After a long hiatus... I'm back for a post!  I recently started reading another perfume blogger, and her posts inspired me to pick this up again, if only for today.

The perfume of the evening is Laurent Mazzone's Sensual and Decadent.  It is quite possibly the sweetest perfume I've ever worn.  Toothachingly so.  Vanilla, yes, which I adore, but there is some fruitiness in there too, possibly the rhubarb which is a listed note.  Rhubarb, heavy cream, vanilla, honey, some sweet booze, and pounds of sugar to ensure no tart aftertaste.  Somehow though it doesn't read as overly foodie, however.

I am almost embarrassed to admit I love sweet perfumes, and yes, I like this quite a bit as well.  I suspect that I would not want to be immersed in a cloud of this sugar bomb, but it is a scent I definitely enjoy in moderation.  I need to seek out LM's sister scent Sensual Orchid.

While I huff my gloriously delicious wrist, I am also quaffing a quite contrasting brew:  Ale Asylum's experimental Spawn series #19.  We picked up a growler at the brewery on our way back from delivery our holiday visitors to the airport on Monday.

#19 is a beautiful, slightly cloudy light lemony yellow in appearance, perhaps betraying it's hefty 7.3% ABV.  It's got an almost tropical mix of hops going on:  Nugget, the uber-trendy Mosaic, and Denali.  I'm enjoying it very much and hope to see something more permanent along this way added to Ale Asylum's already somewhat hop-heavy line-up.