Love transcending time, space, and death: a cold, sheer white musk gleaming with black orchid, benzoin, labdanum, and blackened amber, and embraced by white rose, tea leaf, and vanilla flower.

In bottle: I really like the bottle scent. It's a delicate, sweet white floral, very well blended. Soft, comforting, if a bit cool. And dare I say it, also ( Read more... )

White sandalwood, bergamot, white musk, and ambergris.

In bottle: creamy lemon. Not quite foody, but there is a hint of that. So lovely!

Wet on skin: the musk comes out very nicely, kind of easing out and softening the bergamot a bit more, and making it less foody-lemon in feel. The white musk is the powdery sort, without the oily note that some ( Read more... )

A celestial hymn, singing to Earth from fifty light years away: ten billion-trillion-trillion-carats of glittering white musk, with cognac, tagetes, white champaca, Gum Arabic, and davana.

In bottle: this is a super white blend for me -- one sniff without looking up the notes (it's been a while) and I knew there was white musk. I can get the cognac ( Read more... )

Our interpretation of Dolce Stil Nuovo is a blend of rose otto, carnation, vanilla flower, lavender and jasmine with the clarity of crystalline white musk and the warmth of golden amber.

In the vial: rose otto, spicy canation, and sharp lavender. A rather classic-feeling floral.

Wet on skin: the first whiff is sharp lavender, followed quickly by ( Read more... )

Fresh white musk, honeycomb, sweet apricot, elemi, orange blossom, and mischievous pink pepper.

In bottle: honey, apricot, and pink pepper. And an almost candyish orange blossom; and one month on, sniffing this from the bottle again, I'm struck immediately by that candyish orange blossom note. This is kind of like a sister to PL176's orange ( Read more... )

Innocently indecisive: white musk, banana, orange blossom honey, pineapple, and mint.

In decant: whoa~ banana and pineapple! Actually, the pineapple is definitely more front and center. Sweet, and like this particular candy I remember I used to have when I was a kid, a pineapple-orange candy.

Wet on skin: err...something is going quickly to ( Read more... )

Shimmering white amber, voluminous vanilla, white musk, zdravetz, and summer flowers.

In bottle: oh, this is quite nice. I'm getting vanilla and amber and musk, well blended together and providing a beautiful, rich backdrop for the light florals and a spicy geranium. The tone is quite "present" but not cloying.

Wet on skin: there is an almost ( Read more... )

Purple sage and oakmoss with black and white musks.

In decant: sage, oakmoss, and musks. Definitely masculine, but there's an unexpected sweetness here.

Wet on skin: a simple, almost straightforward blend, but definitely lovely. Slightly understated herbs and lovely musks, and inching away from "masculine" and move more into "gender neutral" ( Read more... )

Ethereal lilac fougere and gleaming leather with ti leaf, tonka absolute, white musk, and oudh.

In decant: oh yes~ this is absolutely lovely. Dorian (that is, lovely sweet creamy tea), but less sweet and foody, and a very present leather. Definitely more masculine, but relatively gender neutral, just hinting on the masculine side.

Wet on skin: ( Read more... )

Orchid, white musk, and bergamot wafting over juniper berries, with a gentle touch of soft, earthy patchouli.

In imp: clean, light, and gender neutral, although leaning towards the masculine side. Mostly well-balanced notes, but I think the bergamot edges out a little bit more than the rest (but not enough to be bergamot-heavy).

Wet on skin: ( Read more... )