The Two-Headed Goat
BPAL description: Dark musk, pimento berry, oakmoss, birch wood, and petitgrain.
In the bottle: Honey coloured. Sharp, masculine, woodsy. Fresh citrusy petitgrain, vegetal-spicy pimento (really intriguing and distinct!). Birch is strong, oakmoss light.
Wet: Softer, almost a little sweet! Spicier, and a bit soapy (I think from the petitgrain). Quite clean and fresh smelling, as opposed to the medicinal astringency of sniffed. Still pretty woodsy and definitely an edge.
Dry: Eep, the pimento definitely amps on my skin and it totally makes me think of olives by associatio. It's quite spicy and has a distinct vegetable note, like bell pepper - with a sort of acrid, pungent edge. Behind it the birch has notes of root beer and oak. Petitgrain and oakmoss are faint.
Later: The birch and oakmoss have amped up, especially the former, which is now on par with faded pimento, making this spicy-woody, hot verging on dry blend, as the birch has gained a papery and mildly cedary feel. Petitgrain has mostly evaporated, and the sweet musk is slowly emerging. Quite a morpher!
Summary: In the final drydown the pimento is mostly just hot and spicy and a bit herbal, and not clearly vegetal. It and the slightly anise-y, drily woody birch dominate, with gentle earthy oakmoss and soft, sweet, sexy musk in the background. Intriguing, masculine woody scent. Low throw, fades considerably.
The blend does come together eventually into something quite pleasant, but I dislike the earlier stages (especially the acridness of the pimento). I also wish the petitgrain stuck around and the birch didn't go so dry. In any case, too masculine for my personal wear.
In the bottle: Honey coloured. Sharp, masculine, woodsy. Fresh citrusy petitgrain, vegetal-spicy pimento (really intriguing and distinct!). Birch is strong, oakmoss light.
Wet: Softer, almost a little sweet! Spicier, and a bit soapy (I think from the petitgrain). Quite clean and fresh smelling, as opposed to the medicinal astringency of sniffed. Still pretty woodsy and definitely an edge.
Dry: Eep, the pimento definitely amps on my skin and it totally makes me think of olives by associatio. It's quite spicy and has a distinct vegetable note, like bell pepper - with a sort of acrid, pungent edge. Behind it the birch has notes of root beer and oak. Petitgrain and oakmoss are faint.
Later: The birch and oakmoss have amped up, especially the former, which is now on par with faded pimento, making this spicy-woody, hot verging on dry blend, as the birch has gained a papery and mildly cedary feel. Petitgrain has mostly evaporated, and the sweet musk is slowly emerging. Quite a morpher!
Summary: In the final drydown the pimento is mostly just hot and spicy and a bit herbal, and not clearly vegetal. It and the slightly anise-y, drily woody birch dominate, with gentle earthy oakmoss and soft, sweet, sexy musk in the background. Intriguing, masculine woody scent. Low throw, fades considerably.
The blend does come together eventually into something quite pleasant, but I dislike the earlier stages (especially the acridness of the pimento). I also wish the petitgrain stuck around and the birch didn't go so dry. In any case, too masculine for my personal wear.