1000 Kisses

The opening of 1000 Kisses Deep is wonderful but strange. There is a slightly weird note in there which could for some people tip over into repellent. It's a fine line. Lush loves to tease us like this - is it nice or is it nasty? I really like it though. Fizzy orange and juicy apricot, but not overly sweet or sticky. As joyful and exuberant as fruit notes can be. There's also a slightly retro feel, perhaps from the richness of the resin and labdanum. On first sniff I thought of chypres of yore, but only fleetingly. Romantic but not immature. Nothing like the berry, pear and praline inflected gourmands on the market today. 1000 Kisses Deep combines simplicity with a touch of old-world glamour. I can't think of anything quite like it. Very much worth your skin time. Rather linear though. That's my only criticism. Lasts well on my skin but the sillage is light. Edit: I'm enjoying this more and more. The juiciness of the opening lingers for ages but it is not like, for instance, Atelier's Orange Sanguine, which is beautiful but essentially baseless, all sunshine and oranges and nothing else. Here, there is a perpetual reminder that where there is light there is also darkness. I like to pretend I'm wearing one of those really old, romantic but inky-hearted fragrances from Patou or Caron.

Review for the liquid perfume: As with all Lush fragrances, this one is a weird one. The initial blast is a soapy-sweet orange. There's a rather odd note in it, a note that I can't quite pinpoint. Neither pleasant nor vile, but quite unsettling. Then 1000 Kisses Deep dries down to something I can only describe as golden Coca-Cola. It has the same happy, joyful, dark fizz with big synthetic scents and flavours. But fruitier and even more happy. A bit more natural as well. I think of it as a cross between a big cold glass of iced tea (not the lipton kind, but homemade tea) and a glass of Coca-Cola. Smelling this perfume was a very special experience. Never before had I enjoyed the olfactory equivalent of such a physical phenomenon as the bubbles in coke. The sheer happiness in this perfume made me long for spring and summer.

Opens with Long Island iced tea Dries down into Negroni (so it’s a love for me) Now you can also call it 1000 Kisses after cocktails. Delicious!! Unpopular opinion: I do not perceive it to be a complex fragrance. It just has depth, vibration (booziness), and remarkable transformations through phases: from aromatic, spicy, lemony, apricotty osmanthus to resinous lemony soft myrrh and labdanum. Despite its heavier base surfacing, the scent remains sheer and fresh. I do not get incense or leather nuance. This earthy spicy caraway, which is present throughout the longevity, mixed with the oriental/ambery quality and some sparkling citrusy orangy fruits also do remind me of Coco Chanel EDT....which I love. Thank goodness the mandarin is not too strong in this one.

this scent is the only thing i’ve ever encountered that warrants a leonard-cohen-inspired namesake. it’s mesmerizing. it’s a jammy apricot and mandarin on top with smooth, resinous, ambery myrrh under it. even with a fairly accurate description, you cannot understand how this smells without spraying it and smelling it on your skin. it’s sexy, vibrant, and inviting. as far as “scent as art” goes, this is without a doubt my favorite i’ve ever smelled, but it’s very wearable and is one of the only scents i’ve smelled that i think would stun in any occasion, season, or time of day. please do yourself the favor of getting a sniff of this

Who would have thought I would enjoy something so fruity? On the other hand this is not your usual fruity floral, what it is one of those ambrosial fruity resiny concoctions that just aren't made often enough, if they were fruity would actually probably have a spot in my fragrance wardrobe. This uses osmanthus absolute which is an incredibly erotic scent that hints at jasmine, hay, and apricots paired with the juicy real orange at the beginning of the scent and the sweet resins in the dry down it makes for a scent that makes me think of the phrase "butterfly nectar". The scent is strangely light and airy but with oomph.