Currant Mood

Currant Mood is sunny summer days, from my childhood, in a bottle. I loved this scent from the first moment I sniffed it. It's an amazing creation! The scent opens with a blast of blackcurrant. Berries, leaves - the entire bush. It's an amazingly juicy, sunny and green smell - in a photorealistic way. It's literally like being in a lush summer garden and smelling a real blackcurrant bush. We had blackcurrant bushes in our garden when I grew up. And I used to help picking the berries and cleaning them before we carried them inside to make blackcurrant jam. And this scent takes me right back. After the first juicy explosion of ripe berries the scent slowly gets greener and warmer - and somewhat sweeter. It's a surprisingly soft scent. It's not cold green, or sharp green or citrusy fresh green. It's green in a way I've never experienced much in perfume before. It's sunny warm, slightly earthy and really soft. It feels like resting on moss. It's a cozy, calming, gorgeus green smell that never gets too dense or too heavy. To my nose this is green perfection! The very interesting tomato leaf note is present. But if you don't know it's there, you don't perceive it as tomato leaf. It simply adds an interesting dimension to the blackcurrant leaf smell. A new and beautiful nuance of aromatic green that keeps the scent from being too sharp or like cat pee (which blackcurrant sometimes can smell like). I do get a littlebit of that cat pee smell in the very beginning, but that only lasts for a second or two. Then the gorgeusness of this scent takes over. Longevity is very good, I get 6-8 hours out of this. Sometimes it lingers even longer. Sillage is strong right away, but the scent dries down to a soft medium after a short while, before it turns into a lovely skin scent. I have a new green favourite in my collection - and a new spring and summer love. This is so good! Simply stunning! :)

Big blackcurrant chypre "A chypre is when a perfume starts with zesty citruses (on the sweeter side), proceeds into a floral heart (rose and optional white flowers) and finishes woody (oakmoss and/or patchouli would be a staple ingredient), resinous (labdanum) or animalic (or all of the above)." Currant Mood is a very true to form chypre fragrance where the quality of natural ingredients speaks for itself and makes you sniff your wrist constantly. It opens with a blast of natural smelling tangy blackcurrant and citric bergamot that's soon gone and unveils curtains for a big mossy show. Blackcurrant + oakmoss reminds me of Geo F Trumpers' Eucris but you can instantly tell the difference in the quality of ingredients used in both. It also doesn't go into jammy sweet territories like Enchanted Forest and does more justice than it to the imagery of a forest with leaves and buds pulsating with bitter green juice (sharp aromatic tomato leaves and green tea notes), mosses, branches and dusty, earthy tree litter in spring (labdanum+oakmoss+vetiver). All of that is complemented with an obligatory for a classic chypre floral touch (rose+jasmine) and some citruses and tea lifting the entire thing and making it spacious. As expected, it dries down to mossy labdanum. In my opinion, the way Zworykina uses oakmoss is way more skilful (both technically and creatively) than Rogue Perfumery that's hyped over the internet for his natural, non-IFRA-compliant compositions. If you like oakmoss, you're going to be in heaven.

An unusual take on green fruity chypres. Usually, green chypres feature prominent galbanum and sometimes Artemesia, like Bandit or the original Miss Dior for example. In addition, fruity chypres usually use peach like in Mitsouko or plum like in Femme Rochas. In Currant Mood, the classic chypre accord consisting of oakmoss and labdanum is combined with a tart fruity slightly green blackcurrant top note (the fruity part) and a realistic tomato leaves note in the heart (the green part) with hints of florals and aromatic green tea in the heart before moving to a mossy chypre base.

a wonderful tomato leaf example with the natural black currant really accenting the tomato leaf and the other supporting players giving the tomato leaf a canvas. I never knew tomato leaf until this perfume. Fantastic as all her creations are and lasts a long time for a natural perfume.

Why I can't buy it in Poland? so sad.