Reviews
You must be logged in to post a review.
$32.00
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
Frosty lilac petals, iris pallida root, orris, violet leaf, white chocolate, coconut, wild lettuce, white sandalwood, white gardenia and oakmoss.
You must be logged in to post a review.
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.
Snowy vanilla slush, chilled coconut rice, and condensed milk.
13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate…
…because there were 13 present at the Last Supper.
…Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death.
…Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia’s suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king.
…In ancient Rome, Hecate’s witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven.
Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi.
The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins:
…Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th.
…On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights.
…In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose.
To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters:
Theodore Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert De Salvo
John Wayne Gacy
And, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit “Jack the Ripper” and “Charles Manson” into that equation.
More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears.
For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number…
…In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity.
…The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death.
…The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive”.
Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around.
…In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions.
…It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number.
…There are 13 Archimedean solids.
AND…
…There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded.
Says a lot about the US, doesn’t it?
Be not alarmed, but show your pluck! Hallow-’Een goblins bring you luck!
This time around, we’ve crafted an olfactory celebration of renewed hope and good fortune! Jamaican chocolate tea and gulab jaman with coconut, coconut milk, green and black cardamom, pistachio, basmati rice, saffron, dates, honey, nutmeg, and clove.
The Spirit of the Divine Messenger, the Lord of the Crossroads, He Who Owns All Doors and Roads in this World. He is the intermediary between the Orishas and mankind, and stands at the intersection of humanity and the Divine. He opens all paths of communication, both mundane and Heavenly.
His ofrenda contains coconut, tobacco and sweet, sugared rum.
Lunashayde –
I love a good lilac scent and have waited a long time for this to come back. Wet on me all i at first smell is lettuce, oakmoss , lilac and gardenia. When it starts to dry, the floral stays and the coconut and white chocolate come in to play. On me it doesn’t have a big “throw” after a while, but becomes a more intimate close to the skin scent. Like you catch whiffs of it at random moments and are like “mmmm” I must say that this on me is a surprisingly fresh scent, very start of spring kind of scent. I love it.
flushedwithglee –
At first, I mostly get the smell of wood, but it morphs into white chocolate and coconut once on the skin. As it dries, the chocolate mellows out and some soft floral notes start peeking through. The coconut grounds the scent and gives it both a rich background and sweetness, while the white chocolate and floral notes mingle into a subtle and lovely fragrance. This isn’t an in-your-face kind of oil, but more an intimate, comforting oil. It makes me think of hugs and coziness and romance and nature. It’s really quite a lovely scent. :>
karen –
I wondered how the hell white chocolate, lilac, coconut and lettuce would go together. I think I just bought it out of curiosity. Well, Dear Reader, this fragrance is gorgeous, simply gorgeous. You smell the lettuce! And that is a good thing! Right out of the bottle, the lettuce and white chocolate notes are strong, but it then develops on my skin into a lovely light floral. Not real long lasting, a bit fragile, like Spring. On the other hand, my mom noticed it and commented favorably, and my mom is quite blunt if she doesn’t like something I’m wearing, Love You Mom!!
Witold –
Review by my wife:
The Last Unicorn is definitely my favourite scent. I expected much of it, because The Last Unicorn is my childhood most loved novel, and it really is everything my imagination was hoping for! This scent is sweet, creamy, very pleasing.
Directly from the bottle I smell white chocolate, coconut and maybe some sandalwood.
Wet on the skin the chocolate is dominant. Sweet but not foody.
Dry on the skin the chocolate isn’t distinguishable any more and florals are more noticeable. But it all blends perfectly together into a floral, sweet, magical scent.
I love it and recommend it to everyone who’d like to feel like in a fairy tale!
jessecake –
The scent reminds me of freshly cut and stacked wood, upturned earth after digging a garden, and the slightest hint of flowers in a neighbor’s yard. I have been holding onto it hoping that some of the other scents will peek out, but so far that hasn’t happened. I will continue aging the bottle, but might end up selling or swapping it out.
Luca Turin –
You might think that the first scent you notice would be lilac, but I never smelled lilac either in the bottle or at the dry down. The first scent is a creamy white chocolate with subtle, undefinable floral notes, coconut and sandalwood. Although this is a “girly” scent, it is complex and etherial and after a few minutes it turns into something both subtle and lovely. The scent lasts a long time on the skin but doesn’t have much throw. It would be great for more intimate situations.