Firefly

It's a humid summer night in the midwest, and you are barefoot in the grass catching lightning bugs. The honeysuckle bushes are blooming and you had corn on the cob for dinner. Dad mowed the lawn this afternoon but oh no - you just stepped into that grassless patch of dirt in the yard - you know the one - and now there's mud squishing in between your toes. You take one more look at the big dipper before mom calls you inside to bed. Yeah, this is my favorite scent from Demeter, and one of my across-the-board favorites. Nothing traditionally "perfumey" about it. It's soft and earthy and wet. It's dirt and grass and moss. It's comfortable, nighttime summer air. It's weird, but in a gentle way. If you're a crunchy hippie or someone who isn't really into the whole perfume thing, you might like this. But you're not reading this review, because you're still outside catching bugs. Oh well. EDIT: I bought a new bottle of this, and either the formula is different or my old bottle is so old that the perfume has changed over the years. The new bottle smells less complicated - it's mostly wet grass and less of the air/dirt/moss/rocks. Having said that, I still love the shit out of it. I layer it with almost everything in the spring and summer.

I'm glad to see this has been added to the database. I absolutely love this one. It smells like the area (Northeast US) I live in in the spring after a bit of rain. I've literally walked through the woods and went "whoa! it smells like firefly!" I love this at bed time, for me it is so comforting. Reminds me of camping as a child. It smells like wet grass, a little bit of a moldy smell, cool watery air, very fresh, and just a tad of a wet wood smell. It opens with a moldy blast, which tones down very quickly to a wet, almost sweet grassy scent. The drydown loses the wetness but keeps the sweetness of grass and a dash of decaying wood. Love it! Very unique, and I will be buying more soon. This one seems to be good year round, but might be best suited to the late winter and into spring when things are melting and have that cold, wet almost rank smell. I highly recommend.

I love it so dearly .... it smells exactly like a pile of watery fresh grass clippings after a tropical rain, Mmmh its lovely... now i must say and warn (as a girl who was looking for a purely unisex - not masculine scent) , this fragrance does open a little more on a masculine side at first (like an undertone of men's cologne ) but after a few minutes to me it turns neutral ... so i would recommend if somebody is buying it for the firs time that you spray it once and let it macerate for a few days before using it...... P.S. If some one was wondering what type of grass its smell like exactly, to my nose its perhaps more closely to the smell of zoysia grass rather than a tall wild grass.

If there's one thing that demeter does well it's the earthy more natural scents. Firefly has elements of both demeter dirt, and some of their grassier scents. Like many of these earthier scents they are not to everyone's tastes and work well layered. For some reason, before I bought this I had a slightly smokier/incense scent in my head. Not as a dominant fragrance, but something lingering to give a mystical feel. Now that it's arrived it is pure dirt/garden/moss, which I guess is what I paid for at the end of the day. I am curious how this scent might layer with something like myrrh.

One of the best Demeters...which tend to be one-note and not very dynamic, but this one is...really takes you to a summer night complete with grass, dirt and a tiny bit of crispness in the air...Demeter offers all their scents in more than just perfume, as I have this both in the perfume and the room spray...an instant pick me up...