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LindaMccartney91 – :
This is just a buttery apricot on me, and it made me slightly nauseous. I had to wash it off.
Immorlema – :
I finally tried my decant of Selperniku and despite my initial hesitation, I think I’m in love. There is a LOT of salt and butter when first sprayed, which along with the slight sweetness brought to mind a Jelly Belly buttered popcorn bean. Luckily that particular stage is short lived and the other notes begin to blossom, most notably the cypress and cardamom. I didn’t detect much fruitiness in my juice at all but that’s totally okay with me. I was left with something altogether more warm and exotic that followed me all day long.
avasil – :
To me, smells exactly like an imagined green summer version of Lutens Jeux de Peau. Also similar somehow to Pear and Olive Slumberhouse.
A lot of box of crayons smell throughout, a very airy sandalwood? The opening is really interesting, herbaceous, tomato leaf, butter, and sandalwood and then settles to a more apricot, creamy sandalwood scent. There are some really pretty notes as it settles that I can’t put my finger on but also awkward transitions throughout.
There is something about this that is slightly too flat and thick. It seems like it is struggling to rise up off my skin and has 0 sillage, a skin scent. Smelling this is like drinking a thick smoothie through a tiny straw, difficult and straining. Maybe something about this is bothering my nose?
Will sample a few more times and update.
SweefLelf – :
A word of caution: if you hate butter & cream notes, you won’t like this.
But if you love them, give this a try.
I’m surprised sandalwood isn’t ranked higher in the notes here because for me, this fragrance is all about sandalwood placed in different frames as the scent evolves.
First, it’s sandalwood topped with a hefty dollop of butter, floating in a saucer of warm milk. Full disclosure: I hated this part, but please take that with a grain of salt because buttery/creamy fragrances make me nauseous.
After 30 minutes to an hour, the butter melts & the milk evaporates and the frame becomes more spicy-herbal – the herbal notes like juniper and cardamom, coming quietly out from the background to frame the sandalwood which still anchors this scent. The apricot comes out more clearly too, to become almost equal with the sandalwood. This part, to me, was much more pleasant.
This really isn’t my type of scent – even if I was fully in love with the drydown I’m not sure I could handle that huge BUTTER opening. But I can see people who like cream and sandalwood loving this one. It’s well crafted and unique for sure and I’m glad I tried it!
SmemsOffece – :
One of the things I love about perfuming as a hobby is the sheer unpredictability of it all. I never know what I’m going to love or hate.
Just last week I decided, that after buying countless sample sets and trying probably a hundred plus perfumes without ever once going back for a bottle purchase, that American Indie perfumers just aren’t for me.
Yeah, we all know where this is going.
Then Selperniku happened and I can honestly say that here is all the promise of American indie perfumery realized. It’s incredibly odd, weirdly beautiful, boldly unique but more impressively, it’s meticulously well put together from beginning to end.
I’ve worn it three times and each time it smelled different but each time it smelled good all the way through without a discordant note or disquieting whiff of an aromachemical.
Great perfumers both have something interesting to say and the technical skills to say it, all while fulfilling the rule that perfume must above all else, smell good. John Biebel is such a perfumer and Selperniku is a masterpeice.
The first time I put it on, I froze, torn between admiration and disgust. It smelled exactly like butter and was so unexpected my olfactory apparatus didn’t know quite how to process it. The just butter moment was brief and quickly the other notes come in turning it into a creamy and fresh “your skin but better” scent.
This is one of those fragrances that you can identify all the notes but still has a definite and cohesive trail that smells only like itself. I would characterize it as a savory/sweet milky fragrance with a trail of forest and herbs running through it. Texturewise it’s not a million miles from Bottega Venata, though scentwise they are very different. The contrast provided by the forest and herbs is what makes this so compelling and unique.
I don’t really know what else to say about this. It fills me with a sense of wonder as I contemplate how all the different facets of human skin are captured in this scent salty, milky, fruity, sweet. It’s feral and warm and deeply human and alive.
Yeah, it’s that good.
Kortes9191 – :
The initially strong three main scents of juniper berries, peach and butter settle into a very wearable combination. The accompanying art work shows a woman and makes me wonder what this scent would smell like on a woman. The 30 ml bottle sprayer has hick-ups, but the overall presentation is classy with a tactile geometric cap. Though not heavy in woods, the spices carry this in the winter. The peach adds a fun but also forbidden quality to it. The salt note makes me think of Lacoste for Men in a more mature version.
roker1851 – :
Gosh the level of all the compositions of this brand is amazing, it’s like smelling something create by Jacques Guerlain. Mandatory
Sometimes this one give me the souvenir of a vintage Jicky.
CorToigoInorm – :
Love! This is so unique. All day long I get wafts of every note. Just when I think something is gone I get a whiff again. Delicious and FB worthy for sure. I feel like a juicy apricot covered with sandalwood butter. LOL!
masyanya1986 – :
this is like a mix of a much more subdued slumberhouse pear & olive in the top and middle (oily, milky, fruity, a bit green) — and then comes to rest on slumberhouse kiste (tart apricot) on my skin. in all, it is very delicious, and if i didn’t already own the former two, i would get this. i still might, anyway.
Кондрат Кулябко – :
This is total wrist crack. It’s a little odd at first. I can see why some think it’s a bit sour, but that only lasts for a few minutes. It settles pretty quickly, and the result is a slightly salty, creamy, semi-sweet, milky, herbal concoction. I’ve never smelled anything like it! The butter note is delicious, but the cypress, juniper and immortelle keep it from being too foody. I’ve had one spray on the back of my hand for 6 hours, have washed dishes, given my daughter a bath, and it is still wafting all around me. It never oversteps. It stays in your own space, but lasts forever!
The drydown is still milky and buttery sandalwood, with a lingering coolness from the herbal notes. The salt is present the whole way through. I never really got much tobacco, but that’s fine with me. It’s perfect the way it is. This is unique, high quality and I can’t wait to get a bottle!
gamered – :
This is horrible. It’s not gourmand on me. It’s sort of a sticky sweet-sour milk odor. I didn’t enjoy it and had to scrub after waiting through two hours of the same scent.
Alexpros – :
I forget that I like this.
There is something that smells a little off to me. I think it’s the butter note. I expected to completely love this and I’m not sure why I don’t. It has a lovely bright apricot a salty musk and some fresh and woody scents. It’s a compiment getter.
But I’m still undecided
55xela – :
This ticks so many olfactory boxes, it’s a bit difficult to pin down to any singular fragrance family; while the overall effect of this is unmistakably fruity, it lacks the sharpness typically associated with contemporary fruit scents. Milk, sandalwood and butter create a smooth creaminess, salt and juniper lend a slight edge, verging on savory, and apricot and chamomile combine as a warm, gentle, sensual and altogether unusual scent that registers as sweetly enhanced human skin. My birthday is coming up in a few weeks and I believe that a full bottle of Selperniku will be a great gift to myself.
jjj980elipseskism – :
Sunshine and warmth from a bottle.
This is something that you don’t expect, and i certainly did not expect the green/citric opening from the petitgrain and lemon to beautifully counter-balance the creamier sweetness of the apricot and butter. My el-fresco continental breakfast never smelled so good or inviting.
For me this has 3 distinct phases that work and blend well with ine another; the longest being the sumptuous buttery apricot heart.
Cypress and Juniper berries help keep this from gourmand territory and guide this composition through its development to a creamy warm woody/tobacco base. The use of saltiness in this also gives it the illusion of an extended skin scent. Some of the best skin you will smell.
10 plus hours longevity and excellent projection and sillage.
Wearable year round but would shine in the warmth.
mailtoome – :
Selperniku was released in 2017 and was my first experience with John Biebel’s creations for his own brand of fragrances. The official text says as follows: “salty, milky and fruity”. And truth be told, such a description could not be more correct.
The fragrance has notes of apricots, immortelle, butter, cardamom, petitgrain, lemon, chamomile, milk, cypress, juniper, tobacco and sandalwood. On the skin, it behaves like a floral and fruity scent full of woody, milky and salty nuances.
I must confess that at the very moment when I sprayed it on my skin, I found the output hideous! The salty content is really very present, although there is no salt note, which would not be something new in the perfumery. However, almost immediately, the output softens and a floral-green scent begins to emerge. And the unexpected happens, when you realize that a totally strange perfume makes you curious to see how far the evolution goes. And one of the most intriguing characteristics of this scent is, precisely, to understand from where that salty content comes that remains for all time.
As time passes by, Selperniku gains personality and begins to show me an apricot full of facets that remind me of peaches. This apricot is dipped in a bitterness typical of petitgrain, which here was enhanced by chamomile. At the same time, a camphorated smell insists on being noticed, but is muffled by the creaminess that the milk note imparts, along with the sandalwood and tobacco. Don’t be surprised if you think about figs, even for seconds.
Selperniku is an example of innovation and of what perfume addicts expect to find from independent perfumers, who risk and create fragrances at the edge of pleasure and pain, outside the commercial realm. It is such an incredible and dubious perfume that I still do not know if I love or hate it. I feel myself amid the quicksand: the more I struggle to leave, the deeper I go.
eduard_030384 – :
This is high quality. The note pyramid is accurate to my nose, and it’s beautiful for well over eight hours, which doesn’t happen often enough these days.
I smell essential oils, candied fruits and fresh herbs.
I hope Mr Biebel has plans for more perfumes to be added to this line. I gave the sample set to my husband while we were strolling on a tropical path during our vacation and we ordered the one ounce bottle collection as soon as we returned to our room.
The three perfumes are stunning and they were packaged up like treasures. I’m a sucker for great packaging!
trocka – :
I’m surprised by this one. It is unusual, but it an enjoyable way. It is butter and milk with apricot and salt. It subtly grabs your attention. This makes me think of something that could have been created by Sluberhouse and Josh Lobb, but it’s not. This is John Biebel’s creation, and is the best of the three he just released. It feels a bit dress up, which is kind of surprising for a fragrance that is foodie, but that’s my feeling. I think it’s an excellent fragrance to wear while in a white shirt and tie. I like this one much more than I did Eiderantler, which also surprised me based on what I expected Eiderantler to be. Selperniku however is much more enjoyable so far in my opinion and I’m seriously considering a purchase here. “Surprising” really is the word for this one. Well done Mr. Biebel!
kosta1972 – :
I can’t even describe this one, except that I love it. Full bottle for me for sure. It is constantly skirting the edge of a gourmand but a sophisticated, “gossamer” gourmand. Every element is delicate and classy. It makes me think of a dream-like representation of the actual “foodie” scents without going into that reality. I don’t know if that makes sense, but it is definitely a warm, breezy, comforting scent. The cardamom sprinkled, apricot-butter dance is just beautiful.
I didn’t experience any tobacco with this, which is fine because usually my skin projects tobacco in an almost obscene way. There is something a bit “bridal” about this fragrance to me.
I feel this really defies description. I keep hearing “dreamy” on my insides with this one. I got over 12 hours longevity with this. The sillage was great and the scent hung hauntingly in my bedroom for hours. Unbelievable. I Love it. All I can think of when I smell it, is a resounding, “yes”.
Some fragrances are just like that for us, right?
kein198 – :
This is sort of like a unicorn fragrance for me! I mean it literally is the perfect combo of notes that really compliment each other–woods, creaminess and apricot. I smell pretty much every note listed. It makes me think of apricot chutney, not that I’ve ever seen that in real life, but if it existed it might smell like this. It has the savory quality of Womanity and reminds me of the Taste of Womanity with its chutney note and savory gourmand quality. The apricot smells tree-ripened and freshly cut. When I was wearing this perfume, someone who came within 3 feet of me yelled, “Sandalwood!” So I guess that’s a prominent note. The longer it’s on my skin, the smoother the sandalwood becomes. While it’s fruity, it’s not sweet. An original and well thought-out scent. I will be keeping this blind-buy.
Ecopayaffox – :
I think this one is really interesting. I got a sample set and have tried this and Eiderantler so far. They’re very different. I’d say this is a little more “unique” than Eiderantler. Like others have said, it’s like a very creamy, buttery apricot, but behind that there’s the little bit of salt tempering it. I’ll be interested to see how it dries down.
It’s not like anything else I have tried, but not weird or unpleasant either. Definitely worth at least getting a sample.
IIJIacTuJIuH – :
Disclaimer: Due to the complexity of Selperniku, this review is gonna be all over the place.
I’m gonna describe this like the pilgrimage of a single apricot.
This apricot begins its venture into the world rolling off the counter landing firmly into a tub of butter. Realizing the contamination, the stone fruit is thrown out of the house subsequently landing into a juniper bush. Days of enduring outside elements seem to cause the fruit to lose it’s juicy essence. Resultantly, the apricot is a shell of its former self and takes on a new identity as a stone-washed drupe. As the prized fruit withers, each day in the terrains proves costly. With the assistance of the wind, the apricot is elevated from the shrubbery as it continues to advance through fallen petals of chamomile and petitgrain deposits.
This was a pleasant surprise simply because I had low expectations after trying Eiderantler. What I enjoyed most about this fragrance was its double agent nature. My favorite note of tobacco was seemingly absent. Miraculously, I didn’t miss it. The other swirling aromas will taunt your olfactory system to the point where your brain doesn’t know what to trust. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself, “Do I like this?” I came to the conclusion that this is a contender and not a pretender. A respectable entry into the niche division this is. Time will only tell if “Do I like this” turns into “Yeah, I think I wanna buy this.”
dvin – :
Freshly grilled peaches and cream with a pinch of salt, at an outdoor BBQ.
Selperniku takes me back to a childhood in Phoenix, surrounded by desert chamomile and arid air. Immortelle mingles dry straw and caramelized sugar, without any cloying sweetness. Sand dunes and miles of wilderness in every direction, under a scorching Arizona sun. The use of sandalwood for the base, instead of a more common choice of vanilla– keeps Selperniku gender agnostic.
The two lasting impressions I get from this frag are ‘dry’ and ‘stone fruit’. This is definitely a scent of the outdoors, in hot climate, with ripe fruit. It’s making me look forward to summer!