Trimerous

Smooth, creamy, and dreamy. This is comfort and a warm hug in a bottle. This is the powder bomb I have been searching for in my last 2 years of smelling perfume (short time compared some of you seasoned veterans I know), but man is this good. This smells like a memory. A memory of the fall or harvest festival with your friends or significant other. The air is slightly crisp as you walk around in your cozy sweater and light suede jacket with jeans. The wind carrying the smell of the woods and juniper thorns from the forest surrounding the park where the festival is in. The slight smell of sweet nectarine, honey-d and sweet deserts, juxtaposed with the musk of the peoples around your created by the carrot seeds, musk, and ambergris; all of these notes the backbone to the iris. Creating a powdery, creamy, almost foggy haze over the whole scent making it memory like. Like how you remember the major details, but all the little things and details have become romanticized and in the background. The iris goes through multiple different versions of iris throughout the fragrance, from effervescent and bright to entirely thick and syrup-y smooth. The woods and juniper notes become more prominent as it dries down, never overtaking the iris but certainly still noticeable. The date or gathering you had at the festival moving to the final walk in the woods back home, a beautiful and happy end to a beautiful and happy day. Trimerous was such a surprise for me, it's nothing else like Jorum has to offer. Most of Jorum's library of scents are bold, different, and statement makers, which I really enjoy and love to wear. This one is so soft though, it's a fragrance I would wear when I know I look good, but I don't need others to tell me I look good. Decent longevity, 6-7 hours depending on what you're doing. Great silage, I get a good 6 feet or so; but not a in your face 6 feet like most "beast mode" fragrances are, but a wispy and ethereal 6 feet that takes time for people to notice. Fall through mid spring, mostly because the woods might get a bit heavy under the summer heat. Day or Night, but I would prefer daytime myself. Unisex. I hope to make even more memories with this scent. 9/10

there aren’t good enough words to explain just how immensely beautiful this perfume is. i am in love. it is by far the best orris fragrance i’ve yet to come across. infact, i didn't realise how much i loved iris as a note until i smelt this. it’s so earthy, nutty and creamy, not at all powdery. so earthy but in such a gentle way. thick, buttery, silky smooth white suede & orris root swirling around subtly sweet apricot compote. it’s hard to pick apart each of the notes, because they all work together so effortlessly, but they’re all there. carrot seed, angelica, pink pepper, musk.... the blend is insanely smooth. it’s a stand out in comparison to the rest of jorum studios perfumes because they are generally so boldly expressive and complex. trimerous isn’t bold. it doesn’t demand much thought or reflection and does not grab attention. it’s minimalist, effortless and ever so elegantly ethereal. it’s the sort of perfume that makes you smell nice, rather than you just smelling like you’re wearing a nice perfume.. if that makes sense? it is somehow cold, yet simultaneously warm. i feel like it would be a dream to wear in winter especially. like a soft fluffy hug. it just melts right into the skin and envelops you for hours and hours in a blissful blanket of joyful warmth. i’m gonna cherish my samples of it until i get a full bottle. it’s simply divine!!! 🤍🤎💜🧡 jorum studio i love you.

My all-time favorite perfume is Athenaeum, also by Jorum, but when I crave something a little softer but just as complex, I reach for Trimerous. At first I found it a bit rubbery or plasticky, but as I’ve learned more about orris root, I’ve come to appreciate that Euan McCall simply doesn’t sand down the rougher, sharper, weirder edges of this dense, multifaceted material. This is a beautiful, naturalistic love letter to orris. Contrary to my first impression, it’s not at all scratchy or synthetic. It’s chic and elegant without getting too buttoned-up. Like all of Jorum’s scents, it has a nostalgic, lived-in quality, evoking the texture and emotional atmosphere of a very specific time and place. The dusty, powdery notes are a touch melancholic, but they’re balanced with a bright, effervescent sparkle. Versatile and nuanced, it could be worn by anyone, on any occasion, in any season. Moderate sillage and projection, giving a kind of quiet luxury that doesn’t come across as try-hard. It’s what I imagine Louise Glück must have smelled in the air when she wrote The Wild Iris.

Oh god that's just the best iris/orris I ever tried. This is soooo clean, so fresh, official, dry, powdery, violet, lipsticky... Mwah, it just exudes cold, power, powder, water in a way. The iris, backed by some floral and herbal aspects is rounded up with a light, mouthwatering, not sweet nectarine. Amazing. Light, airy, natural, declassing everyone in the iris game. Forget Dior Homme, too sweet. This crushes them all. But. Price to performance ratio. This is way too expensive for the performance it gives you. You'll go through the bottle like hell. So, so sad for me as I don't collect, I use, and when I get bored, I sell and buy another. This, on the value perspective, is not worth it for me. But on the pure heart-led perspective this is worth my kidney. Absolute unisex, everytime, everywhere, office safe. I'm gonna dream about it tonight.

This has very quickly become my favorite presentation of Orris. It's absolutely joyful - bursting with a juiciness that swirls around the creamy central suede-orris accord but doesn't overindulge in sweetness. It has powdery characteristics but also feels somehow dewy and alive, the carrot seed adding a sort of high-definition clarity to the blend that feels effortlessly chic and very modern. There's a spa-like feeling to the whole composition, like you've just sat down in a hotel sauna - not the woodiness of the paneled walls, but the atmosphere: relaxing, gentle, slightly steamy, maybe the slightest hint of chlorine in the air but none of the chemical burn that usually accompanies it. It's a refreshing and clever (the word that sits at the front of my mind with everything Euan McCall does) take on Orris, and incredibly easy to love.