The Rice Field

[Jenjin]

Rice milk, hay absolute, Oolong tea, honey dust, champaca, frankincense smoke, golden sandalwood, and heliotrope.

Edited February 18 by Jenjin

[Brianna Gemini]

Test today:

Wet. heliotrope STOMP & powdery hint of honey

Dry down... heliotrope champaca  sandalwood 

 

This has that soapy champaca vibe.  reminds me of Sam + heliotrope.

 

Close throw. heliotrope, champaca & sandalwood vibe.  Hay, frank, honey dust, and tea are very minor players. This one might need to age a little

 

 

[theseagrows]

i get a lot of tea and something sort of oddly smoky and almost savory. maybe a combination of hay and frankincense smoke (?) or the rice milk is reading more like rice itself. my skin chemistry can do some weird stuff at times and that seems to be the case here. after awhile, that aspect dissipates a bit and i am getting more of a honeyed tea with champaca. it becomes a lot more floral over time, but it's not very sweet. i don't get much heliotrope here until way later. there is a clarity from the tea and it primarily becomes a pretty tea scent with a hint of smokiness, then gets creamier from heliotrope deep into the drydown and by that time it's almost gone.

Edited April 24 by theseagrows

[Llanval]

So bummed about this one.  I get Glad plug-in, and I am not sure what's to blame for this.  There's something fresh under the sweet honey dust note that reads as glade's "air" accord that sits like a band between what smells a bit like hay/lighter honey and the heavier champaca and sandalwood that just does not work on my skin, sadly.  On the right person, this would be a lovely, odd atmospheric.  On me it's a bathroom deodorizer (womp womp).

 

I agree with Brianna Gemini's review so maybe it's the heliotrope that's making this wonky.

[FebruaryFoxglove]

I’ve had a really different experience with this one! On me it’s a beautiful, soft, golden glow, sweetened by the honey dust and made almost savory by the chewy rice milk. The hay and oolong lend a mellow earthiness that is distinctly dry, but not sharp or peppery. I’m not really clocking heliotrope and it doesn’t read as particularly floral to me. It’s a cozy golden hour scent, with the champaca, frankincense and sandalwood blending into a gentle incense that weaves in and out among the other notes, keeping the gourmand vibes at bay. I would recommend it to fans of the vanilla husk/nutmeg/hay absolute trio from a couple of years ago!

[picturesofmeghan]

i agree with the reviewers that said this went weird. i think it’s the heliotrope? that and champaca made me think of cola. i blind bottled this bc i thought it would work- i am holding on to it in the hopes that in a year it’ll be a little different ! 

[samanare]

A honey musk scent on me. Honey is the strongest note on me, outside of the frankincense, I can't really pick out the other notes. There is almost a white musk quality to the scent, I wonder if that's from the sandalwood. The resiny, slightly spicy, smoke of the frankincense is just noticeable. Not a foodie scent, but the honey is on the sweeter side. Overall, a resin, musky honey scent.

[Little Bird]

The weird fizziness that I've been getting from the Lab's frankincense blends lately is also in this, like a mix of champagne and soapy household cleanser.  The honey is sickly-sweet and reminiscent of urine, unfortunately, which I haven't experienced from a honey note in quite some time.  Then there's a super powdery base from the sandalwood and heliotrope.
After about an hour, the honey and frank smell more like burning beeswax candles, but it was a struggle for me to get to this point.  I still don't like how powdery it is.