Dabney Rose’s all natural perfumes are delicate and charming, always giving me a sense of the divine feminine, a gentle seduction with her softly blended flowers spices and resins.

 Windspeed is a new liquid perfume reminiscent of Dabney’s limited edition La Femme Biker with its touch of chrome and leather but with a more full bodied floral bouquet over a real ambergris base. Windspeed is unabashedly feminine. It starts of mouthwateringly fruity and gently dries down through layers of flowers to an ambergris/light leather/tobacco finale.

Dabney’s new solid perfume Leda (the name inspired from the Greek mythological story of the Leda and the swan) is a bright floral spice with a nice kick of clove dancing between jasmine absolute, ylang ylang , African marigold, lemon verbena, mimosa and Egyptian cassie flowers.

 

If I were as lovely as a swan I would glide across the lake to you

I would preen my feathers just right

And anoint myself with Leda’s Perfume

Redolent of flowers and spice

Demurely I would bow my head

And beckon you with shy eyes

To twine your swan neck around mine

But alas I am only an ugly duckling

And I am too shy to swim across the water to my Swan King

I will have to wait to grow into my feathers and hope

…perhaps the scent of my perfume will waft far enough to reach you?

sillage: gentle

longevity: gentle

natural or blended: natural

worth the risk to buy unsniffed: Yes. both/either Leda and Windspeed

http://www.dabney-rose.com/perfume.htm

blowing in the wind painting from http://www.bonnielanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/blowing-in-the-wind.JPG

Leda and the Swan http://www.abm-enterprises.net/leda-swan-da-vinci-student.jpg

Leave a comment for this post and you are entered to win  the fragrance of your choice – either a Leda Perfume Solid or a Windspeed Liquid perfume. Please specify. Draw ends November 5, 2010 at 11:59 pm.

-Monica “Skye” Miller, Natural Perfume & Senior Editor