601 Amber & Gaiacwood

I've had this for about a year now, and my thoughts about it have changed. It's NOT a molecular smell. it's a very delicate woody smell, but it has something very distinctly milky about it. It kinda smells like you're heating milk on a stove in a wooden kitchen. If you have ever heated milk slowly, until the point where it creates a thin membrane at the top - that's what the milky scent is. Because of this milky scent, this scent is warm - not neutral, like Molecule 01, and not cool like Molecule 02. It's also like there's some pink pepper in this. It doesn't smell rosy, but it creates a kind of dry smell, or even a smell of white rice. Sillage is very intimate unless I almost bathe in this, but at the same time, I don't actually know what other people smell. I absolutely love this up close though, so it's an interesting smell for intimate moments, and it won't be overwhelming. Qhat I really love this for is making other scents more warm and creamy! I don't particularly like any kind of sharpness in perfumes, and rhis immediately calms it down like a white, fluffy blanket. This is the perfume that I layer with anything I want to make "this, but kinder" :)

I agree with the previous reviewer that this is quite similar to Molecule 01. It's a very faint, molecular smell - not at all what I usually get from gaiacwood. I DO love Molecule 01 and 02 though, so this too is a "like" for me. The smell is like a slightly sweet sandalwood, barely there. Would be interesting to know what people around me think it smells like. This doesn't have much of a smell though, and I have other perfumes that are similarly "barely there", but still smellable by me and those around me.

This is a beautiful, powdery woody scent. The amber and the woods are truly the stars here, because I can't detect any vanilla, but that doesn't bother me at all. For some reason I thought this would be a skin scent so I sprayed quite a lot on my wrist and wow. Spray carefully! If you overdo it gets very bold and loud which can bother some. But in my book that's just a positive thing though. There something lactonic here too. The dry down reminds me a lot of this is her by zadig&voltaire, a perfume I love.

On a paper strip i almost could not smell this, just the faintest tiny hint of something woody far away. On skin though this is gorgeous! Still very subtle, but there is a warm sweetness coming through and blending in with the wood. It settles into the skin beautifully, smells creamy, slightly spicy and warm. Like a my skin but better smell. Super addictive, I keep smelling my wrists trying to get a whiff of it. Elusive, mysterious, natural and sophisticated!

It is such a comforting scent! And to detect it, you have to scratch your third skin layer to at least find it there. So poor in performance, i am planning to bath in the whole bottle and then maybe it will last for two hours and project something. I am seriously almost in love with it, the woods are perfect, vanilla is supporting the whole picture very carefully and giving it a gentle cozy sweetness, but not the sugary one (boy i usually hate vanilla), rather creamy, milky one. I will try this beauty as a layering support to something neroli/orange blossom like. Actually, the brand itself calls for layering their products. So, let's start exploring.