Details:
Morderteile Kelah
Darling Clandestine
Notes:
This is a fragrance I've created in honor of a magnificent lady with magnificent knockers. Amber, hyacinth, milk and strawberry jam are just a few of the elements that capture Kelah. As if anyone ever could capture her completely. You need a butterfly net, I bet. It's sweet and sultry and spicy and summery, and I'm so very happy with it.
I've never set myself up as a perfume expert (far from it), and I've never claimed to be great at describing them. I try to get across how each perfume smells on me to the best of my ability, and hopefully that is helpful to some people. However, I struggle so much with Darling Clandestine perfumes. The blends are such that I can rarely pick out any specific notes, and it's not that they are a big mess like, say, some of the BPAL general catalogues. It's just that they're so damned unique that I can't just go, "Oh yes - that's X!" with any confidence. I think I smell something like vanilla, but that might be the milk now that I've seen the notes. It's creamy and sweet - more like condensed milk now I think of it. There's something vaguely alcoholic in there... something a bit smokey... there's a dab of sweetness that's bordering on fruity but not quite (the jam?). Gosh, I don't know. It's very pretty, though.
This perfume went a bit dusty on me after a while, which was a pity because I was quite enjoying it until then. It didn't last all that long - maybe 3 hours or so. Sillage is quite low too. Once again, Darling Clandestine defeats my attempts to get my head around a fragrance!
Rating:
I don't know... 3/5? I like it a lot, but then it goes dusty. And even when it's good on me it's probably not one I'd buy a full bottle of.
Day 139!
This one in particular has not be on my list of DC scents to sample, but you just never know what you will get with a DC scent... You make me want to try this! I guess I'll just have to sample every single scent evonne makes!
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of the same now. I have yet to sniff a DC perfume that smells like I expected it to, so now I'm thinking all the ones that I glossed over because the sound of them didn't grab me I might need to check out.
DeleteI love this one when I first apply it and for a while after but unfortunately the strawberry turns just a little fake smelling on me in the end. The initial scent though is gorgeous and fascinating-fruity, spicy, creamy- quite inimitable ;)
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's similar to the dustiness I got. I am intending to try it out again soon as I want to see if it still happens.
DeleteI keep on reading the name too quickly and thinking it is called 'Mortadelle' - but I'm quite taken with the idea of milk and cream at the moment, so might have to add yet another scent to my samples wish list!
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