four scents that felt like something I put on before the light changed

Rose and incense is a combination I've mistrusted before. Too easy to tip into something heavy, something that feels like a costume. This one didn't.

It wore like something already decided. The sandalwood underneath held everything still, and the musk at the end was the kind that reads like your own skin after a long day. which is either nothing or everything.

Hibiscus and vanilla is a pairing that sounds like it's trying too hard. And then it isn't. There's a softness to this one that doesn't feel sweet so much as it feels warm, the way a room feels when someone has just left it.

Floral gourmand without the sweetness that makes you feel like you're wearing dessert. The sandalwood in the dry-down is the part I reach for again.

Woody and cool and a little unreadable. I put this on before a night out and by the end of the evening I had forgotten I was wearing it, which is when I know something has worked.

Dark Abyss is a name that could embarrass itself. It doesn't. The woody base goes somewhere almost damp, almost mineral, and it stays there without becoming loud

Fresh and green without reading like a detergent, which is harder to achieve than it sounds. There's something aquatic here that doesn't perform.

I wore it on a morning that hadn't decided what it wanted to be. The scent matched that. Light in a way that still has weight to it. still thinking about this one.