Bayou

The reason why I wanted to try Bayou is that my friend Voodoocat (which is as much her name as Zorra is mine) strongly dislikes it. We have much the same taste in scents, but not always. Some of her favorite scents I do not like much and I like a few she doesn't like. But we agree on most, both in likes and in dislikes. So it was a bit tricky to buy a scent that she really dislikes, but I was too curious about this one. 


Now what I have may not smell like what she tried, because I have an aged bottle, a blue one and any BPAL user knows that blue bottles are the really aged ones. What I get at the start is a strong gardenia and/or night-blooming jasmine smell. I have the bad habit of confusing the two in a perfume. But unlike Pannychis the strong flower scent slowly sinks back into a more green scent. I don't get any citrus in the start, nor do I get a real moss scent. It doesn't smell as green as the description promises:

A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms.

I would like to compare it to the fresh, not aged, scent now. Perhaps one day I'll have that too. 

A bayou is an American term for a body of water typically found in flat, low-lying areas, and can refer either to an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), or to a marshy lake or wetland. The name "bayou" can also refer to creeks whose water level changes due to tides and which hold brackish water which is highly conducive to fish life and plankton. Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States, notably the Mississippi  River region, with the state of Louisiana being famous for them. A bayou is frequently an anabranch or minor braid of  a braided channel that is moving much more slowly than the mainstem, often becoming boggy and stagnant. Though vegetation varies by region, many bayous are home to crawfish, certain species of shrimp, other shellfish, catfish,  frogs, toads, american alligators, american crocodiles, and a myriad of other species.

The word was first used by the English in Louisiana and is thought to originate from the Choctaw word "bayuk", which means "small stream". (source)

 Bayou Teche by Meyer Straus (1831-1905)