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NorCal Galadriel
Perfectly tempered vanilla timber. Like you tried to make s’mores out of dry tobacco as your chocolate, spiced cedar for graham cracker, and guaiac sawdust + sap for marshmallow. (Faintly toasted, not smoked). The overall feel is almost milk chocolaty, without going gourmand. This was the only Liis I didn't get to sample last year and, lo and behold, it’s hands down my favourite. Admire how Liis can take two “heavy” scents – sequoia heartwood and vanilla resin – and make them feel so clean and ethereal. Bo is a chimera of favourites: the incense plume of GWater, the fluttery wood-shavings of Santal 33, and the mallowy cashmere of By the Fireplace… but made wholly its own with that picture-perfect redwoods heart. Bay Area represent. Emanation is soft-spoken, but enduring (~5h on my skin).
Mental Snapshot: A cathedral of sleeping giants. Sunlit mist wends through their limbs, sap beads from their arms like morning dew. Warm earth powders under your bare feet as you glide along to the birdsong. There are no splinters here.
tl;dr: NorCal Galadriel
Mental Snapshot: A cathedral of sleeping giants. Sunlit mist wends through their limbs, sap beads from their arms like morning dew. Warm earth powders under your bare feet as you glide along to the birdsong. There are no splinters here.
tl;dr: NorCal Galadriel