holy smokes, no matter what else happens today is going to be a great day because i have finally tried l'air du desert marocain and it is everything i could have dreamed of and more. i have never huffed at my elbow like a maniac over and over before, but there's no way to show any restraint with this one. i have found 3, maybe 4 "could definitely see wanting a full size bottle and calling it Mine" signature-possible perfumes so far, but of course there's always something fiddly about each one preventing me from pulling the trigger--too rich literally and figuratively (amouages), too bizarrely impossible to obtain (fumerie turque, alas), too seasonal and i didn't plan ahead wisely (comme des garcons 2). but this. i think i may just stop everything and order a bottle of this posthaste.

it reminds me of our road trip through the southwest, there's a clarity and vast blue skied clean-yet-dusty/sandy (almost sagebrush) BIG SPACE quality to it yes, but also those warm sweet spices i tend to gravitate toward. but the combo of the dry dustiness and big open sky sort of feel with those spices sets it apart which is no small feat considering as much as i lean towards warm spicy oriental perfumes i recognize the same-y tired "does there really need to be thousands of these" thing. and also keeps it from being strictly a late night winter bedroom thing, which is the other problem with them for me now given i live in memphis (but just can't bring myself to do grapefuit, nope). it's the frame i'm used to, that anything i'd consider really "Mine" would have to at least quote, but yeah, put into a huge open blue sky, the sort of summer heat that makes the air have a sparkly sound to it, the aural equivalent of seeing stars when you smash your eyelids closed. ohhhh.

EDIT/update: done! fastest nose to bottle to clicking "confirm order" ever i reckon. makes getting 2 falling through not at all sad anymore, but weirdly ideal.