Description
“Tallemaja is Swedish for Pine Tree Mary, also known in other Scandinavian legends as Huldra and Skogsrå. She is the magical mistress of the enchanted woods – a wild forest woman who howls and dances in the dark, Mother Nature’s most beloved daughter; seductive, beautiful, mysterious and dangerous.This chypre perfume is an intensely raw forest fragrance filled with power and hidden secrets. Featuring Rose Damascena, Virginian Cedarwood, Black Spruce, Ambrette Seed, Amyris, Vetiver, Patchouli and Oud; Tallemaja is long-lasting, primal, earthy and sensual. A fairy-tale elixir for those who dare.” – a note from the brand.
Tallemaja by Teone Reinthal Natural Perfume is a Chypre fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Tallemaja was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Teone Reinthal. The fragrance features damask rose, virginian cedar, black spruce, ambrette (musk mallow), amyris, vetiver, patchouli and agarwood (oud).
yuli-km – :
Just disclosing that I made this fragrance. Its scent was inspired by my very first encounter with Aromatics Elixir. At the age of 19, Aromatics Elixir was a disturbing jolt to my young nose, a total break from everything I’d ever previously known as perfume.
Many years later, Tallemaja was my own attempt to venture further and deeper inside the darkest forests of my imagination.
The dry boozy medicinal accord that fillifelle (below) describes is spot on. This fragrance is absolutley Bilbo Baggins’s encounter with the trolls in Eriador en route to Erebor with the dwarves and Gandalf.
As Gandalf’s cleverness unfolds, the first rays of sunlight turn the trolls to stone, and our company journeys onward to Rivendell.
ЮРЧАНДАЙЗЕР – :
Tallemaja is a bewitching virtual reality that sounds like Clannad’s “Herne,” with damp moss and leaves underfoot in the dappled light of a forest canopy. It’s a scent of a time and place – long ago and far away in Sherwood – but Tallemaja makes it now and here. Tallemaja captures the dichotomy of the serenity of the forest and of things unnatural lurking there. The trees bid you to rest a little, find safety at their feet. There you press into the ancient forest floor and are intoxicated by the smell of moist, dark humus, of trees, fungi and blades and leaves of green. You awaken and are unsure of whether you were dreaming.
bbf986Negeltzex – :
Tallemaja is a fairy tale of a perfume, but a dark fairytale. I smell in colour and pictures and this one to me is a castle, deep in the nordic forests, it’s the smell of damp stones covered in ivy, earthenware pots overflowing with blood-red roses and trailing leaves, lingering sacred resins, the scent of the forest beyond the walls, always pervasive, concoctions from the apothecary, highly polished benches, forbidden lovers and a timeless promise.
anela – :
Tallemaja has one of the most amazing and complex progression I’ve ever encountered in an all natural perfume.
It opens with a dry boozy medicinal accord that has me positively swooning. I don’t get any foresty green vibe at this stage unless you’re talking a clandestine gathering of bootleggers in the woods making and trading moonshine. A bone-dry oud stands out right from the beginning (think Guerlain Santal Royal or MMM’s Across Sands) and is responsible for the overall dark incensy feel. I love me some medicinal bitters! I wish this stage will persist forever but Tallemaja’s destiny unfolds irrevocably forward from this point.
The second stage witnesses the fragrance’s evolution into proper forest territory. I get a delicious earthiness. It’s like the dank smell of wet moss, and the slightly sweet taste of the rain on your tongue. It’s quiet. The bawdy bootleggers have left. Moisture from the undergrowth is evaporating under a re-emerging sun, carrying with it the musty woody odour (OUDour?) of a freshly bathed forest.
In the drydown, Tallemaja once again presents that lovely oud mingled with some residual sweetness from its woody recesses. From the official description, I had expected a grassy, piney, mousse de chêne type scent replete with the usual terpenes, balsams and oakmoss. Wrong! This is that and more. A gutsy paean to woods and earth. And the oud! It’s the real deal.
Seo Victoria – :
An elvish queen, a priestess of her kind, in a draped, silken brocade, dark emerald green like the dark, woody, earthen green aromas of the forest; her brocade interwoven with the beautiful smell of blackened red roses she leaves a trace of herself in her every path. She holds a wooden staff, its dark, knarled and twisted by the ages….the oud wafts from it, dense and strong, weaving its magic it in all it touches. She has an earthen gentility in the patchouli and ambrette, but a darkened fierceness in the spruce and vetiver, wild and dangerous. She is the guardian of her realm, all the woodlands and creatures are under her protection, and she protects them.