The Mantel

Smells like Tobacco, Dark Tea and heav varnished Antique woods. Like Library smelling like Raghba Wood Intense, this smells like a mainstream masculine tobacco perfume I have smelt but can't pick. Maybe Mancera or Tom Ford. It is done better here though because it doesn't have any middle eastern leaning spices and it is much darker and richer so it somehow *just* saves it from smelling like a current mainstream men's perfume. Wearing this before bed brings a mental image of being a Victorian era child in a wealthy household and you are sitting in this drawing room while papa smokes his tobacco pipe and mama is drinking tea poured from a teapot full of overstepped black tea. It is an autumn night and the fire is going and heating the woods and varnishes that the room is brimming with. You sit daintly on the lounge with your little legs swinging off the edge in your white dress and you want to open a window to get a whiff of fresh air but you know the streets of London smell just as suffocating as this room full of smoke, tea and wood. It is equally comforting as it is suffocating.