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CARNAVAL DIABOLIQUE (Carnivale Diabolique): (Company says: Straight from the twisted alleys of Dis, by way of the City of Angels: opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower.)

In bottle: Lots of lemon flowers and heliotrope. The coconut is next strongest. Wet: On me, mostly lemon and coconut. My skin amps citrus enormously and mildly amps coconut, so there’s no surprise here. Given time, rose, which I also amp joins them. I think I nose a touch of opium and musk in there, but honestly the lemon is so overwhelming with my skin chemistry, there is no chance of this balancing. Dry; The subsumed elements come out a little. The vanilla/heliotrope/apricot combo might have been interesting on it’s own, but is still rather burried under the amped lemon and coconut. Again, I suspect this would be fine on someone else, but my skin chemistry is causing serious imbalance of the elements.