Alchemie

Miaaaam love this. Glossier you but better. Spicy pink petter and sweet from mandarin. Second skin perfect autumn scent. Powdery and peppery. Coffee shop autumn unisex. Clean cool unique

Decent scent with solid performance. I swear this smelled a bit like the late drydown of TF Tobacco Vanile. Not the modern stuff, but similar to my vintage bottle with a gold batch code. Cool bottle presentation and if you purchase from the store, they also give you a circular slab of marble to display the fragrance on. Scent 80/100 Performance 85/100

Grungy to its core and good at it, but at $450, you are out of your mind. There's nothing 'special' about this, given there are so many grungy/peppery/sandalwood fragrances out there. I will say I like the fact that the vetiver doesn't pull pickly, and the dry down of this is very papery. But again....$450? Nope.

Out of the new range this is the most mass appealing one. Pleasant spicey fragrance, leans to the masculine side. According to my friend it's smells like an old Van Cleef perfume what her dad used to wear back in the day.

A voluptuous, leathery myrrh with a heavy hand of pepper. The mandarin opening fooled me into thinking this was going to be a fruity-pepper, but the leather thunders in around thirty minutes to lay down the law. The myrrh provides a slight sweetness once the citrus scurries out, as well as a faint smokiness. It’s a “speakeasy” scent in my mind: dark, deep, indulgent. Sillage and longevity is knockout. Not even a full day of compulsive hand-sanitising could kill it at my wrists. Spritz safely. I’ll admit, I was primarily lured in by the vessel. The Venice collection bottles all look like a molten pineapple Haribo bear in a top hat, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. None tempted me enough to rationalise the cost, but Alchemie might have been a contender if the pepper and leather weren’t so imposing. Mental Snapshot: They say if you tip your hat – at just the right angle – to the tanner, he will usher you into the alchemist’s. They say the laboratory is upholstered entirely in tufted leather and deals impossible elixirs. They say it is here you can drink liquid smoke and breathe gold vapour. They say a lot of things, but what else can explain the umbral aroma that curls about the shop? tl;dr: tenebrous leather 🎩🧳