Eiderantler

This fragrance turned out to be a big surprise to me. When I received the material from January Scent Project and read the descriptions in the attached cards, I confess that I was worried about the "Ivy Fougère" classification given by the creator. Particularly, I like good fougères, especially those with the 80's style. However, judging by the green color of the juice and the description, I thought it could be something I had already felt at some point in the past. To my surprise, Eiderantler proved to be extremely modern, as well as being the most versatile among the three Eaux de Parfum launched by the house. It has notes of lavender, green leaves, moss, pink pepper, lavandin, champa leaf, ivy, elemi resin, fir, hay, oak wood, cashmere, vetiver and musk. So you, who are reading this review, might be imagining various combinations and nuances and I understand you perfectly. After all, a fragrance that has notes of fir, ivy and hay should be at least different. Eiderantler is really different, but not as curious and potent as Selperniku, neither beautiful and smoky as Smolderose. It is green and sweet at the same time it is soft and woody. When sprayed on the skin, it has a strong lavender output, as if the lavender was not yet ready to be harvested. Then, floral nuances begin to appear in an aromatic and balsamic heart. Champa (or champaca) is a rarer type of magnolia with a stronger perfume. Its absolute has being explored by some perfumery houses. On my skin, it was the most ephemeral part of evolution, as if the perfume jumped from the top notes to the base notes. And this base is silky and slightly woody. On my skin, the highlight is the smell that results from the blend of the musk with the cashmeran, which gives a special touch of softness. Eiderantler is a fougère that escapes from standards, because it does not bring bergamot, always explored. Here, the perfumer preferred to highlight the lavender and the moss in a green-colored perfume that behaves like one of those with amber color. At the same time that I consider it the most versatile of the three, it was the one that presented the lower projection. However, like everything that is comfortable, Eiderantler is the one that makes you want to continue wearing it all the time.

I ordered this sample because the name intrigued me; it contained few of my favorite notes. I'm now ending my first week of sampling this (while calculating whether to get the big bottle, or risk the 3-30ml to try others. It lives up to the name, like an elusive deer that is seen then gone on high plain and disappears, only to reappear in the dapple wood, it's a scent with a shifting presence. To me the notes waxed and waned, dancing through several seasons. It wake up with a sharp ozone-green-menthol. The non-scent you get as you step outdoors on an icy cold day with the ground covered with snow and your breath billowing. It's that clean cold air with a hint of woodstove smoke to tickle. The florals of spring begin to appear and it's only after the opening the glorious green, ferns, lavender, rose, violet? I can't quite make them all out, but really, who cares just enjoy it. Early summer with first cut hay and spring violets in rich loam of dark mossy earth. Summery vetiver and amber melds into reminers of autumn. Leaves crunching underfoot and being burnt as the cycle prepares to repeat. It is a scent that seems to be a bit demanding of attention in a subtle way..by alerting your nose it has changed, so sniff again please, and I do like that. I have had a lifetime for wonderful chypres, fougeres, orientals, aquatics -- but something new, interesting, and wearable, is a delight. Eiderantler reminds me of China White in that sense of something always hidden and amorphous. Instead of China's ghostly formal floral dust; Eiderantler plays instead with floral greens and warmer cozy scents. My husband likes this on me slightly better, though he will always prefer me in the Ysatis i wore when we fell in love decades ago. Oh, and as MrMorel noted in his review, it may well have a hidden market -- I am a middle-age aunt. Not ceramics, but spin and weave, living and working in the subtropics and missing the four seasons. It's on my Christmas wish list.

Incredibly in love with this! My favorite fougere! It just took the place of TF BdJ for me (and 1725 is in 3rd place). Straight to full bottle. I actually loved the whole line up, but this is fresh, fougere cloud, herbal, and not too sharp at all. It is almost lightly powdery chocolate (maybe it is anise or licorice?) which I know sounds weird and does not take away from the freshness at all. I want to spray this every morning or could even be a before bed fresh scent as well. This is a very special scent as are the others in the line. Nothing else I've experienced quite like them. Note: I got my full bottle and it smells much sharper than the little sample I had. I believe it may just need time to macerate which has happened a few times for me when jumping from sample to bottle. Will update if it doesn't self correct over time. I guess the most beautiful things in life require patience! Update: Now a full 6 months later, it is finally smelling like it did when I first sampled it. It is still astringent and fresh, but the edges are soft, so no longer jarring, but more cloud like. Happy to say that I definitely see myself using up the 30 ml now! It's great when I need something fresh, but for any season. For me it is a good reset or under the shirt centering fragrance. It wakens the mind without being too sharp. I can see it serving many purposes. Update 2: Currently, recovering from long covid and so I have been spraying this one sometimes under my shirt. It feels like a cool, green wind in my lungs, but not in the way something artificial (air freshener, Vicks, menthol cigarettes). I do not get anything animalic at all, so I am not sure where people are getting that. Maybe the hay is conjuring up animals? Still happy I got this one as I haven't found anything that would come close to replacing it just yet, even if it isn't a daily wear for me.

Just one spritz to the inside of my wrist. Immediately I smell fresh cut lavender over a bed of tropical flowers. Champaca leaf is smelling like honeysuckle in this mix... so beautiful. I wore this yesterday and decided to wear it again today, in the middle of a cold Pacific Northwest December. I’m sure this is better in Spring but I love wearing it now. There’s a lot going on, lots of green and forest notes swimming around me. An immediate mood lifter. I received the discovery kit from the fragrantica giveaway. It’s important for me to be honest and accurate in my descriptions, and this is outstanding, Eiderantler is right up my perfume alley. I appreciate the larger sample size (3.5ml) as this gives me more time to decide if this is my next purchase. And the packaging? Expressive and unique. Love it. Edit: I was only around two people yesterday, and both complimented me on this perfume. So noticeable even after several hours of wearing.

Sometimes you can tell the difference in which the perfumer is rushed to finish a project vs. taking his time to create something 100% unique and invigorating. This falls into the latter category. This is by no mistake a green scent but it has subtle nuances in which puts it in a different category. It has that spring forest element that captures most wearers but dries down with aspects of vetiver,elemi and pepper with a slightly boozy touch from the oak. It's a green/woody/resinous delight that should have gotten more hype than it did. It is very wearable and not strange in which most niche houses fail to due. From my first sampling I got above average sillage and longevity. Priced at $125 for 100 ml is a better deal than Kerosene, Imaginary Authors and more noticeable US Indie/Niche houses.

I love this stuff. Sharp, bracing, confident, and unique. It is extremely green; try to be ready for it. It’s different enough that you don’t have to worry about a big silage (in fact, you might not want that with this one). Longevity is good but I still like to add a refresher spray or two at midday. When to wear: Early spring. The greenness and the life this brings will reinforce those days when you hope winter is passing. Rainy summer days/nights. It has to be low humidity; too high and the scent tends to get a little overbearing. Bright winter days. Yep, I’m serious. Take one of those happy, very cold, very sunny winter days and put this on in place of your winter warmer. The bracing of the green and the bracing of the cold will mix well and heighten your spirits.

Absolutely gorgeous! I ordered a sample set based on a review of Smolderose I read, and from the listed notes I thought that would be the one I liked the most in the set. Smolderose is good, but Eiderantler is simply stunning. I'm not normally a lavender lover, but in this the lavender is summery and fresh. The spice note isn't a sharp or bitter note, it adds a gentle warmth. It's a natural outdoorsy scent. I hate to use the term 'mossy' as that has connotations of damp and dank undergrowth, but this fragrance reminds me of lying on my back in a meadow enjoying the spring sunshine. This is spring, new growth, flowers opening in the warmth and birds tweeting. The drydown is soft and gentle, a little powdery. Definitely full bottle worthy-I'm off shopping!

I was very surprised by how much I love this! I received my sample, my first try in this line of fragrances. And the lavender just jumped up and smacked me across the face, not hard but like the fingers of a leather glove. Smooth, fragrant and green...it smells very rich, for a green scent. Full bodied and cool. As it ages, the greenness fades into the smell of a soft cashmere sweater. On my skin it becomes intimate rather quickly but I still love the smell so much ..I know I will be popping for an FB regardless.. It's probably the lavender, but I find this scent rather comforting. Unlike many of the scents I wear, this one I could wear to bed and feel lulled off to happy dreams.

How have I not reviewed this yet? It is my newest love and I've been wearing a lot of it since I broke my arm and needed some comfy healing lavender. When I ordered the January scent sampler I didn't really have high hopes for this one. I figured fougere would mean muddy blend of fragrances that screams masculinity. That is not this scent. This scent is lavender brightened by hay and made creamy by elemi resting upon greens like ivy and pine. There are scents that are difficult to identify but nothing that could be described as muddy or perfumey. This gets complements and has some silliage. It is wonderful.

I really adore this fragrance. I got samples of the original three JSP fragrances plus the Smolderose oil back when it was ridiculously inexpensive to do so and Eiderantler has definitely become by favorite. Initially it just seemed like a fresher, lavender-based version of a fragrance I already had. Upon more wears and wearing it in springtime instead of winter weather, I fell in love. This, to me, is spring in a bottle. It lasts well without being too loud or too quiet for my tastes. The main four notes I get are elemi, lavender, fir, and a less specific green.

Unique forest magic! Springs from pure perfume imagination and creativity. The balsam fir is very similar to the one used in Baccarat Rouge 540 - a sweet candied resin that weeps from the stems, as opposed to the sap. Combining it with other forest elements like moss and ivy brings out facets of green enchantment. Lavender and elemi are soft touches that add to the brightness. Eiderantler is a spring green, fresh aroma that reminds me of mossy glades dappled with mote filled sunlight. The realm of dryads and nymphs!

Eiderantler is the first bottle of perfume that I have owned and the first bottle of perfume that my wife bought me. A very special fragrance for me and a favorite! The lavender is incredible in this: it is GREEN, foremost, but juicy and powdery too. It is a mysterious scent for being such a familiar accord. This could easily be a daily scent but the longevity is unfortunately weak. Two or three hours is enough to dispel the green magic away. (Fortunately January Scent Project prices its perfumes so generously!)

Eiderantler: what a perfect name. Imagine the texture of the soft warm fuzzy skin growing on springtime antlers. This fragrance lives up to that. It is SO very soft and creamy, a musky, powdery, cashmere-y greenish balsamic floral, with restraint. I find it rather milky too. It's like a fuzzy spring blanket, smooth as rabbit fur, cuddly and slightly green. It reads as feminine to me, almost a turn of the century silky-powdery-lace feminine. So very lovely.

goes on slight citrus, herbal and massive vetiver; as it dries down, you get this ambery champaca and elemi with a musky animalic note. Very interesting. In the final drydown it is amber amber amber.

Green! Like... ULTRA Green. This is probably the most mainstream fragrance from JSP, because at the end of the day this is a green ivy fougère. Granted, it's a super nice, complex, niche quality, and nose piercingly green ivy fougère, but a fougère all the same. The biggest comparison that I can give to this fragrance is something along the lines of a mix between a classical fougère meets "The Soft Lawn" by Imaginary Authors except the longevity and sillage are ramped up x20. It starts out with this really green and pepper-y lavender that in my opinion, is a really refreshing take on lavender that I haven't really smelled before. It's as if John got the aroma chemicals not from just the buds of flowers, but from mostly the stem and only a hint of the flowers. This part of the fragrance is STRONG, and probably the part that I can see people disliking the most. I personally really like it as it is a refreshing take on the exhausted note that is lavender, but I would give it the 20 or so minutes those top notes need to die down to the main notes before deciding to scrub or not if you dislike it. Then as it settles down I get a healthy dose of ivy, moss, and elemi resin. The ivy providing a nice, fresh, and green intro while moss provides it some depth and the elemi resin sweetens it just a tad. The champaca and fir notes are there if you smell for them hard enough, but I think they are here to support those 3 main player listed previously. Then as it finally dries down, it becomes this really smooth and woody base that would be hard for anyone to dislike. Overall? This is a tough contender for my favorite green fragrance, but only time will tell whether or not I get a bottle of the stuff. I have so much I want to buy and such little funds that it might be awhile before I pull the trigger on this one. Do I think you should still try this out if you're at all into green? YES! It's super refreshing and dewy, and probably the easiest scent for someone who's more used to mainstream fragrances to get into if they are at all interested in January Scent Project. Overall another banger by John (who rarely misses besides Selperniku), and probably another buy for my collection after I drain my bottle of the soft lawn.

I laughed out loud at mrmorel's review... because when pondering JSP's target audience he 100% nailed me! I am quite literally the middle aged, non-elegant ceramicist aunt- (professional potter, actually), and I fell for several of JSP's unique offerings. I'll leave the detailed fragrance description to others who have already done such a great job, but if you are looking for some truly unique perfumes go buy the reasonably priced and generously sized discovery set immediately- but be prepared to be hooked by a few! After my sample set I purchased the 3-fer deal he offers on 30mls- I got this one, Burvuvu, and Dinudisit. I go back and forth between a strong like and a love on this one. The other two are strong loves. I am also still intrigued by Selperniku, but not quite ready to pull the trigger on that one. Being a perfume collector on an artist's income, I really appreciate that he offers the smaller sizes.

I really like the ending of this scent, but what doesn’t capture me is the opening. To me, the opening is just notes of artificial grape flavoring that you would smell after opening grape candy. I’m not sure if that’s just the lavender or if it’s my own mind playing tricks on me. Performance is not terrible, but I wish it was better lasting and with a bit more projection. Overall, 6/10

Lavender bomb with strong green notes, supported by a hint of hay, moss and a sweet note (champaca?) in the backgorund. The definition of (aromatic) fougere. What I was expecting Houbigant Fougere Royale to smell like. Still, my favourite in this category remains Penhaligon's Sartorial. Unisex, Spring/Fall days leaning on the warmer side, 25+

Eiderantler (love the name) is mostly a lavender fragrance on my skin. Unfortunately it seems to contain sweet vanilla and a kind of musk which I don't really like. Thus it is not my kind of fragrance. However, try it out for yourself.

An interesting blend of dryness and moisture. It feels like a meadow has been mowed, the cut grass has had time to dry, and then rain comes. Herbal, slightly balsamic