Lann-Ael Lostmarch

Desirability: Decant

Source: parf.info

This smells like a mishmash of edible delights, none of which would make the Weight Watchers' menu.

Buttered popcorn of the no holds barred type. Real butter in generous amounts oozing over the piping hot popcorn. The mysterious note that was supposed to be present in the pre-reformulation Miss Dior Cherie but which eluded my best attempts to sniff it out. It's here! The food hallucinations shift to pancakes, waffles and french toast dripping with maple syrup and a hefty mound of butter balancing precariously on top. 

I smell breakfast cereal swimming in milk, not the healthy rabbit food lookalikes but more toward the colourful pebbles, you know the kind that's chock full of "nutritional" stuff. The milk smells like full fat milk that's heavy on cream going straight to your hips instead of bones and reminds me of the times I stayed with my sister in London back in the day when deliveries of milk in glass bottles were still widely available. So much more delicious than the stuff served in plastic-paper cartons. 

Lann-Ael. Total Comfort Food. Not just for breakfast. Actually Lann-Ael smells like I mixed Waffle Crisp, Corn Pops and Apple Jacks together.  Add the milk. Turn on the telly and get comfortable. Oh I almost forgot the popcorn for after! 

Snuggle worthy. As in everyone will want to snuggle you. Truly. You could get rich by selling Lann-Ael laced snuggles. 

Dulcis in Fundo Profumum Roma

Dulcis in Fundo literally translates to "the sweets come at the end" but it's used to mean "last but not least". 

With regards to the perfume, the sweets do not come at the end. They are there at first and at last and trust me there's nothing "last" or "least" about this perfume. 

I've ear-marked this, Vanitas, the two ambers, Battito d'Ali and Confetto as possible buys for my NYC trip that's coming up. I'll try to get what I can in their travel spray bottles (20 ml) as the Profumum juices are so strong, you don't need more than a couple of sprays to last you over 24 hours and counting. Their tuberose grand dame Tuberosa almost gave me a headache (my first ever perfume induced one) with just one spray. Not exaggerating here.

Dulcis is actually quite a light scent for me compared to the other Profumum Roma scents that I've sampled. I need about 4 good sprays before I am confident to leave my bottle at home ( I get withdrawals during the day if I can't smell my perfume). I suspect Dulcis in Fundo plays hide and seek with me, as sometimes I get a strong whiff of it and other times I feel like it's gone but then it shows up again. 

So what does it smell like? It smells of sunny days, children scampering about in a playground, lovers embracing on park benches, the tinkle of the ice-cream seller's bell...you walk over and find that they sell crepes and waffles as well as ice-cream cones(the yummy types not the obviously factory made without any passion except making money types). Bundle all that joy, that bright sunshine, the waffle smell and ice-cream...and there you have Dulcis in Fundo.

handmade waffle cones

Yes it is sweet. Yes it is definitely a gourmand. But no, you haven't smelt anything like this before (previous work experiences behind ice-cream counters or in waffle cone making factories excluded of course). Please banish all thoughts of Pink Sugar and the like. Those are for the lack of a better word and I mean no insult (I use PS myself for days that I NEED sugar), "chav" scents that use overwhelming amounts of sugar to hide the lack of anything else. Dulcis in Fundo is a classy scent. It's the quintessential uptown gourmand. I don't smell the citrus note as citrus zest/orange fruit, the citrus and vanilla meld into the scrumptious concoction described above. 

It's quite linear a scent on me, but when one smells like a walking ice-cream cone with a scoop of top-notch vanilla ice-cream, I don't see linear being a problem. Needless to say, the longevity of this is outstanding like all the Profumums I've tried. I highly recommend this to gourmand lovers and even to those who don't usually go for gourmands but crave an uncomplicated, happy scent. 

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