Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab: Dorian (fragrance)

martygreene · 08-26-2005, 05:53 PM #1 (**permalink**)

Overall Rating: 5
Price [Value]: 3
Packaging Quality: 3
Would you buy this product again? Yes

General Comments on this product:

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Inspired by and created for my beloved Tedwin: my eternal, beautiful, wicked Dorian Gray. Refined, elegant, and lovely, with a noble bearing and seemingly gentle air. This blend is an artful deception: a sweet gilded blossom lying over a twisted and corrupted core. A Victorian fougere with three pale musks and dark, sugared vanilla tea.

I don't get any lemon from this, but that's ok by me.

It's a warm vanilla-bean smell... reminds me of when my father would make vanilla sugar by cutting open a lot of whole vanilla beans and putting them in jars filled with high quality white sugar. It smelled so good.

A bit milky, I just barely get the tea aspect, it could be a bit stronger but this will do. It's almost the smell of a tin of black vanilla tea.

Definately a sibling scent to Dana O'Shee, and definately a "skin" scent.

Not a gender neutral scent in my mind, too sweet and vanilla-y for that.

EDITED TO ADD: After wearing this for 3 days in a row, I just NOW got the musk- and it's definitely reminiscent to the white musk of the 80's. It comes and goes, so I don't mind it terribly. I wonder if it's the insane humidty pulling that bit out? Also forgot to mention that this is after the imp had aged for several months, although not away from light, so that may have effected the scent as well.