Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Les Nez - Let Me Play The Lion

Pale, dry golden yellow fur, sand, wood and smoke
Scents of dusty trails,
Of lightly sweetened ochre,
Of sun-weathered wood,
Of silence swept by mild breezes,
Of skies open like an endless azure cut oozing signs
of the coming storm
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Wood and incense, my favourite notes. Those are the first two things I smell. The wood is pale and bleached, the incense light, just a trail of smoke on the horizon. Then suddenly the whole perfume lifts. It almost feels like that, a physical sensation. What it smells like is the sudden addition of a light floral, almost herbal note that reminds me of chamomile. That fits with the pale golden yellow feel of the perfume.

There is a peppery spice note, like you wandered through a souk earlier in the day, and the smell of the spices for sale still clings to your clothes.  The whole thing is dusty dry - not quite desert, but maybe savanna, with tall dry grasses, and a campfire at night.

I don't find that LMPTL has a Head, Heart and Base as much as other perfumes, the notes swirl around and up like smoke.


House: Les Nez
Nose: Isabelle Doyen
Notes: incense, wood, spices

3 comments:

  1. I've not tried this, though for a long time I thought I had, as I received a sample of Unicorn Spell in a vial wrongly labelled up as Let Me Play The Lion. It was actually typed, so pretty convincing! But ultimately, very different.

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  2. Oh yes, very different! I have a sample of the Unicorn Spell too, but I think I'll wait until next spring and review a bunch of violets all at once.

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  3. Interesting review. I, too, am a wood and incense junkie. Might have to try this one!

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