Description
Snow is unisex fragrance made to smell like snow, fresh, cold, and refreshing. It consists of notes of soil that snow falls on and remains there, with addition of notes of dust. This fragrance has received two FiFi awards in 2000, one of which as the best American fragrance.
It is nteresting to mention that the noses of Demeter Fragrance had experienced snow through the story about Eskimos who have seven different words for snow: anniu – snow that snows, api – snow on the ground, siqoq –snowdrifts, upsik – snow blown by wind, kimoaqtruk – snowflake, salumaroaq – smooth snow plane, natatgonaq – scabrous snow planes.
The nose behind this fragrance is Christopher Brosius.
FunkuMunky – :
Demeter Snow… based on reviews and recommendation I bought Snow. However, I regret it. It is a very poor scent very synthetic and you are lucky if it lasted 10 minutes. An overwhelming burst of Alcohol in the opening that paralyzes your olfactory system for a moment then it almost vanishes suddenly and leaves you with a very poor broken down laundry detergent. I get a very cold forest hint from it but it is not consistent or even accurate.
Verdict: Disappointed!
Recommendation: try before you buy.
DIMEDROLIS – :
I don’t think of snow when I first sprayed this on my skin. Very green and earthy scent that reminds me of walking through the forest during winter which I suppose could conjure up a snow feel. I feel I could wear this anytime of the year as it has a fresh vibe and not overpowering. Definitely a great unisex fragrance.
vik93 – :
Snow. What a beautiful fragrance. On me it smells like fresh cold ozone with fresh soil. I can see why this fragrance won awards it’s absolutely charming. It’s very wearable and earthy. DEMETER is amazing but I wish I didn’t need to reapply so often. The sillage is nice because it’s not very strong. This is an amazing perfume not just for novelty but to wear on the first cold snowy day of the year. It’s perfect. I’m glad the winter is over but I look forward to winter 2019. Have a nice day perfume lover’s!
stariy076 – :
I’ll agree with the previous reviews – this doesn’t smell like snow, more like laundry detergent (should have been Laundromat from their line…) + strong ozonic smell.
el5902 – :
Cool clean soft not sharp or frosty.
tqusernamej1 – :
Opens alcoholic and quickly turns into a light floral, with a very powdery drydown. I don’t get any “winter”ness here, the freshness comes from a fruity scent, maybe melon(?), but I’m certainly not detecting snow. Smells like you just washed your hands more than anything. Picked this up for $7 at a discount store to try and will be using this as air freshener.
I wish this lived up to other Demeter fragrances I have tried which more intuitively capture what they’re aiming for.
demanadidas – :
Very confused by this smell. I was very curious to try this perfume since i live down south and miss the feeling of walking on snow. but this fragrance does not get any associations with snow when i smell it. i cant even detect what it smells like. im very confused. not snow though.
elektroton2 – :
Doesn’t smell like snow or anything like that conceptually. The opening is a complete alcohol-fueled mess before turning into something clean and soft like laundry detergent. Lasts about 30 minutes and is extremely weak.
pusiyjan – :
più concettuale che realmente somigliante all’odore della neve, si tratta comunque di un bell’esperimento sintetico in cui una gran dose di alcol miscelata con iso-E-super e qualcosa di indistinguibile, restituisce una sensazione piuttosto che un odore tout court. il gioco è fatto: la percezione di freddo (qualche lievissima punta di mentolo) unita al legnoso e al polveroso (nel senso di polvere sporca, non di iris o violetta) da un’idea di strada innevata. a me piace molto, non fosse per quel fondo muschiato che faccio fatica a tollerare. nel complesso, in questo giorno caldo di primavera, questo skin-scent è gradevole.
kcu349Negeltzex – :
I agree with what most people said on here.
The top notes are very overwhelming and not in a good way. It smells strongly of alcohol and something very sweet I can’t quite put my finger on. Reminds me a bit of those nights in my teenage years when I was partying with friends and we only drank those intensely sweet alcohol mixes. Not a pleasant smell.
After this (10-20 minutes) the scent seems to disappear almost completely only to return about twenty minutes later as a very soft, cold and ozonic smell. I can smell the dirt and something subtly sweet. It does smell quite fresh and clean as most people have remarked, but not necessarily what a mountain top with freshly fallen snow would smell like. It’s more of a dirty city snow scent, not the nice nostalgic smell that would enter my nose when leaving the house on the first snow morning of the year in the quiet little village I grew up in.
Longevity is very disappointing.
spirtspirt – :
Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow
I’m wearing Snow as Elsa from Disney’s Frozen on Disney Cruises. I have received compliments on it & because it’s the Bahamas the weather is so warm that this scent does not match with the environment but it does match with my character! I sprayed this on my hair & white-blonde wig. The kids love the smell. This is a very creatively composed fragrance. Admittedly, it’s not a real perfume for one’s skin & it doesn’t always work with most people’s chemistry. This is a harsh chemical opening, cold & strange. One can’t call it fresh because it’s down right cold. It is meant to evoke being out in a shower of snow, or falling snow, along with ice pellets or sleet, & falling snow flakes; not necessarily evocative of walking around in fallen powdery snow or putting your nose to snow. It’s more a meteorological thing. Smells like a snowstorm.
The notes are not always easy to identify. There’s definitely a lot of alcoholic content in this scent. It comes off as pure alcohol almost like rubbing alcohol, very strong & cruelly cold. I smelled some floral notes, nondescript white floral notes: iris, orris, heliotrope, jasmine & powder notes. There are powdery chemicals that are trying to evoke fallen snow, especially toward the dry down when it is no longer as cold or harsh as the opening. There’s also a bit of slush & it evokes a frozen pond or frost on glass windows & cars, that sleet or slushy snow not the powdery snow (although there’s still some of that in there). I want to say kudos to Demeter for truly capturing a graphically real scent of snow & ice during a blizzard.
Like I said this is not a real perfume. It’s a chemically formulated fragrance that is better suited as ARTISTIC HAIR SPRAY. I feel that I can get whiffs of the scent and it’s progression of alcohol, florals & “snow” a lot better from my hair than anywhere else It is better on one’s hair or perhaps a shirt collar. It’s pretty fresh as I suppose and cool, so it would feel really refreshing in the hot summer months. What better way to cool off in 90 plus degree weather than by applying some snow into your hair!
A really fun & cool frag
rurc3 – :
I think Demeter is an amazing company ……. that has a 35% failure rate.
Most of their scents are what they say…. and some just totally fail.
Like this one.
I do not get snow…just some light floral….lavender …iris? It is a COLD smell nonetheless .
On the flip side Demeter Thunderstorm smells just like wet cement after it rains and their Lobster smells like a lobster cooking in a metal pot with butter. How useful are these? I don’t know – but they are there.
бельбао – :
Why? I get the other ones, but this one is just dirty city snow. Why would you want to smell like that is beyond me. I get it if you are longing for home or you haven’t been home for Christmas in a long time….you can spray it or dab it in a piece of cotton just for sentimental reasons, but never on yourself.
Katerinka-K – :
I have only just discovfered the Library of Fragrance after one of my Christmas parcels turned out to be a bottle of Gin and Tonic from this range.
I loved it so much that I went to the Library website, and bought three of the range that were on special offer.
Snow is the first one I have tried…. it is a strange one. When first spritzed, all I could smell was the alcohol and an ozone note that made my nose tingle as if a sneeze was brewing. Well, that is authentic, I suppose as the cold frost air on a snowy day always makes me sneeze until I get used to it.
After that there was nothing much for ten minutes or so, then a smell of dirt – slushy mud. Then some little frosty flowers peeked out along with a very faint hint of pine needles.
All in all, I love this. It works better as a hair/clothes scent for me, as on my skin it vanishes far too quickly. The secret is patience – don;t scrub it off before it has had the chance to develop past the slightly odd opening.
trish – :
I just received this for Christmas. It smells almost exactly like Frozen Pond, of which I already had a splash on. Snow is just slightly softer, maybe, but they’re practically identical. If you have one, you don’t need the other.
plump_t – :
It does remind me of snow because the scent is so very sharp that my nose shies away from it just like it would from the cold if it suddenly met a handful of fresh snow. but I do not particularly like it. it smells frothy, chemical and hits me high up in the forehead, like the kitchen degreaser i use.
SVETLANA.BELOVA.79 – :
First it smells like alcohol.
Then it smells like nothing at all.
Then…wait for it….
WHAMMO. Slightly slushy snow! Suddenly I could not keep my nose off my wrist.
This fragrance made me realize that although I associate snow with softness, its scent actually leans slightly toward the sharp side. It’s an intriguing combination — crisp and bright yet very subtle. I wish this were a fragrance I could describe in a concrete way, but I can’t single out specific notes. For me, it’s all maddeningly impressionistic adjectives: Cold! Clear! Refreshing!
ps: Dirt? Refrigerator? Yikes! Not to my nose, thank goodness. Mileage certainly does vary.
Drunya – :
My suggestions for combination Snow with other Demeters :
Snow+ Orchid+ Violet
Snow+ Sweethearts Be My Valentine
Snow+ Hay+ Ginseng
Snow + Lotus Flower
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My Personal Notes on Use and my comparative Body Chemistry:
I can get reactions wearing perfumes on my skin due to the alcohols but I can have really severe reactions to synthetics which are how Demeter creates these wild replica scents.
I always recommend combining scents at different, separate spots on skin or clothing so they do not muddy in smell but also so they don’t create an allergic reaction on skin.
Maybe it’s because I am a Strawberry Blonde but most scents just end up turning musky/powdery on my skin, like Adieu Sagesse smells… my skin always smells like that up close only much less strongly,of course.
I generally don’t even bother with predominantly powdery florals (like White Shoulders or Adieu Sagesse) because my skin already smells that way (with a bit of that oh-so-intoxicating civet smell I supposedly carry *haha* ).
Perfumes’ synthetic chemicals can really bring out my body sweat smell which should not smell bad in-and-of-itself but it does indicate my body is detoxing all the chemicals and anyway, those around me do not want to smell sweat, however clean or intoxicating my SO or Jean Patou might deem it to be. (;
I stick to greens and aldehydes which seem to work best on me.I almost only ever wear perfume on clothing, not skin and for this same reason I usually opt for Eaus :
Because even just my body heat and of course the chemicals rubbing onto my skin read very musky and strong very easily with my chemistry.
svbelyavskaya – :
To me this just smells like vodka on ice, I like the scent of vodka but I wouldn’t want to wear it :/
a-v-n-100 – :
This is a fabulous scent that creates a refreshing, snow day feeling. It has the ozonic quality, along with subtle aquatic and earthy notes. It’s very light, which is fitting for something called ‘Snow’.
I like wearing it on casual days, or when I’ll be outdoors and don’t want to smell perfumey, but still want a bit of fragrance.
jursans – :
This is an odd one. It has that intense ozonic freshness I associate with new fallen snow, but also the dirtiness/mixed with mud aspect of melting, slushy snow. It has a dirt/earth component along with the freshness. Very cold and icy, like cold winter wind, mixed with dirt. It’s as though the scent is trying to capture all the stages of snow: the freshness when it first falls and the muddiness when it melts. It’s an interesting experiment but I can’t quite think where one would wear it, except around the house.
jony_74rus – :
It’s been more than a decade since I last enjoyed real snow.
This may not smell like snow, but to me, this is the way snow should smell.
Delicate, watery-clean with just the slightest flowery hint. It smells a bit like a cold variation on clean skin (by that I don’t mean the fragrance, which I haven’t tried yet, but the real thing). I can smell winter.
And I love it so so much.
Nice longevity and fairly light sillage.
Xeroxxvsqi – :
Smells like slush out on the road at first, then sweetens slightly as it settles and becomes more pleasant. I’m not sold on this as a scent I’d wear, but for an atmosphere scent like a Christmas scene or snow village on your sofa table, this would work quite nicely.
laxx79 – :
i got free sample of this and i’m super glad i didn’t pay for a full bottle. this is possibly the worst thing i’ve ever smelled. i can’t even explain what it smells like, it’s just terrible!! and it was so, so strong, even after i washed it off. maybe i got a bad batch? actually, i desperately hope i got a bad batch. i refuse to believe anything can smell this disgusting.
Melxy220Unlogrere – :
Imagine that you are in the uptown apartment of a woman whom you love and admire. She is always fashionable and knows how to put herself together. If you were to find a bottle of Demeter’s Snow on this woman’s vanity (because OF COURSE it would be there; this woman is like a curator of all things iconic!) At first sniff you would instantly recognize it as “that soft, beautiful scent that always surrounds her like an aura.” A soft, beautiful scent which you had never thought to be manufactured… it had always seemed so effortless, so ethereal.
DFL’s Snow captures the moment were nature meets sophisticated technology. Cold snowy atmosphere collides with manufactured beauty.
It’s a figure skater who glides across the ice in a darkened arena; she’s wearing silver and metallic blues. The spotlight follows her lighter-than-air dance. You wonder if she is a fairy.
marcellinio – :
I live in East Texas, where it rarely snows, and snow never stays. Possibly for that reason, Snow has become one of my favorite winter fragrances. I do smell the dirt in it – it smells like newly turned earth. But the overall fragrance is more than dirt- it’s a fresh air, walking through the woods kind of smell. Lovely.
mindzinee – :
Thurea below says exactly what I’d like to say. This is really pretty in my hair and sprayed on my clothing. I layered it with my sample of Serge Lutens Fille En Aiguilles, which is a pine and incense scent, and the combination became something extremely compelling – as in new and different – exciting and even gorgeous.
fefowuld – :
I never really smelled this as snow. It was more like dirt and heavy rain with a coldness to it. But it’s pretty. Like, really pretty. It has a very light sillage, but when I was at college with people sat next to me, they’d turn their head and not say anything, but have that look in their eyes of: “Oh”. As in; “Oh, that’s different, but sort of nice.” Or considerably less poetic as one guy said to me: “You smell nicely wet.”
I wouldn’t sing its praises from a rooftop, but it’s very pretty and would go great as a layering fragrance with something spicy and warm, something contrasting it.
If not for the absolutely terrible lasting power, I might consider repurchasing it.
Parhom – :
Smells fresh, the opening note is quite unique and really surprised me. It is a very clean fragrance. I have to agree with other reviewers that it is a bit odd to wear and is much better at creating a nice atmosphere.
I just want to give a shout out to Demeter. I ordered Snow, Rain, and New York Christmas and they shipped a free bottle of Hawaiian Surf with it. Really appreciate that! Was a pleasure to purchase from them. I wish I could test them out somewhere before buying them.
eqi752Unlogrere – :
Well, this scent does smell like snow, more specifically, ozone with just a titch of a light white floral to give it some sun.
However, they didn’t stop with those two elements. Evidently they wanted to convey the outdoors which they did by adding a heavy handed dose of DIRT!! I say DIRT!! this way because that’s how in your face and dominant it is. Kudos to them for getting such a freshly dug up, deep moist, rich DIRT!! with shades of grass in it as well but wow is it overpowering and the extreme level of it ruins the scent imo. I know this is quibbling but the authentic DIRT!! smell is a spring or summer smell (yes dirt smells differently in the fall or winter) so I think a little pine or some sort of conifer would have added to its authenticity.
Annoying and headache inducing for me, a scrubber in fact but I toughed it out hoping it would change – everything but the DIRT!! faded but that hung in like a trooper for about 4 hours.
балбесёнок – :
When I lived in Arizona for five years, the thing I missed the most (believe it or not!) was SNOW. We had it on the mountains, miles north of the city, where the ski lodge was…but it was not the same. When I saw this scent, on here, I knew I had to have it! And now thanks to a swap with a dear friend and fellow Fragrantican-I have a nice full sample…
I love how the inspiration for this scent came from the many words Eskimos have for snow. Snow, in and of itself, is just frozen crystallized drops of water; so would have very little smell. However, all the things that go “with” snow do. The smell of the cold, the crisp blustery wind and the smell of the earth (cold and hard) as the snow falls on it. That fresh almost “fluffy” smell (in the air) as it falls silently floating, blowing about and piles up on the ground. All these facets of “snow” are captured here. On the first sniff (from the vial) it smelled sharp fresh and clean…nice! Today, when I sprayed some on, I made an awful face!! What the heck??! All I could smell was something akin to grey mold or that dusty build up behind an appliance that you clean (maybe) once or twice a year! *sniffs again* Really?? Okay…let’s give it a chance! (So glad I did) Now, about ten to fifteen minutes later, the smell of the earth/dust/mold has passed, and a very crisp fresh cold (almost metallic, but not quite) scent is all around me. Soon after little flowers covered in sheer ice peek out; Snow went from “eeew!” to WOW! This is really amazing…from the muddy muck of rainy mud frozen solid to a crisp dryness to soft icy subtle floral beauty; Snow really catches not only the scent of snow falling but the feeling of winter. I too can perceive the “ozone” smell mentioned below; that clings to coats and people (and animals) as they come in from the cold. As it progresses, though it is quiet, it is much more than a linear single note fragrance…more of an “experience” than anything. I like watching the snow fall outside, its calm grace and how it makes the world seem even more beautiful, as it clings to everything it touches. I also get an ever so gentle whiff of something like hints of soft pine and a fine vanilla-like powder; that adds to, but does not overpower, the entire experience. Snow is something you will love or hate (or both!), but it is definitely one thing…unique!
Sillage: okay
Longevity: average
Overall: 3.5/5
Snow (the perfume) is not what I expected, but it is very true to its name. Not something I would want a HUGE bottle of, but something I would definitely buy (to have and experience occasionally), if I could find it in a 30 ml spray! Today, the first day it snowed and stuck to the ground, I walked my dog in the snow covered meadow by the pine grove and as it continued to fall and sniffed the air and realized DEMETER had pretty much captured this smell to a tee! Not so much the true SCENT of snow, but something more like capturing the moment in a quaint painting of a snow covered landscape. Softly beautiful, cool and smooth-this is not a projection monster and doesn’t last all that long…but while it does, it’s wonderful!
WEST1575 – :
I spritzed “Snow” on my wrist at my local drug store. What a disappointment! It smelled like alcohol and dirt. I waited an hour—Still dirt. I agree whole heartedly with SilverFire. It smells like the mud that stays caked on your boots. Unfortunately, a scrubber.
Maksxxx84 – :
I bought this on ebay so this was a blind buy. When I first sprayed it on I was like OMG I bought a bottle of DIRT!!! I was NOT happy. My girlfriend was over at the time and was laughing at me cause I was so mad. Well about 15 min past and I smelt my wrist again and all of a sudden a big huge GRIN came across my face. I do still smell some dirt but it reminds me of flowers in dirt 🙂 I really like it. Actually to put it better….it reminds me of flowers in dirt that have just bloomed but then you get that spring snowfall!!!(We get those a little too often in Canada..grrrr! Even though it’s called SNOW I feel it can be worn ANYTIME of year, I like that! I would say more daytime use UNLESS you are just going out to a friends or family and it’s a laid back type of an evening. I will be honest I don’t think I’d buy it again but am not regretting I did.
oppommacepromu – :
The smell of the cold air clinging to people’s coats when they enter a warm house on a snowy evening. For me, this isn’t quite the smell of snow. It comes awfully close, but it’s not quite there. I detect a cloth or wool note in here, which makes it smell to me far more like those snow-dusted coats than like the snow itself. All the same, it is marvelous.
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ETA: I bought a bottle of the cologne, but since then, I’ve found that I really enjoy it far more as an environmental smell or even a linen spray than as something to wear on my skin. At the Demeter sale price I paid, I don’t feel too guilty spraying this around with wild abandon, but if I had it to do all over again, I would go for the room spray in the first place, rather than the cologne. Just adding this here to agree with what Teolinda, Migotka, and others have already written.
Юлия Александровна – :
All I get is the cold ozone smell of my grandmother’s freezer. Unfortunately there’s something almost nauseating about it. Usually I’m a fan of the the quirky scents this line puts out, but not this one!
troya – :
My hometown snows a lot in winter and I don’t think those white cold refreshing water crystal smells like this, not at all…
Yes, the scent is fresh and cool, but pity, can’t reminds me of snow, not at all.
There is nothing wrong with the scent itself, but the name just let me down. If its name is not Snow, probably I ‘ll like it much more.
One good thing about Demeter is that the scents from the brand can be mixed. I make a combination of Snow and Paperback for fun — the result is suprisingly good — feels like staying in a frozen library! However, the magic can not last for long. About 2 hours later I can hardly find any trace of the Snow left only the sweetness and sawdust smell of the Paperback…
bae1995 – :
Some people love this and some people hate this but it really does remind of snow, wet snow and the outdoors. Some thing about it gives me a a headache though I think unfortunately.
offifuccexuby – :
It smells very fresh, although at the beginning I could not smell anything except this unidentifies freshness, it does start smelling a lot like the snow from my memories. Never before had I actually thought that snow had an actual smell to itself. It does! But it is pretty difficult to describe.
I just got a Snow body lotion (thought it would be better than getting a full sized EDT bottle). I think it was a good choice. I agree with Toelinda, it is not a fragrance to wear. It works better as an atmosphere spray, body lotion or shower gel.
zxzxzx – :
Very, very light scent that first reminds me of a combination of “Grass” and “Dirt” but softer. It smells fresh and feels just like standing outdoors looking up into the sky and see the snow falling. You reach after snowflakes with your hand, catch them and they disappear slowly. What´s left is the refrehing air all around you.
For me “Snow” is a beautiful memory, not a fragrance to be worn, a reminder of the nature we sometimes take for granted.
vzc467speagoessenda – :
I am curios about Demeter´s fragrances, but why are they so few here? Is it anyone who have tried some of their fragrances?