The Key of Solitude

[doomsday_disco]

Dreams dreamt in a chthonic womb, a subterranean winter reverie, a blessed darkness. Ancient, nourishing roots of patchouli, mandrake, gnarled oak, and galangal thrusting through ancient soil, embracing a bed of thick moss and suffused with myrrh tears, black labdanum, and fossilized amber.

[ghoulnextdoor]

Soil and shadow, a subterranean ember, smoldering. It’s the damp earth beneath bare feet, a bat-winged tickle of rain in the air at the edge of midnight; a primordial altar deep underground, shallow breaths sooty with ancient incense smoke and the stony language of deep time, a haunting chorus of fossil imprints and biological hieroglyphs; lights out at the last library on Earth, honeyed wooden shelves gleaming in amber candlelight, its welcoming glow extinguished, one flickering flame at a time. A keyhole cartography mapping everything, everywhere, all at once: a darkness that delights in revealing a kaleidoscope of shifting realities, where time folds in on itself, each blink twisting the vista anew. But you’ve always known how to navigate the paths of your heart’s own darkness, haven’t you? After all, both the lock and the key were shaped by you.

Edited April 16 by ghoulnextdoor

[doomsday_disco]

I wouldn't have gotten to try this, but I ordered this on behalf of a friend, who let me try their bottle.  

 

This is mostly a smooth, brownish black patchouli on me, accompanied by cola-like labdanum and amber. Those were the predominant notes on me throughout wear, although there were touches of herbs mixed in. I usually amp moss, but didn't get a ton of it from this, and this isn't a dirt party, either, so dirt-haters, fear not!

 

While this is not something I feel the need to grab a bottle of for myself, I do think it smells nice and is much smoother than I was expecting based off of the notes.