Fallen Leaves

Oh wow! This smells like entering an autumnal forest - adorned with all the rich, deep, glowing fall colours - and experiencing that the forest envelops you with a warm, gentle hug. It's a soft, creamy, cozy fragrance with the same texture as cashmir or fine alpacca wool. It's like a scarf you bring out from your closet when the first really cool days of fall appear. Warm, comforting and really soft against the skin. Tonka and vanilla is most prominent, but I can also detect the cedar. It gives the creaminess a lovely woodsy feeling, like taking a stroll through the forest. The air is crisp, there's a cool breeze, and the leaves are falling from the trees in waves of gold and copper. There is a faint bitterness from the myrrh, almost like a reminder that this rich, vibrant beauty is a sign of death and decay. Nature is dying, only to be reborn again in spring. It's a gorgeous goodbye, but a goodbye nontheless. And still it is a goodbye filled with hope. The longer the fragrance sits on the skin the more smokey it gets. It's a creamy, caramelized myrrh smoke, and it reminds me a lot of the beautiful Myrrh Assoluto by Valentino. It's like there is a bonfire lit somewhere in this stunning fall forest, and someone are burning myrrh incense and roasting marshmallows by this fire. It's such a warm and inviting kind of smell, comforting yet slightly melancholic. Longevity is very good. I can smell this scent for about 9 hours on my skin. Sillage is a solid medium right away, but calms down to a detectable skin scent after about an hour or an hour and a half.

Exact offical notes: cistus, cassia, hop Heart notes: jasmine, immortelle, cardamom Base notes: vetiver, vanilla, tonka bean, patchouli, opoponax, orris Here are missing cassia, very relevant, and Vetiver. Jasmine not perceptible

For me this did not really bring to mind images of fallen leaves. It has some qualities which could remind you of dead leaves, but the scent of leaves is not really complete enough to be even close to obvious. Rather it is very subtly flirting with the idea of them. The scent is however very earthy, but not in a way where as it smells like soil. It starts out with a rich, woody and very dry almost chalky yet still velvety smooth earthiness that reminds me a lot of the scent of Trichomania shampoo from Lush minus the coconut. On my skin the cedar comes off more like vetiver. After a short while the tonka brings a cool sweetness which is joined by something fruity and floral that smells like cherries and powdery cherry blossom. At this point the cherry, tonka and additionally powdery iris start to remind me of sweet smelling rubber and childrens toys. Doll heads and scented erasers. It is also simultaneously milky and powdery dry. The incense starts to get noticeable only later, but it never really smells burning, more like fragrant but unlit Indian incense. Patchouli is part of that incense. It gets milkier in the dry-down and crumbs of biscuits and cookies appear both soaking in that milk and scattered around the glass as the cherries have morphed into soft almonds and vanilla powder sugar dust. All in all it is an interesting and special scent and something I am sure I would have adored in the past. As it stands today however I regrettably do not tolerate well more than the tiniest hint of sweetness. It is definitely worth to sample though and if you can enjoy at least moderate sweetness you will probably like this pretty scent a lot.