Serge Lutens Encens et Lavande Review

Did you have two or three days where everyone and everything is just bugging the shit out of you? I'm going through that right now. My goofy Lab puppy decided that she was going to chew up my slippers today. Sidney was doing so well, not chewing up our belongings and chewing on her toys. I think that since it's cold, wet, rainy and gray, she's mad. Walks have been kind of quick due to the rain and having her just run around in the back yard is pretty much a no go. The front and back yard is nothing but a mud puddle. I was hoping that grocery shopping was going to happen today but it was the home opener for the Cleveland Browns and nobody wanted to do it before or after the game. I hate football and I don't really understand why the home opener for the Browns was so important to the people in my household, sense tells me that what is the point of watching, I know what's going to happen, the Browns pretty much always lose. It's difficult to make anything when half of what you need for anything isn't in the house, so it was beef stroganoff, which I pretty much hate. I might not like grocery shopping but at this point, we need food because I can't live off of huge platters of mac and cheese and Salisbury steak that last for days.

I noticed that I am getting sick of looking a my full bottle collection and it was time to give something else a go. So I pull out Encens et Lavande and spritz. Lavande seems to have been on my radar for a while but I never managed to remember to get a decant when STC or TPC was having a sale but finally managed to remember. I try to keep in mind when testing any Serge Lutens offerings, anything seems to go. But Lavande left me cold and disgruntled. At first, I couldn't smell anything other than a Serge Lutens does ck One. I had said that ck One was an airy, androgynous citrus thing with a whole lot of no development. Lavande isn't much different. Lavender slowly comes on to the scene and the lavender is a pretty cold one and then the incense seems to show up much later. The incense is more like a ghost than an actual note in this one. Lavande is kind of a blatant rip off, a ck One with a cold lavender note and a whisper of incense. There was no real development, if at all. But the biggest thing for me was that it was cold, not ice cold but it was starting to. The lasting power of a spray was around 6 hours and it was 6 hours to long for me. For an Amouage price for a bell jar, I would have expected something better.