Wandervogel

This is my signature scent. I purchased this in Italy on a trip and I’m so glad I did. It’s cool, refreshing and layered. Mint is typically a hard note to carry as it can be over powering but the mint does not last throughout the dry down and wear. It’s marine and aquatic for most of is life, which is quite long for such a gentle perfume. It’s also not a scent that you lose. It slowly fades into your skin which gives it an appeal to the wearer that it’s for you. This fragrance started my journey to find and try as many mint fragrances as I can. It’s hard to retain that cool feeling in a perfume but Wandervogel captures that in the whole profile. It’s not a safe blind buy though. You have to like mint, green, garden stalks because those will be your first notes and if you can’t get over that, you’ll never like it. It’s also not something I layer. I can get away with this for hours and it’s best in the summer. I have not found this sold anywhere in the US so if you find it, and you like it, snag it quickly. I also have not been able to try any other scents from this house and that makes me sad because they have such unique fragrances. Ultimately, a fresh, mint heavy, marine scent that is perfectly unisex and worth every penny. Smell it before you buy it and if you buy it, get me an extra bottle! 😉

Fragrance with a truly 3D effect. When I apply it to my skin, it feels like I've returned to a hotel room after a hot day at the beach, taken a shower, and applied a refreshing balm to my skin. I can literally feel a contrast of warmth and coolness and the texture of a refreshing gel. Another thing its reminds me about is a gentle breeze on the first warm days of spring. If you overdo it, you might get a note of minty, but in a reasonable amount of sprays, it's a very calming, delicate, and positive scent. Despite embodying coolness, ironically, it performs best in winter, somewhere around -5 degrees Celsius, then it lasts up to 6 hours. I took it on vacation to Portugal, where it was +20, and it disappeared within an hour. Still happy that I took it to Portugal, because the perfume is like an olfactory symbol of traveling, freedom, happiness and calmness. It's for days when you don't have to wear coat, heavy boots, for days when you can see the ocean... or for days when you want to smell something which would remind you of all of this. "See the world from a different perspective, create infinite memories and get to know the unknown" is a slogan of this perfume and it does speak for itself.

Okay, after near 10 years of testing this out at every crossing, I think it's fair to say this is one of those fragrances that deserves the label "niche". It's a masterpiece of its genre. One of the best, if not the best, renditions of shiso that also lasts a long time without losing its core accord and integrity. Ultra green, apple sour-minty and slightly cuminic spicy, could as well be a mix of caraway and something sour, on a bed of human-skin like musks and cedarwood. Towards drydown the minty facet becomes almost like a Japanese onsen or spa in the midst of cypress and cedar trees, still cooling your nose but more lie eucalyptus or camphor. Drydown really reminds me of the whole of Jo Malone Hinoki & Cedarwood, another great relaxing scent if you like the profile. Wandervogel is much more innovative though, the sour apple-minty-spicy shiso note is perfected. Top fragrance IMO.

I absolutely love this fragrance, but I could not fathom spending over 200$ for a fragrance that doesn't last. I found a dupe that scratches the itch. I was going to gate keep, but I decided to post it under Wandervogals page. It is Walking in Porta Venezia by Trussardi. It won't let me post it in the reminds me of section, but they are so similar. There is no shisho in WPV but the anise with the bergamot give it that feel. Check it out.... It's so cheap on Jomashop that it's worth blind buying.

This is one of my favouritre perfumes. It is definately a summer scent for me, and the mint, fennel and white flower is a combination that in my opinion works so well. I have gotten a lot of positive comments while wearing it. The longevity is not that great though, wish it would stay on longer. But a nice fragrance, working perfectly with the summer breeze.