Love At Your Darkest

This is a very spicy woody dry scent.. not heavy but more airy. I blind bought this because I love pepper and cedar and I really like this. It’s very simple not complex. It gives you that pencil shaving scent with a hint of spice. So nice for fall. I am a female and I love it but I would imagine this being more for men but it isn’t masculine at all just very woodsy. Very nice. I am very happy with my purchase.

Love At Your Darkest is a beautiful presentation of black pepper. Fresh, spicy pepper shine from the the first second, woodied up with a soft and musky cedar note, possibly the best cedar note I've smelled. The cedar's warmth counters the pepper's freshness beautifully. The olibanum is not overt and it exists to shape the woody spicy facets of the 2 former notes. Fresh spicy, pepper, musky, lightly-woody, clean, and slightly-soapy There is definitely more at play than these 3 notes. There is obvious soft, fuzzy, and soapy-clean white musk here. There is, also, a lightly green and slightly sweet green earthy note, very reminiscent of a minuscule amount of patchouli. Yet, it could be just the combination of cedar wood and olibanum. LAYD (lol) is a beautiful clean, fresh spicy scent with some warmth. Lovers of pepper and cedar wood would surely enjoy this. However, at its exorbitant price, LAYD is just another severely overpriced Gucci product, especially with its very poor sillage. The fragrance LAYD reminds of the most is Versace Pour Homme Oud Noir, but lighter. Also, there is faint resemblance to Issey Miyake Nuit d'Issey, Tom Ford Oud Wood (the cedar wood), and Davidoff Hot Water Night & Amouage Journey Man (the pepper). Unisex leans masculine, mild-to-cool weather wear. Very "Likeable" but the price is a repellent, and the performance doesn't help.

This smells really beautiful. It’s a whisper of a perfume. It’s so intimate and fleeting and expensive though that I cannot imagine purchasing more than the sample size I have. It’s unfortunate, if there was more than an hour longevity, I would consider it, because even though it’s intimate sillage, if it were too strong I don’t think I would appreciate it as much as I do. Anyway, it’s warm and spicy and resinous. It’s a very straightforward perfume, but smells expensive. As this is from the Alchemist’s Garden line, and I have several samples, I’m going to play around with layering this one and hope that I can create something beautiful, as also happens when you layer The Voice of the Snake and The Eyes of the Tiger. ETA: so I layered this with Tears for the Moon and damn, they are great together. I’m starting to really like the intimacy of these perfumes. They are special, for you only, or anyone special enough to get up close to you. These 2 together just made my skin smell so clean and beautiful. It still didn’t last long, but I really enjoyed it while it lasted.

The name and description suggest darkness, but it's a dry, astringently peppery, light wearing fragrance. Sheer, almost transparent black pepper opening, linear dry down and base of elemi and cedar. Not a chemical, "cologne" or "perfume" smell, but one of true and natural cedarwood. Simple and straight forward, but very high quality. An awesome minimalist woody fragrance or one that would be great for layering. This does not project, but it does last. It is an intimate skin scent for several hours.

Longevity and projection leave much to be desired but a very beautiful scent that is quite similar to TF Oud Wood as other reviewers have pointed out, but Gucci's rendition is a lot more light, airy, and delicate. The bottle is beautiful but would highly recommend purchasing this on a sale as it's not worth triple figures... A reasonably safe blind buy for woody lovers!