Spiritcask

What an interesting and unique scent! Very complex, high quality, very natural smelling... and that "damp/old wood" smell is easily the most photorealistic I've ever come across. It's actually a little mind boggling how well Eaun has replicated that smell - I was instantly transported to a memory (fixing an old damp wooden fence with my dad as a child)... I can't remember the last time I was so impressed with an "accord". 😮 Looking at the notes, one would expect it to be heavy and dense and sickly, like Bentley for Men Intense or Bvlgari Man in Black or Roja Enigma - but this isn't that. It's light, airy, diffusive, smooth (but still very long lasting off my skin). It's a boozy scent for people who don’t like boozy scents. It doesn't leap off the skin and slap you in the face, it more just lingers in the air around you and sillages with lots of complex, smooth notes. I know marketing is what it is, but to me it honestly does smell like the inside of an old retired whisky barrel. Not one that is still dripping with liquor, but an old one that has dried out and just holds onto the faint whispers of what was in their before. The wood has absorbed so much over the years that even when it "dries", it never truly dries, so the wood feels both dry AND damp... if you smelled that wood inside the barrel, I feel this is what it would smell like. It kinda reminds me of taking Imaginary Authors Memoirs of a Trespasser, making the wood less harsh and more photorealistic (and more "damp"), upping the sweetness and vanilla a tad (but not in a sickly way), adding a bunch of soft boozy diffusive notes to the background, and upping the quality. I'm in no way saying this is inspired by MOAT, this is definitely its own thing (and much easier on the nose, I found MOAT to be a bit too harsh), but with them both being wood and vanilla scents, it's the closest reference point I can think of. Very impressive perfumery - I think once more people get their noses on this stuff I can see it being quite the best seller. Heck, with enough influencer hype I could see this becoming a bit of a hype beast. I definitely haven't smelled anything else truly like it. 🙌🏻 P.s. Due to it's complexity, I can definitely see this being one of those scents that smells different to different people (as is reflected in these reviews). There's so much going on and it's so well blended that it really is hard to pin down or describe exactly what you're smelling...

TLDR: Tried it, loved it, bought it. I started with a sample because I like Jorum but my previous experience has led me to believe this is not a house to blind buy. I need at least a few wearing experiences to know for sure. First wear- all I got was whiskey. Bitter, strong and sharp. Almost hot toddy with a bit of spice in the background but an absolute mess to unpack. I expected to not understand it on first wear so no biggie. Second wear- it went in expecting harsh and got something muuuch softer. It opened whiskey but I could detect both maple and vanilla this time. As it dried it's got a bit a creamier and I could pick woody notes out of the still prominent whiskey accord. More enjoyable for sure but I could tell there's more to understand Third wear- this time I expected to enjoy it. The creamy woody experience i could detect from the start (probably because my nose was searching for it) and it paired beautifully with the whisky and maple accords. Now that my nose has figured out those notes, I discovered the gently layered cacao and coffee notes. I couldn't find them until about 2ish hours in but they are more supporting characters rather than main players. I never got the pear note. I love chamomile but I can't recognize or find it. But what I get...I love. This was a fragrance I needed to pull apart and put back together to fully understand and enjoy but it is 100% worth it. I let myself finish the sample and go a bit before I pulled the trigger on a full bottle. I wanted to be sure I missed it and had a few occasions I would have reached for it but had to choose something else. This one is different and I encourage everyone to experience this for themselves

I'll be honest, at first I wasn't in love. On my first few wears, Spiritcask smelled like dirt and mentholated hay. Very autumnal, but... grassy, haylike, and certainly not the gourmand thing I was expecting. Now my thoughts have changed and I'm glad I held off on writing a review until now. I was on the verge of selling my bottle but decided to test it one more time. Spiritcask is quite unique and left a strong impression on me, though I didn't know it at the time. Despite only having worn it a few times, I was immediately reminded of autumn - the scent of a sunny, autumn day while you're picking apples at an orchard, with the faint mix of soil, woods, and damp hay from the petting zoo. Even more, I smell menthol, chocolate chip cookies, malt and vanilla (there is a tiny hint of Dama Bianca in here!), boozy but not in the beverage way, more so the aged barrel the booze is kept in. But don't expect anything along the lines of a sweet boozy thing like Angels' Share or Herod. This scent is unique, interesting, weird... However you'd like to describe it - it's not mass appealing in any sense, do not buy this expecting compliments. Spiritcask is a personal scent I wear for myself and I'm unsure how other people would perceive it. Be warned, there's a slight musty quality in here. Still, to me Spiritcask is beautiful, unique and complex scent.

[Spiritcask] ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ Begins with an old leather jacket connotation, lifted with a soft mint imperial note. Musty and herbal like a vintage biker jacket you’d find on a hanger in a thrift shop. No terpenoids or violet like typical leathers. It is quiet and comfortable. It is broken in with years of love and wear. Complete with patina, cracks and wrinkles as though it has lived a life twice over. This is supported by a delicious vanilla recreation (maybe containing a little absolute). It is creamy, balsamic and sticky sweet with a gentle suggestion of aged woods humming underneath. After the initial leather jacket blast, this perfume soon settles into the linear, high quality vanilla with a backbone of old, textured woods. Spiritcask makes for a very interesting and mature vanilla centric fragrance. It masters the brief and does well to have not strayed into paths lesser perfumes would have taken. I’m really impressed with my initial exposure to Jorum Studio. Reasonably priced, interesting perfumes and a clear brand identity. I will be diving deeper into their offerings very soon.

this opens with a slightly herbal heavily boozy pear smell. The booze here is warm, smooth, and slightly spiced, with the whiskey being the most prominent to my nose. The heart has a gorgeous blend of creamy and sweet florals, the ylang ylang here pulling banana-esque and the malt really evokes a bready booziness. The boozy accords stay throughout the entirety of the scent, especially in the dry down where you get a fun concoction of chocolate, coffee, and maple. This sounds like it’d be overtly sweet but it’s not, the maple is sweet but woody forward especially with the oak + cedar here. The coffee is a dark roast and the chocolate a dark one. The whiskey comes out on top again but this is a sweetened one, it’s blended with vanilla liqueur, and it’s oh so woody. This is a veryyyy complex scent but it’s extremely intoxicating.