Description
Prominent perfumer Mark Buxton is famous for his top-notch perfume compositions by the houses of: Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Versace, Salvador Dali, Chopard, Cartier, Ferre, as well as for his long-term cooperation with niche house of Comme des Garcons. His motto is: ”Simplicity is the ultimate degree of luxury.”
Besides his author work in perfumery, Mark Buxton‘s interests intertwine by connecting exploration of top quality and beauty. English painting, antique and gastronomy certainly make a part of mosaic of personality and world view of the famous perfumer. New, personal collection he has recently presented, was named Metamorphoses of Colours and Moods by Mark Buxton.
Colours are closely connected with mood. Mark Buxton demonstrated secrets clearly and simply by connecting colours and person’s character and mood in his collection of seven fragrances, with the offered colour palette. Choose your colour and you will be offered a range of notes and aromas.
Collection Metamorphoses of Colours and Moods encompasses seven perfumes with the following names:
Wood & Absinth,
Black Angel,
Hot Leather,
English Breakfast,
Around Midnight,
Sounds & Vision,
Nameless.
Wood & Absinth, first fragrance in fragrant spectrum, was created as a contrast of two natural ingredients – wood and absinth (wormwood-artemisia absinthum), in eternal love and hate, searching for a precise balance, which leads to a perfect harmony of the composition. The perfume includes: citruses, orange, clary sage and anis in top notes, with jasmine and rosewood in a heart, while base notes harmonize with vetiver and woody accords.
The palette of seven new fragrances of the collection shows moments of life, colours of moods, feelings and experienced emotions, which affect us sentimentally. Find the mentioned palette of colours on Mark Buxton‘s official website and check which fragrance belongs to you… or which fragrance you belong to! Wood & Absinth was launched in 2008.
Reowntheoke – :
Sage, absinthe, star anise, orange, vetiver . To put it short- if you like these notes, you’ll like this perfume. You can clearly smell everything, it’s non-complicated and it delivers well , aka good sillage and longevity. And smells natural.
Fans of star anise will especially like this perfume, it’s quite strong here.
Big like from me.
I like it far more than I like Aimez-Moi . More interesting.
Beeklymaymnfczyz – :
There is that sharp sweetness in that one that made me nauseous!
cool-ziva – :
Not good. Just really awful. The entire thing is botched from the beginning. It is as if someone really hated the idea of making yet another scent, yet continued to pursue.
I’m bored and yet need to scrub my hand. The others I have tried in this line were well-done. There is always one to break the spell.
Ideal_Storm – :
I enjoy both anice and wormwood, so I’m always a bit too much excited when I try ‘absinth’ themed scents.
The thing with “Wood Absinth” is that it lacks something, I do get both anice and wormwood, but there is simply not enough of it, both notes sit on a very generic “fresh” base that ruins the experience for me completely.
Yes in the end it is a rather pleasant light aromatic perfume, but it’s clearly not enough to justify both the name and the price tag.
Silage low and lasting power average – 5 to 6 hours.
niragag63 – :
Designer in drag. I’m a huge Buxton’s fan but Woods & Absinth it’s just an unremarkable dry woody composition overloaded with woody amber. Uninteresting, unoriginal and cheap. I’m sick of niche brands pretending we buy average department store fragrances at high-end prices. Thumbs down.
Rating: 4/10
Гризли – Папа – :
This is good stuff! Yes unisex definitely, but I must say love the crisp fresh herbs in here:) Sage and citrus notes with light floral background. Anise and jasmine soften each others and blend well in here. Very pleasant daytime herbal clean floral. Give it a 5 minutes once it settles on a skin it shines; light floral drydown. Silage’s good, just right. Lasts quite awhile too 6+ hours.
Gakdavara – :
Bitter wormwood and sandal. It’s very like a good quality vetiver scent, with strong wood and that bitter note. Interesting, but mostly just woods. I don’t get any of the other notes. Would probably blend beautifully with a soliflore, though.
lex17 – :
once again Luckyscents description is spot on, you definetely get the love/hate thing going on as they describe, I can smell all the notes in here, and its very well blended, but ultimately I just dont think this combination is what i want in a perfume, I can appreciate a good scent but it doesnt make me feel pretty or special or anything, and the absinthe makes this err towards a masculine scent more than anything.