I have had my eye on Caeleste for a while, the bottle design fascinated me and the notes promised a lot. The price per ml, however, was... Discouraging. Finally, a year since I first saw this brand, I mustered up the courage to purchase 1 ml to test Principalities, the most famous fragrance from the brand.
And now that I have and also as someone who tested about half of Toskovat' scents, I gotta say that David-Lev (the Toskovat' nose) has really outdone himself here.
In a nutshell, Caeleste Principalities is a spicy mineralic scent. And if I were to elaborate... I am a fan of cyberpunk as a genre, and this scent immediately prompted me to think of Shadowrun (the cyberpunk DnD-like game), specifically, of their cyber shamans - someone who manages to maintain spiritual connections despite living in a world entangled in cables and encased in metal. This is what Principalities smells like - a stark contrast of sharp spicy metal and meditative herbs (the tea note is very good here!). Also, the petrichor note is noticeable in the beginning (has anyone else noticed that it rains a lot in cyberpunk universes? :D)
Principalities is sitting with your legs crossed in a meditative pose holding a cup of ginseng tea; Your eyes are closed, and several long cables protrude from the back of your head, connecting you to the other side - the digital world.
