RPP TAO 1
@RisingPhoenix
Color clear as water and somewhat viscous.
You know when people say that an oud oil reminds them of and old bookstore? This oil has an abundance that.
Opens with a strong blast of what is called "Palo Santo", that sharp spiciness that is akin to mint, but not greenish, rather, more woody. Plus old paper smell that gives the feeling of reaching the furthest, dark corner of a cramped, dingy, old bookstore. Not at all damp, but the smell of having your nose right against those old pages. Some powderiness too. It's intruiging. Then, as it progresses, the sharp twang mellows while, overall, it remains stringent smelling and dry. A bitter, comforting, slightly pungent, green aspect enters into play, with a camphoric tingle. Like a door opened at the back of the bookstore to a foresty setting with the sea behind it, lending, mildly salty (not fishy), airy notes.
Very specific, unique oil. This would also make a perfect perfuming ingredient for one fashioning imagery with smells.
... after a couple hours, the green sent has bloomed more, fully integrating with the sharper, woody aspects, with a gentle, barely-there sweetness accompanying it.
Four hours from application, it has coalesced into a sharp, greenish note, akin to thyme over camphor, grounded by the smell of fresh, CLEAN dirt, that seems to be the progression of the initial paper smell. And now I'm feeling like the dirt note was there in the background all along. That ever happen to you?
A few hours later it had become a well balanced combination of the thyme-like green, camphor, stringent wood, faint soil, and some sweetness.
Now, 8 hours later, light fruits, MAYBE. Nah! (... doubt)
Thyme and stringent wood/paper note are married, with subtle, sweetened soil in the distance.