Gelt
BPAL description: Dry cocoa and golden amber!
Sniffed: Light yellow oil. Dusty, sweetened, hot cocoa powder. Like inhaling Swiss Miss - and similarly, a little artificial. :\ There's a bit of bitter undertone, maybe from the cocoa, and a dry, woody, slightly incensey amber note.
Wet: Same, with perhaps more amber than cocoa. it's a little more 'perfumey'. There's definitely a vanilla note in here, sort of a fake one that's slightly creamy. Light, though. This isn't all that foody, although there is a strange nuttiness.
Dry: Slow to dry. Vanilla and amber amping, and...oakmoss? Is that you? The woody note has turned earthy and...I get hazelnut? This is a lot sweeter and more cloying, due the vanilla, and the hazelnut has a sort of rancid tone.
Summary: Dusty hot cocoa mix with cloying fake vanilla, powdery-incensey amber, rancid hazelnut and earthy oakmoss. Really...strange, and not for me. This is sadly not the chocolate note I like in BPAL. Good throw & incredibly longevity (alas).
Sniffed: Light yellow oil. Dusty, sweetened, hot cocoa powder. Like inhaling Swiss Miss - and similarly, a little artificial. :\ There's a bit of bitter undertone, maybe from the cocoa, and a dry, woody, slightly incensey amber note.
Wet: Same, with perhaps more amber than cocoa. it's a little more 'perfumey'. There's definitely a vanilla note in here, sort of a fake one that's slightly creamy. Light, though. This isn't all that foody, although there is a strange nuttiness.
Dry: Slow to dry. Vanilla and amber amping, and...oakmoss? Is that you? The woody note has turned earthy and...I get hazelnut? This is a lot sweeter and more cloying, due the vanilla, and the hazelnut has a sort of rancid tone.
Summary: Dusty hot cocoa mix with cloying fake vanilla, powdery-incensey amber, rancid hazelnut and earthy oakmoss. Really...strange, and not for me. This is sadly not the chocolate note I like in BPAL. Good throw & incredibly longevity (alas).