![]() ![]() For me, that’s too much intensity beyond my personal space to wear comfortably! Available Sizes About half-way through testing it, my husband came down the hallway–not even entering my office–and remarked, “Wow, it smells like perfume in your office.” The next morning, I still got faint whiffs of it in my office as well. This particular fragrance was also exceptionally long-wearing with a massive trail, and I prefer perfumes that live in my personal space but don’t persist once I walk out of a room. This was a scent I bought to try because it had rose with several other notes that I know I like, and I love the smell of roses blooming… though uncertain if I like the smell on me for a prolonged period of times (as opposed to in a bouquet or in the garden). Subjectively, I’m glad I tried it, but it’s too early in my exploration of rose as a note to make any real determination on where I’d put it in terms of overall enjoyment. I used an unscented moisturizer prior to applying the scent as this is also my swatching arm (aka, incredibly parched at any given moment) as I found scent did not hold well here otherwise. It was an incredibly long-wearing scent that was still discernible on skin the next day and had a fair amount of projection for the first four hours and a long trail of sillage for several hours into its wear. ![]() The drydown took about four hours to really emerge as the rose was mixed more heavily with patchouli, sandalwood, and incense smoke to the point where the rose was in the background.įor testing, I used two sprays from 2 ml sample vial, which were applied to the underside and topside of my wrist area on my left arm. As Portrait of a Lady developed, it became earthier, smokier, and woodier with rose at the center of everything. The fruity sweetness returned after a half hour, overwhelming the earthiness and woodiness, to surround what became spiced rose, and a tendril of smoke wafted in the background. It didn’t take long before the sweetness to move to the background, while spiced earthiness moved into the foreground with the rose. There was a coolness to the scent, like dawn on an early spring morning. The rose was sweetened with ripened fruits–a subtle discernment of raspberry, perhaps. It opened not just a rose just before it bloomed, as that came a few minutes later, but the stem and the leaves–a sense of greenery and woodiness. base notes: patchouli, sandalwood, frankincense. ![]()
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