I get liquorice, camphor and raisins for the first ten minutes. Heart is patchouli, bitter cocoa, cardamom and wood. This is simply gorgeous. The comparisons with Angel are understandable due to that ...
Serge Lutens and Christopher Sheldrake chose not to gild the lily, or in this case the patchouli, in composing Borneo 1834. Instead of a heavy, sweet, gourmand fragrance, which the house certainly can...
Patchouli and chocolate, but not sweet chocolate. Bitter, dark chocolate. Wet earth, leaves, ancient trees in a dark forest. All these come to mind with Borneo. This is not for the faint hearted! Th...
Here's a link to a great review of the EDP. I dont think I could put it any better. http://www.theblackthornorphans.com/
Borneo is a patchouli masterpiece. It is as if Angel traded in her glitter lip gloss and clear platform heels for a deep burgundy lipstick and velvet smoking slippers. It is a smooth, dark, polishe...
I was hoping to get more cocoa and amber from this, but I only get a hint of cocoa for the first 30 seconds on my skin, and then this quickly settles into all patchouli all the time. It's a sweet, ea...
i love it forever. it smells like dank colonial oppression - what dark desires. chocolate, tobacco, patchouli, and teak - perfect.
This is a huge patchouli blast! I understand patchouli leaves were used to keep away moths - this could clear a county of moths! And the chocolate note does not work for me either, it is too stale and...
Notes: patchouli, white flowers, cardamom, galbanum, french labdanum and cacao. The first blast is dark chocolate and patchouli, as if I was smelling an exotic dark chocolate bar. On me the chocolate...
