Tags
act iv, Act IV: The Interlude, berry, bitter clove, blackberry, blackberry leaf, blood, blood accord, BPAL, carnaval diabolique, Carnaval Diabolique: Act IV, Carnaval Diabolique: Act IV The Interlude, clove, currant, English ivy, ginger, ginger lily, grape, ivy, Leather, lily, oak, red currant, Tempranillo grape, The Interlude
Scent Name: The Blood Garden
Manufacturer: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – Carnaval Diabolique, Act IV: The Interlude
Scent Description and Notes: “Vast open tents have been erected further down the lane. Ornately carved wooden poles support swaths of drooping black lace and blood-crusted burgundy velvet. Grapevines and ivy creep over the beams in the tent and curl like cocoons around bodies that hang upside-down in the caliginous gloom of the tents. Within the shadows, pale figures recline on divans covered in moldering, frayed fabric. As you pass, a feral, white-haired man hoists a tall-stemmed crystal glass of deep red liquid in a toast to you.
Blood accord, bitter clove, English ivy, Tempranillo grape, red currant, oak, leather, blackberry leaf, and ginger lily.“ – https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/carnaval-diabolique/carnaval-diabolique-2015/the-blood-garden/
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. The bottle art on the website is as follows:
Scent:
- ITI: Upon opening the imp, I pick up a medical, almost honeyed grape wine tone flashed with cool currant and speckled traces of blood-tone resin. It’s a lot of grape, though. I’m not sure about that grape note because it reminds me a little bit of Dimetapp.
- Wet: The blackberry leaf floats alongside the sweet grape on the skin, yet both seem shadowed in deeper tones of blood, resin, and slight skin-warmed leather accented with distant ginger lilies. I’m noticing as this starts to sit that the floral tones move forward, ginger lily in particular, sweetened by currants, blackberry leaf (not green at all), and a softer clove-kissed grape, rounded subtly with oak. I was actually expecting bitter notes from the English ivy, but they are nowhere in sight!
- Dry: After nearly 2 hours, I’m really quite taken with the blend of lightly powdery, russet dragon’s blood sweetened with slightly tart black currants and now much softer grape juice tones and just a glimmer of leather.
Other Impressions: “BubbleYum – grape. Very grape-y, but almost bubblegum-y with vanilla.” -Tony