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alex123456789 – :
I just ordered a sample from Twisted Lilly, Brooklyn NY.
Will review next week.
I loved the name, and I like unusual earthy fragrances.
There is a very popular fragrance like this, Caron Yatogan. I laughed when I first smelled it, thinking it was unwearable, then became a favorite.
The best fragrances can be very challenging at first, till we aquire a taste for them.
The Perfumer who made this lives in NYC, and it’s her company, and she composed her own fragrances.
Good for her!
OK, got my samples from Twisted Lilly who sent me a few free samples from the same house.
After the flood settled to a light Oriental, it’s green, fresh, herbal, balsamic, and earthy in a nice unique way, enjoyable and wearable.
EL is a very nice aquatic for Summer, Holy mountain is a very realistic burnt wood smell, not like your usual incense..
“After the Flood” is a little like Yatogan, but much fresher.
This has a crunchy aquatic vib, I guess from the violet leaf and water lilly. The mushroom and dirt notes make it pleasantly unique, but it’s not just a gimicky fragrance.
It’s a classy aquatic, something like the fragrance, “Wet Wood”.
Deaths_head – :
After the Flood opens with an incredibly powerful, pungent mix of damp soil and fleshy mushrooms. The experience is like faceplanting into a peat bog; it’s a vivid realism that needs to be tried to be understood. There is a faintly floral background element that keeps the otherwise brazen opening blended and wearable. (I can imagine that others may react negatively to you smelling like a divine swamp creature but you don’t wear perfumes for other people, do you?) I was ready to pull the trigger on this based on that gloriously unique opening alone. Like so many good things, unfortunately, that opening is tragically short-lived. What remains after roughly ten minutes of that dripping, oozing greenness is a familiar, polite aquatic scent that is “fine” but isn’t interesting and doesn’t suit my personality. I’m so disappointed. I hope that Apoteker Tepe could figure out a way to bottle that first ten minutes- I’d keep a lifetime stock on hand. Meanwhile, my search for the perfect earthy scent continues.
nokia71 – :
I appreciate this creation and it is very earthy, mushroomy, ozonic and aquatic. The realism is quite amazing, this is a talented lady who can blend her visions into a bottle. Do I want smell like this though?….not really, not like her other creations, The Peredam is beautiful and much more wearable for me as is The Holy Mountain but maybe that is just my perfume taste? I think everyone who appreciates perfume should at least test this. I couldn’t get a sample being in the u.k so bought a bottle and I know I won’t wear this sadly.
fffggg – :
It is soil with mushrooms true. It has patchouli as well & leaves. the name describes the smell so well.
dom942elipseskism – :
One of the most compelling scent openings I’ve smelled in some time. Given the notes, this should smell somewhat disgusting, or at least fashionably unwearable — but that’s not the case; its gorgeous. It’s mushroom, vetiver, and orris (according to my nose). It somehow manages to build a warm coziness into a dank, swampy feel, splitting the difference between Slumberhouse’s difficult Mare and Amouage’s Memoir Man. It’s not nearly as rancid as Mare, nor is it as mardy as Memoir Man, yet it has the same appeal as both — earthy, grounded, and atypical. The mushroom is vivid, yet folded into the blend perfectly (think crisp, white, freshly rinsed raw mushrooms). The soil accord sidesteps the predictability of geosmin, and smells more like the soil effect in Serge’s De Profundis than the petrichor that belabors many of CBIHP’s releases. The whole thing is spun the color of illuminated obsidian; rich without being too dense while smelling alive and present. The tragedy is that none of this lasts, and the scent winds its way down to a respectable yet far less interesting rooty accord which is where it stays for the rest of the wear. I’m almost inclined to forgive the performance (a concentration issue, I’m guessing) because the opening was so brilliantly rendered. However, I already own bottles of the much-coveted Mare and Memoir Man, so that goopy, swampy aspect of my collection is already filled. Despite the opening’s collapse, I’d still recommend that fragrance aficionados get their nose on this just for the nose-catching, standout opening. Hopefully the brand will tweak a few things in the future to make their ideas a tad more durable, but they’ve secured my attention with this release.
hitman-sam – :
Natural euphoria. After the Flood is the smell of nature’s rebirth after a cleansing rain. You can smell new blooms, damp earth, fresh wind. There is a sweetness that runs through – probably from the water lily and violet leaf – that unifies the development from the first spritz to the drydown. The other notes develop and wane, as you experience being on the bank of a brook, overrun with wild growth, misty from a spring shower.
This perfumer has an amazing ability to bring her vision to reality. This is so realistic that it is a concept fragrance with nothing remotely synthetic in the mix. Longevity all day, sillage moderate.
depozitt – :
Well, this is some amazing alchemy – I’ve never smelled such a realistic earthy mushroom note. It does what it says on the bottle – it’s the smell of damp soil in the woods after a thoroughly soaking rain. The mushroom is VERY strong up front and the earth notes come in later. Is it interesting? Hell yes. Is it something I want to smell on a person? Uh…in all honesty, not really. This is the smell of a place, not a living thing.