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kindofper – :
A woody aromatic with some sort of mystery note, opoponax,strax, some patchouli molecule ?
It smells like a bright aromatic with a wood note that lasts and acts like a top note and another note that is aldehydic or unique
Overall this is a nice scent, but more mature.Fairly well rounded, not dry, and full, but no sweetness really
I find it unisex, but masculine leaning
A interesting fragrance, but too daring for me right now
vlad-bakurov – :
a little bit of an aromachemical kick to this. i thought there might be styrax in the mix, but i’m mistaken.
there’s a little ‘tokyo’ by kenzo vibe about this. could be just me, though. anyway, nice and interesting. worth a try…
adexpertamp – :
If you like this, try Greylocke by PHLUR, which smells more natural, is stronger, more affordable and doesn’t seem to have the Iso E Super that I notice in North. If I didn’t already own Greylocke, I would have loved this one. Both of them are like a bright, fairly sharp, totally dry conifer forest.
bhbirf.1979 – :
Mendittorosa says their perfumes are “scents for the soul”. They have a depth and complexity that makes each an exceptional scent. North’s dramatic artistry highlights Anne-Sophie Behaghel’s talent, a deft mix of metallic ozone and aldehyde swirled together with woody spices and citrus. She made my other Mendittorosa favorite, ID.
The opening of North is a forceful blend of top notes. Every time I smelled my wrist I got a different impression. It went through transitions that ran the gamut from sweet to cool, dry to haunting. Ozonic notes lift and clarify, giving it an arid moonscape feel. It has a dry eerie impact, oddly like sensing the air around steam coming out of an iron. (A similar effect as the aldehydes in Stephen Jones – on Luca Turin’s Top 10 “Best Strange Fragrance” list, that gives off a weird Steampunk, clothes iron vapor effect – unique, memorable, glorious!) The drydown for North is a crisp citrus over a cedar/spice foundation . . . buffeted by constant ozonic winds. Sillage stronger than a skin scent, longevity several hours.
Oxibiadig – :
The whole perfume is dry and lean, from beginning to finish. However, that initial blast has a tender feeling, like a dry flower open on a dehydrated wood block, and died in seconds.
Except the pretty out-spoken dry-woody accord, I actually get that “plastic” feeling of incense, though it’s not listed in the notes table. It also give out a slightest hint of sweetness, possibly due to aldehyde. I don’t get any pepper.
The deprivation of all moisture remind me of Bois D’hiver by ex nihilo, sans the pepper notes.
yrd223Diobtetty – :
If you’re not drawn to the northern european minimalist aesthetic applied to perfumery, you should probably stop reading this now. There’s really nothing interesting here. Instead, if what you’re after is an aloof and yet affable composition, North is well worth checking out.
A combo of sparkling aldehydes, bright green citruses with robotic, kind of soapy, florals revolving around a smooth cedarwood foundation that will make the joy of every fragrance modernist. North is the opposite of an old-fashioned fragrance. In fact, it’s modern synths galore but the whole composition is handled with the right amount of restraint and intelligence to never border into cheap, mall-style, synth dry woody stuff. Imagine CDG’s Seprentine, some of the Geza Schoen’s more sparkling offerings and Nu-Be Oxygen and you get close to this fragrance profile. It’s cold and detached while still feeling very wearable and affable. It’s essential and straight to the point without resulting simplistic.
The base is more of a been there done that kind of affair. The usual peppery-cedarwood combo with some spicy-incensey facets but, again, while being remarkably synth, it never feels cheap or uninspired. Probably not groundbreaking and surely overpriced but, at least, it smells very nice.
Rating: 7/10
agrilaapora – :
The shop assistant described it as the “cold” scent which uses only “cold” ingredients.
I can honestly say that this is a very precise description of the lovely fume that this is..It just has a very crisp atmosphere with a lush combination of cedar and green notes with, of course, florals.. Lovely creation.
It is very versatile and I imagine it would work in the winter as well as it does in the summer…