Flora Mortis

This is everything I want in an autumn-nights to winter-days fragrance. Peppery woods grounding a warm, almondesque vanilla-orchid. Don't jump off that description and land on "gourmand" - I know that word has now lost all meaning after becoming the buzzword of the masses but there's nothing *edible* here, I say gratefully. It's a soft feminine underscore to a polished spiced wood-dominant scent. Specifically which wood is indeterminate, but that doesn't matter in this instance: some fragrances are art for the nose, others are fashion accessories or enjoyable personal indulgences and this is the latter. And there's nowt wrong with that at all. Mid-2020s Fragrantica seems to favour fashion and/or character analogies so I'll describe it thusly: it is a dusty rose silk blouse layered under a masculine blazer and worn with Louboutins to the coolest shithole bar in your city's artsy enclave. Think Kate Moss circa 2008. Or, well, AllSaints in general. I love it but, like "Indie Sleaze" itself, I wish it had more longevity. And hadn't recently been discontinued.

I wore Flora Mortis today during an early morning walk at 5am, and oh my god, I love this so much. It's spring, it rained all night and we walked along dewy green meadows with all the fresh smells and blossoms surrounding us and the multitude of birds waking up. And Flora Mortis just intensifies the moment, more warm than sweet, more herb than flower, hints of dry spicy woods, deep and thoughtful, a little vintage or boho. That's when I realized how much of a cottage scent this is with it's herbal floral goodness and how much it compliments a wild garden, the witches kitchen, the seasons and the peace within, this will be as beautiful in fall as in spring, it's an amazing perfume. Someone said twisted floral, so true. Twisted as nature.

Blind-bought this out of curiousity since it seemed to be so many things to so many people. This settles into a soft woody vanilla base with a residual undertone of church candles / YSL Opium / Cinnabar and similar spiced incense orientals. Top notes remind me of fresh spring florals. I wish the longevity was better.

What an incredible, twisted floral - totally not what I was expecting from a fashion brand. They have totally knocked or out of the park with their scents but they seem to be getting overlooked, I feel as if a Perfume house had released Flora Mortis people would be falling over themselves.

Top notes are sweet. Mid notes were very familiar! Took me an hour to work out that the mids are very very similar to YSL Cinema which I love and have many back ups of. The dry down veers away from Cinema and settles into a lovely vanilla. A very successful blind buy for £15.