At Night We Dance

My first foray into a natural parfum and this one doesn't disappoint. The initial opening isn't my favorite as it leans to the more feminine side but I really love the dry down thats full of amber with hints of sandalwood and incense. It packs a punch for a natural fragrance and has an excellent price point.

Baby powder, sweet amber, white musk (The Body Shop type), woods and fresh pine sap with a dusting of cinnamon. Hints of Lavender, sweet blood orange, the inside of a leather purse and face powder. Chanel No. 5 with the bitchy raw leather smothered in baby powder. Dries down to a skin scent level of soft spiced powdery amber woods around 2 hours. Don't buy looking for actual Catholic Church incense with wood resins and plant herbs. That's expensive stuff and they only bring it out for special ceremonies at larger churches. Most people have never smelt it, but what they have experienced is mass produced comfort food. Vanilla chai latte. Cinnamon Powdered Sugar sprinkles on a Starbucks cappuccino coffee. Cinnamon dusted Danish pastry. A slice of spiced pumpkin pie. That's the kind of spice I get here. Warm, pleasant, balanced and reliable fragrance you'd enjoy smelling on a colleague or family member to remind you of the comforts of a well kept home and solid straight up people you love. Polished wood, vanilla cinnamon cookies, fresh cup of tea, petting your Labrador dog, chatting with loved ones on a late summer early autumn kind of feel. During the 80s this was a regular cologne style for the average easy going likeable guy. A slightly sweeter version with more powder less amber was sold for females. Often given as a gift that other people liked, to the people they most love and respect in the world. Father, husband, son, sister, your favourite great Aunt - all had at least one. Avon Black Suede, Vanilla Soft Musk were popular examples. Cool Charm Baby Powder roll on deodorant was everywhere for those that didn't do perfume.

The opening of this is beautiful - prominent violet blended with herbaceous and fruity notes. Mysterious, enchanting, a bit “witchy”. As it dries down it gets slightly less interesting. I really like the amber/incense notes but wish they were amped up a bit more. Nonetheless a nice and unique fragrance.

I absolutely love the opening, spicy musk with a touch of florals, I do agree that the dry down is quite a simplistic slightly musky vanilla. It's lovely but unfortunately I found the performance pretty lacking.

the top notes are really nice! but sad of course that they're around only for the opening. i could smell incense but it wasn't smoky, just the typical incense smell. sweet, pretty light, almost like vanilla somewhere there. on me it became a bit sickly sweet and i didn't really care for the incense note