Lurid

[roseus]

In the imp I get a sweet, fresh aquatic. It's hard for me to pick out notes but it's clean in a soft way. On my skin it gets sweeter and less crisp, and more floral and fruity, and while I can pin black currant I can't identify the lavender. Something about the white musk and currant smells a bit like a light crisp apple as well, or there is a hint here. Really pleasant scent.

 

[ittybitty]

It starts off smelling heavily of herby lavender (I don't care for lavender at all). After it dries down, though, the lavender fades into the background. It becomes a dark, sweet, fruity blend. The sweetness of the current and resin work so well together. After another ten minutes, the musk smells like it's just melting on my skin and the sweetness of the currant is in the background. It doesn't have much throw, and it faded after an hour. 

[quantquill]

Received an imp as part of a destash and it's blackberry, currant and vanilla from start to finish. Love it! I would also have loved some incense, but I only put a dab on one spot to test it. When I do my normal all-over slather it may have more of a chance to develop.

 

If it stays this lovely on the full wear test, I see a full-size in my future (thank goodness it's GC!).

[iskhavin]

Re-opening a very aged (between 6 and 10 years) imp and I wonder what it was like when new, because "shocking, horrific, fierce, savage, sensationalized" are the opposite of descriptors I would use. Perhaps some of the sharper notes have rounded out or vanished with age. To me, it's delicate, delicious, airy, perhaps playful. Dominated by white musk with a vague fruitiness from the black currant, but none of the heaviness I would expect from that and resin. The lavender is distantly in the background, and that plus the ozone create a sense of freshness, but in a light, gentle way (not an overbearing air-freshener way). Like a springtime sunshower.