HS3

I recently ran out of my Amouage Ciel sample after a couple wears. It struck me absolutely perfect for what they market it as – a fragrance to welcome spring with. The stars seemed to align as I got an email from Luscious Cargo (they are fabulous by the way and reopening a brick and mortar store here in Central FL in a few months… I’m excited) that they had added a few scents and upped the discount on their clearance sale. I went onto their site to find an already discounted bottle of Amouage Ciel for Him in the older leaded crystal bottles, plus an additional 30% off. I knew that kind of discount on an Amouage wouldn’t find me again soon, much less on increasingly hard to find older packaging. I bought it. If you’ve never ordered from them before, I urge you to do so – their packaging is incredible. It comes filled with samples, raffia, candies, incense, dried orange peel, and lavender. It’s such a great experience to get a package from them.

The bottle is gorgeous, though the outer packaging is a bit hokey. While I really do like the newer bottles and great boxes, I feel like using plastic caps (on most… Silver is metal) and regular glass bottles seem to have a hard time justifying their packaging premiums. On this one, they also lost the azure blue color of the juice for a light golden in the new packaging, only keeping the blue in the small plastic gem in the cap (the juice looks greener in these photos than it is… sad little camera). Also, the sprayer on these older bottles is unmatched… it’s a full, luxurious spray that is really quite satisfying. Imagine a KSSSHHHT versus a PFFT. Make sense? Thought so.

Apologies for the less than optimal photos – both, BOTH of my digital cameras broke within two weeks of each other. I haven’t had a chance to get a new one yet and have all the strobes taken down, so the Sony point-and-shoot had to step in snapshot style.