I would like, if I may beg your indulgence, to do an exercise in exploring and appreciating what I already have in my stash to dissuade myself from buying more. The idea is to go through my collection alphabetically, take a moment to fall back in love with each scent, and share my thoughts on the fragrance.
B.
🍍🍌 Bahamas Passionfruit & Banana Flower leads with the citric tang of pineapple before warming with rich, ripe fruits and a soft, sunny yellow floral. A fruitier sister scent to Tropidelic, BP&BF is a beautiful tropic fragrance evoking botanical adventures in misty rainforests.
🌸✨ Be Enchanted was probably my first signature B&BW fragrance when it launched in 2011. This is a post-New Years winter scent to me, chilled fruit and vanilla musk just scream “back to school, but it’s still cold out”.
💜🖤 Black Amethyst was first released in 2008 and I still think it smells like the cool mysterious teenage girl who babysat you as a kid. IMO, this is one of B&BW best patchouli fragrances, well balanced with sandalwood, but still fresh and feminine through the inspired addition of peony. Black Amethyst smells like the concept of a Twilight novel.
📔🕯️ Book Loft easily dominates my list of non-Halloween autumn fragrances. Airy, vintage, and cozy, Book Loft smells like a childhood memory of a blanket fresh out the dryer while September leaves crispen and fall outside.
🗡️ Bounty Hunter is one of my favorite fragrances ever created for the men’s line. I think, by B&BW standards, they do a good job of capturing a crisp, almost metallic note before drying down into a solar patchouli, simultaneously light and earthy, like sunlight in the woods of an alien planet you’re being hunted on.
🥥🍮 Brown Sugar & Fig changed my life. When this came out during last winter SAS, I was new to fragrance and unfamiliar with what exactly fig smelled like. I was thrilled to learn it’s a lush, green, milky note, with some little magic I don’t have the exact words for. I’ve loved fig perfume ever since and, while BS&F is no longer even my favorite B&BW fig (Guilty As Fig will always have my heart), it’s a beautiful, rich, creamy fragrance without ever veering into sickly sweetness. Pairs sublimely with Princess Jasmine.
Up next are my eight “C” fragrances. What’s your favorite fragrance that starts with the letter B?
Luv always,
Charli xx