In the Hallway of a Brothel

[doomsday_disco]

Lemon cream, incense smoke, and candle wax.

[VioletChaos]

In The Bottle, I mostly get the smoke-and-wax notes I found delightful in last Weenie's Guttering Candle.

Wet On Skin: Upon contact, the lemon starts to emerge, which I'm relieved about, as it was this note that made me want to get this scent to begin with! Unlike the sharp-fresh lemon of Spirit Board: Yes and Happy Baby In A Long Dress or the candy-sweet lemon of Lemon Scented Sticky Bat, this is a heavy, blunted lemon that is befitting of its identification as a lemon *cream*, though I'd hesitate to say I detect much cream here, at least at this stage. 

Dry Down: If you lit some low-key nondescript incense, then extinguished it and then also blew out a lemon cream candle and walked out of the room only to re-enter a minute later, you would have this scent. This belongs to the pantheon of Beth's "How does she DO that?!?!" scents, where her artistry come shining through in not just interpreting a time or space or feeling but in somehow, impossibly, REPLICATING it. 

An absolute delight! 💛 🍋

[tarotgirl99]

I love this!

 

Lemon creaminess in the beginning and then spicy incense comes along. Long ago I combined two BPAL rarities and it was a go-to for me. I’d inhale my wrist constantly. When I remember that combo I’ll share it. One of the scents was Lamia, which this reminds me of in the best way.
 

But this is so perfect for spring, I need a bottle. And I haven't bought a bottle in a long time. 

ETA: I woke up this morning to traces of incense. Love the longevity. Sillage is not overwhelming.

Edited April 3 by tarotgirl99

[LavenderCoffee]

Just exactly as it says: soft lemon sweetened by beeswax with wisps of smoke! So lovely.

[Catfever]

Girl Scout Lemonade's at first dab, cookie creamy sweet, and then immediately becomes bitter like a rind before the smoke of incense tempers it beautifully. My first test I wasn't so sure of it but the more I wear it the more obsessed I become. 

[doomsday_disco]

This starts off with the lemon being sharper than I had anticipated and giving me citronella candle vibes, but it isn't long before the beeswax and the cream part of the lemon cream smooth it over, so that it's like the creamy beeswax and smoke of scents like (Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene and Shouutsushi Aioi Genji plus lemon cream.

 

I'm going to have to spend more time with this one to see if I need more of it. The wet phase is rough, but the end result is so lovely! Yet I have so many beeswax scents that I don't reach for enough as it is... but this will be perfect to wear during Maomao (Apothecary Diaries) Fridays, so...