selchie9

Wet: Hello patchouli! There's some cypress there too (the wood, not the needles), and a bit of dry old rose petals Dry: Still mostly patchouli and wood, but the fig brings in a bit of sweet fruit, the rose has faded, and the patchouli has gone more smokey. It reminds me a bit of walking through a cutblock: dry and hot and full of old conifer stumps. Drydown: It gets a bit sweeter and fruitier and the rose comes back a bit with some cyclamen, but I wouldn't ever call it a fruity or floral smell. The patchouli and cypress keep it solidly as an earthy smell. It's not a bitter earthy smell, though, making it the first woody BPAL fragrance I can wear as wood + the sweet BPAL base usually makes me sick.

Resinous and herbal and peppery, and sweet. I normally don't like resin or and herbs+sweet make me sick, but I'm really loving this. It's quite an arresting scent, and may become my first full bottle.

Rose geranium, Spanish moss, Irish yew, and graveyard dirt. Imp: The rose geranium is more "rose" than "geranium" and I think it's mixing with the yew, because my first impression is of a ladylike version of Rome. Wet: The Rome similarities are not as strong, as the geranium is less rose, and more generic floral, and the moss is more prominent. I also get something a bit like grass, even though that's not in the notes. The dirt is there, but it's a subtle scent, underneath the flowers and greenery. Dry: It's on my wrist, and most scents fade very quickly there for some reason, so it's a bit faint. The flowers have faded and so has the yew, and it's mostly sweet pleasant moss and dirt. I was hoping for a sharper scent from the geranium, so that's a bit disappointing, but the dirt and moss are as well-behaved and pretty as you could possibly expect them to be. I don't really like sweet herbals, so I'm not sure I'll keep it, but I love the dirt note. Maybe I'll layer it with something with a bit more edge.

Wet on skin: Fresh, lovely tea rose and...apple? After a few minutes: As it dries, the cypress and juniper come out, but so does something very astringent, almost like ammonia. Dry on skin: The ammonia smell fades and the chamomile comes out. The cypress and juniper take a back seat again, and it smells like I had hoped it would when I ordered it: rose and chamomile backed up by whiffs of cypress and juniper. I found it faded to be almost unnoticeable after a few hours. Too bad, because once the astringent period is over, it's really very pretty, calm, and stately.