M2 Black March

i used to live with my best friend in a houseshare in east london with a very overgrown garden. we would spend winter nights sitting together in the dark living room with a broken lightbulb coming up with absurd ideas for what to do with it, like digging a big hole and making it into a pond with frogs in, or putting up trellises and covering the back wall in wisteria. i spent a wet february on my hands and knees, clearing years worth of old branches and organic matter, weeds, and occasional drug paraphernalia from previous housemates until my effort elucidated the shape of the flowerbeds eventually we realised the soil was very unhappy and we could hardly get anything to survive in it, but i managed to grow dozens of things from seed in pots and buckets, which were scattered all over the garden, and there was an enormous buddleja which would hang over us while we sat on plastic chairs reading books, laughing, eating porridge, talking, or just sitting together in silence. the first time i tried a sample of this perfume i had such a vivid picture of that late february when i was rummaging around in the cold, wet grass all the time. it reminded me of all the damp foliage i cleared, of going out into the wet every 6am to check on our seedlings, and of the huge bags of all-purpose soil we'd haul down from the high street. it even brought to mind a vivid picture of cutting fresh stems later that year once my cornflowers had grown. it absolutely blew me away with its delicate clarity. i bought a bottle of the absolute, which is less fleeting than the water perfume, and especially now that it's spring, i really can't get enough of it. my friend passed away suddenly at the end of that year. she was really getting into perfume at the time, and i don't think i'd ever tried one on in my life. it's become a way for us to remain in conversation. black march serves this purpose in a more photographic way than i could have anticipated and has changed the way i understand fragrance

Black March is Metamorphosis M#2 It opened very green and aquatic - i also smelled hints of melon and cucumber - but this isn't a "fruity" scent (i'm getting sooo tired of fruit perfume, even if the buying public apparently isn't... yet...). It was definitely fresh smelling and brought to mind the optimism of a rainy spring day when everything is budding and growing. After a short while the strong aquatic quality began to fade, but the scent remained green and moist, and the earthy tones began to be more noticeable... moist earth. This is nothing like "Wild Hunt" on me, although i read a review somewhere in which the person felt they smelled similar. There are floral hints in "Black March", but light and still... oh, i know i'm getting redundant... green, very different from the florals i smelled in "Wild Hunt". Also, the deep dark woods of "Wild Hunt" are missing - no pine and fir, no cedar... "Wild Hunt" is autumnal. "Black March" is Spring. I think this would be a good scent to wear on a hot summer day, and is, in my opinion, unisex.

This seems to be the fragrance that I notice longest on myself. As others have said, it opens with dark and wet soil. I feel it's entirely spring soil in t.s. eliot's connotations of spring (april is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain) with all this almost contained, restless or reckless life under the surface. It's a really intense experience of a fragrance for me and I love it! It lasts on my wrists for several hours, I think with a note a bit like licorice lasting the longest. It's not a candy licorice smell though, definitely an organic, woody one. If I want to tone down the kind of wildness of it, I've had some really lovely results from layering it over or under green floral fragrances. I find they have a softening effect on it and both complement each other well.

the first punch is soil- a soil that reminds me of black pepper and onions in a weird way, then the smells of water and vegetation drift in, it settles in a sweet floral place that's almost tobacco-y to me. one of my favorites, I'm a big fan of soil and that time of early spring where it seems there's equal chance to rain or snow, right before you start working the ground outside, it's a calm time for me, raising some of the seedlings, plans beginning to fall into place, really hits the mark.

This scent was so beautiful it made me cry. It truly smells like wet earth, stone, moss, tree bark, a little grass and floral. Its like a beautiful memory of being in the woods on a cold spring day, when the snow has melted. That being said, it has very little silage, although the performance isn't bad. I think I'm going to buy it as a pillow spray, there's something so comforting about the smell of the woods. I've only tried the water perfume, I'm not sure how the absolute would compare.