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.

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

Annick Goutal - Musc Nomade

Sweet, warm, tan skin

I received a package in the mail recently, covered in Hellas stamps, all the way from Greece! I'd forgotten the thrill of presents from far-away. I won a sample of Annick Goutal's Musc Nomade from the Perfume Shrine. Elena has an excellent review of MN, you should go read it.

Musc Nomade smells like sweet, warm suntanned skin. It's honey and hay and slightly woody and cuddly musks. It's sexy but not animalic. It's nuzzling the freshly-washed neck of your lover.

House: Annick Goutal
Nose: Isabelle Doyen
Notes: Muscone, white musk stemming from angelica root and ambrette seed, tonka beans, labdanum, Bombay wood (a papyrus variety)

Thank you to Elena and the Perfume Shrine for my sample!
Photo: jessicarabbit