Nocturne Alchemy Reviews

Eternal Luxor
NA Amber, Golden Egyptian Fig, Creamy Coconut Milk and Toasted Coconut Oil.

Coconut tamped by the amber and milk. Not a tropical scent at all. It's actually beautiful and very wearable. Also on a totally different stratosphere than coconut moonstone so trying both would be wise!

Eternal Egypt
White Amber, Red Egyptian Musk, Egyptian Amber and the sands of Egypt. A beautiful enrapturing scent.

Liking this! I think the sand note goes much better in this for me than Eternal Ankh. Which is bizarre because I'm a vanilla addict. This smells so rich and smooth. Also another note.. BPAL's red musk note is a HUGE turnoff for me.. it smells like cherry musk or something. The red musk in this is totally (and I mean TOTALLY) different. I don't smell any red fruit at all in this. Just a very smooth beautiful scent. No wonder it's their Signature Scent. I'm so glad I picked this up even though I was so afraid of the red musk in the description. 

Vanilla Necropolis
Egyptian Red Amber, Black Rose, Egyptian Red Musk, Sweet Amber, Allspice, French Vanilla, Persian Vanilla, Vanilla Bean and Vanilla absolute. The complete aspect follows with the Purple Rose of Cairo, Egyptian Vanilla Absolute and a deeper Vanilla Necropolis resolution.

Rose! Pretty! *boots the musk out* No likely rose smells mixed with musty musk or patchouli. At least the musk isn't the biggest note. The rest of it is quite lovely and very wearable. It's not the loud in-your-face rose that a lot of scents have but a beautiful well-behaved jammy rose. The amber is very pretty mixed in. For all the vanilla notes in the description I can't smell any of them. My nose is broken or something!

Bassima
A soft coconut, butter and warm sugar scent enriched with subtle nutmeg and fig. 

I smell the coconut and nutmeg mostly. It's pretty. Close to the skin. Faint (my experience with Malban too.. how odd) Now I can smell the green of the fig. It's lovely. Doesn't really smell foody to me. 

Malban
Quite simply it is a luxurious caramel, vanilla, walnut and sugar delight.

I don't really smell the meat of the walnut but the shell (if that makes any sense). Also smell the caramel. It seems very faint to me. Very very faint. I wish it was stronger. Maybe this needs to age .. alot. Because what I can smell of it smells lovely. 

Bes
Vanilla Cream Vapour, Caramelized Egyptian Sugar Dust, Vanilla Musk, Cardamom, Sandalwood and Egyptian Black Clove Buds.

Interesting! I very definitely smell the clove but it's a sweet pretty almost dainty clove. The faint scent of something almost incensy and musty (maybe the musk?) I like this.. definiltely another of my comfy in jeans reading book by a window where it's raining outside. This is a really pretty smooth yet spicy scent. Feminine. I smell all of the notes. (not a huge musk/patchouli girl admittedly). I like this. I wouldn't consider this foody at all. 

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Nocturne Alchemy reviews

The bottles themselves feel really nice. The labels are shiney and gold which I thought I wouldn't like. I do. The cap feels nice and the top is nicely rounded just a touch. They have reducer caps but the scent flows through them well (I have to beat my bottles against my skin with Conjure caps for some reason). 

My favorites right off are Apricot Kobalt, Raspberry Kobalt/Egyptian Black Raspberry and Coco Nilla Bats. 

Eternal Ankh 

White Amber, Powdered and reconstructed oil of Egyptian Vanilla Husk, Vanilla fleck, African White Vanilla and the scent of soft Egyptian Sands.

Interesting. I don't smell the vanilla so much as this unidentifiable note. It smells airy and delicate. I have no idea how I can review this. lol It's pleasant and girly and almost smells like a flower I've never smelled before if that makes sense. It almost blooms. I'm probably going to have to come back and change this once I have some NA experience so I can try to explain what I'm smelling. In the meantime try it out. It's very unique. 

Apricot Kobalt

African Apricot, Apricot Cream, Vanilla Cream, Nokturne:Kobalt. A delicious way to spend an afternoon. Purrrrrrrrrr.

LOVE this! I associate apricots with Beatrix Potter so this scent reminds me of Miss Moppet, Ginger, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Timmy Tiptoes and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. It's so comforting and beautiful. I am madly in love with the underlying kobalt vanilla. It is the warm vanilla cakey vanilla of my dreams with just the slightest note of apricots. Not a bright sharp apricot but a smooooth almost earthy beautiful apricot. Big hit with me. I highly recommend. 

Raspberry Kobalt

Aromatic Egyptian Raspberry, rich Egyptian Vanilla (Nokturne:Kobalt). Simplicity.

How lovely! I smell the beautiful Kobalt vanilla (I haven't tried many of the vanillas yet but I am in love with this) and a very real raspberry which is juicy and ripe. No candy or strawberry shortcake smell-o-dolly on me. 

The vanilla balance makes this a wearable, beautiful raspberry scent. This is a happy scent and one I can see wearing often. The throw seems really nice as well!

Egyptian Black Raspberry

Egyptian Black Raspberry with the subtlety of vanilla and fig. Enrapturing to say the least. This mingled with the sweat of your skin could lead to a very very intoxicating night ahead.

A brighter and almost greener (fig?) raspberry than Raspberry Kobalt. I guess now I can smell the vanilla and how it smooths it out in the Raspberry Kobalt scent. This is super yummy though. I can't really name a favorite of the two because they both smell so beautiful and simliar. If I had to use one word to describe each Black Egyptian Raspberry would be bright. Raspberry Kobalt would be smooth.

This is not the fig of philosykos (which is the only fig scent I have ever smelled). It's a green bright fig. Quite yummy.  

Coconut Moonstone

Egyptian Coconut Husk, Nokturne:Moonstone (The true Husk, black and white Fleck, essence and whole of African White Vanilla with a kiss of Crystalline) and a drop of peach to nuance the natural sweetness of the blend; a perfume blend for summer days and summer nights.

Yep! Coconut. I happen to love coconut so it doesn't dissapoint. It hasn't gone plasticky on me at all and it smells smooth. My nose isn't attuned enough to the variations of basenotes in NA scents so I dont think I pick up the vanilla. It's nice though. 

Coco 'Nilla Bats

Warm Halloween Cocoa, little marshmallows floating around in there, Vanilla of Crystalline and Crystal Nokturne, a few drops of Nokturne: Aurora (imported from Paris, French Vanilla and aged to perfection) sleeping peacefully in a tree full of quiet and intoxicating Egyptian Musk and a drop of Amber. Oh and some candy corn...for good measure and a spoon full of chocolate cake batter.

Bunch of dry chocolate up in the bottle and on my skin initially. Not unpleasant but akin to sticking my nose in a can of hershey's chocolate milk powder. Minutes later it's becoming warmer.. almost as if it's being warmed into a hot chocolate sauce. Oh wow.. first impression was.. cool. powered chocolate. But only a few minutes it and it's blooming into a super sexy vanilly chocolate scent. My boyfriend across the room perked up and said "do you smell chocolate??" lol. It's stroooong.. *PERFECT*  You have to get this before it is gone! 

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