Beaumes de Cassis

Beautifully sweet and celebratory. This reminds me of seeing the Nutcracker play before Christmas without it being a Christmas-y scent. It's a fruity dessert wine offered at a fairy banquet, but brewed from the sweetest, juiciest, ripest red fruits rather than grapes. Currant and berries are the main star. It's not quite a gourmand scent to me, but it's still delicious. The jojoba oil base makes it absorb very well into the skin. This is one of the more long lasting scents from this house compared to the others that I have tried. Orange, or some kind of citrus, seems to be an essential part of this perfumery's DNA. You can smell the orange here, but it blends into the fruity melange wand is not the dominant note. The drydown leans into the benzoin - an appropriately sweet choice among incenses. It's a scent to create or accompany a good, jovial mood. The profile is overall warm.