High above the village, a castle sits shrouded in a heavy gray mist. Muted moonlight illuminates its upper terraces. Thick with incense smoke, the loggia swells with invited guests, each heavily cloaked and masked. Laughter, violas and a harpsichord fill the night. Wine flows from never-ending mahogany vats. Exotic spices drape the air in fragrant bouquets. A bell rings from the archway, and all in attendance fall silent as the master of the night creatures crosses the paving stones. Loggia is a blend of rich mahogany wood, sweet amber, musk, dark incense, deep vanilla bean and spices. A mixed media blend with essential oils of sandalwood, cardamom, black pepper, cognac and allspice. All of these notes meld together to create a dark, rich polished wood with a cool creamy sweetness and pleasing spice medley. Loggia features noted of mahogany, amber, musk, vanilla bean, allspice, cardamom, black pepper, cognac and sandalwood. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Created by Angela St. John as part of a collection of fragrances based on the fictional town of Foxcroft, Maine.
SOLSTICE SCENTS LOGGIA REVIEWS
Fragrantica: "I adore this, one of my top faves from SS. This pulls quite SWEET on me... warm and cozy. A log cabin, spices but sweet smoke and an abundance of maple. This is SO maple on me, so it must be the spices, vanilla, cognac, and sandalwood? It's a beautiful log cabin in the deepest maple woods, and it's all mine! Love this. (I expected Maplewood Inn to be like this... given that has the notes I smell here. Maplewood Inn is HELLA smoky on me.)"
Fragrantica: "I love this scent. It smells like you are in a polished wood cabin and a fancy older woman walks by and is wearing a spicy vanilla-musk perfume! my sister said “you smell like old lady perfume.” i couldn’t stop sniffing my wrist all day at work, I’m obsessed!"
Fragrantica: "Imagine the poshest, most polished home you’ve ever been invited to, recall the awe you felt traversing its passageways and the illicit delight you felt at peeking in every doorway and chest of drawers, and that may give you a minute inkling of Loggia’s appeal. Conjure the memory of those opulent wooden doors with their exacting filigree details; creamy white European linen draped on tables whose construction may be older than the country in which you’re currently living; an enormous, roaring fireplace where exotic woods crackle and blaze merrily; a silvery, bright kitchen from which the most ambrosial aromas drift, sparking visions of delicacies and confections the likes of which you, you poor sod, have never before experienced. An elegant glass snifter with a generous pour of deep amber liquid shimmers in the firelight. (You’re too young to drink that, but you’re quite certain it tastes of clover honey and sweet tea and vanilla wafers, and it will make you feel giddy and giggly and important and maybe a little sad.) Have you ever been to such a place? Have I? Or have I only read of it in books, or dreamed it?"
Fragrantica: "Very much reminds me of the feel of TOBACCO VANILLE. Similar stories, different flavor, identical vibe. Bold, hot opening dries down to creamy smooth sweet spice. Perfectly unisex. If you like T.V. but want a less common, fresher/lighter scent, this is for you. I can see this as a spring fragrance, transitioning from richer, cold winter scents to lighter, summer styles."
Fragrantica: "Love this scent and just ordered a full-size. The individual notes are well-blended and no one note dominates for me - I get a lovely incense smoke, and a creamy, almost fruity accord - like the aromatic woods found in an orchard. It must be the cognac and/or the musk with the woods? The drydown becomes more spicy, but the fruity, faintly boozy, sweet top notes never really dissapear completely on me. Wood-heavy fragrances are rarely feminine, but I would say this is unisex leaning feminine on account of that sweet, creamy note. Personally, it gives me a wave of nostalgia - my grandmother used to wear Avon’s Topaze, and this is reminiscent (wood, musk, spice). However, Loggia is infinitely more natural, balanced, and modern - no fussy florals or fizzy aldehydes. Easier to wear, yet more nuanced. It’s a lovely balance between light and fresh, and refined - I’d say it’s very well suited to cold-weather daytime wear and to a special evening out. A small dab with the sample wand makes it stay very close to the skin, but the longevity is impressive - still a complex, lovely scent 6 hours in, on my scent-canceling skin!"
