Brand: Solstice Scents
Scent Description: This perfume is a spicy amber-heavy Oriental with a base of our house vanilla (Estate Vanilla), sweet opium smoke, pink carnations, Moroccan rose absolute, olibanum resin and a touch of cool powdery orris root. It’s a very spicy, sweet, rich amber blend steeped with pink carnation petals. Goes on strong and takes a few minutes to settle down and meld with your skin chemistry before you can get an impression of the true fragrance but when it begins to unfurl it is thick, mysterious, elegant and haunting at once. A sophisticated perfume that is completely different than our more carnation-heavy Winter Dove, which is a sweet gourmand vanilla carnation. Estate Carnation is very complex and deeper, a sultry golden perfume.
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This review is for the EDP version. I don’t believe any of Angela’s Estate scents are available in perfume oil format. This has been aging for a looooong time, over a year at least. I won’t lie, Estate Carnation opens with some downright scary sharp animalic notes. I’m not talking about smelling like animals in a hay filled barn or anything. I’m talking about smelling more like the ass end of a farm animal. Angela warns in the description that EC has a strong opening and needs some time to settle down. Woah, she wasn’t kidding. My initial knee jerk reaction was to scrub this because it smelled so rank. I’m really happy that I stuck it out because once this settles (at around 30+ minutes post application) it smells a thousand times better. Thankfully the amber in this didn’t turn into “doom powder” on me. I seem to have some of my best luck with Solstice Scents dark ambers. My skin chemistry and ambers have a hard time getting along. The final result of this on my skin reminds me very much of a vintage resinous Oriental perfume blend. Think of the OG 1970’s version of YSL’s Opium or EL’s Youth Dew, something along those lines. The carnation in this definitely isn’t as pronounced as it is in Winter Dove but it’s in there. The same goes for the opium smoke, it’s very subtle. 6 hours after I sprayed this in the crooks of my arms and I can still smell it if I put my nose up to my skin. It’s lost a lot of it’s initial oomph but it’s still quite noticeable. On me this is very much an amber forward and not a carnation forward scent. The carnation is there but it’s not the focal point. It’s more of a supportive note to the perfume blend rather than the star.