Simpatico
Opens with a cool, airy rose-geranium accord, balanced with sweet and slightly earthy tobacco notes. The dry down warms up into chocolate amber and musk with a touch of dark wood notes.
Descriptors: floral, gourmand, cool, metallic, musk
Ingredients: Fractionated coconut oil, fragrance
About: Velocity Girl was a band I listened to non-stop for about half a decade. The cold metallic jangle of their guitar paired with the sweet yet somehow detached vocals and power pop song writing had me entranced. They're been on my playlists again and I can't help but wonder why I ever stopped listening to them. Sorry Again is my favorite song off of the Simpatico album, click here to listen to it!
Notes in a perfume are single aspects of the scent. This is similar to how musical notes combine to make a chord.
Notes are not always indicative of a specific ingredient, just the single aspect of the overall scent.
- Accord - A balanced blend of notes that adds up to more than just the sum of its parts
- Agrestic - denotes herbal and/or rustic family of notes
- Allspice - cinnaminic, clove, spices, wood
- Amber - an accord of incense-related notes, usually some (or all!) of the following: vanilla, labdanum, benzoin (styrax).
- Ambergris - oceanic, animalic, musk
- Amyris - deep, earthy, wood, animalic
- Animalic - aroma ingredients that were originally sourced from living animals, almost all of these are now synthetic
- Apricot - fruity, extremely sweet, juicy, jam, honey
- Beeswax - earthy, mild, waxy, resinous
- Birch Leaf - spicy, green, forest, eucalyptus-like without the camphor, refreshing
- Black Agar (synthetic aloeswood) - extremely deep and smoky, incense, dark wood
- Black Leather - sharper and cleaner than Leather
- Blond Wood - light, transparent wood notes
- Cardamom - heady, spicy, warm, often used in tea
- Cashmeran - warm, soft, clean fur-like musk, spicy
- Cedar - deep, wood, sharp, almost animalic
- Cherry Blossom - transparent, sweet, green, fruity
- Cinnamon - bright, spice, sweet, dominant top note unless composed carefully
- Clary Sage – clean, green, diffusive, smokey, salty used to create some synthetic ambergris
- Clove - sharp, spicy, pepper, wood
- Clover - soft, sweet, green, bright, grass
- Coumarin - cherry, almonds, hay, not to be confused with the medication Coumadin
- Dark Rum - deep, smoky, booze
- Fig – warm, juicy, honey, wood, fruit, cinnaminic
- Fir Needles – forest, green, juicy, jam, camphor, Christmas tree
- Frankincense - warm, sharp, resinous, incense
- Freesia - clean, white, floral, peppery
- Geranium - leafy, floral, rose-like
- Iso E Super – warm, transparent, wood, skin enhancer, amber
- Juniper - spicy, gin, green, forest
- Kephalis - warm, transparent, wood, incense, amber
- Labdanum - resinous, amber, incense
- Leather - sharp, deep, earthy, also see Black Leather
- Myrrh - deep, resinous, earthy, sweet, dry, leathery
- Neroli - citrus, green, floral, wood
- Oak Moss - deep, earthy, moss, forest
- Ozone/Air - reminiscent of clean, odorless air, meant to invoke a sensation rather than a specific odor
- Patchouli - earthy, sweet, oily, herbal
- Pear - sweet, juicy, fruity, wood
- Plumeria (Frangipani) - fruity, floral,
- Rose - deep, floral, fruity, jam, spicy
- Rum - sweet, booze, vanillic
- Sandalwood - warm, wood, deep, may have a smoke-like aspect to it
- Styrax - resinous, incense, warm, vanillic, cinnaminic, amber
- Thyme - herbal, agrestic, spicy
- Tomato Leaf - green, earthy, sharp, astringent
- Tulip - floral, white musk, peppery
- Vanilla - Full, warm, resinous, sweet
- Vetiver - earthy, sharp, deep, grass
- Violet Leaf - green, leafy, earthy, powdery
- White Musk - a plant-based musk, cleaner and brighter than animalic musks, can mimic clean skin, can enhance the scent of the wearer's own skin as well