(This is my first review!)
My strongest impression of LPM is that it smells quite "clean", but in a deliciously beautiful way. It reminds me of something old-fashioned, not in an old-lady way, but like the kind of perfume that seemingly innocent young ladies would wear to a ball. (Where no doubt they'd get up to all sorts of mischief.)
When I first tried LPM I didn't like it very much. In the vial it smelled strongly of baby powder. Wet on my skin it smelled like baby powder and lemon drops, and dry it was almost undetectable. Sadly, the myrrh made no appearance.
However. After sitting in the dark for a few weeks... the ylang-ylang has chilled out a lot and the spices have come to the foreground. In the vial it still smells mostly like powder, but with an undertone of something very delicious.
Wet, on my skin, it still smells like powder at first, but I'm willing to put up with that brief stage, as it quickly changes to something that smells like pale yellow flowers (the ylang-ylang?) with some spice (the myrrh?).
Dry, the flowers quickly fade, leaving only an faint aftertaste of something pale and floral and the spices are more prominent.
After some time, it is quite faint, but the "skin musk" comes out and I think there might be a tiny trace of vanilla.
I must note that this oil seems to have a critical mass: the smell works a lot better when I am not stingy with it. (Perhaps this is, what you'd call a "slatherer"?)
Also, it smells really great when I put it on before/after a yoga class. (Something to do with skin chemistry no doubt.)
Maybe the contact with air did the oil wonders, or the tiny bit of aging, of perhaps my skin chemistry was just really off when I first tried it. (Or perhaps a combination of those things.) In any case, now I find it pretty and elegant and I like it a lot!
