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rainboll – :
Smells like wet wool and crisp air along a windy beach…very comforting…I really love this…unfortunately the water perfume does not last long…a good choice when you want a pick-me-up but not a full day’s commitment on scent…
Artithsib – :
I get a lot of fresh coldness but I’m not getting as much soil as I imagined. Something vaguely spicy in the dry down.
.hfrjdj77 – :
I’m from the Highlands of Scotland and this smells exactly like a crisp winter morning in the glens. I definitely get the snow, but also an earthy quality and some kind of floral (no idea what). It never becomes a floral fragrance at all, but there is some hint of a flower in the background.
I absolutely love wearing this in the summer when I’m too hot because it’s so fresh and crisp that it instantly makes me feel cooled down.
I see it’s possible to by this in a room spray as well as a perfume and I’m seriously considering it because I’d love for my home to smell like this. It’s truly clean. Clean perfumes went through a real trendy phase and to be honest, most of them smelled like detergent to me. This one is clean like a breath of crisp, fresh air.
I get about 6 hours longevity, and sillage is very light.
drendenden2010 – :
An interesting olfactory experience reminding me of my childhood. In the beginning of every winter my father and I used to go down to our dark, almost never used basement to get our skis for a new season. I remember the musty smell of the skis themselves, the slightly sweet and fusty smell of the Christmas tree decorations and of something else, mysterious and mundane at the same time. Also, if you remember how your mittens used to smell when they were covered with ice crust after a whole day spent playing in the snow – this is kind of close. Nice to take a good sniff, but hard to imagine on a person.
apelsin026 – :
Also not getting the ‘frozen snow’ vibe Can pick up some earthy smells but to me, they are more reminiscent of spring. Quite an interesting, unusual fragrance though personally, won’t buy another bottle.
Mewbf884intitytek – :
Very interesting. Reminds me of the beginning of December, or even end of November. Morning frost, rotten leaves, firm soil. First snowflakes are falling from the sky to occupy earth for another three or four months.
I agree that if this scent doesn’t bring you any memories, there is no use of it. It even may smell somehow nasty and offensive. For me, personally, it’s exactly the smell of late autumn or winter weekends in the countryside. I would always regret autumn ending. All the joy of pumpkins and golden leaves disappears. Naked trees on solid ground. No wind. Calmness. Then you go outside, take a deep breath of air that smells exactly like Winter 1972. Smell of bareness and baldness fills your lungs – alas! – not with weakness, but with faith. It plants a frail seedling of some expectations. You smell it and you don’t feel bad. You know that this state is necessary for the cycle of life. And that it will come again and again, no matter what. And gradually you become used to it and even able to enjoy this first hint of winter.
I like this feeling, it’s so nostalgic and so familiar. The same in 1972, the same in 2012, hopefully the same in 2072. Paradox of synthetic notes creating such a natural moment of past.
Also, I just tried to smell it objectively and with my memory-bringing-brain-side turned off. All I smelled was a sticky chemical glue. Another proof that perfumes usually don’t have any quality themselves – it’s us and our unconscious that praises and wotrships them.
impombose – :
This smells like moist, decaying leaves and wet soil that has been newly overturned — it has an intensely earthy, “mineral” quality to it. A unique scent, to be sure, but not a perfume in any traditional sense.
mudum87 – :
It smells like bathroom cleaner. High-end bathroom cleaner, but still bathroom cleaner. Didn’t escape the PineSol curse.
MakedonskiSasha – :
I’m never sure what carrier the CB perfumes are in, but this perfume absolute is clear but sticky, so maybe it’s dipropylene glycol. In any case, it starts off extremely earthy, like freshly turned soil and rotting leaves, very similar to CBIHP Black March. This earthy note fades away within 20 seconds and the scent becomes a little more aromatic, aquatic, and lightly citrusy.
I really don’t get the scent of “frozen snow”, which is much more ozonic and minerally. CB’s winter starts out with a little digging in the garden, but quickly migrates inside to a warm room where it sprays a bit of “fresh” aquatic cologne on itself. Within an hour, it’s zonked out in front of the TV, never to be heard from again.
I think Demeter’s version of snow hits a little closer to the target, although it’s pretty far off, too, hitting the frame or the outermost ring, far from the bullseye. CB misses entirely. Demeter is cheaper and lasts longer, so if I wanted a “snow” scent, that would be my choice.
Naruto555 – :
I pick up a lightly sweet, fresh, mild floral scent which has moderate sillage but lasts for hours (I tried the absolute). It’s unobtrusive and, despite its title, perfect for summer.