Solstice Scents Upstairs Window via the brand
I have a habit of taking walks when the streetlights come on, lingering where only upstairs lamps burn. It started as a glance and a question. Those lit windows feel like open chapters; I want to know what the pages say Solstice Scents’ Upstairs Window caught me on one of those walks, and I kept pulling my sleeve back to check the patch on my wrist like I was reading someone else’s secret.
Upstairs Window slips into the room like a memory I didn’t know I had. The first breath was a warm, gentle glow, slightly resinous, a honey amber that settles quickly, not loud but insistent. It wasn’t syrupy or cloying; it had a softness, a round, golden richness that made me want to stay put and listen to the fragrance breathe. There’s generosity to it, an immediate soft friendliness that invites you closer rather than setting up a barrier.
via Sandi AI
Beeswax is an intrinsic aspect of Solstice Scents Upstairs Window, and I love what it brings to the fragrance. It arrives like the memory of a well-loved candle, warm, honeyed without being overtly sweet. That wax note lends the perfume a handcrafted quality, solid and honest. It makes the scent feel like something physical you could cradle in your palms, not an abstract construct. On my skin, the beeswax rides the whole experience, softening sharper facets and lending a kind of gilded calm.
Table with burning candle via Sandi
Underneath that waxy interplay is dragon’s blood resin, quietly solemn and a little mysterious. It doesn’t shout resinous intensity; it brings a dusky, red-amber depth that grounds the amber and beeswax. The resin is what keeps the composition from flattening into simple sweetness; it adds a lacquered shadow, the ghost of incense, and a sense that there’s history and density to the scent. It shades the amber rather than changes it in an unexpectedly tender way.
Incense smoke trails via Sandi
The spices in Solstice Scents Upstairs Window are modest, tucked beneath the dominant notes rather than pushing to the forefront; they clarify, the way a single stroke can make a sketch. Candied clove gives a sweet accent that brightens certain moments, while cinnamon appears only as a faint echo, more suggestion than statement. They season the scent gently, offering a hint of spice that stops it from feeling monochrome. The overall balance leans warm and enveloping rather than sharp or spicy.
“Fog” is an apt descriptor for how Upstairs Window blurs at the edges. Fog is the trickiest element, and Angela St. John of Solstice Scents has handled it like a soft-focus lens. Not a literal mist but dampened, and carrying the scents from its surroundings. That hush keeps the composition intimate and pulls me toward a reflective space, the place between wakefulness and respite. It diffuses close to the body, forming a private halo that invites others in rather than repels them. It isn’t a large sillage perfume; instead, it favors intimacy. Over the course of the day, the fragrance softens and settles into skin, leaving an amber-wax drydown.
There’s a particular memory-keeping quality to Solstice Scents Upstairs Window that grabs me. Over time, the fragrance came to understand me, fitting like a well-worn glove; it became a way for me to mentally bookmark moments, the small, good things: conversations, a decision ultimately made. These small associations accumulate until the scent felt less like something I had put on and more like something I carried with me, a portable, olfactory keepsake. Each time I wear Upstairs Window, it creates a composite scent memory that, for me, has become comforting, personal, and peaceful, and serves as a fragrant anchor. If you like warm, glowing ambers, with a beeswax heart and a soft resinous shadow, you’ll probably appreciate Upstairs Window. Solstice Scents Upstairs Window keeps a subtle, deliberate light burning and invites you to bring your own memories to it.
Notes: glowing amber, dragon’s blood, beeswax, spices, fog.
Sandi Lundberg, Senior Contributor
Disclosure: Review based on Solstice Scents Upstairs Window from my own collection; thoughts and words are my own.
Solstice Scents Upstairs Window via the brand
Thanks to the generosity of Solstice Scents, we have a 5 ml bottle of Upstairs Window to give away to one registered reader in the USA. You must register for your entry to be counted. To be eligible, please comment on what sparks your interest in Sandi’s review. Draw Closes 11/22/2025
Upstairs Window launched in 2023
Enjoy Editor Emeritus Robert Herrmann’s (R.I.P.) review of Guardian here from the 2017 ÇaFleureBon’s Talisman project, and former Editor Mike Devine awarded Upstairs Window a 2023 Best of Scent Top 10 here. Sweet Clover and Woodsmoke was a top 25 in Michelyn’s 2023 round up.
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