Metamorphosis 2011: Mourning Cloak
Opoponax, kumaru, cocoa butter, Mysore sandalwood, verbena, almond milk, guiac wood, beeswax, and myrrh.
In decant: uh...dark spices. Very resiny, but with verbena to add a bright (almost too bright) note to it.
Wet on skin: surprisingly creamy; I wasn't expecting that. I suppose that's the beeswax? The strongest notes are verbena and vague woody resins. I can also get a faint whiff of that cocoa, I think. It's interesting, and at this stage I like it. The verbena is not nearly as strong here as it was in the decant, but it's still very present and is the most noticeable note. Drying, a dustiness is coming out, I'm not sure where it's coming from.
Dry: well, oddly, for such a strong, almost discordant note in this blend--the verbena seems to have all but disappeared. It's left behind...I don't know. Beeswax, with a ghost of resins, not quite there. Dry, this is neither light nor dark to me, kind of hovering in between and being somewhat wishy-washy about it. I'm having a lot of difficulty catching any of the notes dry. It's also gone powdery on me, versus the somewhat-in-control dustiness of the wet stage.
Verdict: nope, definitely not for me.
In decant: uh...dark spices. Very resiny, but with verbena to add a bright (almost too bright) note to it.
Wet on skin: surprisingly creamy; I wasn't expecting that. I suppose that's the beeswax? The strongest notes are verbena and vague woody resins. I can also get a faint whiff of that cocoa, I think. It's interesting, and at this stage I like it. The verbena is not nearly as strong here as it was in the decant, but it's still very present and is the most noticeable note. Drying, a dustiness is coming out, I'm not sure where it's coming from.
Dry: well, oddly, for such a strong, almost discordant note in this blend--the verbena seems to have all but disappeared. It's left behind...I don't know. Beeswax, with a ghost of resins, not quite there. Dry, this is neither light nor dark to me, kind of hovering in between and being somewhat wishy-washy about it. I'm having a lot of difficulty catching any of the notes dry. It's also gone powdery on me, versus the somewhat-in-control dustiness of the wet stage.
Verdict: nope, definitely not for me.