Weinstrasse

I've visited Germany twice. Three times if we are counting the time my mom was carrying me. Let me not beat around the bush with this one, this fragrance is very close to my heart for many reasons. I visited my dad on his business trip in Germany decades ago. We took a spontaneous trip to a town a few miles away from Frankfurt that had a local castle which we toured. Afterwards we were walking down a large street of a town looking for a good place to eat. I wasn't old enough to drink in the US but my dad promised me a good beer since drinking age in Germany is 16. We approach an old tavern-like restaurant that seemed to be in the process of setting up for dinner since no one was there yet to eat. It was noticeable that the store was preparing for a sizable dinner rush as the smell of German cuisine like, currywurst, pork knuckle, pretzle, mustard and Kartoffelklöße were all present. Showing promise we settled for it. A strong beer and wine aroma was etched into the restaurant's atmosphere and of course its varnished thick wooden benches. I had a pork schnitzel and my father had a pork knuckle and we both paired the meal with a dark bready beer for full satisfaction. Weinstrasse will forever remind me of that meal and is subsequently the same smell of every authentic German restaurant I've visited. Weinstrasse, a woody atmosphere with a perpetual fruity, musty, booziness left in the air by wine and beer from the bar made by a tart and juicy grape note and a pissy, smokey, spicy, immortelle with blackcurrant leaves. Underneath a tart, comforting cool, herbal glow of German air in the Summer delivered by a green, earthy and bitter oakmoss and rooty, earthy, iris that expertly tempers everything and smells of tall wet grass on the countryside wafting in a strong breeze. Smoothly blended to fulfill an original concept. A very well done and unique chypre that does not reference anything and could quite possibly be a trendsetter in the genre. The aroma of Weinstrasse to me is quite possibly the closest a perfume has ever gotten to an authentic quality dessert spiced wine. Bitter, herbal, tart, earthy, with an understated yeasty and fruity sweetness. Refreshing, dreamy, cozy. Excellent!!! 🍇🍷🍺 10/10

Strange and beautiful. The grape top note is tempered with a musty delicate sweetness, then the drydown becomes another thing entirely with the oakmoss and immortelle? Lasted forever on my skin and even longer on my clothing. NIche quality and daring. Smells as natural as could be. Like a hayride through a vineyard at midnight when the shrubs have dew on them. Probably not a blind-buy for most, but this is full bottle worthy for me.

As a German, I didn't know that beside the 'Hessische Weinstraße' und the 'Pfälzer Weinstraße', there is another Weinstrasse in Missouri. Shawn Maher pays tribute to his maternal ancestors with this fragrance and lets me smell shrubs, grapes, mosses and a very nice immortelle note at the end. A modern, innovative fougère without lavender. Very remarkable and well done!

Smells like you're on a patio chair in a vineyard, right next to a field of freshly mown hay. On my skin, the hay is the prominent note, with the fruity and herbal notes filling in the cracks and smoothing it out. Very much a scent that invokes sunshine outdoors.

OK, SearchingScents wrote what is possibly the best review I’ve ever read. That said, it’s also spot on. This is an awesome scent and while I’ve never been to Germany, I do love currywurst and German wine. This one sounds different, and is, but it works!