Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is the newest launch from Dipique.

Thank you so much to the lovely Hannah Nelson who sent me a sample of it. I am wearing Luzulio.

The first thing that I smell in Luzulio is like a deconstructed rhubarb.

It's got that same sort of sulfuric, slightly vegetal quality of a kind of tart, effervescent

rhubarb accord that you've likely smelled before.

But in here, it almost feels like a rhubarb

reduction, like it smells kind of viscous, you know what I'm talking about, and also distinctly

vegetable. Occasionally, I encounter a rhubarb accord whose vegetal quality reminds me specifically

of canned vegetables, and even more specifically, baby corn or beets,

sometimes even peeled tomatoes. It's definitely more starchy than a sort of like crunchy,

green, leafy, vegetable note. But it also has a sort of briny, slippery, slimy quality to it.

And that is what I get here. As a reference, I do find something very similar in Joram Studios, Pony Boy, which also has a rhubarb accord, but also has a

beat root accord. So it's interesting. But we're a pony boy, and I don't currently have it in

front of me, so I'm just speaking from memory,

but where pony boy feels a bit more tart and, like, truly greenhouse evoking.

You know what? As I'm thinking about this, Correa Scarra from this collection also has a similar vegetable quality. In any event, in comparison, Lozulio feels steeped in something cozy, a sort of like spicy, grainy tonka.

And while as I'm speaking to you, it's very easy for me to describe what I am smelling,

I am having a hard time discerning how I feel about what I'm smelling.

At first blush, I don't dislike this scent, but I'm also not really a fan

of it, specifically because I can't get this canned vegetable thing out of my head. On my skin,

though, it's really pleasant. It's kind of like tea-like, almost in a sort of ribos-evoking way,

and there's a really beautiful, soft but sturdy vetiver that anchors the entire scent.

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