Smoked water lily
Lapsang Souchong tea
Cade juniper
Charred cedar
Somalian frankincense
Patchouli
Violet leaf
Geranium
Haitian vetiver09/06/2022
Mlleghoul
455 Reviews
Mlleghoul
3
from La La Land to the nightmare side. "
Batsheva from Regime des Fleurs smells of a subtly smoky blackberry and violet incense, something you might burn to summon either spectral shades from the underworld or second-ranking seraphim. It’s a strange, amorphous mixture of the undefined: it’s neither sweet nor dry, aquatic nor earthy, fruity-resinous nor herbal fresh, edgy leather metal lord nor cottagecore sweetheart–and yet it somehow sits at the intersection of all of these things. I love Bathsheva's early collections with their frills and ruffles and ditzy, saccharine prints, and this scent is a through the looking glass version of that twee weirdness, a dark, twisted fantasy that never quite made it from La La Land to the nightmare side. "Liminal" is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, but this fragrance really does feel betwixt and between, grounded and ethereal-- a space of utter unbelonging.
