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By coincidence I seemed to pick woody scents today. This one I grabbed at my local Rituals store while planning to buy something totally different.

There are more ingredients here than the artist is willing to unveil. This seems to be a trend now, let them guess. But when a wood scent for the fair ladies is made as beautiful as this one I don’t need to know what else is playing along.

It starts with a soft cedar. That’s good. Very often the nose is being prepared for something else with little flowers or with fruit then turning into a totally different direction. Here it’s being said right away what is meant.
The surprise arrives after about 30 minutes. Now the scent turns to flowers, sharp flowers with a little prickly note in the background. That is a nice thing. With the warm woody note underneath we have a nice change in development. This prickly note stays for a while and fades considerately to let a soft, light patchouli come forward.

Patchouli and light? Yes, that’s possible. It’s almost powdery but then again not quite. It is soft, not like cottonballs, more like a fat soft corduroy…..in a muddy colour. Nothing dirty here, like patchouli sometimes prefers to appear. This is a clean scent, not faltering in intensity which seems on the contrary to gain strength the longer it stays on the skin. Starting of light and fluffy, if you could call a woody scent fluffy, it glides into this prickly flowery note ending as a great cuddle scent.

Today I was lucky with my wood-scent tests. I like that.

We do have a Rituals store in our town for a while now. You pass by it without really noticing but I needed a few more presents for Christmas and spotted the multipacks shower-mousse and bodylotions, so in I went.

All the way in a little corner stood scents!! Of course you have to test those.

And this little treasure No. 6 has two of my favourite ingredients: bergamot and vetiver. Bliss!! And that’s exactly how this scent is: bergamoty-vetivery. But mixed beautifully and harmonically. Not to heavy and yet present. Scents for men lke to have vetiver in them, the ladies scents act a little shy here. But this one is thanks to a naturality so smooth that we girls can wear it very well. For those who like fresh-green scents, chypre scents, will like this one.

Rituals points out the natural ingredients which I could confirm considering the light fleetingness of the scent. Nothing irritates the nose.

Should you pass by a Rituals store, change your direction through the entrance and let yourself be enchanted by the olfactory impressions there. The shower-mouse varieties are a hit by the way.

Thank you Murcielago for the sample.
That’s not for me.
It starts warm-powdery with a light, fresh touch. But right from the start synthetic notes swing along. My nose turns outside-in automatically.
The longer the scent stays on my skin the more extreme it gets. Not really pushy, but persistent.
I can smell the American preference for strong synthetic scents. The urban way. At the country side it might be different. No hard feelings here, please, but tastes across the world are very different.
The little apples from dear old Donnas orchard are better.

The apple flasks are very nice, are smooth in the hand and caress the eye.
The scent Delicious Night comes along sweet-fruity but turns to warm and sexy immediately.
Well-done mixture. With jasmine, amber, myrrh and frankincense you’re bound to have a homerun. Seduction with an apple – somehow that’s known already!

or something like that. I was very curious what to expect there. And… was positively surprised. A very clean little apple jumped at me. The flowers complete the whole thing very nicely, are of no much consequence. The apple note carries on and stays quitew ell. Way at the end, about 5 hours later, what remains are woody notes with a fruity background. Dazzling green, like the flask, it could be worn in autumn for a change as well.