Pumpkin Queen
BPAL description: Egyptian Amber, red ginger, orange peel, mandarin, cardamom, fig leaf and warm pumpkin.
In the bottle: Dark straw coloured oil. Sweet foody butter, spicy ginger and cardamom, orange, a bit of herbal depth. Warm and golden and good enough to eat.
Wet: Buttery spice, less sweet, but still very foody. Ginger is the strongest; cardamom is faint, and I'm pretty sure there is cinnamon in here, maybe even clove. A toasty hot scent. Orange lighter, but still present; mingled with the spices it makes me think of mulled cider.
Dry/Summary: Strong hot spice. Amazingly, the amber doesn't really go powdery (it's just sort of warm and golden), and the butter fades to mild, barely foody sweetness, but this is just SO spicy-hot with ginger and cinnamon and a wee bit of cardamom, no orange at all. Strong throw, difficult to wash off.
In the bottle: Dark straw coloured oil. Sweet foody butter, spicy ginger and cardamom, orange, a bit of herbal depth. Warm and golden and good enough to eat.
Wet: Buttery spice, less sweet, but still very foody. Ginger is the strongest; cardamom is faint, and I'm pretty sure there is cinnamon in here, maybe even clove. A toasty hot scent. Orange lighter, but still present; mingled with the spices it makes me think of mulled cider.
Dry/Summary: Strong hot spice. Amazingly, the amber doesn't really go powdery (it's just sort of warm and golden), and the butter fades to mild, barely foody sweetness, but this is just SO spicy-hot with ginger and cinnamon and a wee bit of cardamom, no orange at all. Strong throw, difficult to wash off.