Nordic Noir

My sample smells like something you would put under someone's nose if they just fainted. Spicy mint? Ummm, I guess I'm a no.

Originally I thought that this perfume was inspired by Scandinavian crime dramas! I've even read as much in early web reviews, but according to Fabrice Pelligrin, the nose who created Nordic Noir, he wanted to recreate the biting cold of breathing in frigid air. That blast of arctic chill that causes you to breath slowly so that your lungs don't freeze! He uses a spearmint/ginger accord to achieve the fragrance sensation, and in the opening he attains it! It only lasts for a few minutes, but it has the distinctive smell of icy winter air. I still like my Scandi-crime drama premise b/c the frigid air disappeared and the fragrance became a changeling! A perfume with intensely different transitions. On my skin, it morphed into a warm androgynous vanilla scent - potent vanilla, laced with sandalwood and an undercurrent so well mixed no one note stood out. Then it became more woody, a talc-like sandalwood mixed with cedar, the smell of tree-lined slopes with fresh powder on the trail! The evolution was gradual, but it ultimately smelled completely different in the drydown than it did in the opening. I've worn it several times to experience the transformations. Very creative and beautiful. Nordic Noir is a great genre of writing, this perfume tells a story.

Don’t let the others impressions fool you I had a vision and interpreted from the marketing and reviews. I had some mint and spearmint that quick gradually faded leaving behind a creamy blue powder like talc. Shortly after it I swear turned into my Aunts Nivea hand cream... Disappointed ☹️ n the blind buy and marketing for a very uninspiring over thought product. Very much a why bother case. Hope other Agonist purchased turn me around.

This surrounds me with a beautiful wispy veil of an aura! I feel like I have just been crowned the Sugar Pine Princess when I wear it!