Hades - The gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears. The Unseen. Eldest brother of Zeus, Husband of Persephone, Lord of the Underworld and Commander of the Demons of the Underworld, God of Wealth, whose epithets are Clymenus (Notorious), Eubuleus (Wise in Counsel), and Polydegmon (He who receives many / The Hospitable). Though he is a dark, morbid and morose deity, fierce and relentless, and is stern, pitiless, and sometimes cruel, he is by no means an evil God. His justice is true, even-handed and absolute, and he is possessed of unbreakable loyalty, single-minded devotion to duty, and immense courage. A dark, palpably sacred chthonic blend: black narcissus and cypress, stephanotis, opoponax, labdanum, onycha and ambergris.
In the vial, it smells like church incense to me. Colorwise, I'm getting mahogany - that deep rich red brown.
Wet on my skin, mmm... impressive. Not oppressively heavy. The only note I can *identify* is the cypress and I've always liked that one.
10-15 dry-down - Ok, I can't separate notes, but me likey. I swear I smell cinnamon or cassia in this somewhere, but there's none listed.
1 hour dry-down - I'm half tempted to order a full bottle of this one. I like it a lot. It's incense-y without being cloying and sweet without being sugary.
note - no wonder it smells like church incense! Onycha is made from part of a snail and it was one of the ingredients in the temple incense described in the Book of Exodus.
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