Nuages Gris

[tziporra]

White amber, galbanum, frankincense, celery seed, white moss, and immortelle.

Sweet holy celery seed this is awesome!!!

I did not order a decant of this, the note list didn't grab my fancy, but I was lucky enough to sniff it out of a friends' collection and it is darned ridiculously amazing (she was kind enough to allow me to skin test it).

On me this is a strong resiny floral, which is strange because a quick search of the Internet for Imortelle says things like "burnt sugar" and "maple syrup" not "rose-like floral."

As an aside, I can't usually wear rose, it goes sour on my skin, but this scent smells on me like roses smell on the bush: deep, spicy, lush and fresh.

The Galbanum and Amber are the perfect base for the floral notes, and it dries down to a beautiful resiny perfection with a hint of mossiness to freshen up the whole brew. For me this is the Raptures and a Roses of the Miskatonic Philharmonic, if it makes any sense whatsoever to compare perfumes that share zero notes.

Try this if you love floral-resin scents. Seriously.

Instant bottle purchase.

Tzi

[strahlend]

Wet on my skin. I smell like I have been rolling in celery.

 

This is an unusual interpretation of a resinous blend, usually I associate amber and frankincense with being anchors, but this blend plays out a little differently.

The frankincense is lending a hint of sweetness and holding its own among the higher and airy notes of the galbanum. I have the SN galbanum, and it is definitely a feature here. The other notes play supporting, rounding, softening roles to the galbanums sharp, green somewhat piercing starring role.

[zankoku_zen]

White amber, white moss and frankincense. This one is a light, resinous blend with a white vibe. It's mainly an amber blend, but with touches of moss and frankincense.

 

While being gender neutral, I can see a guy really appreciating this one as a perfume since it smells resinous without being overpowering, and its not a heavy resin or has no sweet elements to it. At least to me.

[milo]

I'm guessing white amber may not be as warm smelling as regular amber. This definitely smells 'white' and sharp, almost vegetal on me in a noxious weed kind of way. This is not playing well with me, though I really wanted to know what white amber smelled like. Nice to try, but not for me.

[Magycmyste]

Testing this on the inside of my elbow since I tested Ossa Arida on my wrists earlier today.

 

In the imp: Very sharp. I think I'm smelling the celery seed most of all, which makes me a little nervous. But then, things do sometimes smell different on my skin that they do in the bottle or imp.

 

Wet on skin: Well, this doesn't. It's still very astringent, with a bitter celery note being all I can really pick out. I can't even smell the frankincense, I think I usually amp that.

 

Dried down: Still the same. It's not morphing at all, and I wish it would.

 

Throw: Almost none, which I thik may be a good thing.

 

Verdict: * 1/* Yeah, this REALLY didn't work for me. I'm giving tit the extra half star mostly because I don't think I would turn my nose away from this scent - I don't hate it that much - but it's a bit too medicinal for me. And this is coming from someone who likes the scents of a lot of medicines.

[JazzieCazzie]

Actually, oddly, bought two of these from the decant circle.

 

IN THE IMP: Super fresh green outdoors after the rain. Not really what I experienced with amber and frankincense in description but still nice.

 

Dabbed on wrist and in crook of arm.

 

WET: Very fresh and green and meadowsy. The green and leafy components are very predominant and very invigorating. It reminds me of my teens.

 

DRYDOWN: Oddly I get ZERO frankincense and/or amber for it -- the two notes I bought it for -- and yet I quite like it a lot. It smells like spring when I was a teen.

 

OVERALL. I could see this being hugely popular with the young teen girls and teengagers. It smells not so much like reomance per se, but like the kind of situation ... a relaxing fun day i the park ... where you could find romance, young love. I am sure there is a nother BPAL scent this reminds me of but I don't know what it is. Something with fields and heather and green ferns and stuff. But as much as I like it, it's really not me and will not be a keeper. I hope some young still impressionable girl who thinks she might find cute boy temp boyfriend soon will get it.

 

On a scale of 1-5, a 4.3

[tinyvulture]

Hard to describe. Resinous, kind of masculine. But there's also a citrusy fruity-floral...the immortelle perhaps? Not sure where the celery seed comes in, either. No moss that I can tell. Seriously, resin/fruit/floral is best I can do.