Evocative of the sea's unplumbed mysteries. Gentle and lovely, but menacing and profound. Coconut, Florentine iris, hazelnut and opalescent white musk.
'Black Pearl' in the bottle was a delicious tropical floral to me. On the skin, it took me back 15 years to when I first got interested in scent and girly things. The Body Shop had just opened in my home town, and this was very exciting for all the girls in my class. The reason Black Pearl reminds me of that is that one of the first things I bought there was coconut perfume oil, and the coconut edge to this scent on my skin was very reminiscent of that. It conjured up images of pale pink tropical flowers and splashy Gauguin paintings of island women. I loved the coconut-edged tropical flower scent at the start, through to a warm, sweet scent like coconut ice and a sugared-flower finish. This was one of my first ever BPAL oils and I'm very glad I bought a 5ml bottle, because an Imp would have been finished FAR too soon. It's an ideal summer scent, as far as I'm concerned.