Cedar
Patchouli
01/05/2012
DeGe53
25 Reviews
DeGe53
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Wood for the lady
By coincidence I seemed to pick woody scents today. This one I grabbed at my local Rituals store while planning to buy something totally different.
There are more ingredients here than the artist is willing to unveil. This seems to be a trend now, let them guess. But when a wood scent for the fair ladies is made as beautiful as this one I don’t need to know what else is playing along.
It starts with a soft cedar. That’s good. Very often the nose is being prepared for something else with little flowers or with fruit then turning into a totally different direction. Here it’s being said right away what is meant.
The surprise arrives after about 30 minutes. Now the scent turns to flowers, sharp flowers with a little prickly note in the background. That is a nice thing. With the warm woody note underneath we have a nice change in development. This prickly note stays for a while and fades considerately to let a soft, light patchouli come forward.
Patchouli and light? Yes, that’s possible. It’s almost powdery but then again not quite. It is soft, not like cottonballs, more like a fat soft corduroy…..in a muddy colour. Nothing dirty here, like patchouli sometimes prefers to appear. This is a clean scent, not faltering in intensity which seems on the contrary to gain strength the longer it stays on the skin. Starting of light and fluffy, if you could call a woody scent fluffy, it glides into this prickly flowery note ending as a great cuddle scent.
Today I was lucky with my wood-scent tests. I like that.
There are more ingredients here than the artist is willing to unveil. This seems to be a trend now, let them guess. But when a wood scent for the fair ladies is made as beautiful as this one I don’t need to know what else is playing along.
It starts with a soft cedar. That’s good. Very often the nose is being prepared for something else with little flowers or with fruit then turning into a totally different direction. Here it’s being said right away what is meant.
The surprise arrives after about 30 minutes. Now the scent turns to flowers, sharp flowers with a little prickly note in the background. That is a nice thing. With the warm woody note underneath we have a nice change in development. This prickly note stays for a while and fades considerately to let a soft, light patchouli come forward.
Patchouli and light? Yes, that’s possible. It’s almost powdery but then again not quite. It is soft, not like cottonballs, more like a fat soft corduroy…..in a muddy colour. Nothing dirty here, like patchouli sometimes prefers to appear. This is a clean scent, not faltering in intensity which seems on the contrary to gain strength the longer it stays on the skin. Starting of light and fluffy, if you could call a woody scent fluffy, it glides into this prickly flowery note ending as a great cuddle scent.
Today I was lucky with my wood-scent tests. I like that.
