Bracken Woman

Fruity vs. Sweet I need to talk about this before I do my review. And I will frame it within terms of alcohol. So I'm normally a dry/bitter person, but I live in the Midwestern US, and the make a lot of sweet and fruity wine and beer around here. I've developed a taste for them, and I do love wine that is dry but has a pronounced fruity note. Not sweet--but pure fruit. There's a beer called Soft Parade that is a ale that is brewed with raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries. It tastes like beer but has a lovely fruity backbone. That's what I like. I DON'T like drinks that are all sugary sweet concoctions that have no other aspect besides a radiating sweetness that basically blunts my entire palate. So when I say sweet/fruity, that's what I'm talking about. Anyway onto Amouage BRACKEN This has gotten really mixed reviews but I for one positively love it! It has a perfect mixture of green, floral, and a genuinely natural fruity sweetness that I adore. Actually I've not smelled anything like it in terms of attitude and performance. I was out weeding yesterday in my back woodland garden, and the smell of cut greens, earth, and sweet summertime wildflowers on the wind was intoxicating. After I came in and showered, I wanted to wear Bracken, because I wanted to still feel that peaceful summertime happiness. This whole perfume is rather linear. It opens with a green note that will punch you in the face. Fresh like the first hot day of summer that brings out all the nuances of the freshly bloomed greenery. It's definitely the green of leaves and ferns and stems, bright and happy. Add that simultaneously to the fruity berry accord. It smells like a handful of berries that you just picked and plucked into your basket. Underlying that is the lovely jasmine-narcissus note all radiant and white and sunny. And that's mostly what Bracken smells like. Greenery, sweet mixed berries, and white flowers. Only as it dries down to I detect a hint of a drier more austere lily, and once it dries even more I can smell a slightly darker in tone vetiver. There is a hovering sense of green tea there too (chamomile tea?) But no where do I ever smell leather, birch, smoke, or any of that. This is bright, sunny, green, and fruity all the way. Bracken has incredible sillage and strength and lasting power, do not use more than two full sprays! Warning! And I can smell it completely practically full strength until the next day. Lasts even longer on clothing.

It’s been a long winter waiting for warmer weather. This one shines during summertime. AMOUAGE Bracken Karine Vinchon Spehner and Dorothée Piot 2016 I don’t know any other brand which manages to capture so many different kind of scenes from my childhood than Amouage - this time with wild berries, Fern and leather together with Chamomile, Narcissus and Lily. It’s like a walking in the forest full of ferns and carrying a basket full of freshly picked berries. It has been raining. I move the ferns in front of me with my other hand while walking, causing the drops to fly on my face. The sun comes out from behind the clouds, the forest opens up into a meadow as the scent of herbal yet not dry Chamomile wafts up to your nose. Fern means Fougère which is an entire category of fragrances. This is not Fougère scent though. Most ferns has very delicate yet distinctive scent. It’s like clean and bitter green aroma, very unique one and very beautiful imo. I do remember as well the scent which may mostly be noticeable when you rub very dry leaves in your hands and it smells just like fresh mown hay. This is not the latter one. Wild berries are not light, bright, sweet and girly ones, they are mellow, deep, very Amouage - not cloying nor synthetic. The whole blend is unforgettable, absolutely stunning and amazingly realistic with an aromatic feel. This unusual scent is unisex and it can perform very differently. On my skin the scent is like described. On my husband’s skin the leather is more noticeable with added woody twist from base. The green note is bold and it may be too much for some. Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more. 🤗

I'm a hard-core Amouage fan, and while my main stays are woods, resin, incense, oud and rose perfumes, I frequently wander (happily) into other territories. While Amouage's recent release of Lilac did not overwhelm me, it did show what the line was doing in terms of playing toward a French aesthetic and Western taste. So I was: a) mentally prepared for this new type of Amouage, and b) thoroughly excited based on the notes, though in general I'm not huge on berries, c) the marketing name "Bracken" worked its spell. And my goodness this perfume does not disappoint. This may be my absolute favorite of the line. It is stunning, unique, and conjures up so many memories of idling my youthful hours in the mountains by the creek where berries grew, my dad's work gloves in the garage next to the creek, the water cress, lemon balm, and mint all comingling (not listed notes, but the general mountain greeness, a note that the air captures, the cedars waft). In March and April, the daffodils and narcissus bloom along with tulips and white bells. The hills are known for it this time of year. There are many lovely haute leather iris perfumes out there that also inhabit this elegant space, and this one does as well with the leather, but with so much more. This is simultaneously elegrant, frosty, cold, sharp, formal and at the same time, wild, ferociously overgrown, herbaceously lush with moist dark dirt. All the notes are present, and alternate minute to minute (not a linear perfume). Although I too identified it as a more spring summer scent, it's not "light." Today, it's raining hard, April, and I'm headed up to the mountains. Give up your notions of Fate, or Interlude, Epices, Memoir. This is different. My new Amouage and another reminder of the hills I love.

Being a total newbie and also a person who spends a lot of time in the woods and loves ferns in particular, I was totally charmed by the descriptions and ordered a 2 ml sample of this. At first sniff I was shocked, and not exactly in a good way, as I expected something diametrically opposite from 'a forest smell'. I didn't feel this any green at all, more like 'reddish brown' scent, very spicy, harsh and suffocating, kind of retro (much close to what I felt after blind-bying my very first full bottle - Eden, also hypnotised by the description and reviews). My husband said I smelled like an Indian store. Didn't get anything fresh at all. So I put it aside and moved on, but something didn't let me forget about it. Next day I suddenly felt a bold glimpse of something very pleasant, fresh and unique, and it took some time to figure out that was still Bracken on me. I decided to try it once or twice in a week, at home, small doses, sometimes layered with other scents, and in a month I realized that I'm totally in love with it, wanting to smell it much more often than anything light or airy or inoffensive I used to prefer. Still can't call Bracken a green smell, but definitely not an 'Indian shop' either. To me, the closest term is 'bittersweet', and definitely more sweet than bitter. Most of the bitterness fades away after two hours, but somehow returns after 6-7. The good thing is I don't get leather note at all; not so good that I almost don't get berries. I wanted narcissus and it's definitely there, along with lily, chamomile and woodsy notes. Maybe I'd love it less sweet and spicy, more herbal and fresh as expected, but it's one of my favourites as it is, and I totally need a full bottle.

لقد سبق وتكلمت عن النسخة الرجالية لعطر براكن أمواج. وصراحة لم أتفهم سبب تسمية النسخة الرجالية بهذا الاسم ف " Bracken " تعني مجموعة السراخس الكثيفة الملتفة، والنسخة الرجالية لا وجود للسرخس بها. بل لا وجود حتى لمدلول السرخس بالنسخة الرجالية الحارة القاتمة التي لم أستسغها. الآن فقط ومع تجربة النسخة النسائية تفهمت سبب التسمية. وإن كنت أتحفظ على إلحاق أمواج اسم النسخة الرجالية الباهتة القاتمة بهذه النسخة النسائية الأكثر من رائعة. السرخسيات "Fern": هي نباتات ذات سيقان أوراق خضراء تنمو في الأماكن الرطبة، ليس لها بذور أو أزهار، رائحتها كرائحة الغابات الأسيوية ذات الخضرة الطازجة، أو الأعشاب الطازجة المختلطة بلباب طازج لسيقان الأشجار. البداية مبشرة للغاية ويبدو أننا على موعد مع أحد عطور الأناقة التوت البري الذي جاور السرخس في الافتتاحية أراه اختيارا موفقا، جعل العطر مميزا مقبولا. فالتوت البري يوازن ما بين فاكهية الكشمش المفرطة وإطلالة الفراولة الصارخة كفتاة صاخبة. هذه البداية الرائعة واكبها قلب عطري شديد الحسية، فائق الدلال. كيف لا وهو قد جمع ما بين: الزنابق المائية: الفاتنة التي لا يمكن أن أراها في عطر حتى أخمن جماله قبل تجربته. زهرة النرجس: القوية المزيلة للتوتر البابونج: بقاعدته الناعمة التي تساعد أيضا على الاسترخاء الجلود: وهنا مكمن الحرفية في صياغة هذا العطر وليس كل ما سبق. فنوتة الجلود المستخدمة هنا هي تنتمي للنوعية التي تستخدمها شركات السيارات الفارهة لإضفاء جو من الترف والثراء الممتزج بحالة من الراحة والانسجام القاعدة من الفيتيفير وأخشاب البيتولا والباتشولي هي مكملات عادية آمنة للحفاظ على توازن العطر وبقاءه دون المغامرة بالدفع بعناصر قد تؤثر سلبا على روعة افتتاحية وقلب العطر العطر بشكله العام أكثر من رائع، يصلح تماما للاستخدام هذه الأيام مع دخول فصل الصيف. ومن الناحية الشرائية أراه صفقة رابحة آمنة. هنيئا لك سيدتي بهذا العطر الحسي الأخاذ البديع وشكرا لك "أمواج"