Who's that casting devious stares in my direction…

INeKE Evening Edged in Gold

Last but not least, is Evening Edged in Gold. The description and notes immediately go to a warm, dark place:

Basking in moonshadows, trumpets of angels greet the night.

Top notes: gold osmanthus, plum
Middle notes: angel’s trumpet, saffron, cinnamon
Bottom notes: midnight candy, leather, woods

Evening Edged in Gold smells like very little I have ever smelled before, and entirely different from all the offerings A-D. It’s all plums and cinnamon and leather and smoking wood. It’s got a weird dryness that it that I just love. I honestly can’t think of anything else that smells like it, which is always a magical experience. Half an hour later, I can’t stop sniffing at my arm in bafflement. Like the smell one imagines crushed flower petals and fall leaves might create mixed with the smell of wood burning fires welcoming the first cool notes of fall. I think it would make lovely end of Summer/beginning of Fall scent, because I think of Halloween in Salem, Mass and my New England fall honeymoon every time I sniff at it.

Yeah, mama,
this surely is a dream.
~ "Sex and Candy," Marcy Playground

INeKE is available directly from the perfumer at the INeKE website, as well as from BeautyHabit and a list of stores available on the INeKE website.

I only found one INeKE review, a review of Evening Edged in Gold from Perfume Smellin’ Things.

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This wraps up my week of INeKE reviews. I have not yet tried INeKE’s new fragrance, Field Notes from Paris, but the notes sound lovely and the quote is cribbed from one of my all time favorite poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Given the inspiration, I am hopeful I'll fall in love with that one, too!

While I could recommend every single one of these scents for purchase, I think the first one I’ll get will either be Derring-Do, After My Own Heart, or Evening Edged in Gold. Ultimately I hope to own every single scent in the box, for they are all lovely and well-made. This sample box is a real treat for anyone who likes perfume and might be opening to trying a variety of scents!