Bentley helped found Ozarks Public Television in the early 1970s and the United Way of the Ozarks Day of Caring in 1993. After several minutes, the heart note unfolds, with elegant woody aromas of papyrus, Atlas cedar and sandalwood – extremely powerful and masculine. It's no surprise that the bottle is beautifully done, or that the ingredient quality and blending are surprisingly good, considering luxury glassmaker-turned-pseudo-niche-perfumers Lalique hold the license for Bentley fragrances. This is an EDP that wears pretty close to the skin and it's never loud, but the semi-sweet warmth at the heart of the scent persists quite well even as the dry wood burns away. It just feels a bit scorched, like the first acrid puff of smoke when you light a stick of incense and blow out the flame.

It's well constructed, smells like expensive niche and goes well with with a modern cut black suit, or a high end casual outfit. Nearly a year ago, the Community Partnership of the Ozarks spearheaded the effort to raise funds for the musical playground, in partnership with the park board. In 2016, Springfield Public Schools named its new administrative center on Sunshine Street in her honor.The base note includes the most seductive essences in the world of fragrances: beguiling Oud, surrounded by sensuous ambergris and elegant harmonies of moss. CPO president and CEO Janet Dankert said, at the time, that the project was the "perfect way to recognize" and to honor the longtime champion for children and early childhood education. Speaking about the new men’s fragrance, he said: “I wanted to express the strong, authentic side of the Bentley brand in this fragrance, while also bringing out its timelessness. Two days before Thanksgiving, the Springfield community plans to gather to dedicate the Roseann Bentley Musical Playground and honor the longtime public servant for whom it is named.

Supposedly there's an "oud" note here, and I suspect whatever proxy they're using is what reads to my nose like a light dose of cumin towards the top of the scent.She taught kindergarten and first grade and served on the Springfield school board as well as the state school board.