The dry down on this perfume smells like the motor oil and diesel that accumulates on the floor of the barn over years and assaults the nose as soon as the barn door is opened.
When I first applied this, it was so overwhelmingly black peppery, that I got sneezy. After about 30 to 45 minutes, the sneeziness went away, only to be replaced by nausea. I was in a meeting and couldn't wash it off and so was left to smell it for over an hour.
I wanted to like this; I genuinely did. The descriptions of it as "woodsy" and "different" really intrigued me because Shiseido's Feminite du Bois is one of my all-time favorites. But this left me nauseous and smelling like an auto mechanic. It is not sultry, it is not interesting, it is not good. There is no redeeming quality to this perfume whatsoever. I'm sorry to be so harsh, but from the first spray and even after I tried to wash it off, it was very offensive. It literally made me ill.
