Candy Mouth Frater
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A (very) different route to BR 540
What a wild and creative ride this one turned out to be!
First of all, the opening smelled nothing like I thought it would smell like, based on reading the notes. The wintergreen mixed with tarragon created a bitter, almost astringent, cool green, medicinal opening. The tuberose soon appears but it's the loamy, mushroomy, and medicinal aspects of tuberose that are often hidden in perfume rather than accentuated, along with a very indolic jasmine. This conveys a sense of rot, but in a perfumistic way (not at all like a bucket of old trash).
This beginning phase isn't unpleasant but it's not what I'd call pleasant, either. However, I found myself fascinated and sniffing my wrist repeatedly trying to tease apart what I was smelling. It's complex and kaleidscopic. Each sniff reveals different smells and at different concentrations.
After about 15 minutes, a subtle sweetness begins to rise, which only makes the rot smell more perfume-like. It's the narcissus and the hay and honey-like sweetness it has. At this point, things smell very wild and untamed, in a good way.
At about half an hour, the sugared ambroxan (which is BR 540) slowly begins to creep in as all the other notes begin to receed. There's a brief window of time (about ten minutes) where cinnamon appeared as a start player (though no cinnamon is listed in the notes).
On my skin, the full transition to BR 540 takes about an hour, and then I'm left with that for the next 7 or 8 hours, until the fragrance has completely faded away.
Projection is never beastly, though definitely noticeable within a few feet for the first hour, then, on my skin, it settled down so much that I had to put my nose to skin to smell it. I'd say it's solidly unisex.
First of all, the opening smelled nothing like I thought it would smell like, based on reading the notes. The wintergreen mixed with tarragon created a bitter, almost astringent, cool green, medicinal opening. The tuberose soon appears but it's the loamy, mushroomy, and medicinal aspects of tuberose that are often hidden in perfume rather than accentuated, along with a very indolic jasmine. This conveys a sense of rot, but in a perfumistic way (not at all like a bucket of old trash).
This beginning phase isn't unpleasant but it's not what I'd call pleasant, either. However, I found myself fascinated and sniffing my wrist repeatedly trying to tease apart what I was smelling. It's complex and kaleidscopic. Each sniff reveals different smells and at different concentrations.
After about 15 minutes, a subtle sweetness begins to rise, which only makes the rot smell more perfume-like. It's the narcissus and the hay and honey-like sweetness it has. At this point, things smell very wild and untamed, in a good way.
At about half an hour, the sugared ambroxan (which is BR 540) slowly begins to creep in as all the other notes begin to receed. There's a brief window of time (about ten minutes) where cinnamon appeared as a start player (though no cinnamon is listed in the notes).
On my skin, the full transition to BR 540 takes about an hour, and then I'm left with that for the next 7 or 8 hours, until the fragrance has completely faded away.
Projection is never beastly, though definitely noticeable within a few feet for the first hour, then, on my skin, it settled down so much that I had to put my nose to skin to smell it. I'd say it's solidly unisex.
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