I've got my spine; I've got my orange crush.

Red Flower Guaiac

So today, my perfume discovery is Red Flower’s organic, Guaiac. Red Flower describes it this way:

Red Flower’s homage to the tree of trees carries us into the infinite expanse of wilderness, into the faraway lands of scorching sun and dark earth. The balsamic, sweet fragrance of guaiac wood with its tea-like undertone, is freshened by the inclusion of pink grapefruit, sweetened by rose and enriched by the resinous luxuriousness of elemi, copaiba and cabreuva. A dreamy, soulful perfume that fills our hearts with wanderlust.

Notes: Guaiac, pink grapefruit, rose absolute, elemi, copaiba, cabreuva

I have a sample of the perfume oil, which comes on at first like a strong juicy orange rind, but quickly gives over to an orange blossom, and finally settles into a sweet, full tension between roses and oranges. Over several hours it lightens up, but because it’s an oil, it hides next the skin, floating up strongly when you warm up. So you have a lovely sweet summer scent that comes on like a sudden blushed response to an unexpected compliment. I find it sexy, flirty, ambitiously romantic. I love it.

I am trying to decide if that means I should go for the roll-on alcohol dilute or spring for the very expensive 15ml concentrate. It’s three times as expensive, but has the added benefit of not contaminating the perfume every time I put it on. I could wait a month or two to get it, but then the summer is coming to a close and I don’t see me wearing it a lot in the fall. I think Dzing! and Alamut will be back in full swing by then.

I’ll probably buy it anyway, because I am a full on sucker for a lovely perfume.

...coming in fast, over me...