The Licorice is sublime. After a brief, boozy jolt which smells like anisette liqueur, it settles down into that dark, slightly earthy licorice-candy smell, an exact replica of those licorice cigars and pipes we used to get in the seventies and probably still can today, though of course they can't call them cigars any more. (Even candy cigarettes are now “candy sticks”, though they're otherwise unchanged.) The Demeter website says it smells of “black licorice twists”, which suggests Twizzlers, but trust me, it doesn't smell like those at all, with their strange waxy scent. It smells like the real thing.

I think if you ordered Licorice untested, you would enjoy it very much. It fades fairly quickly, of course: I've had it on for less than an hour and it's already starting to die down into a slightly sweeter candylike scent. But it's Demeter, so that's par for the course. Still worth the money.

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