House of Night
BPAL description: A sorrowful graveyard bouquet of somber blooms, funereal boughs, dismal green and laden with grief.
In the bottle: Sweet and woody, faint flowers. Evergreen plants, herbs, some dark incense, maybe frankincense. Spicy and smoky.
Wet: Less green and fresh, still sweet, spicier and smokier. Many notes complexly blended, making it difficult for me decipher. I guess it's most like sweet fir trees in a bonfire, right now.
Dry: Dries very slowly. It's definitely dark on me; the smoky and earthy notes do evoke a bit of decay, but overall I consider it more woodsy, like being in a forest. There is some sharp green note I really dislike - I think it's lime, but a horrid artificial rancid sickly sweet lime.
Later: Hmm, those faint florals a bit headier, also powdery and soapy. I'm guessing lily and maybe violet. There's some wetly herbal fresh greenery though mingling with the smoke and incense and piney note.
Summary: The flowers dry down powdery and the lime leaves an artificial candy sweet stain, but mostly this smoky-green herbs and evergreen, over some frankincense and spicy opium. It's heavy and gloomy. Moderate throw.
Yeah, other than the pleasant herbalness, I entirely dislike this and washed it off.
In the bottle: Sweet and woody, faint flowers. Evergreen plants, herbs, some dark incense, maybe frankincense. Spicy and smoky.
Wet: Less green and fresh, still sweet, spicier and smokier. Many notes complexly blended, making it difficult for me decipher. I guess it's most like sweet fir trees in a bonfire, right now.
Dry: Dries very slowly. It's definitely dark on me; the smoky and earthy notes do evoke a bit of decay, but overall I consider it more woodsy, like being in a forest. There is some sharp green note I really dislike - I think it's lime, but a horrid artificial rancid sickly sweet lime.
Later: Hmm, those faint florals a bit headier, also powdery and soapy. I'm guessing lily and maybe violet. There's some wetly herbal fresh greenery though mingling with the smoke and incense and piney note.
Summary: The flowers dry down powdery and the lime leaves an artificial candy sweet stain, but mostly this smoky-green herbs and evergreen, over some frankincense and spicy opium. It's heavy and gloomy. Moderate throw.
Yeah, other than the pleasant herbalness, I entirely dislike this and washed it off.