Stones

Stones is very strongly tomato-leaf-y, as well as pleasantly earthy and mossy. There’s also a sharp perfumey/salty note, totally separate from the tomato-and-shadow main theme, but nice. It’s a little blocky in texture and doesn’t really come together but I do like what’s in it. Stays a dark tomato leaf for 8+ hours, gradually going down to a skin scent.

What a weird experience and another reminder to always skin-test. I LOVED this fragrance on a test strip, where it is a bitingly green mix of tomato leaf and galbanum and remained that way for 12+ hours... but it quickly became somewhat stomach-turning on skin. I am dismayed to report that I had to scrub this off. When worn on my skin, Stones smells like greenery stirred into a jar of maple syrup. Really strange. Does not play nicely with my skin chemistry. Here are the actual notes, many of which have been omitted by Fragrantica: Galbanum, Geranium, Physalis, Tomato, Pine, Ivy, Lotus, Ginger, Vetiver, Moss, Lichen (nightshade), Vetiver root, Muguet flowers. I’d be happy to trade my sample to someone so this fragrance can get the wear it deserves.

This is far too astringent to enjoy: it reminds me of Wood Sage & Sea Salt by Jo Malone London, and also Sel Marin by James Heeley.

I've never encountered Ivy before in a perfume and I've got to say I'm won over. There's something deliciously off-beat but subtle about this fragrance. The vetiver, tomato leaf and galbanum are obvious - front and centre- but I also detect a slight cumin note and a definite Riesling-like minerality that brings a delightful lightness to the vetiver (which I find can be a little dour in some frags). It dries down delightfully - like slate warmed by the sun, a boot-crushed dandelion stem lain on its surface. This is a sedimentary stone - compressed, aged earth, warmed by the sun, with centuries of fresh greenery bursting through the groundmass.

All of you Green Irish graduates need to take notice. This can actually become someone's Jesus!! Nice and piquant with sustainability. Maybe a slight vegetal presence but honestly, I wouldn't have known this had i not looked at the note listing. This last quite a while under the guise of a flimsy soapy offering. Viridescent by nature but woody enough to be deemed a grown up scent. Just a really great usage of notes not ordinarily used in fragrances. All purpose as anything you've ever tried. Destined to become someone's signature scent. I'm running out of adjectives.... BLIND BUY WORTHY