Audumla

[Kat Conover-Karpuk]

Then said Gangleri: Where dwelt Ymir, or wherein did he find sustenance? Hárr answered: Straightway after the rime dripped, there sprang from it the cow called Audumla; four streams of milk ran from her udders, and she nourished Ymir. Then asked Gangleri: Wherewithal was the cow nourished? And Hárr made answer:

She licked the ice-blocks, which were salty; and the first day that she licked the blocks, there came forth from the blocks in the evening a mans hair; the second day, a mans head; the third day the whole man was there.

The primordial mother, the first nourisher: four streams of milk, white honey, frankincense, motherwort, and angelica root.

This is a soft, creamy scent that reminds me of Adrastea, if you replace the white rose with a slightly herbal feel.

 

I got a compliment from the husband the first time I wore this, and he rarely comments on my perfume.

 

If you liked Adrastea or My Baby and a Baby Goat, this is right up your alley. Decent throw and wear length. Love it!

[Casablanca]

Sweet milk mayhem! Fresh on my skin, this is a lovely white honeyed milk over frankincense. The milks are most potent at first, with a pale honey that reminds me of my White Bees Swarming hair gloss decant. There’s also an herbal tone, and I can pick out angelica (which I love) in the second breath, alongside another herb that reminds me of my early twenties, when I used to buy herb powder for sleeping and sit endlessly stuffing it into gel caps. That was valerian powder and it stunk badly, and this smells mild and pleasant, but it has a dusty, herbal quality that still takes me back. It must be the mugwort.

 

In drydown, the honey and milks partly fade, but linger on in the background. The mugwort-angelica comes to the fore. The frankincense is subtle and textured, like the grainy wooden floor of a hut where jugs of honeyed milk settle and herbs hang to dry.

 

In drydown the scent loses the fullness it had when wet, quickly becoming thin and simple – almost more the scent of someone working with honey, milk, and herbs all day than a concept perfume of it. After drying, this takes on a slight soapy note on my skin. In about an hour, I make out only a faint sweet and dusty herbal milk tone on my skin.

 

I still like it. The wet phase is gorgeous to me.

[LizziesLuck]

Wet: A nice creamy scent. Very cream dominant (it really smells like cream rather than milk, to me). Hoping the honey and other notes come out a bit more, as currently this is just a rather non-descript cream.

 

 

 

Dry: Reminds me a lot of Boo without the cotton note. I like it, but I don't love it. I wish the honey was equally balanced with the cream note, but it's totally cream dominant on me.

[Blood onmy hands]

The milk and honey last for about a minute and I love that sadly brief stage. It smells like the original Milk Moon, all creamy and sweet. Unfortunately, the milk and honey quickly and completely disappears and I'm left with a lackluster frankincense note. It's light, thin, weirdly oily smelling, like a couple drops of golden frankincense oil poured into baby oil. I really didn't like this one in the drydown.

[Elspethdixon]

Wet/in the imp - a milky/cream sweetness that reminds me a little of Giljagaur without the coconut

Freshly applied - clean, powdery baby-milky smell, fresher and 'cleaner' than it was in the imp, and less sweet. So far, Audumla is like the best milk-and-honey scented baby wash/baby shampoo/baby lotion ever.

Fifteen minutes in - now that it's settle a little/started to dry down, it's gone right back to the soft, milky sweetness from the imp. This really is similar to Giljagaur, except where Giljagaur is coconut cream with a hint of cinnamon, Audumla is just plain sweetened milky cream.

1 Hour in - No change. This isn't a morpher; it's still milk-and-honey/BPAL cream SN. If you like Beth's 'cream' note and can wear honey well, you'll probably like this scent. If I didn't already have two bottles of Giljagaur stashed away, this would be bottle-worthy for sure.

The scent stays basically the same for the entire rest of the drydown, and though looking upthread I can see that it apparently faded quickly on some other reviewers, Audumla lasted for ages on me. I got at least five-six more hours of wear out of this before it faded, pretty much a full work day.

[zankoku_zen]

Milk, honey, and frankincense. Actually, this smells pretty similarly to the TAL Milk and Honey blend - but milkier. Medium throw and wear length.

[milo]

This one reminded me of Blossoming Vulva, though I sold my bottle as I found it too similar to Volcano in Springtime. Milky, creamy vanilla. This probably would appeal to a lot of foodies.

[Kay Torres]

I love this one. I get tons and tons of thick, sweet cream with generous dollops of rich, golden honey. No herbs and only a wee little, tiny bit of frank. I've received compliments on this the times I've worn this out. It makes people hold me closer and sniff me over and over. The boys say I smell soft and pretty when I wear this. A friend kept sniffing my hair after I rubbed the excess on my scalp before a party last weekend. Very foody, very fluffy, very sweet. I may break my 2017 no back up rule for this one.

Edited March 2, 2017 by SunsetKay

[Spaztic]

A honey I can wear?! woohoo!

Milk and Honey to start, then dries down to become a little bit powdery. Actually rather pretty, a nice sweet creamy powder

[gloame]

Woah, this is spicy-sharp on first sniff! Goes, milky-spicy. Not cinnamon spice, but it doesn't feel like the frankincense to me, either. Is it motherwort or angelica root? I have no idea what those smell like. The more this dries, the more I love it. It smells like a warrior woman.

 

When I'd wear it: When I'm feeling extra feminist and bad-ass.

[bellumed]

Very soothing, with a powdery-creamy sweetness. I can smell herbs in the background, but they’re unobtrusive, just giving a little kick. This doesn’t smell like a candle, but it brought one to mind: a white taper, a ritual candle, flickering in the low light of evening. Extremely mild.