Hi friends – a quickie today. Cinnamon inspired me to try ELdO Story of Your Life because her review made it sound like something I’d love, and also: so, so weird. Which is funny, because LuckyScent (where I procured my sample) has a whole paragraph devoted to this fragrance that is all about the bliss of mundanity, the quotidian pleasures of the everyday routine, which include waking up and falling back into bed in your lover’s arms with orange flowers and “enveloping caramel” and buttered bread (oof, sounds messy, what about the sheets?) drying down to a delicious skin scent blah blah blahbitty blah you get the picture.
Notes from LuckyScent’s website: Citrus essence, davana, benzoin, laurel, orange blossom, brioche, rum, cocoa, patchouli, vanilla, amber wood, Orcanox (which is a woody / musky / powdery base and not the smell of killer whales, sadface.)
crumbs in the sheets, ugh
Given all that, it’s so weirdly not gourmand at the open that I checked the label a couple of times. I guess it’s the citrus/laurel giving “fancy guy cologne”? A little sharp and fresh, a little bitter.
I said, huh, that’s … odd, and gave it a bit to settle and develop. Then we wander into the kitchen (feeling a bit peckish after a tumble in the hay, I suppose) and into the buttery brioche territory and maybe some hot cocoa? Vanilla, amber … I adore that part which continues well into the drydown, all bready goodness with the sharpness of sourdough, but the window’s open to the terrace and there’s some laurel shrubs out there.
Do I want a bottle? No. Decant? No. I’m not even convinced I like this. Buuuuutttttt I’m now well into my vial of it (Carolyn got one too, or maybe it was a mistake) and I’ve dabbed it on almost every day because it’s so weirdly compelling. Good thing I don’t hate it because it lasts approximately forever on my skin; I can smell it on the back of my hand right now, 24 hours and multiple handwashings later.
Are there any scent samples you’ve used up, trying to decide how you felt about them? Or maybe something you were fairly certain you didn’t even like but couldn’t stop wanting to sniff and repeat the experience? Try explaining that to someone who isn’t mad about fragrance.
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I’m not sure about this one at all. Not that your description isn’t wonderful- it’s explaining it ways that I grasp. But this just seems.. weird. Like one of those dreams you have in the morning when you’ve awakened at 5am and said to yourself “I’m not getting up”. Like your neighbor is cooking breakfast and the smell invades your dream- suddenly you’re in a diner and you smell the toast. But the diner is in the middle of a rose garden by the ocean. And your neighbors car alarm goes off and wakes you before the shirtless cook, who looks like a 1984 Blair Underwood can give you your bacon.
The answer to your two questions at the end is “Yes”. It’s the weirdest thing and unexplainable. I know that there are some that are eluding me, but one I remember is Masque Milano Petra. My first impression was a no, then later a maybe, then later a yes It was a crazy back and forth, back and forth, with long breaks in between and ultimately a no. The most recent one is TF Black Orchid. My first reaction was, so not me, but I kept wearing it and sniffing it and wanting more. (Sounds like drugs.) Guess there’s a me that I don’t know well and yes, I’m getting a bottle.