Description
The Botanist is part of Volume 1 of the SCENT STORIES Collection which debuted in 2014. Volume 1 consists of 11 fragrances to be released on a members-only basis for the first year. The fragrances’ notes and concepts are reserved for members only. The fragrances are planned for release to the general public in a year, when Volume 2 of the collection is released.
“Olfaction is the sense that’s hardwired to your brain. A direct, subconscious passage to memory and emotions, a memorable smell is rarely forgotten. In SCENT STORIES, each perfume is a potion and an abstract work of art. We invite each guest to spend time with each aroma. Engage, reflect, project, and allow each to transcend your moment. Like a good book, we hope each chapter takes you somewhere captivating. An exchange in the creation, alchemy is achieved in this dialogue and we hope that you find the stories interesting. The collection is rare, exclusive, and made from only a single batch of the best ingredients in the world. We encourage true connoisseurs to collect their favorite chapters.”—Chad Murawczyk and Mindy Yang of MiN New York
SeregaBurez – :
This is my first experience with this house and I feel dissapointed.
The scent is a nice blended vetiver scent with apples mixed with a weird mixture of a musky/vegetable thing. It’s a little greeny/earthy. There is also cypress which feels like Dolce&Gabbana D&G Anthology La Force 11
1st dissapointment it’s scent. Generic to the bone and not pleasant for my nose. Overall it’s not a groundbreaking scent and not something new.
2nd dissapointment, it has weak performance. It lives on my skin for about 4 hours as a faint skin scent. For this price range? Really?
Verdict. It’s a weak, overpriced & generic vetiver scent but well blended. There are better veriver scents IMO.
UPDATE
I’ve tried it again and all I can say is that it turned into a Strong Like! So I may buy it. MiN NY house is quite weird and you need time to understand its creations. This house could be one of my favourite!
ildar10 – :
Fantastic review by queerderussie and I pretty much agree with all their reviews of this line. I am nonplussed at the disdain targeted towards the brand. The Botanist is an earthy, green fragrance that is like stepping inside a greenhouse at the start of spring, with a use of vetiver that steers it away from the overtly masculine scents on the market today. It isn’t too earthy, as per Coven, and it isn’t too vetiver smoky, as per Arso. I think the use of bergamot and apple to effect verdancy, and the ambergris to add a mineral element are inspired. I have loved pretty much everything I’ve tried from the line, and having sniffed most of the niche and designer market, I have to say that I think the MIN team has brought something really interesting to the table.
gurrifielesee – :
I’m probably missing something here because, to me, The Botanist is just yet another green vetiver which strongly feels like a clone of 400.000 other vetivers. As simple as that. Yes, there’s something *vaguely* bizarre about it, a vegetal / musky undertone that’s slightly challenging and *off* (this aspect is especially present during the late drydown where the fragrance shows the same musky element of Vetiver Extraordinaire) but, for the most part, The Botanist is all about the most simple vetiver note known to perfumery.
Considering you can get a tremendous vetiver-centered fragrance at basically any price range and that this genre has already offered a plethora of pillars, this is a pass for me.
Rating: 5/10
knopaskek – :
Nothing much going on here, but some apples and Christmas trees.
sergeyss – :
Probably one of the more unusual scents in the line, The Botanist opens with crisp greens that are countered by a furry animalic chord. The greens are grassy and brisk, and the musk is akin to that of L’Ombre Fauve (minus the caramel). The result is slightly destabilizing; it’s adventurous, but I found it to be hardly the most appealing of juxtapositions. As with many grassy notes in fragrance, they subside fast and a musky amber is revealed beneath. The lingering greens assume a galbanum-like sharpness which, when paired with the oriental base, come across as a bit unsettling. A strange, disconcerting fragrance that, at least, gets points for going in a new direction.