The Lights of Men's Lives Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab 2009

Sitting in front of a dollar store cake with a couple of miss-matched candles sitting on top of it, some were already blown out by the wind coming from the open window in the kitchen, and some remain flickering and melting over.
One leans on the other and it makes all of them burn covering your cake with multicolor wax; you don't care, you don't even know why you bought the damn cake.
It just felt like what you were supposed to do, like not having it would bring even more sorrow then what you already feel now, it would have been another thing you missed, another shadow in your heart.

The exact smell of blow out birthday candles minus any gourmand notes from the cake. This is what the room smells like once the smoke has begun to dissipate in the room.

I tend to avoid super smokey perfumes and this has such an excellent quietness that it simply exists to bolden the overall image versus dominating the room. Fantastic.

The wax and smoke of millions upon millions of burning candles, some burning tall, others guttering. Such is the measure of life.

A beautiful melting wax scent. I didn’t get any heavy smoke notes, just the brief sense of a light wisp of smoke from a just blown out candle.

This is very wearable and is in my regular rotation. I bought a second bottle because I use this so often.