Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab: Host of the Air

purchased and reviewed by ThoraSTooth

BPAL Scent of the Day:  The Host of the Air (Bards of Ireland 2009) -- Peat and rolling grass-covered hills, with wine-dappled heather, white clover, cloudberry, juniper berry, bluebell, dandelion, and cross-leaved heath.

Yeats is my favorite poet, and I was happy when I was able to wear this scent based on one of his poems.

In the bottle this one is green, a bit sharp, and sort of mossy, but the minute it hits my skin a sweet floral springs up.  It's white clover, the best white clover note I have ever smelled.  It doesn't last very long before the heather note comes along and wraps around it.  Together with a hint of dandelion (I get mostly the milky stem) they make a beautiful impression of a wide, wild, flowering field.  The other dominant note on my skin is a green juicy note that's very like the ivy note in some of the scents that came after this one.  All that is against a background of slightly bitter, slightly mossy dark green.

I love this one immoderately.  Of all my scents, it's the one I worry the most about running out of because I only ever had a partial bottle of it and haven't been able to find another bottle.  It's that evocative, that lovely.

And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.