A Little Secret Imaginary Authors 2025
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Tobacco cherries, rum and patchouli
I let myself be misguided by the more gourmand notes in this fragrance, hoping it’d be great on my skin. I shouldn’t have underestimated a few of these notes (most which I usually dislike) as they came out strong, very strong.
Cherries at the top start out tart and sweet and syrupy. They’re dark cherries, topped with a very strong note of boozy rum (which is absolutely not my kind of thing). The rum remained for a very, very long time on my skin which ended up turning the cherry into a medicinal one during its drydown. If we go back at the top, there’s also a dark, tobacco note somewhere in there, even though it’s not listed. It’s a tobacco note closer to a cigarette-kind of scent, not a woody complex tobacco note (like the one found in Tom Ford or Guerlain’s offerings). I start to get a very spicy, earthy kind of patchouli, but the rum and cherries remain the star couple of this fragrance. Cherries do try to become a bit more syrupy and sweet somewhere in the middle, but they struggle to dfferentiate themselves from the rum that keeps a tight grip on the scent.
This might be skin chemistry kind of thing since rum and other alcoholic notes tend to stay a long time on me (to my displeasure, since I’m not the type who likes to smell of booze). I am glad I got to try out a limited edition fragrance from IA, but even if it hadn’t been, I wouldn’t have added this one to my collection due to the very prominent rum note. Oh well.
Cherries at the top start out tart and sweet and syrupy. They’re dark cherries, topped with a very strong note of boozy rum (which is absolutely not my kind of thing). The rum remained for a very, very long time on my skin which ended up turning the cherry into a medicinal one during its drydown. If we go back at the top, there’s also a dark, tobacco note somewhere in there, even though it’s not listed. It’s a tobacco note closer to a cigarette-kind of scent, not a woody complex tobacco note (like the one found in Tom Ford or Guerlain’s offerings). I start to get a very spicy, earthy kind of patchouli, but the rum and cherries remain the star couple of this fragrance. Cherries do try to become a bit more syrupy and sweet somewhere in the middle, but they struggle to dfferentiate themselves from the rum that keeps a tight grip on the scent.
This might be skin chemistry kind of thing since rum and other alcoholic notes tend to stay a long time on me (to my displeasure, since I’m not the type who likes to smell of booze). I am glad I got to try out a limited edition fragrance from IA, but even if it hadn’t been, I wouldn’t have added this one to my collection due to the very prominent rum note. Oh well.