Review of The Bow and Crown of Conquest

[vicki_rae]

The Bow and Crown of Conquest

BPAL Tags: Biblical - Antichrist, Carnation, Haughty, Lavender, Leather, Musk - White, Nobility, Sage, Vanilla, Wood - Cedar

In the vial: Cedar, something faintly sweet, something that's probably leather.

Wet: Cedar, carnations, and yep that's leather. At nose-to-skin distance there's also a little pencil shavings.

30 minutes: Cedar sweetened by carnations and vanilla, and then the leather pops and makes it more complex. Not getting any lavender at all.

Five Hours: Mellow blended cedar/sweet/leather.

Love this and want it. It was a frimp Synecdochic sent me and it was on my wish list because of a comment on a review. I dislike lavender, and generally like leather but had no idea what it would be like in a scent. Never would have wish-listed it without that comment.

The comment described it as Ronan Dex walking in the woods with a few crushed flowers underfoot. That was … a really vivid scent image.

Comments

[synecdochic]

Oh yay, I'm glad you liked this one! I loved it until the vanilla kicked in, sigh. (I'm coming to realize I just can't wear any of BPAL's vanillas; they all turn to plastic fakeness on me.)

I do love it when people have things on their wishlists that I have in the frimps bin. :D

[sine_nomine]

Wow. That sounds remarkable. I may have to try it! Thanks for sharing your impressions!

[lunabee34]

This is one of my favorite BPALs. It smells so good to me. I grew up with a lot of cedar trees on the property, and my dad made many things from the wood: boxes, clocks, chests. Smelling this perfume is like opening one of those boxes.

[sathari]

Ooh, I love Bow and Crown, but sadly seem to be skin-allergic to it, so can only wear it in a scent-locket.

[vicki_rae]

BPAL discontinues things, right?

I might have tried to calculate today how many bottles I should go ahead and order so I never run out. My parents are both in their late 80s, so a 30 year supply would be ... a lot of bottles.