BPAL Review: The Grindhouse and The Ladies of the Grindhouse | 4- Ashultum

BPAL Review: The Grindhouse and The Ladies of the Grindhouse |

4 - ASHLULTUM

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The description of the scent:

Babylonian musk, vanilla tea, tonka, tobacco, coconut, hyssop, and lilac.

The background of the name:

All I could find on her was this: "A queen of Sargon. Her name is an abbreviation of the sentence, 'I took you/her as spoil'." Sargon was a leader of ancient Mesopotamia, who ruled for 56 years, creating quite an empire.

Initial impressions:

Herbal lilac, which is really really nice! I happen to LOVE lilac (though am violently allergic).

More thoughts:

Once on and given time to settle down, this is much more than a lilac scent on me. In fact, the lilac is nicely balanced by the other scents. Babylonian musk, vanilla tea and tonka help make the scent full and lovely, balancing the lilac (which in other scents can be heady and o'erbearing). I don't really smell the tobacco, but for me that's good as I often turn that into a nasty sweaty mess. The coconut is either wiley, or I just don't wear coconut well. Not sure which, but I don't get a sense of it here.

Here's another scent that I smelled the morning after I put it on. Not too shabby!

Other scents have a tendency to slowly die down. Not Ashultum! She picks up power as she goes, which keeps her mysterious and unpredictable. I'd assume taking her as a spoil may have not ended exactly the way Sargon may have originaly expected.