Teenie Toffees
scent of the day: Iris Noir, by Ensar Oud
This gives an ambergris glow like a lot of the ensars—the various aged-wood Vietnamese ouds, wet-clay-meets-apothecary-camphor Hainan Oud and nectarous-meets-coastal-breeze Nha Trang, imparting (in concert with the rest of the composition at least, like the sweet-green mimosa-jasmine combo) the feel of a non-spicy high-water-content raw green pepper (bell pepper) being diced on a slab of driftwood./ it also has a fruity glow (peach, raspberry) like several of the Ensars I have: Cp Raspberry, funkberry (so this sort of blurs in with them). /
There was a dark growling meanness at the beginning that surprised me—and perhaps my Iris Galia Trifecta, from what I can see one of Ensar’s most polarizing fragrances, will keep me in the clouded nighttime melancholy that I felt in the first five minutes of this one. / After the five minutes, though, everything gives in to happiness: the night sky clearing of its clouds and I picture a man on his back beholding the stars in a chill that is not distracting to his placidity—he is nearby water, like in the case of most Ensar scents. /
Root iris really comes out in the base of Iris Noir—a white creaminess that I imagine is the chief focus of Iris Blanc. This is my second time wearing this. With Ensar’s tendency to be redundant and with my having other iris-centered frags inside and outside of Ensar, thus was on chopping block to be sold. Todays experience though made it seem like more of a keeper. Iris root (bigtime iones) plus pinesol-like cleaner vibes (an effect of the pine and fruits and citrus) over varnished floor (an effect of the styrax and oud) was just so bright and happy—not nose blinding either.
In the language of avatar, so I am now starting to see, Ensar seems to be a water-bender (musk and ambergris and fresher ouds) whereas Areej is an Earth-bender (more typical dark ouds and antique wood and mustiness) and Prin is a fire-bender (smoke, incense, spice, animalics, aldehyde buzz) and Bortnikoff is an air-bender (elegant florals and citrus and tea-tinkle diffusion)./ Yes, you can always pull aquatics out of Ensars: even out of the incensey ash of aroha kyaku, which seems like the ash in a fire pit the next day and then you releasing a sizzling smoke by means of dumping water on it before you leave the camp
Teenie Toffees
The girl scout, her mind made for hustle, saw through a middle school hand mirror
that she had the supreme cookie— one that scaled harder than any scripture, more
generative than loaves or fish in the very hands of Jesus— right between those thighs.
