Bodegón Con Cesto de Frutas, Melocotones, Granadas Y Bernegal

[doomsday_disco]

Peaches, pomegranates, black figs, baked red clay, and cacao spiced with chili peppers and sweetened with honey.

 

 

Juan de Zurbarán
 

 

[marared]

The end result is spicy fruit, waaaay more spicy than fruit, and it's quite a ride to get there. It reminds me a little of the Tajin-spiced fruit gummies, without the lime.

 

In the bottle, fresh off the doorstep: it's dry cacao with chili - not sweet at all. There's a little bit of fig and a little bit of honey hiding underneath.

 

Immediately on the skin: at first there is a hesitant bit of fruit, and then BAM chili peppers. The cacao is there too, but the chili peppers dominate this. It's like walking into a kitchen in New Mexico. It holds strong for a good ten minutes before the peach finally makes an appearance, and then it sweetens up a little, but the chilis are still there grabbing you by the nose hairs. The cacao has now mostly faded. I'm impressed by how much punch the chilis still have, though. I was a little worried about the fig because BPAL fig frequently doesn't play nice with my chemistry, but it is buried at the bottom of the fruit basket being generally inoffensive. The peach fades quickly into a more generic fruit aroma, nothing that I could say was pomegranate.

 

This is such an interesting scent!

[a_bear]

Freshly applied, I mostly get the clay and the cacao, blending together for a rich, earthy scent. I maybe should've shaken my sample a bit more because the cacao component has as usual sunk to the bottom.

 

As it settles, the fruit and spice come out. From here onward on me the pomegranate dominates, supported by the other fruit and a bare hint of spice. Mercifully, the honey doesn't stand out since it can go too funky on me.

[splendidissima]

More earthy than I was expecting! Clay, earth, dry cacao, spice. I don't get a ton of fruit - I admit I was hoping for more of a balance! It's not sweet at all; it does have an impression of...warm dry redness or ocher colors, perhaps? Like chili spices in the sun next to a sun-baked historic adobe building, perhaps. Which isn't bad - in fact it's interesting! - but I might try it in a diffuser or oil warmer, as a house scent, versus on me.

[LavenderCoffee]

My sample vial is positively murky with cacao, but a vibrant peach is the first note that jumps out at me on application. I smell a warm, inviting earthy cacao-clay base with a distinct top note of spicy chili, and so much fruit richness in between. Sorry to be boring but it really just smells exactly like the painting looks! The honey comes forward more as the oil dries. It's gorgeous. I'm not sure how much I would actually wear this/aka whether I should snag a bottle, but I do want to keep my decant.

[Little Bird]

I went back and forth so many times when I was trying to decide whether or not to buy this fragrance, and I'm really glad that I ordered it at the last minute because it's so gorgeous.

The Lab's peach and honey notes are iffy for me, but they're perfect here, melding into each other to form a just-slightly-overripe, honey-sweet, juicy peach that smells so rich and delicious.  The chili pepper, clay and cocoa form a comforting, warm, earthy yet sweet base that doesn't have any of the sharpness that I was worried about with the chili pepper.  After about three hours, the scent shifts a little so that I smell more of the ripe, sweet fig and cocoa, with the honeyed peach still lingering and the red clay & pepper still giving the scent a lovely, dry, warm earthiness underneath the fruit and sweetness.

I love how sweet this turns on my skin.  I don't tend to enjoy fruity scents but this one is so sweet and enveloping with the sultry honey, cacao, and clay.  Intrigue with its cocoa and fig has always been one of my favorite bpals, and this is like a much more complex and romantic feeling Intrigue after a few hours when the fig gains strength.

Lasted about 7 hours on me with good throw, too.