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almond, BPAL, cardamom, coconut, coconut shavings, cream, hinoki, jasmine, jasmine cream, limited edition, lupercalia, Lupercalia 2024, Lupers 2024, milk, Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements, Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements 2024, rice, rice milk, Shunga, Shunga 2024, ti leaf, white almond
Scent Name: Courtesans Relaxing
Manufacturer: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – Lupercalia 2024: Shunga – Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements 2024
Scent Description and Notes: “Rice milk, cardamom, coconut shavings, hinoki, white almond, ti leaf, and jasmine cream.” -https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-2024/courtesans-relaxing-perfume-oil/
Oil Color: Colorless.
Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a standard vial / imp size (1/32 oz) that has been decanted from Ajevie. The label features the year and the scent name in stylized large black font with the perfume company name in a more normal and smaller black font underneath it. The back of the label has the scent notes in small black font, while the spine of the label features the name of the company and year in burgundy and red font.
Scent:
- ITI: It smells like rice milk candied almonds drizzled with Pepto Bismol. I’m not sure what is going on here, but I hope it performs better on the skin.
- Wet: The Pepto Biosmol tone isn’t quite as front and center on the skin, thankfully, under the almond and cardamom. Ti leaf drifts just under those tones with its green spiced vanilla tone, tinted with rice milk. I was hoping this would be more rice milk and cardamom, but almond seems to be the strongest note so far.
- Dry: Coconut cardamom over a gorgeous floral lotion of almandine jasmine (and what sort of smells like violets) smoothed with rice milk and a touch of it leaf. It’s quite pretty and has a decent amount of sillage initially. At the 4 hour mark, the notes are still clear and I can still smell the scent coming from my skin at about the 1″ mark.
Other Impressions: [Wet] “Berry marzipan. Red currant marzipan, actually.” -Tony
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