Green Spell

This perfume has a soul. It feels alive with a green beating heart. It feels like the soul of a weed or a tomato vine has been captured within. This... Green Spell, is a supreme being from the brand. A terrestrial marvel. If our planet was actually on its way towards a nigh and obvious apocalypse and if I believed in aliens I would put this perfume into a time capsule on a satellite as the reference for what Earth smelled of. Crisp, snappy, dewy, refreshing, photo-realistically green and tomato-y. Vintage green chypres can only wish they were made like this. I imagine it was almost impossible to capture the kind of transparent, watery, sleekness exhibited in Green Spell with the thick, green, full bodied and opaque ingredients they had in the past. I feel like a philistine saying this but Roudnistka himself would probably feel threatened by this creation. For me this easily succeeds vintage greens and I say that sincerely. I won't even name fragrances just to maintain respect to the classics that have laid the groundwork for Green Spell. Green spell is a perfect and polished deconstructed green chypre. It functions as a minimalist chypre without a tree resin or oakmoss dominant base as most of the provided notes are very prominently top and heart dominant ingredients. On me even with a minimal base it has good lasting ability for a freshie, that continues to transform seamlessly and mouthwateringly into its fruitier heart having a grape-y, blackcurrant, salty ambroxan, gently, soapy musk and dry, woody, vetiver acting as the slightly heftier fougère platform from which the assertive green chypre top can subside. Green spell bursts out like a geyser of fresh, dewy fig leaf, grassy, bitter, Iranian galbanum and true-to-life tomato vine that is vegetal, savory, reminiscent of petrichor and refreshing beyond belief. To me it is never too sharply green. Sinus cleansing, ripe and relaxing is as far green as it gets on me never to the point of being piercing, fermented and rooty. In its restraint it successfully creates a real place with real plants like I'm outside in my yard right now cutting the grass, weeding the flower bed or tending to the herbs. Green Spell is like you are levitating in the middle of a rainforest with your nose firmly pressed against a ball of freshly picked plants in your hand. You can smell the earth, the humidity, the snapped stems the subtlety of fruitiness in a picture perfect way. Immediately as it dries down and the green tomato leaf subsides, you are further away from the trees now, possibly above them gliding just over the canopies almost as if on a zip-line. The smell is now more suggestive of dew and fruitier, fresher more transparent with an approachable and very well-done blackcurrant note that gives it a kind of soft woodiness. The beautiful and watery blackcurrant is almost grape-y with fresh dew, grassiness and extra woody nuance from the fig leaves. An absolutely fantastic deconstructed green chypre. A vintage archetype done with modern sensibilities and sincere talent. Green Spell is special, a very noble, dapper and refreshing blend. It is unisex. Spring and summer easy. Great golfing, tennis, basketball, hiking, biking or gym scent. Even if you can only try one fragrance from this line I highly suggest trying Green Spell. It is masterful. 🍅🪴🍇 10/10

No. 19, my love, is that you? It looks like you, it sounds like you. It’s not you, is it? You are Snow White’s Evil Queen, regality and primness concealing sly nefariousness until you walk by a mirror that drops the illusion of your spell. You are Ursula, a black haired beauty using a voice that doesn’t belong to you until the charm is broken and your tentacles reveal themselves, reaching out for strangulation. Galbanum is the muscle and bone of this witch. Everything hangs off of it. The completely parched and oily orange zest, and the tight, elastic, densely fleshy blue fruit note, like makeup and lipstick they compliment the jewelry of violet and tomato leaves. Every shade of green is present here, from the underripe oranges only slightly gaining color, berries ripening from green to blue, the white-green wateriness of cucumber, and dark forest foliage. The sharp nails on the beautiful hands of galbanum are the same as No. 19, tantalizing when they gently run up your spine but drawing skin and blood when applied with more pressure. In short order everything but the galbanum dispenses where a honeyed green note of narcissus takes a file to the galbanum’s nails and smoothes them out for us. The witch is getting a manicure that sets her up nicely for a woody green vetiver and musky base. Like either Sorceress, their personalities are compelling but shallow and hollow - the one criticism that can be levied against Green Spell is that it is so short lived and fleeting that it may be too much like a spell, too much like a flick of a wand wherefrom plasmatic light is cast and then fades into the ether - or perhaps like a breeze, since there are a lot of similarities to Balmain's Vent Vert. Maybe the lack of longevity is a creative decision, or just simply a lack of durability to any of the materials, or no singular driving force to put behind it couldn’t be identified and incorporated while keeping the theme. It’s unfortunate because you will certainly wish to be under its spell far longer than it takes hold of you, but for that short time the hex is mesmerizing.

Green Spell is an excellent fragrance for very specific occasions. It's 8:30 in the morning in the middle of summer. California 103°. I am currently in my summerween era. Sigh I hate to say that. My summerween enjoyment phase. Lol I'm sure you care all about that. This is perfect for mornings like this. It is fresh and green without being too much. It smells like you went into your backyard right after your sprinklers came on and you are smelling the tomato leaves and bushes surrounding it. Almost exactly like that. No other interpretation and no extra sweetness to build around it. It is simply a breath of fresh garden air. And of course a little bit spooky to go with it. That might be in my imagination, but I think it works. It smells like you are getting ready for the best season of the year. I'm simply prepping! Lol. That's it. It doesn't last very long, but I forgive it because it does its job. It puts me in the mood I want to be put in. I'm not looking to spend all day ruminating about this particular composition. This is my first and my only fragrance I have tried from ERIS. I am excited to try more. If anyone would like to send me samples of others in the collection I would greatly appreciate it! Excellent work. Thank you!

I’ve been fantasizing about the perfect green scent, something with the biting, vegetable freshness of crushed stems—not fruity or light, but sharp and bitter, like roots and earth. Eris’ Green Spell delivers with a blast of galbanum and hyper-realistic tomato-leaf that feels like the deepest part of an Henri Rousseau jungle painting: it makes you think of plant life in terms of blades and spears. In this dream of greenery, there’s no sunlight or even moonlight, just dense thickets of spiky, dewy foliage taller than you are. Mandarin and black currant are listed as top notes but the citrus and berry tartness seem don't feel front-loaded to me, they sneak in sideways, along with the nice addition of fig leaf, which warms up the mix a bit, though there’s also violet leaf cooling it back down. This is like an underworld version of Philosykos—a shadowy, almost poison green rather than the angelic airiness of the Diptyque one. People seem to complain about its longevity, but I haven’t found any super-green scent that lasts very long, so I think it just comes with the territory. This one dries down to a spicy, slightly musky and grassy vetiver that lasts for quite a while, though really just as a skin scent. I like this perfume a LOT.

Applies brisk bitter green on a warm cloud with dank vetiver adding weight. Tomato leaf up top with freshly zested mandarin orange. Fig leaf and black currant could soften and round out the mid, but they're blended pretty deep and not easy to pick out. More feel their impact. Ok...gentle black currant sweetness comes out late in the dry down as a pleasant accent - not cloying. On skin, green slips away pretty quick, but remaining notes still harmonize into a satisfying fresh countryside experience. On clothes/bedding, green projects stronger and longer - rain soaked watermelon rind with orange spice herbal tea. Rain evaporating in morning sunlight. Overall, uplifting without familiar/generic notes. The cozy nature vibes I crave. Short performance on skin could make a bottle debatable, but works well on fabric and is one of the best of the genre, I can't resist. 1ST REVIEW: Yes! Gorgeous damp garden, fresh cut grass, and tomato leaf/stems. Not fruity, but slightly tangy/sweetness of sun-soaked nature and bell peppers. Warm, comforting base of vetiver? Nothing to fault, except shallow projection/length. A normal amount wasn’t noticeable without touching nose to skin. Regardless, would love to own a full bottle.