What Would Love Do

Like @reinevp, on me What Would Love Do? goes straight to a strong balsamic scent, almost like a newly opened packet of incense sticks. As someone who prefers skin or intimate scents and is a bit shy of smelling "perfumey" I felt uneasy wearing it and worried I was radiating an incense cloud. It's a shame because I love the citrus and floral top and middle notes. I can imagine a different (more courageous) person would truly appreciate this scent, and it's clearly still in demand after being discontinued because my bottle was snapped up almost instantly when I listed it online.

My first association with it is being forced to drink a very sugary, syrupy orange soda anytime I was sick and nauseous as a child. It's my Munchausen's in a bottle. But it also makes me think of like, gingerbread spiced with orange. The drydown is lovely but the bittersweet orange dominates throughout the life of the scent.

To me, the combined effects of "tangerine, lavender & benzoin" ends up smelling a lot like strawberry & lemongrass. It starts fresh and herbal and then becomes gradually more resinous. The only thing I dislike about this is that it's almost just a skin scent. I own Dirty and Tank Battle, and both of them are enormous! Then to my horror did I find out that my WWLD is actually just an eau de cologne, while the other two bottles are legit perfume concentration.

I've given it some time and WWLD has become something I do get a craving for every now and then, especially before bedtime. It has these odd contradictions, it seems sticky, earthy, dry and sour at the same time. When given some time to rest, I catch something almost like rye bread. The smell of something fermented? Is it yeast???? I don't bake enough to be able to connect the dots. Still a little too much candy for me to wear regularly, but I can appreciate the character. I don't think I'll ever grow to love it as much as Sikkim Girls, but then again, that one also took its time to grow on me. WWLD is very simple and something that perhaps even takes you aback with it's simplicity. Edit: I'm wearing this pretty regularly now, out and about especially when we have stormy weather and I need something energizing. Cool, rainy days really do bring out more depth and a more nuanced (less sticky) sweetness from it. It's now one of my favourites for bedtime, I originally found myself liking it when I was going for a nap and the smell that used to nearly nausiate me had stuck on my bedsheets and transformed. I often wear things that are difficult for me to bed, to familiarize them to me. Maybe there's something about the workings of the sleeping mind, but I do it just because I fall asleep quickly enough to avoid getting annoyed with a fragrance and it allows me to see the lasting power as well. Edit: GINGERBREAD! Love... using this today as a companion scent to help me ease into Cabochard.

I don’t know what love gotta do with this but I do know it’s one pretty, sweet and juicy citrus candy. Lush vivid imagination never rests. Here it has twisted the usually inflexible eau de cologne structure into something edible. So What would love do? Well suck all the juice and eat all the flesh of course, until there is nothing left. ***(**)