Brand: Arcana
Scent Description: She is the goddess known by many names: Diana, Artemis, Artume, Frau Wode, and Nicevenn, yet her unbound spirit is eternal. Sweet clove, black pepper, aromatic mint, blood orange, and a whiff of her sacred oak groves.
Out of the bottle, smells like the sweet orange and spearmint essential oils I have in a closet somewhere. On application it’s OMG, so wild. The clove, orange, and mint are all equally pulling in different directions, with an underlying base of oak. Then I had a brief period of “old people candy” before it got likeable again. Then my brain said “ice cream!!!” And then I thought it smelled like those chocolate oranges I always get from my parents at Christmas and that stuck for a while. Very much a scent experience that takes you all over the place.
On a blind sniff, this smells like very fancy orange toothpaste with clove. The mint is the star, with the other notes coming in strong but slightly behind. I don’t personally like this one.
Toothpaste. Toothpaste. This smells like I spilled toothpaste on myself. After ~10 mins I get some clove and blood orange coming through, but then it sort of just smells like I’ve given my teeth a furious scrub in an attempt to hide the amount of mulled wine I’ve gulped down on Christmas Eve while my parents slowly assemble a 1000-piece jigsaw.