London
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

London's burning
London's burning
All across the town, all across the night
Everybody's driving with full headlights
Black or white, you turn it on, you face the new religion

London gives me the impression of a vase of tea roses in a big, airy room with a waxed wooden floor. This room is still apart from a ticking clock, but somewhere in the house, someone is quietly going insane. I don't know that it's what I would call a "dark" fragrance aesthetically - it's actually more on the clean and green side - though somehow it captures in scent the chilly tension between a pristine, respectable appearance and a secret neurosis.

A tea rose that isn't a twee rose!I'm giving London a neutral rating, as I'm not sure that I'd want to wear this by itself very often. Also, I really cannot place what's being used to "darken" the tea rose note. Either I'm anosmic to the additions, or they don't project near as much from the oil base as the rose does. I have enjoyed layering a small amount of it with other fragrances, like Knize Ten, so it may be bottle-worthy as a way to change things up. London is definitely worth sampling anyway - an imp is inexpensive and some folks may value having it for a reference.