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.