Spice coffee on a desert planet. Sandalwood, vanilla, black storax, cinnamon, nutmeg, coffee, almond and white sage.
Gourmand, Sweet, Spicy
Isopropyl Myristate, Parfum, Hexyl Cinnamic Aldehyde, Benzyl Benzoate, Eugenol, Coumarin, Linalool, Cinnamal, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Citronellol, Lilial, Cinnamic Alcohol, Alpha Iso Methyl Ionone, Benzyl Cinnamate, Amyl Cinnamic Aldehyde.
I am an absolute lover of gourmands, I just want to smell edible all the time- and I have found the perfect perfume oil to layer with everything.
Firstly, this on its own is beautiful, I really really love coffee scents and I think this one does an amazing job of not smelling like certain coffee scents which almost have a bitter/filter coffee watered quality. This one I'd say smells very warm, probably attributed to those spicy notes.
It's just yummy, definitely more of a scent in the colder months for most people, I think because it does have that element of cinnamon/nutmeg/almond coffee. It's a lovely warm and comforting fragrance which is right up my gourmand-loving alley.
In summer I've been layering it with the sol de Janeiro bum bum cream underneath, which I think just brings an element of pistachio/salted caramel/vanilla, in a lighter way that works with the more nutty notes in this oil too. Layering it changes the image it evokes from a desert with a coffee to a solitude beach-y coffee almost.
Also, that black storax is beautiful! Never smelled it before this but it adds so much depth to this fragrance.
Heavy on the spices with a bit of coffee bitterness underneath. Very cosy for the colder months, and I don't think I'll be giving it up for spring either!
