Defututa

it's nice, very sandalwood-forward on my skin. lightly sweet from the honey and vanilla and incensey from the cinnamon. it smells exactly like the hippie import store that used to reside in my local mall before it got remodeled and filled with designer outlet stores instead. very nostalgic.

LAB'S DESCRIPTION "Good Gods, what a night that was, The bed was so soft, and how we clung, Burning together, lying this way and that, Our uncontrollable passions Flowing through our mouths. If I could only die that way, I'd say goodbye to the business of living. Olive blossom, honey, smoky vanilla, cinnamon, jasmine, sandalwood, and champaca flower." YAY!!! An instant love! I love it when this happens. I wasn't sure of this because of the Jasmine but...it behaves very well. This smells absolutely gorgeous on me and I'm loving it as much as it loves me in return. On me this a beatifully soft smoky musky vanilla, the musky side of it is reminiscent of the dry stages of another one of my BPAL OMG loves "Sed Non Satiata". It's cosy and fluffy and so so soft. The Jasmine is there but it's subtle, the Champaca flower is too but again..it's subtle. This reminds me of "Regan" too. The way Regan went so soft on my skin. This is doing the same. The vanilla does die down a bit when it's really really dry but it's still so so musky, and the champaca flower is overtaking the jasmine. (yay). Gosh it's so so nice I love it!! Going on my bottle list. Cinnamon? never would have guessed in a million years there was cinnamon in here. I cannot detect it at all.

On my skin Defututa is gorgeous honey, softly spiced incense, woods, hints of resins, smoke, all brought together by this beautiful, heady, humid, tropical champaca flower with hints of jasmine. The olive blossom rounds it out and gives some smoothness and slight creaminess. It's all well-blended and cohesive but the honey, champaca, and woody incense are the notes that really shine in this blend. Despite it having floral notes, this does not read as a very floral scent to me, because of the woody honeyed incense but the jasmine does peek out some more with time. I would say this is a unisex fragrance but note the honey might be too sweet for some. I used to have a bottle of this one which I honestly now regret re-homing. I might have to purchase another in the future!

This is my favorite daily wear scent. Sunny, lightly honey-sweet, dusty florals, and layers great with another scent when you want to transition to evening (I like it with Sin from BPAL).