AURA.

[abejita]

I detect none of the booze notes and no sweetness of any kind. It’s  cologne-y and kind of raw-smelling. The leather smells raw, the stone is raw, the wood is raw. The musk is the distinctly non-mellow kind. 
 

I’ll be putting this one away for a time in the hope that the jumble of rawness pulls together and becomes something wearable for me. 

[LavenderCoffee]

apologies, but I cannot resist being the first to say: Lestat Lestat Lestat Lestat Lestat!

 

this is an intoxicatingly magnetic musk. like eyes-rolling-back levels of deliciousness. I wonder if Beth was already thinking of Lestat when she blended the 2024 Wolf Moon, bc I'm picking up some of that dna in this glorious composition. it really opens up on my skin after 30 mins or so, and reads quite warm to me, leaving no doubt about the leonine inspiration. the leather and liquor notes don't draw as much as focus as they have for me in other scents, but they are absolutely present in the blend. I also want to say the church wood might be oak? but I could be entirely wrong on that. everything threads together beautifully, and OF COURSE there's a generous amount of sillage. I just love everything about it.

[galahad]

In the Bottle: metallic, musky cologne

On the Skin: again, metallic but I quickly get the church wood imbued with incense smoke.  The beeswax adds some sweet depth and richness.  Leather and musk weave through it all.  It might have a feral quality but it's not aggressive.  It's a quiet lingerer and it's luminous.  A beauty.

[grrrlennyl]

In the bottle: A musk-forward cologne with Catholic church incense.

 

At first: Musk, alcohol, and leather.

 

4 hours in: Leather covered in musk and blood.

 

7 hours in: This is lovely. Leahter and musk with a hint of sweetness.

 

Overall: I am having such great luck with the Lestat blends. This is definitely a new favorite.

[patina]

The church wood smells a little like a forest in the opening. Other than that I mostly get amber with a backup musk. You don’t have to have a gorgeous blond mane to wear this, but the blend would suit it. Sparkly. Energetic. Glam rock.

It is sweet on me with quite a lot of throw but it’s also very hot outside so that might influence things.

I am probably going to need a bottle.

Edited August 26 by patina

[ghoulnextdoor]

Soap on teak. Warm oiled grain, orange and buffed, the good-looking flank of a mid-century credenza, and perched on top of it something clean and dry and waxy, a bar of soap still in its paper wrapper. Boozy amber, a resinous smoke, old stone and timber, a low sacramental hum, sealed under the polish. All that cathedral gravity down there and a shiny burnished surface skating right over the top, a brilliant juxtaposition of the profoundly deep and tragically shallow, in the same breath. A candle caught in the reflection of the wood, the flame somewhere beyond it.

[skyturtles]

Wet from the decant: Ooo, this is promising.

Wet on my skin: Ooo, it's still good. I get some incense smoke, and what I assume to be cognac, with a base of sparkly musk.

On the dry down: Nooo the dreaded leather is coming through! This was what I was most afraid of for this blend. The beeswax is trying to keep it in check, but it's there. Despite my nausea-reaction to leather, I keep on coming back for more sniffs. The smoke and church incense is addicting. 

Personal preferences aside, this is a blend that BPAL should be proud of. I think it perfectly encapsulates Lestat. I picture stone-covered alleys in 1700s France, but also a philosophically spiritual (maybe Christian?) vampire in designer clothing. Old and new, but of one mind. Theatrical, indeed!

I hope my friend Tressa loves this as much as she loves Lestat!

[Poenari]

Oh goodness, how I have longed for IWTV scents over the decades since the book was originally released! One of my all time favorite books,  movies, and now series.

 

Wet on my skin, this opens as a cologne-ish musk, one that I had to look at the notes to be sure it wasn't a fougere. Quickly as it dries, the smoky church appears. I have been inside many medieval European cathedrals, some as recently as July, and I recognize this smell immediately! At this stage, I can't stop huffing my wrist.

 

I typically fear all leather notes, but so far this has not been a problem. After a long dry down and wait, this remains a stunningly gorgeous scent where all the notes are so perfectly blended that no single note exists. It's as complex and as beautiful as my beloved Brat Prince. I would melt into anyone's arms who was wearing this.