Melancolia

Fragrance Review For Melancolia Les Liquides Imaginaires Top Notes Mint Bergamot Orange Middle Notes Ginger Laurel Base Notes Musk Woods Lo! Tis gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly— Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama—oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out—out are the lights—out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm - Edgar Allan Poe To me this fragrance, classified as a unisex woody spicy scent, is autumnal and a perfect start to my Halloween festivities. This is indeed a melancholy scent, brooding, Gothic, intellectual, but more on the feminine side. Such a surprise because it isn't stereotypically feminine in its notes. he is a woman straight out of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination, a sickly beauty, pale, dark hair, barely alive. She is dying of a broken heart. She is never seen during the day and she is excused as being consumptive and ill, bed-ridden and a prisoner of her own estate, a decaying mansion. This is also evocative of Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens Great Expectations. She has an old wedding dress always in sight in her closet and cannot get over how she was abandoned at the altar. There is also something of a funeral parlor air to it. Now you'd think that such a scent is ugly or won't smell good but it smells very pleasant. It lacks floral notes but it smells feminine, like a woman's skin. This smells like a pale hand on your shoulder. There is a fresh cool bergamot orange opening with a mint that smells like medicine or a medicine cabinet. She is taking a vial she needs to get through her every day in her depression and gloom. There is also a sweet ginger and spice. But for whatever reason it never gets too spicy. It delves deep into the musk scent and the laurel leaves. The result is a masculine dry down, even after the feminine heart of ginger goodness. The dry down is musk with a bite. Smells like an animal has begun to devour you. That snake in the packaging is true to the scent smells like snake skin. This fragrance is bitter, aromatic, medicinal, Gothic, and mysterious. The fragrance can be worn as a Halloween party perfume. Unfotunately it's an indie niche fragrance that one has to have bought when it first came out about 2 years ago and through their website. This blew me away. I love Halloween and love to create the mood with perfume. This one, Magie Noire and De Profundis are my top Halloween scents. A fragrance to wear if you're in the theater, an actor or actress portraying Hamlet or Macbeth, a Gothic fragrance to wear with black attire. Smells best in autumn and winter. Moody, nocturnal, melancholic, beautiful.

This is a weird and interesting one. I’ve never tried such a green, minty, and gingerly scent. It’s so green and that ginger note is strong but not “choke-you-out” strong. I would even say it’s a ginger forward fragrance that I can’t stop smelling. So different and refreshing. Not full bottle worthy for me, but I wouldn’t mind a 10ml decant that’s always in my collection.

Smells just like a fresh Mojito. I can definitely imagine it being worn in summer.