Elizabethan Red

[Jenjin]

Orange blossom water, fig milk, clove bud, madder root,

and gum arabic smeared on an ambergris-dabbed white leather glove.

Edited February 28 by Jenjin

[Little Bird]

Elizabethan Red is a very light, delicate scent with almost no throw.  I feel like the 'water' in the orange blossom water was no joke because it's a washed out, clean orange blossom (not soapy, but cool and watery) and orange blossom is usually rather strong on me.  I can also smell the woodiness of the fig and a very creamy, lotion-y smell, which might be the milk part.  After a half hour, those notes have faded and it turns to a light ambergris that smells of cold, salty water, powder, and a little white muskiness.  Only lasted about 2 1/2 hours total and had a clean-skin-fresh-from-a-shower feel to me.

[bheansidhe]

Call this Elizabeth Arden Red. It smells like my childhood memories of my mom coming home from the department store smelling like a mélange of faded perfume samples and high-end makeup.