Moonflower

I was on vacation visiting The Biltmore Estates when I discovered this scent. It's all over the room of Edith Vanderbilt, and that made the room seem even more inviting and feminine. I was so pleased to see it later in the gift shop and recognize the scent. Moonflower will always take me back to that time and pleasant memories. It's a soft ambery floral, and well balanced.

I stumbled on to this interesting fragrance by chance. I read the notes and decided to try it. I really like it. The cinnamon is very pronounced at the top and then the quince shines through land settles down to a nice mulled wine. I only need a couple of sprays and it lingers for hours. My coworkers said I smelled like Christmas, I keep this as my Holiday scent.

B&BW Sunrise Woods smells very similar to Moonflower. It’s the closest dupe I have ever come across. I miss this fragrance. Thymes brought it back for awhile, but it was three times the price for a cologne.

Moonflower was a unique fragrance. I used to buy things from this company when it was sold in a local store that no longer sells such nice things today. I bought Moonflower in the candle and room freshener because while I liked the scent I didn't know if I wanted to wear it. To me Moonflower smelled like spun sugar w/ deep woody notes that I see here are ebony and cognac mixed together. It has what would now be described as a "niche" scent. It seems niche was being done by some of these home decor and affordable luxury brands years ago. I remember when I smelled it for the first time, I thought it was interesting, not like anything else I had smelled before. Kind of a blending of perfume w/ foody notes. Now that type of thing is everywhere. Sad thing is I think Thymes did it better w/ Moonflower than many of the expensive Niche perfumes I have tested recently. Moonflower still retained that perfume quality that many of the foody niche scents don't. An interesting blend of woods, cotton candy, slight sweet spice and a fruit flavored cognac. I don't get the category there is nothing aromatic about Moonflower. It is more of a woody amber not an aromatic.

I wasn't sure I would like such a fruity fragrance but I do like this one. I am not good at identifying individual notes but there is definitely musk and flowers. Sweet but not overly sweet. Kind of mysterious and only a little spicy on my skin. Today I am layering just a little spritz of it with Skin (a musk oil frag) by Bonne Bell (now made by Parfums de Coeur).