Harvest Moon 2005
BPAL description: The autumnal scents of gladiola, chrysanthemum, aster, dahlia, anemone, bergamot, marigold, sage and verbena dust a blend of wine-soaked apples, plums, and red pears, mulling spices and brown sugar, the ivy leaves of Dionysus and Janus' amaranth and lingum aloe.
Sniffed: Deep golden oil. Complex. Sweet, spicy, boozy. I get lots of fruit, all the listed ones, but especially the apples, plums, and wine. A strong cinnamon note. A bit of sage, but not too harshly, and some ivy. I do get a vague sense of florals but they are very distant and not individually apparent.
Wet: I get the grains and wood now - that amaranth is so nutty - and even though the cinnamon is actually lighter on my skin, this makes me think of potpourri now and it didn't before. Nearly all the fruits have simply vanished, though I can pick out a little pear from the faint remains. Bizarre evolution.
Dry: Amaranth amping, though in part it's just that so much else has evaporated. The cinnamon is returning a bit and I get some other spices though I can't pinpoint them. Where are all the floral notes? The bergamot? The verbena? I get a tiny bit of chrysanthemum, at least, and it's still faintly winey.
Summary: I get a bit more sugar later...but it's not really brown sugar. It does smell crystalline, though, and it's pleasant, though faint like this scent on the whole. Dries down to spicy redhot cinnamon and nutty amaranth potpourri. Low throw and fades quite fast.
Sniffed: Deep golden oil. Complex. Sweet, spicy, boozy. I get lots of fruit, all the listed ones, but especially the apples, plums, and wine. A strong cinnamon note. A bit of sage, but not too harshly, and some ivy. I do get a vague sense of florals but they are very distant and not individually apparent.
Wet: I get the grains and wood now - that amaranth is so nutty - and even though the cinnamon is actually lighter on my skin, this makes me think of potpourri now and it didn't before. Nearly all the fruits have simply vanished, though I can pick out a little pear from the faint remains. Bizarre evolution.
Dry: Amaranth amping, though in part it's just that so much else has evaporated. The cinnamon is returning a bit and I get some other spices though I can't pinpoint them. Where are all the floral notes? The bergamot? The verbena? I get a tiny bit of chrysanthemum, at least, and it's still faintly winey.
Summary: I get a bit more sugar later...but it's not really brown sugar. It does smell crystalline, though, and it's pleasant, though faint like this scent on the whole. Dries down to spicy redhot cinnamon and nutty amaranth potpourri. Low throw and fades quite fast.