Rudenėja

If Caravaggio's Bacchus had a scent, it would be this! Super ripe fruit, red berries and earthy leaves. Very autumnal, crisp, unusual. I love it.

i felt like dipping back into my scent oil collection today, and picked rudenėja - a lithuanian word meaning the seasonal change when fall sets in, something like "the autumn-ing". seemed fitting for today's weather anyway, rain-sodden but sunny and cool. it's not listed in the notes but i swear this has pear in it ?? it smells juicy, floral and fruity, but the fruit has that soapy pear-and-berries vibe. it's a fancy soap though, like something you'd get at a museum gift shop with a paper wrapper printed with a lush still life by an old dutch master. it's not very out of the box (it gives me department store perfume vibes rather than indie), a little old-fashioned maybe (some 80s-90s vibes with the florals and the patchouli) but it's pretty. sadly it seems to have been discontinued, but my 5ml ultime bottle should last forever at the rate i'm going through it anyway.