01/25/2012
Sherapop
1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Something of a Jumble
Another earthy offering from Red Flower, CHAMPA rolls the essences of a number of dark and dangerous flowers into one dense little oil which not only looks but also smells pretty cloudy to me. I cannot really tease out the individual components of this composition--which is not necessarily always a bad thing, but in this case, I was somewhat looking forward to a declarative champaca note.
My definitive champaca-imprinting experience involved some deep magenta-colored soaps from Pier 1 Imports. They were so saturated with champaca essence that you could smell them from outside the closed drawers in which I placed them. Nice, but very, very potent. After that experience, the champa in CHAMPA seems quite tame. What I think that I am really smelling is a jumble of floral elements.
This composition, like AMBRETTE, smells like a mixture of organic essential oils, which makes a lot of sense, I guess, since that is apparently what it is!
My definitive champaca-imprinting experience involved some deep magenta-colored soaps from Pier 1 Imports. They were so saturated with champaca essence that you could smell them from outside the closed drawers in which I placed them. Nice, but very, very potent. After that experience, the champa in CHAMPA seems quite tame. What I think that I am really smelling is a jumble of floral elements.
This composition, like AMBRETTE, smells like a mixture of organic essential oils, which makes a lot of sense, I guess, since that is apparently what it is!
