New Fragrance: Two from Dabney Rose “Leda” and “Windspeed” + Draw

 

 

Dabney Rose’s all natural perfumes are delicate and charming, always giving me a sense of the divine feminine, a gentle seduction with her softly blended flowers spices and resins.

 Windspeed is a new liquid perfume reminiscent of Dabney’s limited edition La Femme Biker with its touch of chrome and leather but with a more full bodied floral bouquet over a real ambergris base. Windspeed is unabashedly feminine. It starts of mouthwateringly fruity and gently dries down through layers of flowers to an ambergris/light leather/tobacco finale.

Dabney’s new solid perfume Leda (the name inspired from the Greek mythological story of the Leda and the swan) is a bright floral spice with a nice kick of clove dancing between jasmine absolute, ylang ylang , African marigold, lemon verbena, mimosa and Egyptian cassie flowers.

 

If I were as lovely as a swan I would glide across the lake to you

I would preen my feathers just right

And anoint myself with Leda’s Perfume

Redolent of flowers and spice

Demurely I would bow my head

And beckon you with shy eyes

To twine your swan neck around mine

But alas I am only an ugly duckling

And I am too shy to swim across the water to my Swan King

I will have to wait to grow into my feathers and hope

…perhaps the scent of my perfume will waft far enough to reach you?

sillage: gentle

longevity: gentle

natural or blended: natural

worth the risk to buy unsniffed: Yes. both/either Leda and Windspeed

http://www.dabney-rose.com/perfume.htm

blowing in the wind painting from http://www.bonnielanz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/blowing-in-the-wind.JPG

Leda and the Swan http://www.abm-enterprises.net/leda-swan-da-vinci-student.jpg

Leave a comment for this post and you are entered to win  the fragrance of your choice – either a Leda Perfume Solid or a Windspeed Liquid perfume. Please specify. Draw ends November 5, 2010 at 11:59 pm.

-Monica “Skye” Miller, Natural Perfume & Senior Editor

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20 comments

  • Mmm, marigold and cassie, I don't see much of them, and together, they sound wonderful! Please enter me in the drawing.

  • I would love to be entered in the draw 🙂
    Both perfumes sound lovely but if I won I would pick Leda. I love all its notes.

    Thanks!

  • I would love to try these perfumes! I hope I win… if not, sweet Dabney, an order will follow by Christmas. Everything I try of yours, I love!

  • I'm fortunate to already own Dabney's AmberLeah and Rose Aimee.
    I just know Dabney will have made gentle , stylish magic with these perfumes.
    ps.. my addication to ambergris knows no bounds..  put me in the draw please? Every little bit helps    🙂

  • They both sound unique, distinct and very beautiful. Were I to win I would choose Windspeed because I find the concept of beginning fruity notes drying down to ambergris  leather, tobacco beguiling and seductive.
    Thanks for the opportunity to be featured in your drawing.

  • Windspeed sounds especially lovely (and LOVE the name!!), and I would really appreciate being entered.

  • Decisions, decisions! Both are sounding fab!  Windspeed's fem is good by me but Leda has the more interesting notes (notes usually win) .So,  it's eeny, meeny, miny, moe. I'll take one of each!  LOL

  • both aa gona fab cos if its monica magic d perfums r touched by heart through nose…rose better than rose…n  speed faster than wind…..

  • ooh!  They both sound delightful, and if they are anything as lovely as Amberleah, what joy!  Please enter me in your drawing Lady M!

  • Wow! The verse was beautiful!

    "Demurely I would bow my head
    And beckon you with shy eyes"

    And the references to The Ugly Duckling & Swan…

    They made the choice for me! Both sound heavenly, but if I have to choose one, I'll now go with Leda! 😀

  • taffynfontana says:

    I love natural perfumes they are so refreshing to the soul. Please enter me in the draw Windspeed sounds exquisite. 🙂

  • Great review, Monica!
    Dabney, I can't wait to smell your perfumes, I hope everyone tries your beautiful hydrosols too, I love them! You're a unique trailblazer!
    XOXO~Laurie Stern