Labyrinth

Don't get this fragrance if you're not prepared to ascend to pharaonic levels of perfume intensity and artistry. Don't get this fragrance if you're not ready to accept perfume as medicine, therapy and tool. Labyrinth has deep dark layers that uncoil and rise like a serpent. It expresses and makes tangible the profundity of our embodied experience. Don't get this fragrance if you don't know what I'm talking about. Atlas cedarwood, Mysore sandalwood, frankincense, myrrh and Teone's unique amber base (which I'm guessing includes one or more of the following: labdanum, benzoin, patchouli). You should know what you're getting yourself into by looking at the notes. I've been slathering Labyrinth a lot recently and my only surprise is at the unexpected airiness of it. For a perfume that pulls out the big heavy guns, it is not "difficult" nor overwhelming. It levitates, its layers separating and suspending in chromatographic animation around the body as I move. This fragrance loves to be outdoors, where there is space for it to unfurl its technicolor display. But I do enjoy it at home too, where it is capable of being calming, unintrusive and protective. But you've been warned. You don't wear this perfume. It works with you as a co-equal. It will wear you just as much.

Labyrinth is strong and wonderful. (I said to my own heart, Welcome to Labyrinth!) If you enter the mysterious scent world, maybe you wouldn't be able to come out of this deep scent. I open the the lid of the bottle, I felt very spicy scent. In addition, when I put the liquid on my skin, the bitter orange overlaps with the heavy Myrrh, and the amber invited me deeply into the dark. Spicy and deep Myrrh and Amber increase imagination and make it an unrealistic dream. I would like to feel it more :-)

I really like the pairing of bitter orange and resins, they really do work well with each other. Had this been a regular orange, or another citrus, I'm not sure it would've worked as well. The bitter peel really lifts the myrrh and makes this scent work as a unified composition. With that said, I am not much a citrus scent kinda guy, and I personally would not buy/use this all that much...