Chimera wins the honor of my first review! I am in love! This one is stunning on my skin! Definitely one of my favorites! Thank you to the wonderful Astrobabe for sending me an imp as an extra!
Out of the bottle it smells nice but I can only describe it as a slightly bubblegum overripe citrus fruit smell...I’m not getting any of the notes that I’m familiar with (cinnamon, copal and myrrh) so maybe this is the honeysuckle which I’m not familiar with????
Wet on my skin....VERY STRONG predominantly cinnamon but not sharp...more of a soft honeyed cinnamon....after a few minutes still a honeyed cinnamon but with a beautiful vanilla/gardenia(honeysuckle??) background. This stays beautiful and strong on my skin for hours...and it eventually fades into a foody scent like a sweet creamy chai heavy on the cinnamon.
I don’t get a skin reaction to this but I did accidently get some on my lips and Geez does it burn!!! It is the first blend that I’ve tried that both wears strong and long but stays perfectly balanced and never overwhelming.
I give it a 9/10 only because I haven’t even made it to the halfway point so I should leave a bit of room for untried blends that I could like even better.
