Trevert

I spent my New Year holidays in New Hampshire, in the forest that smelled on pine, cypress and fir... Healing aroma! I was under the impression of that magical place, when the perfume Trevert was released by Aftelier. The right thing based on the pine needles! The fragrance is pleasantly intimate as all natural perfumes I know. It's not sharp, slightly woody sweet. The smell of needles is not strong, it's mixed with green notes of herbs. Pine is often associated with perfumes for men, but this one is feminine, very relaxing, not sharp no too balmy sweet ;o) The color of the juice is gorgeous, just like at the picture.

Another sampling bust. With its bright green color, this perfume looked like it should have some substance to it, but no, it was not to be. In the bottle it has a strange, slightly unpleasant smell that changed to lime as soon as it hit the skin. Lime - green, OK. Within 30 seconds the lime goes away and what remains is ... very little. Maybe a slight hint of stale wash cloth. I waited for the scent to develop. Surely there’s more in there than that. Sniffing my wrist up close, there’s a very light green-floral odor, sort of like a hint of tarragon, but I would never know it was there unless I sent searching for it. It might even be something left over from what I was last wearing, although I thought I washed it off thoroughly. I went for a run, hoping that something would develop, but nothing did. I know I’m not anosmic to pine (LOL!) or clary sage, so where are those notes that are reputedly in the green juice? Not wanting to believe what I was not smelling, I applied it again, this time with a heavier hand. Lime. Check. This time it made it to the one-minute mark. Maybe there’s a hint of pine needle there, but I have to use my imagination. There’s an ever-so-slight green odor, but really not much. You would have to spray this with a very heavy hand to get anything significant out of it. All the hype notwithstanding, this is not something that I would ever buy. I like my perfumes to speak up and make a statement, even if it’s a subtle one, and I know this can be done using all-natural ingredients. I would strongly recommend that anyone thinking of buying this perfume try a sample first.

This smells rather like a health food store body care section. It is very green natural and herbal, not something I would think of to wear as a perfume. I smell the sage, grass and pine, but I think I also smell a little tea tree in there as well. The bottom notes believe it or not are lime. It is very unisex. It only lasts about 1-2 hours. I am not going to buy this one. It doesn't smell bad, it smells clean, but not like a perfume to me.

Intriguing. For about 1 minute. I'm not exaggerating. I even sprayed a tester strip *FIVE* times to try to keep the fragrance until the next day -- but it didn't even last until I left the store.

A simple herbal burst of pine, grass, and tarragon, followed by a lonely and very dry birch bark note that hangs around for fifteen minutes or so, pretty much sums up Trevert. Sniff an aromatic candle in a health food store and you'll likely encounter something like it. Not bad, but nothing to spend money on.