Manhattan
BPAL description: A meeting of modern, sleek elegance and rich, passionate history: sheer amber, black leather, white mint, lemon peel, white tea, grapefruit, kush, teakwood and orchid
In the bottle: Very pale yellow oil. Both citruses, mint, tea, plasticky leather, a bit of woody teak. Definitely sleek and smooth. Complex, unisex.
Wet: Softer. Lemon and mint lighter, grapefruit faint. A bit soapy-powdery, probably the amber. Tea lighter. Something a bit herbal, kush maybe. It's a bit floral, but not distinctly orchid.
Dry: Mint-lemon powdery soap with that plasticky leather note and some heady flower, presumably the orchid, which to me make the blend seem quite feminine. The hint of herbal kush and very faint teakwood are nice, but cannot redeem this.
Summary: So fricking powdery I want to sneeze. Amber usually goes powdery on me, but but not in such an intense and SOAPY manner. Eventually the orchid is identifiable, but overall it's a very simplistic drydown that I intensely dislike. Decent throw.
In the bottle: Very pale yellow oil. Both citruses, mint, tea, plasticky leather, a bit of woody teak. Definitely sleek and smooth. Complex, unisex.
Wet: Softer. Lemon and mint lighter, grapefruit faint. A bit soapy-powdery, probably the amber. Tea lighter. Something a bit herbal, kush maybe. It's a bit floral, but not distinctly orchid.
Dry: Mint-lemon powdery soap with that plasticky leather note and some heady flower, presumably the orchid, which to me make the blend seem quite feminine. The hint of herbal kush and very faint teakwood are nice, but cannot redeem this.
Summary: So fricking powdery I want to sneeze. Amber usually goes powdery on me, but but not in such an intense and SOAPY manner. Eventually the orchid is identifiable, but overall it's a very simplistic drydown that I intensely dislike. Decent throw.