Illyria
The Shakespearean Collection.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s olfactory paean to the characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$5.25 – $21.00
Sweet pea with stargazer lily, calla lily, heliotrope, honeysuckle, white musk and a touch of fresh pear.
Illyria
The Shakespearean Collection.
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s olfactory paean to the characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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Tea roses, honeysuckle, heliotrope, olive blossom, milk, and honey.
There was a woman sitting on the grass, under a tree, with a paper tablecloth spread in front of her, and a variety of Tupperware dishes on the cloth.
She was—not fat, no, far from fat: what she was, a word that Shadow had never had cause to use until now, was curvaceous. Her hair was so fair that it was white, the kind of platinum-blonde tresses that should have belonged to a long-dead movie starlet, her lips were painted crimson, and she looked to be somewhere between twenty-five and fifty.
As they reached her she was selecting from a plate of deviled eggs. She looked up as Wednesday approached her, put down the egg she had chosen, and wiped her hand. “Hello, you old fraud,” she said, but she smiled as she said it, and Wednesday bowed low, took her hand, and raised it to his lips.
He said, “You look divine.”
“How the hell else should I look?” she demanded, sweetly. “Anyway, you’re a liar. New Orleans was such a mistake—I put on, what, thirty pounds there? I swear. I knew I had to leave when I started to waddle. The tops of my thighs rub together when I walk now, can you believe that?” This last was addressed to Shadow. He had no idea what to say in reply, and felt a hot flush suffuse his face. The woman laughed delightedly. “He’s blushing! Wednesday, my sweet, you brought me a blusher. How perfectly wonderful of you. What’s he called?”
“This is Shadow,” said Wednesday. He seemed to be enjoying Shadow’s discomfort. “Shadow, say hello to Easter.”
Jasmine and honeysuckle, sweet milk and female skin.
Honeysuckle, orris, moss, musk, benzoin, oakmoss, and star jasmine.
Straight from the twisted alleys of Dis, by way of the City of Angels: opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower.
c-j-allison –
I’m a white floral die-hard but unfortunately this scent wears all wrong on me. On me, it smells faintly pear-y, with an overriding note of snapped green twigs. You know that slightly sharp, bitter, green smell they give off?
After a while, it faded down to a clean, sunshine, freshly laundered sheets smell on me.
It’s quite a close fragrance and it didn’t have much staying power on me at all, unfortunately. I think it’s a quirk of skin chemistry rather than a trait of the fragrance.
Over all it’s a pleasant fragrance but not for me.
Poox –
I got this in an imp pack 3.5 years ago. It was the only scent in the bunch I wasn’t excited about and I have never touched it until today so it has aged quite a bit.
Dry it is the smell of a very fine floral soap. It is all lily and white musk and just he very slightest honeysuckle. I get no pear. All I can think of when a where it is a prim upper-class elderly english woman strolling through her garden. It is a kind, gentle scent but not me wse. It isn’t offensive, just not a me smell. I will probably gift it to my sister who is the living embodiment of a delicate florals.
Hellokoi –
Intensely soapy, bitter lilies and a sharp, cheap white musk smell.
[email protected] –
This is light and sweet on me; the sweet pea dominates, with a hint of pear. The end result is reminiscent of SweetTarts, but in entirely a good way.
dementia_divine –
In the imp: It’s difficult to pinpoint the notes in this, but the sweet pea, lily, and musk notes jump out at me the most in the imp.
Wet: The lilies reign. The pear note adds a bit of sweetness. I love the Lab’s honeysuckle note, but alas, it’s not one of the main players in this blend. Sadly, the sweet pea note isn’t very prominent on my skin, either, and those were the floral notes to which I was most looking forward. The pear note begins to emerge more as the scent starts to dry.
Dry: This is still a lily dominant scent, but I’m getting more sweet pea and pear in this stage.
Verdict: It’s pleasant, but I don’t need more of it. There are other lily dominant scents (such as Tiger Lily, which was discontinued from the Mad Tea Party line) that I enjoy more.
Greatwhitenowhere –
This is a straight up white floral blend. A very, very GREEN scent that screams “flower garden” or conversely “pollen warning.”
In the bottle the oil is very soapy, slightly floral but overwhelmingly green. Worn it amps floral and turns somewhat powdery on dry down.
This was instantly migraine inducing. If you aren’t a (white) floral diehard, then I would skip this blend.