Inglebop

This opens with a starchy, woody component that mimics uncooked rice, not steamed rice, in the vein of Meo Fusciuni's Sogni opening note rather than the steamed, lactonic fluffiness of Poesie's Soft or even the mellower, silkier creaminess of Affinessence's Santal Basmati. This is much more one note than Sogni, however, which transforms dramatically and benefits greatly from flecks of incense and bamboo, vetiver and tobacco. White Rice relies much more heavily on a well-worn path of heady jasmine and creamy orris, to carry the rest of the journey, settling into a pleasant, musky skin scent, dewy and ever so slightly sweet.

Extremely green, herbal opening, it reminds me of the morning when it rains when i visited my paternal grandparents in China when i was young, walking past a shop while i'm blearily waking. Or perhaps putting on the mosquito ointment...actually, definitely the mosquito ointment... Definitely get the fennel, the acerbic mint rushing up the nose. My dad really didn't like it haha, it is a very powerful room-filling scent. After wearing it a whole day, still as pungent as when we started, I realize that my formerly-unidentified, least favorite note in men's perfumes (the one that has adorned every male manipulator I've ever met) is chypre. I am new to all this so I will need to confirm with another chypre scent. Maybe it's labdanum... I feel yucky, but it is one hundred percent an emotional response. Well formulated scent, but definitely not for me.

Rubbery vague sweetness at first, almost like scented eraser shavings. There's the creep of the vetiver like clouds drifting in, something syrupy clovelike in the background. After thirty minutes, it turns seductive, round and green now that vetiver is unexpectedly silky. I don't get any nuttiness (chestnut where?) or smokiness that others have mentioned, whipped cream also doesn't seem apt. The vanilla is not synthetic, chilly enough to render this not gourmand. I am new to perfumes, thus also lots of smells and ingredients. The vetiver smells a little odd -- more mature, not quite bright, maybe it is influenced by the opoponax? After leaving my blotter for a few days, I suspect the backbone that remained was this sweet resin, losing what little touch of spice contributed by the myrrh (that I cannot smell at any part of this journey). It has that sort of murky, sweet quality I smelled in Zoologist Squid which also has a base note of opoponax. Lasts for very little on my skin.

Got a sample from Scent Split, sprayed once on each wrist and once on the neck. I'm congested, so also very excited to try this again once recovered. Very lovely scent, I didn't think how I'd like how it would wear on me, based off the scent on paper (sharp, incensey), but actually it has such a pleasant, savory thyme and rosemary opening that cools down into this warm, creamy sandalwood. Nearly gourmand, enveloping. I definitely get some cedar and something ambery, but it's almost sweetly resinous, carefully reined in. I don't get any smoke, to be honest, and the incense wears very mildly on me, whatever crackling residue of fire it retains was from the oven, a mulled maillard.

I got the discovery set from Etat Libre d'Orange, sprayed once on each of my wrists and twice on my neck. Also a bit congested at the moment, so I will retry gladly when I've recovered. On paper, it had absorbed a lot of the blotter's scent and smelled sort of generically clean, perhaps like the outside of a glass bottle. On my skin, it comes in with a clinical yuzu, tinged with some sort of cold ferric note. It projects very briefly, perhaps thirty minutes, then settles like a thin film of metal tegument, flecked with a chilled white floral. As it develops, it seems to melt, merging with y skin into a rubbery milk. I don't find that the yeastiness or clove elements emerge into any sort of natural body musk for me, mostly just like a dust. I really enjoy this scent, find it very airy and wearable, not too strange. Creamy without being sour. Shame it doesn't last very long on me.

I am very new to the world of perfume, so I am having a lot of fun with exploring new ingredients. From my very brief study interlude, I've discovered Aqual is an aldehydic captive created to replace lilial, slightly green, but mostly watery and diffusive. It bolsters the natural citrus juiciness of the yuzu in the top note with a white floral and marine quality. Mugane is the corresponding alcohol to the aqual molecule, and it blends with other lily of the valley scents (I've seen it before with jasmine like here, and I think I've seen it also paired with orris)? Hexyl acetate also has a fruity green note, leaning into pear, although I get the crisp wateriness of it initially, I don't get its smell. Vinylguaiacol is an aroma component of buckwheat, important for distilled spirits, lending sweetness and smokiness in things like whiskey, rum, peanuts, chocolate, spice, and so on -- somebody online (https://basenotes.com/community/threads/any-experience-with-4-vinyl-guaiacol.544907/) said that on its own it smells clove-like, fine and soft (like isoeugeol); then has a bit of the sterile smell (like guaiacol? / phenol), then very slightly vinegary (like acetic acid, perhaps lending to the fermented smell?). I think orcanox is the ambrette molecule that provides woody, powdery muskiness and longevity which is synthesized from "sclareol, a natural compound extracted from exhausted clary sage."