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DR. JOHN SEWARD 2006 (LE, Discontinued): (Company Says: Penetrating and gifted, vulnerable, with just a hint of opium-blurred delirium: poppy smoke, champaca flower, tonka, sandalwood, ginger, white pepper.)

In the bottle: Sweet and foody, rich and decadent. The tonka is smelling very vanilla here and with the poppy and ginger is doing something that says dessert. The pepper gives and edge and the sandlewood and flowers are subsumed. Wet: starts out making me hungry. Matures a little and you get a sweet smokiness and the sandlewood and champaca come out to play. It is reminding me of the delightful Dia de les Muertos, though it has a darker undertone. There is something indefinably sensual under the cleaner brighter notes. Dry: The floral note strengthens, but it's not a classic floral, almost fruity. I seem to lack words for the effect on me, but it's surprisingly pleasant, despite not being what I was expecting. Alas, it fades rather fast.