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StewartAmatory – :
Met the lovely Mesha Munyan at an SF niche perfume salon, and she shared an intriguing story. She and Olympic Orchids’ Ellen Covey were each asked to create a scent named “Blackbird”, by the Blackbird retail store in Seattle. While Orchids went the blackberry-benzoin route, MeshaZ approach is lavender-ylang-frankincense forward.
There are more notes than what’s currently listed on Fragrantica. Mesha’s brochure details: Blood orange, bergamot, cedarwood, bay, lavender, ylang ylang, frankincense, cardamom, patchouli, and vetiver.
Reviewer Jeannechantal rightly describes the meditative & calming appeal of Backbird.
I understand that Mesha distills her own lavender, and many of the ingredients from this natural-botanical house are sourced from scratch. Big fan of cruelty-free, non-artificial perfumery, and kudos to the farm-to-table approach! Mesha’s gained a big fan. :o)
ghjgbkyf – :
Oh my God this is a gorgeous patchouli perfume, and the combination with ginger is superb. Absolutely superb. They both seem so natural, and very high quality to me, very deep and rich and good. It’s amazingly good. Really sublime. It’s so delicious. So Beautiful. The review by jeannechantal is perfect.
I love love love Blackbird by Meshaz. It lasts for 18 hours, and is still there a tad even then. I love wearing it to bed, it’s so soothing. I don’t even have to put any more on, I can still smell it, after putting it on at 5am! But I do even so sometimes, just to relish the evolution of these two glorious ingredients again!
And I get so many compliments. My husband adores it, it’s one of his favourites on me. I adore it. I love it so much!
Oh…..and I also adore the bottle!
ADichaetD – :
I didn’t get the ginger until I read up about the notes her, but, yes, a very nice ginger. I smell a lot of other spices- fresh and sweet.
Really loving this.
VRyutin86 – :
On her homepage Meshaz describes this scent as a “meditative mens’ spice“. Yes, “Blackbird” is spicy, full of energy in the first half of the drydown and calm in the second, and I would certainly like the fragrance on a man very much. But to me this is a unisex scent. I like wearing it myself.
“Blackbird” is a dance of ginger and patchouli, they go hand in hand, sometimes the patchouli gets stronger, sometimes the ginger is more in the foreground. It’s a scent full of energy, at the same time I find it de-stressing and it’s a scent that’s capable of lifting my mood.
The beginning is aromatic and fresh, very lively and strong due to a heavy dose of sparkling ginger and fresh, green patchouli leaves. The impression in the first 30 minutes is herbal, with an undertone of an autumnal forest. To be exact, I smell the aromatic scent of mushrooms, but only faintly and only when I hold my nose directly to my skin. In the projection I don’t get this aroma, there I only smell pure, beautiful, green, smoky patchouli, brightened up by ginger.
The longer I wear “Blackbird”, the calmer and earthier the patchouli develops. The scent goes from green-smoky and very spicy to a softer and “rounder”, but still spicy patchouli. In the second half of the drydown the fragrance turns into this elegant, velvety and earthy patchouli scent, earthy but fresh and clean; there’s nothing musty, stuffy or too earthy about it. The fragrance at that stage conveys calmness, yet it is still spicy and has a lot of depth.
I think this is the first time I smelled pure patchouli without the usual company of ambra, vanilla or other notes that are often used to round up the edges. Here the patchouli is green, fresh and “rough” the first few hours, and it tempers out to this deep, relaxed, slowly flowing river of elegant, fresh and spicy patchouli. As far as I can tell, top class and very natural patchouli has been used here.
Love it very much indeed!
kettrina – :
I believe this is the 3rd frag on the market called Blackbird.