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vicki_rae ([personal profile] vicki_rae) wrote in [community profile] smellsgood2014-08-22 08:49 pm

Review of The Bow and Crown of Conquest

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.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2014-08-23 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
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.