Desirability: Adoption by a more appreciative nose
Straight up I smell alcohol swabs...a bitter and stinging combination of grass or leaves and galbanum. Very green and mineral, almost unbearably so, thankfully relief comes in the form of a sweet herbal accord reminiscent of The Body Shop's Tea Tree oil concentrate. Tobacco isn't listed but I smell that, not the listed white tobacco note which coincidentally, does not smell like tobacco, but supposedly more like jasmine. However I smell nothing floral here.
With time it progresses into smoother, smoky wood and sweet tobacco scent and loses its discomfiting opening. It's as if someone twiddled the knob on the light dimmer and lowered it from blinding white to a soft yellow glow.
Tilda Swinton
After a week of wearing and testing mostly Orientals and gourmands, this opens up a whole different realm of scent. It's nicely queer and unique but I feel unsettled wearing this. I think it's more masculine although I can imagine a female boss wearing this. Or an androgynous female like Tilda Swinton would carry this well.
It stays rather soft on me but lasts quite a while, about 5 hours as of now.
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