DSH – Fire Opal

Perfume: Fire Opal
Perfumer: Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Source: DSH Parfums des Beaux Arts
Size: 1mL

Notes:
Top notes: Bitter Orange, Coriander Seed, Star Anise
Middle notes: Blood Orange, Clove Bud, Mace, Mandarin
Base notes: Olibanum (Frankincense), Rosewood (bois de rose)

Date: 2/29/08 Weather: 32 degrees, clear

Comments: Starts with a spicy orange rind note with a healthy lashing of anise. Begins to smell more like a mulled wine on the stove – clove, star anise, a wine note. 2 hours later – very faint frankincense and anise fragrance with a slight hint of powder. Have to sniff wrist hard to smell it.

~ by Wendy Wickham on February 29, 2008.