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Chidori – :
A Midwinter’s orgy.
Opens with fir and sticky chocolate, incense and sex.
Seriously. This stuff is like having violent Viking-love in a heap of furs in front of a balsam bonfire. It writes runes on your body with spruce psychotropics and sweet ash.
The juice is dark and lays heavy on the skin, like hands and honey and pine tree sap, and stains clothes with green spoor.
Amazing.
Mira215s – :
I was expecting a very green forest type smell but mostly I’m getting a strong mulled wine vibe with some green notes in the background…
I really wanted to love this scent but it’s just completely unwearable (except for on Halloween). It’s actually a pretty scary/disturbing smell.
Massive respect for daring to create it though. I will be trying the rest of the line.
dimasy7 – :
Gah! What IS this? Other than a full on suffocating assault on my senses I do not know. I’m itching to wash it off but gna give it an hour. So far tho it’s horrible! All this talk of dark forests? No! It smells like a hippie shop with low quality joss sticks choking me and a hippie smothered in patchouli accosting me! Only one squirt and I really need to get away from it! I feel like I’m being bombarded, maybe even battered. It feels like something a 17 yr old goth might like.
However, I want to push thru and see what it does. I think it’s giving me a headache tho. I might not make it.
EDIT: I didn’t make it. I had to get it off me. It was scorching the back of my nose and I couldn’t breathe. So I washed it off and changed my shirt and put on the much easier En Passant by Frederic Malle. Bizarrely, the late, lingering, persistent patchouli-esque pong of the Norne created a sexy undertone to the otherwise achingly innocent floral En Passant. If I could get maybe 4 molecules of Norne under my florals, I may have a use for it. On the plus side, this will make my measly 0.5ml sample last a lifetime.
SECOND EDIT: I got a sample of Kiste at the same time and haven’t dated spray it on me since traumatising myself with Norne…
Snayp – :
Before I start, a request for you out there- I adore this- I do. It lasts about an hour or so on my skin. Why why why???!!! If anyone has a suggestion of something similar with better longevity, I’m all ears. I like things like ACity on Fire, Fireside and Montale’s Full Incense.
This was so interesting and atypical though.
This opens up fir, we know, but a very specific fir. Hot cut wood. The resin, heat and dry warm sawdust that comes off a table saw after you run a a thick slab of pine or poplar through, when the blade gets hot and cooks some of the wood’s resin for you.
Bare with me- it’s so short-lived on my skin that it pages through the phases so quickly, I don’t catch them all. When the hot sawdust fades, there’s a Dr.Pepper under there. This isn’t my favorite bit. It’s a cherry-like smell. For me Tom Ford’s Tobacco Oud has this same cherry background, but stronger, and more permanent. I dislike the smell, but I try to push past the nasty grenadine syrup in both cases to smell the rest. There are days I can’t stand wearing TF TO bc I cannot handle the sweet. It’s not as strong here, so I can ignore it, and it’s more ‘dr pepper’ thanstraight up cherry.
Phase three on me is nutmeg ice cream with a fir wreath somewhere in the room. You might not know the tree was there, except if you were told, and it becomes a faint skin scent that’s dry and a bit gormande.
lenanal – :
Strong opening but faded fast, becoming a skin scent after the first hour.
gigabittt – :
A thick heavy resinous pine sap with smoky accords as it drys down. Do detect a tad light notes of something akin to euclayptus or camphrous/ mentholated notes in the middle. Leaves a oily stain on skin for atleast 3 hrs. Projects well in first few hours and then settles down to a scent bubble hovering close to skin. Longevity is a heavy hitter. Very unique and niche ! Def not a blind buy. If you love Fille en aigullies by serge lutens…you will dig this ! Tho FeA is more spicy and fruity but thinner smelling than Norne. Norne is truly a thick dense pine forest on fire ! Not acrid fire smoke…but an incensy forest fire ! enjoy!
smaker – :
When I got a sample of this back in October (6mo. ago) I disliked it. I couldn’t smell at all what everyone was smelling – the pine forest thing. I gave it a lot of tries but nope, it really smelled like (I’m sorry) pungent cat urine to me. Not pleasant.
Today I decided to give it another go. I really don’t know what happened but this completely morphed. I’m thrilled (and confused). I can smell it now! And it does lives up to the buzz 🙂
Genaa – :
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
mitrij48 – :
I grew up a city girl. I was a first child. My parents rarely let me out of their sight mostly because LA is a dangerous city and kids can get lost or kidnapped, but my grandma made sure I had a taste of the country life every summer.
My family owns a huge ranch in the mountains of New Mexico, and every summer, my grandma insisted on taking me and my cousins there for weeks at a time. It was really rural. You had to travel 20 miles on a dirt road to get there, and the nearest neighbors were 25 miles away. She felt that a city kid needed to know what a summer spent in the mountains was like. My cousins and I could walk for hours, looking for the wild horses, swim in the creek, and fall asleep under the large New Mexico Pine trees on top of a bed of soft pine needles that smelled so earthy and green. We’d wake up and see millions and millions of stars above and listen to the frogs croaking, and the crickets chirping. It was the first time in my life I ever felt completely safe; being in the soft moonlight, enveloped in the mountains, happy and laughing with my cousins, swimming, and watching the wild horses run by.
This is the memory that Norne bottled for me. A kind friend sent me a decant of the vintage juice and said I needed to experience it. I had no idea what joy I’d find in that bottle — New Mexico Pine, moonlight, stars, crickets chirping, frogs croaking, sleeping on a bed of pine needles…..complete and utter bliss.
Lena Samokhina – :
on its own, norne is pretty intense. i like it, but its just…its above my level, you know? im not a medieval wisewoman living at the edge of a tiny village, scaring local children, i’m a 23 year old woman who lives in a fairly populated area and can’t walk around in a force field of ancient forest that projects ten feet from my body. i’m not saying i wouldn’t like to but. you know.
anyway, call me a blasphemer, but i use norne for layering. it takes my other fragrances (largely on the cheaper end of the sephora spectrum, lighter, more “basic” as the kids would say) and makes them deeper, weirder, and a lot more interesting. also makes them last like a motherfucker.
my two favorite combinations so far (because…they’re the only ones i have and i’m not made of money)
+ 1 part norne to 3 parts moss by commodity: very fresh and green with a little unsettling edge
+ 1 part norne to 2 parts gilded fox by pinrose: you’re in the middle of the woods in autumn sipping from a thermos of hot chocolate with a splash of rum, reading a very old book
norne is weird as hell and i love it, 9/10
lek615Negeltzex – :
Christmasy fir tree, with a dark sourness similar to Worcestershire sauce. Maybe a little smoke also. To me, a cousin to the style of Amouage Interlude Man.
kgoradm – :
From all the reviews I thought I’d get a dark and musty forest scent. But the fir is completely gone, all I smell is strong cat pee, even in the drydown when it has calmed down. This is the second time Slumberhouse kicks me in the guts, so I might just have to realize that this house might not be for me.
cni806Diobtetty – :
Stupendous. Sheer bombastic brilliance. I might have been swayed in advance of even smelling this by the forum thread and wesleyhclark’s classic review here (scroll down to read it! Please!) … but every time I sniff this I swear I can hear the relentless banging of giant kettledrums on the Norse longship heaving into view and the grunting of heave-ho heave-ho from a squad of Vikings. It’s completely mad. I am utterly in love with it.
If Fille en Aiguilles is a Nordic princess then Norne is the warlord who seizes her and sails away. All of the coniferous, resinous magic of Fille, but minus the red fruits and with elaborate layering of other woods and sacred incense over the top. (So it conjures forest shrines and weird pagan rites, not just a happy walk with a nice bit of mulled wine like Fille. There’s also a good bit of damp humidity and a great whack of cloves… )
Norne is domineering and arrogant and assertive and it surely won’t go unnoticed. For me, unisex skewing male, but the main thing is: just *how much* do you love to go into the deep dark misty mysterious woods? How brave is your heart? If you can’t live without wildness then this one is for you. Be valiant and do battle with it. Scent Valhalla imho.
Norne! None!! Long Live Norne!!!*
(*it does live long, btw – another reason to submit to it. A force of nature.)
dima12 – :
Got a bottle of this for Christmas. I’ve wanted a full bottle for a couple years now and I was completely stoked when I got it…however totally shocked at the small, slim bottle. The online editorial photos make it look substantially bigger than what you’re getting…I guess this is a lesson to pay attention to volume if that’s important to you. Anyways, two sprays and I smelled great all day. Strong woods and smokey notes. Adore this fragrance.
darkonok – :
Fantastic scent, loved it so much I bought a bottle. However, was very disappointed with the performance as it really doesnt project at all on me. Have to have my face almost on my arm like a fiend to smell it, which is not really what I had in mind. Maybe an Edp would project better compared to the extrait? Not sure, but was so dissatisfied that I sold my almost full bottle within a couple weeks.
heroin13 – :
The first time I smelled Norne I thought I might faint from beauty. It’s dark and witchy. Made for the kind of woman who rides a wolf through treacherous woods. It’s taken me two years of sniffing the sample to decide, yes, I think I can be that woman.
Televolulty – :
I purchased a sample of Slumberhouse Norne awhile back, but I did not review it. I am fixing that today.
Norne is a very dark and heavy fragrance on my skin with a touch of Christmas…. kind of a black Christmas. I almost expect to start seeing dark elves… Norne also has a CdG Black vibe to it. I am not saying that it smells like Black, it does not, but it has the same dark and foreboding vibe I get from Black. But there is something lurking underneath that is just slightly sweet and sour.
I find Norne to be a high quality scent, the perfect holiday scent. I get great projection and longevity, but it is very linear on my skin.
Norne is better in casual or trend casual attire, but I could wear it in a sports coat. While I do see this as unisex, it leans more masculine than feminine to my nose.
Bottom line: If you enjoy dark or Christmas type scents, you should give this one a try.
яяя – :
Norne opens with fir, incense and what I perceive as cloves, even though the spices are less prominent than fir. After a little while it mellows and the cloves and incense almost disappear, leaving a more indistinct, dark and cold coniferous scent. It is also very linear.
It does last long indeed (basically forever), but on me it was barely there after the first hour, a skin scent – not necessarily a bad thing, but for that price… (I used a sample by the way). Maybe it is my skin’s fault, because almost everyone else here seems to get good projection.
Quick Comparison:
Fille en Aiguilles (Serge Lutens) – Wald (Euphorium Brooklyn) – Norne:
-Fille is the sweetest, warmest, and most feminine. Not too weird, can be worn at work;
-Wald is the smokiest (not incense, actual smoke), neither too sweet nor warm, a tad animalic. The most unique, it is harder to wear;
-NORNE is dark and the coldest, but not as smoky or unique as Wald, easier to wear than Wald in my opinion.
They are all long lasting
-ADD: Imaginary Authors’ Cape Heartache is also piney, but with strawberry. It is very powdery on me, it smells a bit sinthy and it is the sweetest of them all. Not really a fan 🙂
SfaIIRaT30 – :
Fir and incense; there’s not much complexity to this scent. Reminds me of carrying in the Christmas tree but darker due to the incense. Norne is very natural smelling and realistic. It’s also pretty linear which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
From a sample vial this lasted around six hours before becoming soft. Sillage and projection were good. Unisex leaning slightly “masculine” and for cooler weather. I can’t think of a particular occasion this would be well suited for. During the holiday season? Probably won’t offend at work and not really conventionally sexy. I imagine this on someone that is outdoors a lot. Ingredient quality is apparent, performance is average and the bottle looks nice but the cost for such a small amount is far too high for me. Milliliter for milliliter this is in the Creed Aventus or Viking price range. Even taking the price out of the equation Norne doesn’t excite me that much. A nice fragrance none the less!
UttennyProrge – :
Another person compared this to Serge Lutens’ Fille en Aguilles. I agree that it is similar–but not the same. Perhaps the idea is the same, but Norne is even more fabulous. I cannot believe I’m writing this, but it’s “better”–a better scent, more evocative, far stronger, lasts longer, and renders Fille “thin” by comparison. I have both. Now that there’s Norne, I’m going to splash on my SL FA on with abandon during the day–and save this for cozier colder afternoons and evenings–and elegant, sexy date nights. (Btw–this works entirely unisex).
Far more than the sum of its notes, Norne must have some vetiver and honey notes, as well as some kind of woods–I even detect some floral tones of rose with a whiff of cumin and possibly just the merest hint of a white flower, and something dusty and mentholated hiding deep deep within, nose-to-wrist. The top three inches are hay, green and sweet with honey, fruit notes of dried blackberries, plums on the ground, late afternoon sun at an autumnal tilt, crunching leaves. An incense that is not smokey or peppery or headshop, but just the remnants of a burnt wood that remain behind infuse the sweet tobacco-hay quality.
I sprung for “Kiste” by this house–and this is of equal quality. I love this house so far, and am highly impressed with “the whole package”–from bottle to wrist to decolletage–the experience is strong, long, beautiful and rich. This is not for the faint of heart, the very young and nubile, but for those who want an experience and who have presence. Quality is way above average and as previous commentators have noted silage and longevity are fantastic–the dry down is not just the usual mall-musky warm-sweet vanilla-nothing–it’s interesting. This is a lovely ride.
mikhei89 – :
This scents gets me directly to a dark winter pine forest. It’s so evocative. We have been missing cold winters here in France since a few years so I am happy I found a scent that gets me in this mood. I love pine scents. Fille en aiguille from Serge Lutens is one of my favorite but for me it’s more summer fire tree forest in the Alpes, when the sun warms up the trees sap. Norne is darker winter forest scent. It’s not really projecting like a beast, it stays not too far from the skin (which is fine because it means I can wear it as often as I can) but longevity is phenomenal. I sprayed it on my hand the other day around 7PM. Then had a night sleep, then had a shower in the morning, and I could still detect Norne on my hand in the evening after a day at work. Impressive fragrance
-=MIX=- – :
There’s a famous immersive theater experience in New York called Sleep No More. Tickets for the privilege of interacting with a twisted, multi-layered version of Macbeth inside this haunted labyrinth cost well over a hundred dollars. I got to attend it once, which was lovely. What’s better, however, is that back in the late aughts, the same performance experience was first staged in Boston inside an empty public school building; tickets were a mere $20 then. I attended it twice. In its original venue, the play was not just novel, but utterly thrilling, genuinely spooky and all-around superior. The school’s auditorium was a convincing Birnam Wood; it was a densely-packed, dimly-lit indoor forest of conifers and chilly mist, and a highly distinct odor wafted between the trees, piped in through the air ducts.
It smelled EXACTLY like Norne.
For me, this fragrance is the scent of those nights tripping around strange, detailed sets, having intense exchanges with grim, silent, acrobatic actors and giving in to voyeurism from behind a plastic mask. It’s a thrill a minute all over again.
sayva – :
Norne is not a perfume… its what my dreams are made of!
An experience in itself.
Some have encounter a challenging experience, but… if like me you love cold and snowy winter & coniferous forests, you might be up for something quite beautiful. The first time I have tried Norne I was immediately transported to one of those cold winter’s day that I love so much. I have always been fascinated by the combination of smells we find in conifers: woody, resinous & freshly green. Norne reminds me a lot of black spruce oil. It is savagedly dark and biting, but also extremely fresh with this smoky, camphorish, menthol-like notes. And as we often find in all resins, a natural sweetness softening the mix.
Black spruce, fir, pine always bring me back to those amazing winter we find in this northern part of the hemisphere. The sheer beauty of those trees covered in snow, clear blue sky above (or black sky of a starry night) and an icy wind circling around this -10, -20 celsius. And there you are, hiking in nature with your favorite wool sweater under a warm coat and… this oh so beautiful smell coming from under your scarf, like you are wearing this majestic forest close to you. Norne is also playing on duality… fresh, biting, smoky, eucalyptical (!) it also creates this warmth that feels so good to be surrounded with. A warm blanket of nature. Norne can be a little too real to some.
As other have mentioned, Norne is of thick, sticky greenish-brownish liquid.
Fog caked needle – lichen – fern – moss – hemlock – incense
On Slumberhouse’s website, in the FAQ section, we can read:
Q: Are your perfumes IFRA compliant?
A: Absolutely not.
It made me smile…
Leasaasa – :
A true masterpiece. All natural ingredients . Deep forest pine ambience. Dark, resinous incense based perfume which is utterly unique, haunting, mysterious and altogether gorgeous. Not for the faint hearted or less adventurous.
Avtredhop – :
In a nutshell- Oakmoss and a bit powdery. It smells like its dark green liquid. Has a mysterious “hedge witch of the 1970s” vibe.
vladikmais – :
My tester vial secreted a sticky substance onto my desk that had an uncanny likeness, in both texture and smell, to fresh pine sap. Sweet and lush and green, this is some of what a lumberjack smells like and much more of what a lumberjack experiences in the forest.
The liquid is quite sticky, and will probably stain clothes so be careful when wearing light colors.
giggs – :
After sampling Norne I finally decided to get a full bottle. It’s a scent that highly deserves to be in my collection.
Before I review Norne, first and foremost for those looking at reviews and videos on the internet be advised that the box of this product has changed!
Gone is the big box that had the foam base inside, this fragrance now comes in a compact box with a silk sticker branding the name at the centre bottom and Slumberhouse written on the edge of the box embossed.
I personally would have preferred the older box as it looked more attractive. I wrote an e-mail to Slumberhouse asking about the new box and to my surprise I got a reply from Josh Lobb himself!
This is what Josh wrote in his e-mail:
The older boxes w/ foam were presenting a multitude of issues so a decision was made to scale down to a more simplified box with a small satin label for the perfume name instead of the handwritten style as before on the larger box.
Now on to my review….
Norne smells of a dirty forest and if you can handle the strong smells of pine, incense and burnt wood then you should consider getting a sample and trying it out. This is definitely not a blind buy and I think it should be sampled and appreciated slowly.
NORNE starts out very loud but calms down after an hour. I am personally not getting a loud projection from it although it remains on the skin for around 8 hours plus. The weather could be playing tricks on this one though as it does on another favorite of mine, Black Afgano, there are days were I get zero projection out of Black Afgano and there are other days where it stays projecting for 15 hours plus!
So before you judge this scent I advise you to discover it well. I honestly cannot get enough of this scent and I absolutely think it’s a genuine forest scent. Someone close to me disliked it a lot the first time I sprayed the sample, their opinion has now drastically changed and want to borrow it now 🙂
The price for a 30ml is around Euro150 including shipping, Slumberhouse products are not very easy to find and I purchased mine from a Polish site called LULUA. This is an excellent site where you can also purchase samples.
You might be put off by the price tag for a 30ml,bottle but in reality I personally think that the price is justified since in reality many niche extracts are above the Euro200 mark.
Norne is an extract and is claimed to be the first forest scent made of natural ingredients only. The juice is a rich green black oily liquid that stains the skin if applied closely, do not spray on white clothes as it will stain them and it is recommended to spray this from afar.
I personally think Norne will grow to be a very popular scent and it will be very much appreciated by many people once it is sampled properly. Norne is a truly magical experience that takes you to a mysterious place, the rich pine scent satisfies the senses and soul and although it may seem like a dark journey in the beginning, it slowly starts to show it’s light and becomes a very enlightening journey that you won’t wish to end!
A side note for Josh Lobb if you are reading this…please reconsider bringing back the older box or else re-design a new box because NORNE does not deserve a simple compact box. You have created something truly special! 🙂
NORNE deserves the best as it is a genuine Masterpiece!
10/10
hsi666speagoessenda – :
Smells like a cabin in the woods, mid-autumn when the ground gets soggy and the woodsmoke perfumes the air. Divine! They’ve captured the essence of the Pacific Northwest.
Zippo – :
Norne is really nice. It might actually be a little too “natural.” Aside from the Jagermeister intro and a bit of incense,this really does smell like a pine forest. I’m amazed, but couldn’t wear this all the time. I plan to test it out some more. May be more suited to a rugged outdoorsy type. I’m kind of a pale spindly ex-punk-rocker academic nerd.
Very interesting scent though!
Andy-cishlaru – :
I’m afraid my review is not one I truly want to admit. Before any misconception.. I wanted to love, and I mean madly LOVE this fragrance for what it was made out to be.
I’m really a fool for a good concept, and I imagined the moment that I sprayed this on it’d bring me to some distant mythical place of medieval debauchery, dark avant-garde connotations, and something I can throw on at a Gojira concert outdoors in the dead of winter on a black sand beach in Iceland.
What I got you ask? Jager. /Sour/ Jaeger.. and I really did enjoy Jaeger.
I wanted to believe it’s my nose’s own inexperience, or blame it on some otherworldly intervention, but I simply just can’t enjoy this one. I’m really not all too particular either, and this is only one of two fragrances (Santal 33) I ever smelled & considered a scrubber even after riding it out to the dry down.
Try it for yourself I guess? Looks good on paper. Smells awful on paper. In my humble opinion of course.
gari563 – :
Norne seems to have turned very sweet and warm on me, giving me an impression of camphor, fur and honey (and even something like slightly rottten fruit?) in a steamy bathroom. The dry-down is a little less cloying, and has a base of earth and incense and maybe a forest floor of old pine needles. Still extremely warm though. Almost like there is a fine damp and hot compost in the mix, somehow so hot that even the pine needles and orange peels in the compost are breaking down. Not what I expected, but interesting none-the-less. I’m curious to smell this on someone who turns it a little darker and less sweet.
Djaconda – :
Bitter, dirty, spicy, the smell of an aged damp forest. Even the color is a dirty forest green. I can’t get enough of this juice. This is not for the person who likes light and airy, this is definitely wood resins and thick…the longevity and sillage is absolutely incredible. This is my second frag from Slumberhouse and both are just wonderful.
marchenko_vetal – :
JayO has this one right.
It’s like staring right into a big bowl of worcestershire sauce and occasionally, because you’ve been staring so long, sometimes the swirling patterns form a big pine tree, and other times you see the smoking ash from a fire worn out long ago – and other times still you see the remains of a barbecue you are glad has faded into memory, for your family, known for being the backward deep down southern type and their meals are strange and upsetting to your stomach.
Overall the experience is vinegar-y and worcestershire-y, and, although every once in a while I feel it fitting into the mold of atmospheric and black metal-y outdoors-y piece of art that people keep framing it as – and that’s how I /want/ to see it – for the concept I love so dearly – but alas, it seems that on this too I shall pass.
4/10
YT: Jess AndWesH
Merujan99 – :
I’d wear this if I’m casting a conjuring spell under a full moon during the dead of night, in a dark forest (except I wouldn’t). But I’d reach for this if I ever decide to go over to the dark side 🙂 This is black magic potency, with the right color to boot. I’m a lover of pine and fir scents and I have FBs of Annick Goutal’s Nuit Etoilee. Norne forms a very interesting comparative study of pine/fir with Nuit Etoilee. Both conjures the night coniferous forest. But NE skews silvery sparkling moonlight, the white magic counterpart to Norne’s sultry medieval darkness. Nevertheless, the best creation from Josh Lobb in my opinion. This gets respect.
gepavlik – :
Norne smells like an old, cold, bleak, creaky, coniferous forest. It’s desolate but you might pass the ashes of a firepit–as in, it seems totally uninhabited but there’s evidence humans have made some small foray into its depths.
It’s true there’s a hint of incense, but overall Norne is so majestic you might think that incense makers everywhere else were inspired by and imitating the Norne forest (not the other way around).
There’s no churchiness, unless it’s the kind of religious experience a pack of Druids brought when they rowed across the North Sea to pay their respects.
It smells old–not retro, not vintage, not geriatric, just old like some abandoned treasure from a king’s smoldering, Viking boat tomb.
I want this in a candle. I would buy like seven of them and just sit in the middle them all burning at once. Amazing.
Edit: sillage and longevity are tragically low
ccsbrrrdoh – :
It starts of as Jagermeister. It dries down to a church service (myrrh on burnt charcoal). I consider this a masculine scent.
velvel – :
The darkest of the dark. Reviewed already but came back to say it’s one of my top 5 winter fragrances. Makes my toes curl and clears my sinuses.
Had to mention:
This is the scent of Jon Snow for all your GoT fans. Agree? When I smell Norne, I see Jon Snow coming back to life surrounded by fir trees. Other than that, I see vikings, anything Scandinavian, magic, occult offerings, nomads, druids, nature enthusiasts, survivalists, black metal musicvideos, doom metal, sunn O))) in particular, christmas, desolate snowy landscapes, haunted suicide forests, meditative yoga retreats, the revenant, and so on and so on.
still a major LOVE.
volkl-d – :
Sweet Worcestershire sauce opening which dries down to pine.
yurok242 – :
spicy and smoky…
once the cloves die down, it works well, but that takes a long time to happen.
a looong time.
not my favourite slumberhouse. takes too long to get the the business end…
Alexandr911Sex – :
Dark, resinous, camphorous smell. Primal and unopologetic, it smells like an ancient ritual or an entrance to a wooden temple.
It does not smell suggesting or dark in an erotic way, but warm and incensy. The scent that is warn for the wearer himself to enjoy rather than for others.
gpz791Unlogrere – :
This is it! This is the dark coniferous scent I’ve been looking for! I’ve wanted to find a fragrance that would remind me of dark northern coniferous forests, but everything I’ve tried before Norne has been too fresh, too light and too clean. Norne is extremely thick, pitch black, oily, smoky and intense. It’s ancient and medicinal. Like some ritualistic bonfire in the middle of a deep dark forest.
If I had to use just one word to describe this scent it would be ‘kaamos’. Kaamos is a Finnish word for the polar night and it also sounds a little bit like the word ‘kaamea’ which means ‘ghastly’. The polar night can be experienced in northern and southern polar circles in winter, when the polar region tilts away from the sun so that the Sun stays below the horizon all day long. It is a night that lasts at least 24 hours and for example in the most northern part of Finland it lasts for 51 days.
Even though this scent is probably the darkest one there is, it’s oddly comforting to me. It’s melancholic, but I don’t find it scary.
slesar – :
I had a slight idea of what to expect out of Slumberhouse’s Norne, a celebrated cold-weather fragrance of a few years back, but I wasn’t prepared for how dark or powerful it was.
I get a mix of balsam fir, pine, resin, incense, and perhaps even some oud—all the dark elements usually paired with lighter notes are seemingly together in one utterly dark concoction. The blend is outstanding, though, as I can imagine this collection of notes being overwhelming or ugly in other hands.
Norne is strictly appropriate for cold weather, and probably just nights. It’s slightly dirty but still probably suits formal occasions (again, in the winter), as it’s reined-in enough to offer masculinity without being overwhelming.
Unsurprisingly, as an extrait, the performance is outstanding, one of the strongest fragrances I’ve ever tried in terms of both projection and longevity. Again, though, it’s not overwhelming, but one should apply carefully, as the word seems to be that the juice stains clothing and skin alike.
At $160 for 30ml (at Luckyscent, Twisted Lily), it’s not cheap, but it packs a punch if you’re looking for an intense winter option that doesn’t require a lot of sprays.
Norne is dirty enough that I have some reluctance to give it extremely high marks, but it’s an excellent fragrance overall in terms of the scent and performance.
8 out of 10
natashka27 – :
Funeral, gloomy, smokey scent…It is really a rather depressive scent, to me it invokes a foggy, doomy atmosphere.
war1kced1 – :
Mirkwood Forest.
dimond666 – :
It opens with an insane amount of incense that immediately reminds me of the smell of burning wood in the forests. There is a lot of incense over the fir/ pine notes and based on