Bête Noire, the black beast in French, something which follows you around and tempts you and you fall for it every time. La Mère De La Bête Noire is that in spades! You cannot resist her, she knows all of your tricks. The deepest, darkest, most resionous and powerful ingredients that I possess went into the making of La Mère De La Bête Noire, and I have to say it is glorious. You cannot get darker, thicker, more resinous and complex yet still at a harmonious whole. It is damned good. *sigh* I used some things I have been keeping for a long time on this one: aged patchouli which is more like molasses than patchouli (almost black and thick) but you can't really pick it out because I didn't slop it in, I dropped it in until I got that lovely background "noise" you can get with patchouli. I have a frankincense that I think it a dream from a great source and this one got good play here, there is a copal (again from a real good source, read not cheap) and that went in the mix as well. I am making a black musk which is very hard to describe but it is a reddish black and exceptionally full throated deep as an abandoned well and potent. I have a black tea (a real black tea essence) which is more like a paste which I had to reconstitute in oil through heat and get to a liquid before carefully putting it in and a bunch of other elements that I think are a great set of friends. It kind of reminds me of Angelina Jolie in that remake of Beowulf where she is the Mother of Grendel (and the most beautiful thing — -oo la la). Yes, that is what it is like. It does all blend together, it is not for the faint of heart but if you are a romantic, you will adore it. I bet he will too!
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