I think my November perfume is finished. I made a few small adjustments to it this afternoon so will know tomorrow for certain. It wound up being a much more complex perfume than I had intended but that is often the way. The scent is also rather unusual for me - it's sweet. Still, it's a very delicate sweetness that speaks more of autumn leaves, hickory smoke, golden apples and the spices of a pumpkin pie than anything heavy or cloying. I can't really make a cloying perfume...
As i said, November is a very complex scent. It's main note is Pumpkin Pie blended with the scents of the autumn woods, fallen leaves, bonfires and delicious apples - all of these scents are quite complex in themselves. November has a lovely soft lush quality on the skin which to my surprise I greatly enjoy - normally I myself am drawn to greener things. But since I wear every scent I make while I'm working on it, I've been wearing a lot of November lately and am very pleased with its effect.
So, although I'm fairly sure it's finished, tomorrow I'm going to smell it again to make certain all is well. And if so, I'll compound it and hopefully have it in the gallery by the weekend and on the website sometime next week. I've already finished the labels - now it's a matter of printing them and photographing the bottles.
And I've decided that November is going to be the 3rd in my Metamorphosis Series. I wasn't absolutely sure about that until today. But the scent holds for me the comfort that is so necessary in November as the year fades away...