The Gaoler's Daughter
BPAL description: Gardenia, neroli, and white peach with vanilla amber, cream, and honey.
In the bottle: Colourless oil. Quite sweet, fruity, and floral. The warm and creamy notes hit secondarily, held in check by a spike of neroli. I can smell every note clearly, and it reminds me a bit of Eisheth.
Wet: A bit less sweet, and significantly more floral, almost soapy (gahhhh neroli!). The vanilla is the natural, not cloying sickly sweet sort. The cream note is very light.
Dry: The cream and honey have amped, which is fortunate, because I think I'd find the white peach too sweet and the neroli too soapy-sharp otherwise. The gardenia is just a tad too bright, but bearable, and the amber is warm and soft, but not powdery.
Later: Wow, reminding me a lot of L'Estate as those richer notes take the fore and the neroli fades further. The vanilla and peach are still a bit too sweet, though.
Summary: The amber dominates in the end, becoming just a touch powdery (this sort of merges with the soapy residue left by the neroli), with vanilla, cream, and honey as a rich base below. The gardenia for once softens into a bright but not piercing feminine floral and the peach is syrupy but not sickly.
It's so close to something delicious, but the eventual powder-soap from the amber and neroli make this not quite wearable for me.
In the bottle: Colourless oil. Quite sweet, fruity, and floral. The warm and creamy notes hit secondarily, held in check by a spike of neroli. I can smell every note clearly, and it reminds me a bit of Eisheth.
Wet: A bit less sweet, and significantly more floral, almost soapy (gahhhh neroli!). The vanilla is the natural, not cloying sickly sweet sort. The cream note is very light.
Dry: The cream and honey have amped, which is fortunate, because I think I'd find the white peach too sweet and the neroli too soapy-sharp otherwise. The gardenia is just a tad too bright, but bearable, and the amber is warm and soft, but not powdery.
Later: Wow, reminding me a lot of L'Estate as those richer notes take the fore and the neroli fades further. The vanilla and peach are still a bit too sweet, though.
Summary: The amber dominates in the end, becoming just a touch powdery (this sort of merges with the soapy residue left by the neroli), with vanilla, cream, and honey as a rich base below. The gardenia for once softens into a bright but not piercing feminine floral and the peach is syrupy but not sickly.
It's so close to something delicious, but the eventual powder-soap from the amber and neroli make this not quite wearable for me.