Centerfold

I have never blind bought a fragrance before this one, and I couldn't be more delighted with taking this risk. On initial spray you feel slightly overwhelmed, like you snuck one of your parents boozy chocolate covered cherries and it's too much at first, but then the more you chew (sniff) you start to feel grown enough to handle it. The sexy milk chocolate starts to mellow, and you ride the waxy cherry chapstick vibe for awhile before drying down into something so balanced and mature you forget you're only 17. This one, similar to Banane Au Chocolat by Teddy the Perfumer, has even helped me come around to patchouli. It's an elegant and smooth patchouli, and perfectly rounds out the sweetness of the dessert style opening. Sprayed around 7pm and could still smell it the next morning, but without being cloying or oppressive. Can we get it in 100ml?

I received a sample of this today from small aromas and I could cry. I don’t know why it’s making me emotional? In a good way? It doesn’t smell how I expected it to in the best way possible. For me i am picking up most heavily on the nutty and boozy notes, but the freshness from the cherry really brightens and lifts everything. It smells so nostalgic yet I don’t get anything juvenile from it personally. It is so sexy and unique to me, it feels mature but still playful. Only way I feel I could describe it is it smells like womanhood. I actually really wish I just blind bought a bottle now instead of being careful !! I cant wait till they restock this beautiful scent.

Centerfold smells exactly like its title. It’s the fantasy of being a Playboy centerfold back in the day. Soft focus lighting, satin sheets, almond liqueur in a crystal glass. There’s a decadence here that feels flirtatious but private, like being adored from afar. It opens with a gorgeous, syrupy amaretto — sweet but not juvenile — and melts into something plush and chocolatey. Then, slowly, the woods creep in, grounding it all in a soft, sensual haze. It’s warm, nostalgic, and dreamy. Centerfold is for people who want their scent to invite attention (in a good way). Vintage without being dusty/sweet without being saccharine. Absolutely gorgeous!

Summer 2006. You're lying on your stomach on fluffy beige wall-to-wall carpeting at your Nana's house, reading her tabloids and kicking your feet. You're grabbing tootsie rolls from the glass bowl on her coffee table and freeing them from their thin plasticky papers. You're chewing them slowly and imagining what it's like to be sixteen. The tootsies coat your mouth in a foamy faux-chocolate lacquer. You wash it down with sips of cold Ovaltine. You apply cherry chapstick in between chews. Your mom is giving herself a blow-out in the hallway mirror. She said if you're good she'll take you to the mall.

Centerfold is a sweet but well-balanced chocolate-cherry gourmand that will make you feel unstoppable. Are your legs feeling longer? Hair shinier? Personality suddenly carefree and cool? Sexy enough to be printed and worshipped in a glossy magazine? That's the Centerfold effect: you feel like an it-girl. Photorealistic dark chocolate meets sticky-sweet maraschino cherry that stays grounded and wearable with earthy patchouli, musk, and warm nuts. Just yum.