Holding Back the Night: Kusunoki Tamonmaru Surprising a Fox Ghost
Deep blue musk, olibanum, passion flower, galbanum, immortelle, and sweet myrrh.
In decant: sweet and musky. It's almost citrusy, but not quite. It's a very oriental kind of floral, sweet and tart. Interesting.
Wet on skin: this is a very complex blend! I like it. Musky. Sweet and floral, sometimes fruity, sometimes almost citrusy. I can get faint whiffs of the myrrh at the end, but it's not strong and doesn't overpower the pretty florals.
Dry: the musk is amping up. I've never smelled blue musk, so I'm a little unsure about what note it is, but it's an interesting blue-ish note. I don't exactly know what I feel about this blend--it's a very different, unique scent. Some whiffs make me think of wood varnish, however--and this kind of keeps amping up, so that after a good while the scent is just plain incense and resins to my nose. A bit sad at that, I liked the florals here.
Verdict: definitely a blend that needs to be aged, and I will have to do that and come back to this. The florals were very interesting when I was able to catch them, and while I'm not instantly in love with those florals, I'm very curious how they will behave aged, and if the varnishy note mellows down.
In decant: sweet and musky. It's almost citrusy, but not quite. It's a very oriental kind of floral, sweet and tart. Interesting.
Wet on skin: this is a very complex blend! I like it. Musky. Sweet and floral, sometimes fruity, sometimes almost citrusy. I can get faint whiffs of the myrrh at the end, but it's not strong and doesn't overpower the pretty florals.
Dry: the musk is amping up. I've never smelled blue musk, so I'm a little unsure about what note it is, but it's an interesting blue-ish note. I don't exactly know what I feel about this blend--it's a very different, unique scent. Some whiffs make me think of wood varnish, however--and this kind of keeps amping up, so that after a good while the scent is just plain incense and resins to my nose. A bit sad at that, I liked the florals here.
Verdict: definitely a blend that needs to be aged, and I will have to do that and come back to this. The florals were very interesting when I was able to catch them, and while I'm not instantly in love with those florals, I'm very curious how they will behave aged, and if the varnishy note mellows down.