Love and Sleep

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Fig milk, vanilla, orchid, and ylang ylang.

 

It smells like sweet, creamy fig with just a hint of a lush (not heady, not stinging, not icky) floral note. The sweetness of it is quite a bit overwhelming at first, when it's wet, and I don't like it very much. After it dries, though, the fig is most prominent, and that super-sweet creamy note calms down. It becomes a light, soft, sweet, smooth fig-orchid scent.

 

This is one of those unusual scents that I put on, sniff, and think, "Ewww, no." And then I come back to it 10 minutes later and say, "Oh! Nice!"

[LizziesLuck]

Wet: Sweet orchid, creamy. It almost has a bubblegum like quality at this stage. It's a very candy-like scent right now. Not what I was hoping for or expecting.

 

 

Dry: This settles into something much more wearable on me. Still very sweet, but I like sweet scents. Creamy, sweet, figgy orchid is the final dry down. Really nice, sweet, innocent. Very girly.

[celestia]

♔ Love and Sleep

 

In the Bottle: Creamy floral bubblegum

 

Wet: This smells like analmost blush pink bubblegum. As a colour I'd describe it to be a blend of fruity pink and pale orange. Sweet and creamy, yes- but I smell neither fig nor milk as components, not the kind I'm able to detect usually anyway. I get more of a syrupy sweet, artificial, creamy and juicy nectar. It’s certainly a lot more thicker and heavier smelling than milk (which to me registers more watery and less rich- with the exception of macadamia milk), but not as rich and heavy as cream notes. I feel like Love and Sleep smells more like a creamy and juicy floral and bubble-gummy blend than one that calls a distinctive fruit to mind…. I mean it’s there, because the blend IS fruity- but as a background note with a supporting role- and something I would identify as “fruity” rather than “fruit”.

 

Drydown: I can pick up the vanilla orchid more as the blend settles and dries. The vanilla used doesn’t really remind me of other vanilla orchid blends either, such as Regan or Cascading Blossoms, as they smell much more perfumey, heady and musky. I would even distinguish the vanilla and orchid as separate notes. It’s lush and tropical, but also tinted by the same bubblegum sweetness present during the wet stage, kind of milky- a milky orchid. The vanilla here in this blend, instead, smells a bit like vanilla sugar. And honestly, even together with ylang ylang, which is quite faint and I barely detect, it still doesn’t translate to much of a floral blend. In the final drydown stage, I do get the more unified presence of vanilla orchid as a single component, that beautiful, perfumey, slightly musky, and vanillic floral comes out- but that bubblegum sweetness is disturbing the blend for me.

 

TL;DR: Syrupy, creamy, fruity bubblegum nectar

[Lucchesa]

I'm a total sucker for vanilla fig milk. Orchid and ylang ylang were big question marks, but I put it on my wishlist anyway and was generously frimped a decant. So lucky!

 

Love and Sleep is a soft fruity floral, lush and lovely. Wet it was a little too sweet for me, and fig milk is not as earthy as the regular fig note I adore, but the drydown is just so beguiling. This definitely shares a family resemblance with Poor Monkey, though Love and Sleep is sweeter, more innocent. Definitely a Luper in the sweet creamy floral mode.