Breath Of God

Breath of God - what a masterpiece. I have a bottle from Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful days. This bottle is no longer available. Luckily the scent came back from Lush as part of the Gorilla perfumes. It's now sold in a simple, black package instead of this eccentric bottle.

The most important issue is that it is available. The package is not important, the scent is.

I read reviews about Breath of God. I got interested. Even the name was so.. big and strange. I mean, Breath of God? It's nothing like the usual PinkStars-BlingSexy-Some CelebWow names. I read more descriptions. It sounded like the perfect scent. But you know how sometimes you think you'll like something and IRL your nose says no thanks and disagrees? I ordered the sample first. I tested with excitement - would I love or hate it or would it be just bland?

It was so good that tears came to my eyes and dear readers, I'm telling you the truth. I smelled smoke and forests. I was suddenly at the riverside close to my birthplace where the winds blow over the water bringing notes of forests and smoke and something wild. First images settled on my skin and mind. The scent lured me and stayed with me. Later the Yang turned into Yin and I could smell flowers, but not those ordinary big blossoming ones, but something different. Wild flowers, flowers deep in the forests.

It's perfect, original and in balance.

You know a good scent when it has all the phases and not just one slap in your nose. You know it's good when it stays and lingers and the last phase holds on. You know you love it when you get your imagination running wild and you get an genuine aesthetic experience instead of feeling just fashionable or sexy.

"Wearing it, I feel a sense of wonder that so late in the perfume game there still can be such profound invention." - Perfumes The A to Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. Check out my review of their book.

When you read other reviews of Breath of God you notice words like weird, surprising, original, different, masculine and feminine. This scent might scare the pants off you if you're not ready for it. But I recommend: be brave, test it. There's no other perfume like it.

While B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful was gone and all its perfumes unavailable, I was afraid to use this. I planned on holding on to every drop of it as long as I could and then keep the bottle. You know how good scent lingers on the empty bottle? I was so happy when Gorilla Perfumes marched in Lush stores, because then I could open my perfume cabinet and experience the Breath of God again.

There's neroli, lemon, melon, jasmine, rose, vetivert, sandalwood, cedarwood, amber and musk in Breath of God. They sound like ordinary ingredients. But the composition is not. I have sniffed the solid one in Lush shop and it was ok too. I haven't tested those separated parts Inhale and Exhale yet. I wonder if I'll ever test them - why, when there already is the one and only Breath of God.