Dragon's Milk
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

Dragon’s Milk is very, very sweet at first – an experience akin to sticking your nose into a sticky honeycomb straight from the hive. But thankfully, the intensity of the honey is soon cut by a rubbery almond vanilla accord, which gives the scent a gentle pastry cream texture and chases out all the initial sharpness.

As the scent evolves, I begin to understand better what it is all about. This is the cherry-almond playdough of The People of the Labyrinths’ Luctor et Emergo translated to BPAL oil form, with a crumb of Etro Heliotrope’s bouncy almond cake thrown in for good measure. Fans of these cherry lokhoum scents can blind buy Dragon’s Milk with confidence. It is very similar to both the Etro and the People of the Labyrinths, albeit simpler and blunter in structure.

First on it's nearly sickeningly sweet. But after it's dried down a bit, it takes on a slightly creamy, powdery smell that's not bad. After a few hours it warms up and has a much deeper scent reminiscent of Sandalwood and Dragon's Blood incense- but it still retains that very thick, creamy sweetness.

Sweet, sweet sandalwood. This... this is Joop! Homme just... not as medicinal, more creamy and even longer lasting. I guess Joop! milks dragons and dilutes it for profit.... Dragon's Milk is just too way over the top to be a wearable fragrance.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab describes Dragon's Milk as "dragon's blood resin* and honeyed vanilla."Dragon's Milk is sweet and creamy, but there's a depth behind the vanilla cream, presumably the dragon's blood. It goes on very, very sweet (and smells really sweet in the bottle), but once it's on, it's a beautiful, strangely innocent sort of fragrance. It feels motherly, homey, and comforting.*Dragon's Blood resin is obtained from plants of the Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops, or Pterocarpus genera. It can form hardened red drops as it seeps from injured branches or trunks, which is presumably the origin of the name "dragons' blood."

The main characteristic of Dragon's Milk is that it is super sweet. No kidding, it might be the sweetest fragrance I've smelled. It's a honey, cherry sweetness that has a sweet-milk sweetness added to it – it smells gooey. There's definitely a floral quality to it and there's a bit of smokiness in the far background, but mainly it's sweet. Cloying and it lasts forever.