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Straightfoward, full bodied, delicious
Visited a perfumerie and sprayed this once on each of my wrists and once on my neck. Delectable -- "lemon pound cake" is probably too trite of a statement applied to this repeatedly, but I found myself echoing it regardless. It has a very bright opening, although its citrus doesn't have the sharp, fresh bitterness I expect of blood orange, and it mingles pleasantly with lightly toasty sugar. No acerbic or spicy nature to it, I didn't really manage to pick out the lavender until I read the notes, but I'm a bit congested! Wafts pleasantly at arm's length, I could've sprayed more aggressively, but it felt a little too sweet for my taste. It continues to mellow out into something even sweeter and yeasty, not a very dark caramel, the murmur of cinnamon behind it, and doesn't become creamy or sticky or powdery or cloying but does have a playdoh quality on my skin, not quite fully transforming. i found it stopped developing around the two hour mark into somewhat of a "solid" scent. I sprayed at 7PM, and my lover could still smell it the next morning on my skin at 9AM. Lovely gourmand.