04/04/2012
Sherapop
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A Beautiful Rose-Ambergris (really) Perfume
Well, there's definitely more going on with Boadicea the Victorious NOBLE than amber and rose (the notes listed at another website), especially at the opening, when both dark (a smidgeon of oakmoss, perhaps?) and citrus (probably bergamot, as indicated above) elements circulate about before making way for the focal notes, yes, rose and ambergris.
According to the BtV website, this is real, as they put it, "costly" ambergris, which I am taking on faith means that it actually was excreted from the intestines of a sperm whale. So this is it: real ambergris, at last.
Once the opening notes have cleared out, the rose-ambergris combination is very pleasing, smooth, sophisticated, perhaps even NOBLE. I like it a lot, especially as the amber melts into my skin, melding with the rose. Good longevity and medium sillage. Not a revolutionary creation, but certainly a fine one.
According to the BtV website, this is real, as they put it, "costly" ambergris, which I am taking on faith means that it actually was excreted from the intestines of a sperm whale. So this is it: real ambergris, at last.
Once the opening notes have cleared out, the rose-ambergris combination is very pleasing, smooth, sophisticated, perhaps even NOBLE. I like it a lot, especially as the amber melts into my skin, melding with the rose. Good longevity and medium sillage. Not a revolutionary creation, but certainly a fine one.
