Vendor: Les Liquides Imaginaires
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Les Liquides Imaginaires · 2014
Lacrima Eau de Parfum
Longevity
Very long8-12 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Divisive
woody
smoky
grounded
Smoky resin incense with sharp pepper, musky woods
Scent Notes
Woody / SmokyAffiliate link. We earn a small commission, you pay the same.
Snapshot
The full profile.
About This Perfume
Think Smoky resin incense with sharp pepper, musky woods: that is Les Liquides Imaginaires Lacrima. It opens with pink pepper and aldehydes, moves into elemi resin and woods and settles on benzoin, moss and castoreum. It reads unisex.
It is best in spring, fall and winter and is an evening scent. It suits nights out. Released in 2014.
Wearers report that it lasts well into the evening, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something woody and smoky for nights out.
- Sample first if: you are unsure about strong resinous notes; this one divides opinion.
- Skip if: you dislike spicy fragrances.
Around $103.
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The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Night out
The Brand
Les Liquides Imaginaires
Les Liquides Imaginaires is a Paris niche house built on conceptual perfumery: each release is composed around a theme (the sacred, the seductive, the cursed). 35 Les Liquides Imaginaires perfumes are catalogued, spanning about $89 to $285 in price. People discussing this house most often name Les Liquides Imaginaires Blanche Bête, Les Liquides Imaginaires Dom Rosa or Les Liquides Imaginaires Bloody Wood.
What the picks smell like
Les Liquides Imaginaires Blanche Bête (EDP, 2021) reads as creamy milk pudding warmed by cocoa and vanilla, drying down to tonka bean, vanilla and cocoa. Les Liquides Imaginaires Dom Rosa (2013) comes across as sparkling grapefruit, pear and rose with warm incense, opening on champagne and grapefruit. For Les Liquides Imaginaires Bloody Wood (2013), expect smoky red wine cherries, rose and violets over oak.
If you like what you see here, gourmand perfumes and floral perfumes are good next stops, and the Scendira brands page has the rest.
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Vendor: Les Liquides Imaginaires
Bloody Wood
smoky red wine cherries, rose violets, oak
$144.00
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FAQ
Common questions.
It smells like Smoky resin incense with sharp pepper, musky woods. It opens with pink pepper and aldehydes, moves into elemi resin and woods and settles on benzoin, moss and castoreum.
Wearers report that it lasts well into the evening, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in spring, fall and winter. It is an evening scent. It suits nights out.
It reads unisex.
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