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10/18/2020
BrianBuchanan
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BrianBuchanan
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Miss Carbonita
After trying it on paper, wearing Miss H was a big surprise.
On paper, a note of milky peach - backed by a ylang ylang bouquet - is very prominent. It doesn't tie in with the chypre base, and weird notes like cardboard and oily biscuit find their way through.
But on skin, an acid fruitiness tarts up the peach and the base notes coalesce into a roasted spicy-woodiness, which may have been unintended (this is a dark and part-used sample, clearly a vintage specimen) but the effect is as welcome as it's unexpected.
I have to say I find the milky peach a bit sickly, and it strikes me as a blatant hook, but when Miss Habanita is worn - and the peach note blends with the mix - it becomes a bit more palatable. The drydown is peachy iris with moss and biscuity musk, the interesting burnt notes having faded away.
As a peachy chypre this isn't going to win any awards for originality (Mitsouko 1919) but it goes it's own way and makes a fairly decent job of it (sickly peach or no).
3*-
Vintage carded sample
On paper, a note of milky peach - backed by a ylang ylang bouquet - is very prominent. It doesn't tie in with the chypre base, and weird notes like cardboard and oily biscuit find their way through.
But on skin, an acid fruitiness tarts up the peach and the base notes coalesce into a roasted spicy-woodiness, which may have been unintended (this is a dark and part-used sample, clearly a vintage specimen) but the effect is as welcome as it's unexpected.
I have to say I find the milky peach a bit sickly, and it strikes me as a blatant hook, but when Miss Habanita is worn - and the peach note blends with the mix - it becomes a bit more palatable. The drydown is peachy iris with moss and biscuity musk, the interesting burnt notes having faded away.
As a peachy chypre this isn't going to win any awards for originality (Mitsouko 1919) but it goes it's own way and makes a fairly decent job of it (sickly peach or no).
3*-
Vintage carded sample
