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Dimly Lit Restaurant, Eating Dessert and Drinking Cocktails.
TL;DR: If creamy and overly sweet notes turned you from gourmands, this might turn you back.
I have an affliction with a lot gourmand perfumes. If they are too sweet or powdery, overtime they will make me nauseated. I attribute this to the Bath and Body Works 'sugar vanilla' body spray, the enemy of my childhood.
Thus, I am usually A gourmand hater. Corpse Reviver turned the tide for me.
Are these the ingredients in an actual Corpse Reviver drink? No. Do I care? Also no, because this is incredibly beautiful in it's own way. There is a balance at play here. The bitterness of the blood orange and dark chocolate, the pure unsweetened vanilla, the wood, herbaceous, and animalic qualities.
This is everything I want in a gourmand.
The dry down holds a good amount of the original fragrance from the first spray. It does loose the blood orange but retains the woods, and the whiskey comes through slightly more. There is also no lactic or creamy notes, so for warmer nights Corpse Reviver still works.
I have an affliction with a lot gourmand perfumes. If they are too sweet or powdery, overtime they will make me nauseated. I attribute this to the Bath and Body Works 'sugar vanilla' body spray, the enemy of my childhood.
Thus, I am usually A gourmand hater. Corpse Reviver turned the tide for me.
Are these the ingredients in an actual Corpse Reviver drink? No. Do I care? Also no, because this is incredibly beautiful in it's own way. There is a balance at play here. The bitterness of the blood orange and dark chocolate, the pure unsweetened vanilla, the wood, herbaceous, and animalic qualities.
This is everything I want in a gourmand.
The dry down holds a good amount of the original fragrance from the first spray. It does loose the blood orange but retains the woods, and the whiskey comes through slightly more. There is also no lactic or creamy notes, so for warmer nights Corpse Reviver still works.