Santa Casa

I was seeing so many people talk about how you need to be prepared to be put off and "uncomfortable" around this scent? People are ridiculous and dramatic and hear one person say something and then run with it as truth. This scent is not offensive. It's not a gourmand, floral, etc type scent so it's not something you're expecting but it's beautiful still. Don't expect to find anything like it in a store. It smells like the scent of a catholic priest that's passed in his clerical attire. It's deep and genuinely hypnotizing. It's a not a smell you catch in the wind and ignore. It makes people turn heads and question but not in a bad way. It's just undeniable. It's so enchanting that you can almost see it physically manifest. It's sweet at first with scents you can't even begin to explain and then it dries down to sweet and mysterious incense filling a cathedral on a late November evening in the middle of torrential rain pour. It's the smell of the most ethereal apparition you've ever seen walking a cliff. It's the smell of the moon put into a bottle.

I’m already using it and I like its elegant scent, though I’m still exploring all its facets

The Santa Casa scent reminds me of walking through a forest after it rains. Refreshingly clean scent transporting one to a field of wildflowers blooming.

I absolutely adore this perfume. I love incense notes in perfume, especially when they lean resinous and less smoke. The balance of the incense and rose is nothing short of beautiful. My husband has a strong dislike of most perfumes with an incense note: this is only the second exception we have found (the first being Blanche Bête). It has quite a longevity as well. I sprayed it on myself in the afternoon, and I could still smell it on my wrist the following morning.

I thought it smelled like a very dirty/burnt vanilla, which I didn't really like, and my husband thinks on me it smells like gasoline. He's a mechanic, so he knows what that smells like! It's very very strong and lasts all day. Maybe it smells better on other people, but for me, it's a definite no. He didn't want to try it either because he said it smelled so bad. Glad we just got a sample!