Concert

[Jenjin]

Black velvet, ancient climbing roses, champaca magnolia, and deep, resonant strings of amber.

 

Mayday Art: She Comes With Footsteps Light
What potent blood hath modest May.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Artist - Edward Okun

 

[patina]

Disclaimer: I'm trying this straight from the mailbox.

The champaca is immediately there, however it's not as mothball-esque as Nag Champa goes on me, it's floral. I get a vaguely fruity rose along with the warm amber and furry black musk. This feels a little heavy for a hot summer day.

 

Next day test: I take back every bad thing I've said about champaca. This is a lovely realistic floral. It does actually remind me of the scent of the small flowered kind of magnolias except it's strongly orange. The musk is now taking a backseat to champaca. It may be the name influencing me but I get faint impressions of amber as golden strings.

Edited July 6 by patina

[becca_s]

On my skin the black velvet note really dominates followed by the amber with the floral notes in the background. I feel that this concert is more of the somber and classical kind. Something here makes this quite perfumey, I think perhaps it is the velvet note. This was a much stronger blend than I was expecting, it has alot of throw and lasts for ages. 

[RoseThornAndOak]

In the bottle: dark, heavy amber, with shadowy velvet curtains, with a black bite of something sinister lurking, clove maybe. Evil little cloves. 😎 

 

Heavily indolic fresh on, very similar to Smoke and Lace, with some powder from the champaca and rose. A fresh linen type note appears, which makes this much more pleasant, with indoles still present, but getting buried. Dries down kind of powdery and ambery on me with some greenery from the florals and something sharp some ambers do on my skin, like in News From Afar.

 

It's almost glorious on me. I think on the right skin, this would be a lovely, gothic, dark velvet floral with conventional, high end amber. I might have to stick to a locket. It reminds me of an old gothic manor draped in mystery, like the soft things you would see here and about, so it's a keeper for now. "You've done terrible things, Lawrence."

Edited September 19 by RoseThornAndOak

[DiZZysTARdust]

concert is AMAZING, i regret not buying a back up bottle but i wasn’t sure how the rose would work. for me the rose is almost nonexistent, maybe just . this is all about the champaca. but it’s like, an amazing deep resinous champaca, definitely feels like it’s wrapped up in black velvet. i was sure that there may be some patchouli in here but idk, but something in there is giving the champaca an almost woody, chewy, oomph. it has great throw and laaaaasts for daaays on my clothes.