Brown Girl Jane - Carnivale

Carnivale is a mango perfume, but it's not a particularly juicy, sweet mango - it's a mango that has just turned from green to ripe. It's got a bit of that tannic green quality from the mango skin mixed with the aroma of the fruit. It also has a little bit of fresh spiciness from the ginger and nose-tickling spice from the pimento which I quite enjoy. Creamy, ambery, vanilla sweetness and gentle musks round everything out. This is not an overly sweet perfume - it has a "dry" quality rather than being syrupy. It also stays quite close to the skin, so I had to spray more than usual to get my preferred scent bubble.

The mango note mostly fades from skin around 3 hours in, but on clothes it lasts a good while longer. After that, I'm left with a slightly soapy vanilla and musk combo, with a hint of the remaining mango in the background. Not the most incredible drydown ever but it's clean and inoffensive. Carnivale lasts on my clothes for 8+ hours but maybe 5-6 hours on skin.

I like the first few hours best when the mango is strongest. After that, it's just alright. I'd give it a 7/10 total score.