IV-I Lost Alice Masque 2021

First, let’s talk about the technical aspects. In all my sharings, I always fill half a ml for myself and test how many TZ sprays correspond to one spray from the bottle. Here, it takes about 3 sprays of the TZ to match the amount of one spray from the bottle.
The sillage is not excellent but definitely good, and the longevity of the wonderful heart note could be longer; it lasted about 2-3 hours before transitioning into the base note, which is also amazing, and after a total of 8 hours, the scent comes to an end for my nose.
Now, let’s talk about the fragrance that truly touches me.

It is a magical scent; it starts very unusually, lightly, and quickly builds into a floral nutty aroma. I would almost say that the nutty seed/grain notes are from ambrette seeds, but a quick internet search indicates that ambrette seeds, from the musk mallow, smell more musky and floral sweet. So, it must come from the wonderfully, and not at all sharp, incorporated pepper. So, it starts off very nicely. This top note disappears after about 10 minutes, and the incredibly interesting heart note slowly unfolds. At first, I thought of coffee, of cake. There’s the cleanliness of iris soap or rather a tablecloth washed in iris soap ;) and then it clicked, there was the enlightenment. The fragrance is called Lost Alice, and it reminded me of a beautifully set white coffee table in a fairy tale world, with flowers and carrot cake. It was the world of Alice in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter over a cup of black tea. And suddenly, I was small again; the testosterone level drops, and the little boy from back then, who loved Alice in Wonderland as well as Winx Club, Barbie, Tinkerbell... resurfaced. I was emotionally transported back to that innocent and simply beautiful time, and everything became magical, imaginative, peaceful, simply beautiful again. I find it incredibly amazing how scents and then memories that come up (even if the memory is not directly tied to the scent itself but to a fitting situation) can touch and change you so deeply.
But I’m not a man of many words, so before I digress further, I’ll move on to the drydown. It is simply beautifully soft and gentle. If I now connect the scent with colors, it slowly transitions into a light beige and then into a cream white. So, beautifully clean with a hint of sweet spice and a lovely floral note that I don’t know, but if there is a plant that emits the scent of this drydown (which unfortunately there probably isn’t, as crossing broom and sandalwood would be... difficult, and getting creamy milk in there, is there even a plant that smells like milk?), then I might turn my black thumb into a green one with a lot of work and keep this plant in my bedroom forever. I am thrilled.
There are many fragrances that are more extravagant, louder, more authentic, more gourmand,... but this one... it is simply poetically beautiful; I have found Alice, she is no longer lost, she belongs to me.