Sahasrara: The Crown
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

This is Sahasrara: The Crown Chakra. This is the Glory of Shiva… The Thousand Petaled Lotus... inspiration… consciousness… transcendence… bliss.

I guess that 'bliss' is a fruity/sweet opening Eau d'Bubblegum... if I remember my childhood Bazooka correctly. I've encountered it in several of the BPAL fragrances before, only in this one, I think it's actually intended to smell this way. As far as I'm concerned, in the other BPAL fragrances the bubblegum smell came across to me as an aberration. The sweetness here has an herbal base that provides some grounding of the excessive sweetness; and the juxtapositioning of the herbs and bubblegum is genuinely interesting. Sahasrara: The Crown of the Chakra Series is one of those fragrances that doesn't really develop from the top notes to the heart notes. It simply lessens in projection and intensity, over a length of time... and it had begun quite softly to begin with. Ebbing into the dry down there is a light incense that moves in and joins with signature sweet accord to produce an accord that reminds me a bit of Encens et Bubblegum by Etat Libre d'Orange (which I have never connected to any kind of chakra). After the incense disappears, the dry down morphs into a long-lasting creamy texture that I find the most enjoyable part of the whole fragrance. The fragrance is definitely light and subtle all the way through its movement. This is a pretty good fragrance, but I'm not thrilled with that primary bubble gum accord that seems too hang around from the top notes to the end.

Sahasrara is the top, the Crown, the last chakra…. To begin at the beginning of the chakra journey, start with the base, the Root, Muladhara.