When it comes to Allure's monthly Beauty Box, they select all the items for you but you get to customize one selection to your preference. This month, the item in question is a solid perfume, SIDIA Solid Perfume, to be exact, and your options are either Braless or Soaked.
So Braless has top notes
of black pepper, Spanish rosemary, and coconut. The middle notes are
violet, black tea, peony, cedar, and orris. The bottom notes are
patchouli, papyrus, vanilla cream, musk, and leather. Now there are
some issues. I'm concerned that the cedar might be powerful and
that would be a problem. I don't want to smell like a tree. Normally, I hate patchouli, though admittedly, some of the other scents I have
contain it as a bottom note and it doesn't bother me when mixed with
everything else. What it has going for it is the peony, vanilla
cream, and leather. These are scents I really do adore. I also do
love the name of this one and it seems like something I would
have.
Soaked, on the other hand, has top notes of Juniper,
lemon, and olibanum. Its middle notes are oregano, cypress, and
cedarwood. For base notes, it has amber, leather, and sensuous musk.
This has a lot working against it. For one thing, there are two trees
in the middle and the only thing there to balance it out is a spice
that I like in food but not on me. I'm not sure the lemon and oregano
wouldn't make this gourmand in a way I wouldn't enjoy. Speaking of
trees, we also have that Juniper and olibanum (frankincense) as well
and I suspect this might be way too woody for me. The bottom notes
here appeal to me, but I don't know that they would balance the rest
of it.
Given all of that, my selection for the month was
Braless. It seemed to be the least risky option and I really love the
name.
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