Tags
BPAL, church incense, dust, gold, haute macabre, Haute Macabre online exclusive, Incense, lace, old lace, retail exclusive
Scent Name: Mummies of Mexico City
Manufacturer: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – Retail Exclusive: Haute Macabre online exclusive
Scent Description and Notes: “Mummies of Mexico City contains notes of church incense, ornate gold, old lace, and dust. A sacred, secret scent, recalling residual whispers of incense settling into the ancient, forgotten dust.“ – https://hautemacabre.com/products/mummies-of-mexico-city
Bottle Design and Artwork: This is an older standard vial / imp size decanted by Ajevie (1/32 oz). The label wrapped around the bottle has the name of the scent in a larger font with the name of the collection below in a smaller, less stylized font. The back contains the scent names. The label features the year and the company name across the spine in large burgundy and purple font.
Scent:
- ITI: Hmm, this is certainly smooth and golden toned, like distilled floral essence (without pollen’s huskiness) dried over thin sheets of metal akin to copal and vaguely vanilla and ghostly incense-touched lace. This isn’t the rich cognacs of BPAL’s other laces from Dark Delicacies, but something drier and more brittle.
- Wet: Powdered and ashed incense dust with a faint, wistful lace tone, shocked without with a metallic golden tang. It’s soft and the gold certainly adds interest, but I wish the incense were stronger (I do like my high resins, though).
- Dry: Sweet, golden-kissed incense dust over a lacey background lingers on my skin after 11 hours – soft, gauzy, dry, powdery, yet glimmering.
Other Impressions: [Wet] “Beachy powder. It’s like baby powder at the beach.” -Tony
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