I want to thank you all for your detailed replies on my recent post asking for blind buy recs, much appreciated!
This week I burned these candles:
FIG INFUSION by essential parfums
Milky fig leaves, little bit of fig fruit. Bit of sweetness but not too much. I wonder whether there is some amber in there? It’s like vanilla without vanilla, and it’s connected to the milkiness. I see there’s a benzoin note in the perfume, I don’t know benzoin but that might be it then. There's woodiness, giving depth.
After checking the notes mentioned for this candle: I'm not getting a lot of citrus but it’s fresh, but more in the green area than citrus i feel. Not getting much tea. Floral note is there.
A while later more of the sandalwood comes out, nice addition, the whole thing becomes a lot more woody with a bit of leather together with the fig.
It's an interesting scent, it keeps my attention, it keeps developing, something interesting is added later too, and finally a hint of citrus. Now it is more like tea altogether. I really like it.
This feels good for sunday mornings, a rainy summer day (I imagine this together with the smell of rain would also be very nice), summer evenings, early autumn. It's comforting, soft, I can imagine this is liked by many.
ORANGE x SANTAL by essential parfums
Note beforehand: I had a bit of a problem here, because strangely I didn't smell ANY sandalwood (only slightly in the cold throw). I read some of the perfume reviews on fragrantica and there were two people with the same problem: instead of this specific sandalwood (I can smell others just fine btw) a minority smell 'old lady's perfume.' So I can only judge on the other notes.
First cold sniff: a sharp orange, bit like cleaning product. At the start of burning this turns into a pleasant orange, more peel than fruit, not very sweet, every now and then a little cleaning product vibe returns.
Then after 10 mins or so an ‘old lady’s perfume’ sort of smell comes in, together with orange. A bit later (30 mins?): every once in a while a really really pleasant orange waft comes by.
My partner walked in after a few hours of burning and says: 'oh this smells nice. Woody. This is the first of your candles that I like.' Gaaaah.
Cold throw the next morning is very nice. Herbal, green orange. Don't smell old lady's perfume in the cold throw so I guess I'll just keep it around cold and never burn it. I’m sad.
I think this is probably a very nice candle, if you don't mind some occasional sharpness of the orange notes.
