Love and Sleep

[filigree_shadow]

Fig milk, vanilla, orchid, and ylang ylang.

 

It smells like sweet, creamy fig with just a hint of a lush (not heady, not stinging, not icky) floral note. The sweetness of it is quite a bit overwhelming at first, when it's wet, and I don't like it very much. After it dries, though, the fig is most prominent, and that super-sweet creamy note calms down. It becomes a light, soft, sweet, smooth fig-orchid scent.

 

This is one of those unusual scents that I put on, sniff, and think, "Ewww, no." And then I come back to it 10 minutes later and say, "Oh! Nice!"

[LizziesLuck]

Wet: Sweet orchid, creamy. It almost has a bubblegum like quality at this stage. It's a very candy-like scent right now. Not what I was hoping for or expecting.

 

 

Dry: This settles into something much more wearable on me. Still very sweet, but I like sweet scents. Creamy, sweet, figgy orchid is the final dry down. Really nice, sweet, innocent. Very girly.

[celestia]

♔ Love and Sleep

 

In the Bottle: Creamy floral bubblegum

 

Wet: This smells like analmost blush pink bubblegum. As a colour I'd describe it to be a blend of fruity pink and pale orange. Sweet and creamy, yes- but I smell neither fig nor milk as components, not the kind I'm able to detect usually anyway. I get more of a syrupy sweet, artificial, creamy and juicy nectar. It’s certainly a lot more thicker and heavier smelling than milk (which to me registers more watery and less rich- with the exception of macadamia milk), but not as rich and heavy as cream notes. I feel like Love and Sleep smells more like a creamy and juicy floral and bubble-gummy blend than one that calls a distinctive fruit to mind…. I mean it’s there, because the blend IS fruity- but as a background note with a supporting role- and something I would identify as “fruity” rather than “fruit”.

 

Drydown: I can pick up the vanilla orchid more as the blend settles and dries. The vanilla used doesn’t really remind me of other vanilla orchid blends either, such as Regan or Cascading Blossoms, as they smell much more perfumey, heady and musky. I would even distinguish the vanilla and orchid as separate notes. It’s lush and tropical, but also tinted by the same bubblegum sweetness present during the wet stage, kind of milky- a milky orchid. The vanilla here in this blend, instead, smells a bit like vanilla sugar. And honestly, even together with ylang ylang, which is quite faint and I barely detect, it still doesn’t translate to much of a floral blend. In the final drydown stage, I do get the more unified presence of vanilla orchid as a single component, that beautiful, perfumey, slightly musky, and vanillic floral comes out- but that bubblegum sweetness is disturbing the blend for me.

 

TL;DR: Syrupy, creamy, fruity bubblegum nectar

[Lucchesa]

I'm a total sucker for vanilla fig milk. Orchid and ylang ylang were big question marks, but I put it on my wishlist anyway and was generously frimped a decant. So lucky!

 

Love and Sleep is a soft fruity floral, lush and lovely. Wet it was a little too sweet for me, and fig milk is not as earthy as the regular fig note I adore, but the drydown is just so beguiling. This definitely shares a family resemblance with Poor Monkey, though Love and Sleep is sweeter, more innocent. Definitely a Luper in the sweet creamy floral mode.

[follis]

I was very generously gifted a decant of this! What an amazing human being ❤️ Unknown age but the decant is clear in colour. 
I'm also not familiar with BPAL's orchid note, but there are just so many different orchid essential oils that I've left out identifying it in my review.

 

Wet: Figgy, oh so slightly fruity floral (ylang ylang?), mmmm!
(I actually don't like florals so this is a win).
On: This feels very cooling, almost icy on me. It smells similar to wet on me, but not as strong and fading. I hope it doesn't disappear on me because I really like it.
Drydown: It doesn't fade completely phew! There's something strong on the nose at the end here that I can't pick. It makes me think of warmth. The drydown is lovely. It smells slightly fruity still, a bit vanilla, sweet but not in a foody way. It's pretty without being floral. 
Few hours later: The base remains-- vanilla. Maybe something powdery in the background but it's lovely and not dry (definitely creamy still). It makes me think of fruity/citrus something, but after a few hours the vanilla dominates.

 

PS: I just wanted to add that despite the boring way I have written my review (as I do most reviews 😂) this is a DARLING scent. I am normally a foodie, smokey, not floral type of bean, and I never ever thought I would absolutely love and adore a scent such as this one. It is GORGEOUS and I now have a bottle to devour with all intentions of getting more bottles. 

Edited June 17, 2019 by follis
I was not emphatic enough about how much I LOVE this!