Post Tenebras Lux

This is a really subtle skin close scent, but it does last on the skin for a good while! It is really well blended in my opinion. It starts off with a really unusual head note, that kind of reminded me of the smell of latex clothing a little bit, which I do not mean in a bad way. It does not smell plastic, it is just a really subtle sweet note. After about an hour it reminded me more of stepping into a sauna before heating it up, with some remnants of previous runs still in the air, with a hint of essential oils, steam and skin scent. I really love this one. It's not for someone who is looking for a crazy sillage though. It's skin close with skin accords and I really enjoy this!

My opinion of Antoine Lie's creations is sometimes a little divided, but in this case, hat's off to him. To my knowledge, the smell of mistletoe in perfumery is extremely rare. And here, I've got the whole image: the vegetal, wet, woody side, the mistletoe knot at the top of a tree after the rain; at the same time as the little berries, currant-like, that you can imagine as acidic, spicy... It's woody, a magnificent green, a vegetal fragrance like I've rarely seen in the perfume world. An almost scratch-and-sniff scent, particularly photorealistic, clearly one of those perfumes of which I hope the perfumer is very very proud off. I love it, I love it, I love it.

Edited 09/2025: "Mist" is listed as an official note in PTL, and its woody and herbal aspects do appear as though we're seeing them through a haze. The skin accord allows the perfume to feel both intimate and remote, a beautiful shifting presence. Sadly, I was told it makes me smell "clean and old" and "like my grandpa," so I will leave its wear to luckier people than me.

The name for this perfume is so appropriate. Conceptually light, period. There's no amber or aggressive wood notes to detract from the freshness of this fragrance. It's aromatic but not really a green fragrance; it reminds you of a dewey misty day but definitely not aquatic. It's hard to describe but you can breathe in the light. Love !

This is clean and woodsy; water evaporating from a freshly cut birch log in the forest comes to mind. The skin note is a clean musky one and gives the perfume depth and warmth, it is a newly showered skin scent and it all feels very natural. An interesting and well blended perfume, not like any other I have smelled, and I love it!