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Spa Like Embrace
This is a new favourite and I don't say that lightly.
I've been a gourmand lover for years but as time has gone on, I've started appreciating more green and aromatic scents.
I was specifically looking for something that smelt like Champneys - Slumber, Awake and Calm, but perfume (seriously Champneys, you are sleeping on some major money by not making even EDT's!). Mon Guerlain Intense, is pretty close to Slumber.
There's a large plume of lavender, bergamot and patchouli initially.
But it quickly dies down into what I wish it would remain, as intensely, for longer. A beautiful powdery iris, gentle, sweet vanilla and resins, musky, soft lavender and a tonka blanket. It smells like a spa. Like Slumber. A luxury spa product that doesn't give you a headache, it envelopes you and increases and depeens as you warm up.
The base is warm resin, wood, vanilla and musk.
It doesn't shout or demand attention, but you can't stop smelling it or chasing it on your skin. The lavender, patchouli or floral notes aren't headache inducing or too powerful. The lavender smells like French Lavender. Sweet and powdery, as opposed to English Lavender which tends to be soapy.
On clothing you get a much more clean and crisp fragrance from the bergamot, lavender and jasmine notes. It's much fresher. On skin it's divine. Both together, fantastic.
I only wish Intense meant longer lasting, as it seems to fade to base super quickly and become almost a skin scent.
This is firmly a new obsession. I hope I can find a fragrance that is stronger, has more lasting power, but the same balance. I adore this as is though.
I've been a gourmand lover for years but as time has gone on, I've started appreciating more green and aromatic scents.
I was specifically looking for something that smelt like Champneys - Slumber, Awake and Calm, but perfume (seriously Champneys, you are sleeping on some major money by not making even EDT's!). Mon Guerlain Intense, is pretty close to Slumber.
There's a large plume of lavender, bergamot and patchouli initially.
But it quickly dies down into what I wish it would remain, as intensely, for longer. A beautiful powdery iris, gentle, sweet vanilla and resins, musky, soft lavender and a tonka blanket. It smells like a spa. Like Slumber. A luxury spa product that doesn't give you a headache, it envelopes you and increases and depeens as you warm up.
The base is warm resin, wood, vanilla and musk.
It doesn't shout or demand attention, but you can't stop smelling it or chasing it on your skin. The lavender, patchouli or floral notes aren't headache inducing or too powerful. The lavender smells like French Lavender. Sweet and powdery, as opposed to English Lavender which tends to be soapy.
On clothing you get a much more clean and crisp fragrance from the bergamot, lavender and jasmine notes. It's much fresher. On skin it's divine. Both together, fantastic.
I only wish Intense meant longer lasting, as it seems to fade to base super quickly and become almost a skin scent.
This is firmly a new obsession. I hope I can find a fragrance that is stronger, has more lasting power, but the same balance. I adore this as is though.