Lady Luck Blues
BPAL description: Honeyed Bulgarian rose, vanilla flower, benzoin, tonka, black plum, peony, and iris.
In the bottle: Very pale gold oil. Sweet and floral. Rose! Honey! Delicately sweet vanilla flower, a bit of resiny benzoin and a bite of powdery iris.
Wet: More herbal, less sweet. Rose really the strongest, vanilla flower is lovely too though - both extremely refined and feminine. The benzoin really grounds this. I'm not getting any tonka or plum, and the iris is so far faint enough to be tolerable. Sadly, the peony is also faint.
Dry: Really not morphing much! The honeyed rose here reminds me of Kali, and the vanilla flower of Harikata...but it's gotten a bit sweeter, perhaps TOO sweet, and the rose is a bully as often on my skin. That iris nags away in the background, like an unpleasant hangnail.
Later: It's still very sweet and rosy but going a bit powdery - the damned iris, I presume. However, I think the plum has finally emerged - it's super ripe and deep and sweet. And peony has blossomed a bit more.
Summary: Very sweet, slightly powdery, herbal-resiny and fruity floral. In order of potency, rose and honey first, then vanilla flower and benzoin, then delicate peony and rich sticky plum, and lastly some powdery iris. I never get any distinct tonka. Good throw and lasting power.
Quite nice, but a bit too sweet, and I have other blends with these notes I prefer.
In the bottle: Very pale gold oil. Sweet and floral. Rose! Honey! Delicately sweet vanilla flower, a bit of resiny benzoin and a bite of powdery iris.
Wet: More herbal, less sweet. Rose really the strongest, vanilla flower is lovely too though - both extremely refined and feminine. The benzoin really grounds this. I'm not getting any tonka or plum, and the iris is so far faint enough to be tolerable. Sadly, the peony is also faint.
Dry: Really not morphing much! The honeyed rose here reminds me of Kali, and the vanilla flower of Harikata...but it's gotten a bit sweeter, perhaps TOO sweet, and the rose is a bully as often on my skin. That iris nags away in the background, like an unpleasant hangnail.
Later: It's still very sweet and rosy but going a bit powdery - the damned iris, I presume. However, I think the plum has finally emerged - it's super ripe and deep and sweet. And peony has blossomed a bit more.
Summary: Very sweet, slightly powdery, herbal-resiny and fruity floral. In order of potency, rose and honey first, then vanilla flower and benzoin, then delicate peony and rich sticky plum, and lastly some powdery iris. I never get any distinct tonka. Good throw and lasting power.
Quite nice, but a bit too sweet, and I have other blends with these notes I prefer.