Gilded

Holy. I LOVE this fragrance. It is warm, spicy, sweet, sticky, and woody. It's perfectly unisex, personally I think leaning more feminine but I am a woman if that makes any difference. It lasts around well over 12 hours on my skin. Sillage is within arms length. Dry down is a little creamier and woodier, less of the sharp aromatic notes that you get at the beginning. Perfect for cold weather and rainy days. It feels like wearing a warm wool blanket. EDIT: I’ve been wearing this in warm weather this summer and it’s just as good as in cold weather. Beast mode performance. Lasts 15+ hours on my skin easily, even in hot weather. Personally, I don't get any of the pickle notes that some other people are talking about. There is nothing sour about this fragrance. There is a sharpness to the aromatics but nothing pickley about it, at least to my nose.

Delicious! Not in a traditional gourmand sense - but the spices and light sweetness really give christmas cookie vibes without being cloying. Abstractly, it's like sitting beside fresh-cut logs that are about to be lit in the fireplace, eating a spice cookie. Very much Christmas vibes but could be worn throughout fall/winter. Despite being woody and spicy it's still a light fragrance on my skin, yet has excellent longevity. That's a winning combination for me personally, a small but powerful scent bubble. I personally use this to tone down gourmands and give what would otherwise be a linear gourmand a more sophisticated and masculine feel, but it also stands well on it's own. I also tried layering with 'gold' as several other commenter suggested and it was very nice!

This is by far my favorite Libertine perfume. I love what this house is doing, but unfortunately most of their scents don’t mix well with my body chemistry. Gilded is the biggest exception. Both longevity and projection are absolutely beast mode on me; I easily get 10+ hours. I don’t get a lot of the sweetness listed in the scent profile. On me, Gilded is mostly woody and spicy, but I don’t mind that. The longer it’s on my skin, the better it smells, especially in warm weather. As noted in a review below, I layered it with Commodity’s Gold and it’s a phenomenal combination. I just got their newest perfume (Juice+) and it layers beautifully with Gilded as well.

This perfume plunged me right back to my undergraduate memories of being awoken on an Indian night train to a man selling me piping hot chai in a dixie cup, on my way from Goa to Mumbai. Milky, spicy, warm, metallic. Absolutely delicious, and lasts forever. Can't wait to buy a full bottle. For those concerned about price, Avon's Far Away Exotic is a fantastic, cheap dupe if you can find it (it's discontinued, and also panders to the outdated orientalism and exoticism of "oriental" fragrances that the perfume community is fortunately moving away from.) As for me? I'll be supporting a small Canadian business and relishing how good I smell while doing so.

If you're worried about smelling like a pastry while wearing Gilded, don't be. The spice notes are warm - I didn't get bitter like other reviewers - and the sweetness is just right, meaning hardly sweet at all. There's a definite sweetness to it, but it's not cloying like lots of "sweet" perfumes. Comparing the cardamom vs cinnamon notes, the scent skews hard to cardamom as the primary spice. The spiciness is smooth and not peppery. I bought 1.5 ml spray and will soon be getting a bottle. My only complaint is that this fragrance was very intimate on me and I do wish it lasted longer