Ambre Sultan by Serge Lutens today. It makes me think of virile strength, a man breaking his way through a dry jungle, tree branches snapping, dusty earth under his feet, the snapping of dry leaves that crumble in your hands. He escapes the bush only to come upon dry sand, desert.
A woodsy amber harkening back to when perfumes didn’t have to be so sweet. Bay leaf, oregano, sandalwood, and an earthy patchouli. Easy to wear because it doesn’t get cloying or heavy.
I’m making pasta sauce and looking at the snow out of the window. It’s an Ambre Sultan weekend.
Dirty and clean, depending on the day. A welcome return to the collection is a bottle of Kiehl’s Original Musk. We love the shower gel too. Not letting it go again.
Diptyque’s Benjoin Boheme is coming back. I’m still trying it out but I’m finding it to be salty and sweet. There’s a hint of caramel, like that in Prada Candy which also happens to be benzoin dominant. It’s lacking the smoky incense feel of Bois d’Armenie which is my favourite benzoin perfume, and isn’t powdery like that one. The saltiness is thanks to a balsamic ingredient – possibly styrax but if there’s an animalic quality, I’m not getting it. I prefer to think of this as my kettle corn perfume: a little salty and a little sweet, easy to like and almost a little addictive.
