As a former trespasser and avowed petty criminal I was set up to love this and I'm really devastated I didn't. This opens super interesting. I had a full 5-10 minutes just thinking "......Barbecue?" - and I wasn't mad about it! There was such a distinct, sticky, boozy wood, hot over the coals... and then it was gone, and I was left with a pretty run-of-the-mill smoky-oaky vanilla.
Memoirs of a Trespasser falls victim to something I'm finding a lot from IA as I go through this discovery set - strong, unique starts that fail to follow through, drying down quickly and becoming dull and muddled in the process. The vanilla in this case also calls to mind my issues with Kayali and their penchant for a kind of meaningless, inescapable vanilla fog.
While I do think MoaT and the rest of the IA collection have more of an identity to them, the base notes aren't there to back them up. Poetic, maybe. Are we all the same at our cores? Or will they prove to have something really special on their hands?
