Krystall

would be the perfect song accompanying the way this smells on me. I get the hazy cigarettes and jasmine part, the Greta Garbo inspiration more than a masculine scent experience (The way this smells on my skin it could not have worked on a man), but surrounded by it is an amusement park- the tonka bean plays it up I guess, being quite prominent on me. A discrete smell of machinery (Making my mind drift to carousels :)) and those almost ridiculously over-sized lollipops with swirls of bright color. Quite sweet. Quite familiar. It's been a while since I visited, but i bet Tivoli in Copenhagen smells just like this.

... and a narrow road laid in wet stone, leading away from the cathedral just visited, incense and ash still lingering in the air. White lilys blooming late. I don't think this is a scent that will encourage females to charm men. I am on my own.

On a rainy day, when the world around me is asleep and I am by my own on a high balcony, my mind spins with this accomplice. All else is still. I see and get things I wasn't able too last night. Passage d'Enfer suits it's name, powerful and mighty, but not strong. It is translucent and delicate, but dark as only a passage to "Enfer" can be.

I can NOT figure this out. I fell completely in love the first time i sniffed it, it was liquid Christmas, oranges (LUSH says it's mandarin- I don't know why it says apricot up here, it does not smell apricot to me) and spices, everything a bit musky. Almost edible, but not quite- it was a deep, comforting scent and I went for the larger atomizer as a compliment to the solid stick I already owned.

But as the days passed I suddenly got aware of the animalic leathery note that is labdanum. Intense, cloying labdanum, sometimes repulsing because of the strongness of the scent (LUSH perfumes has a high content of oils, which I believe is the reason for the scents acting more like parfum than edP, although LUSH doesn't say anything about this). The mandarin note is lying quiet beneath, but the labdanum wall is blocking it from coming up and out.

When it's the right kind of day I love it. When it rains, I tend to love it. When I'm sick I want it as far away as possible- this little fellow almost seeps through his bottle and scents the room!