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moses85 – :
Wet wild herbaceous forest in a flask. This is such an invigorating scent, bottled comfort for me in the grey winters. It has a sharpness that is so addictive! It makes me nostalgic for memories I don’t have – Italian forest I haven’t visited, monks experimenting to make medicines and herbs I didn’t take. I originally went to test SMN’s Patchouli, but fell head over heels for this one. I now wear this as a blanket on my wrists, my neck, my scarf, my coat…the list keeps going. I love it when I catch it’s whiff during the day, like a secret only I know about. It is truly unisex – both my partner and I wear it. I have been told I smell divine (which is always welcome), but this is one of the few fragrances I wear for me only – even if other’s couldn’t smell this.
esuouzqu – :
If you are into herbals and warm aromatics then you are going to love this. You can just imagine some monks creating this centuries ago. Wholesome and all herbalishisness.
It is very unisex and I dont think it smells like the potpourri I remember as a kid. It was all the rage in the 70s. This is all about herbs. Where is the rose?
Bergamot, bay, clove, rosemary, carnation, lavender and thyme all come at you at once! If you logically imagine a strong, biting opening then you would be wrong. These herbs are softened by LOTS of peru balsam and patch.
It smells like a salve the monks might have created to aid the healing of a knife wound or similar.
I have to admit I find it quite addictive as well. It smells so good and wholesome. It must be doing something good for me lol
I get average longevity and sillage. This is one strong cologne so go easy when first testing!
kostik0187 – :
I live in New York City. I attended an event at a brownstone mansion that is now home to an antique gallery. Upon entering the mansion I was engulfed in a smell so divine, so nostalgic, and so refined that it stole my complete attention. I tracked down the owner of the mansion and discovered that the smell that had captured my heart was none other than Santa Maria Novella’s potpourri(bagged potpourri, not the perfume). It was housed in a 100 year old jewelry box at the bottom of a grand staircase. After the event I looked up the Santa Maria Novella website and was ecstatic to discover it was offered in a perfume. The smell is otherworldly in its totality, but still familiar as you start to identify the individual ingredients. I was concerned that this perfect scent for use in a home or gallery might not be the same on human skin. Nothing could be further from the truth. The scent combines with my own natural chemistry and emits a scent that is truly magnificent. It has a moderate lifespan(a few hours) and extends the length of the arm. I use it not only on my skin, but also on my leather goods and luggage.
gazelist123 – :
When worn in very small amounts (a bottle usually lasts a couple of years when worn every day) this woody and aromatic smell is one of the most manly scents I know. FruitDiet claims it’s an unsexy scent – I disagree. It’s not how a pumped-up, testosterone fuelled action hero would smell (I imagine, haven’t met one yet) but more of a tweed clad libriarian who builds log cabins in the mountains and makes great pot roasts on weekends way.
skipit – :
If you want to smell like a flavoured tuscany steak + candy thyme and mild soap: that is your perfume.
Mr.Su4ki01 – :
I wouldn’t say that it is repulsive but it smells a bit like chinese medicinal oil/balm so you wouldn’t want to wear this next to an Asian.
Siage – :
I love this stuff. When I was a child playing dress up in my grandmother’s lovely flapper dresses from the 1920s there was a tiny flask of very old perfume in her dresser drawer that I think came from that era. Decades later I found this and it is the same scent. Makes me feel like an actress in a silent movie. It’s strong and exotic, I would never wear it to work – I might wear it on a cold Saturday for a date with myself in the city going to a museum and a bookstore, then to meet a friend for drinks.
mitrofan11aa – :
Natural old perfume that couldn’t build a character over more than a century… I feel so sorry for it!
pretender79 – :
Aromatic rosemary Italian sausage doused with ye ole apothecary ointment. Original and old world, but completely unwearable on me.
leonsik – :
Overwhelming on me. The top notes are objectionable at home and in the office. I’ve had people ask me if I would mind washing my face.
The fragrance is all over the map, the notes and transitions lack direction and in my opinion clash. After the first sensation there is a flatness as of camphor, balm or birch. It is POW then HISS. Neither is likeable. I gave mine away, and it came back :-]
e-Lenka16 – :
Outrageously gorgeous aromatic giving way to a resin and spice concoction with more than enough reference to dried herbs and flowers but undercut with a rarified medicinal sweetness that is not the least bit candied. Intimations of soil, camphorous balms at healing retreats, an old time invalid taking a constitutional; all is unhealthy poetic distance washed over with a rouge swipe at vigor. Still, the hand is gloved in keeping with refinement. A triangulation occurs in the pyramid and over time: lighter opening/heavy middle/lighter drydown and spice/medicine/spice. Potpourri: not at all of this time, older in feel than most any fragrance I have tried.