Eau de Polder

L'essence ,is weer te koop bij een boerenbedrijf in het plaatsje Mastenbroek. Het is samen met 'en passant' en tilleul' de meest prachtige geur die er bestaat.

I expected to like this a lot more. I like the chamomile, but the hay is not as strong and dry as I like. I also detect dill, which I'm not fond of in a perfume. If not for that note, I would like this a lot more. It smells more herby to me than a summer meadow. I'll give it a few more tries, but I'm not working too hard to fall in love with a scent that is $135 for 40ml. I do like the bottle though.

I tried for so long to get a sample of this that I was almost tempted to buy the FB unsniffed. So glad I didn't. I don't know why I was so obsessed with trying this, I guess I love hay and wildflower sort of scents, as opposed to big lush overpowering florals, but I should have given pause when I read the dirt/earth note, but no, I was still curious. Anyway this smells like earth, not like a huge pile of dirt but like going outside after it's been raining, and digging up a bit of the dirt/earth near a herb garden and there's like a clean-ish dirt smell. They hay and herbs are there but you really have to strain to identify them, in fact the whole scent is really so subtle that I am straining to actually smell it, so I don't know if it is worth the money for the fact that it has practically no sillage whatsoever. It is an oil, so It may last a while but you have to press nose to wrist to smell it. I could hardly smell any wildflowers, except so softly about half an hour in :(

I am delighted that someone has actually succeeded in bottling the smell of cut wildflowers and grass. I have been looking a long time for a perfume that could capture those whiffs of yum on summertime bike rides. Really this perfume is polderesque and playful. After the initial bliss though, I smelt not a grassy landscape any more - what was left were just yellow flowers like freesia or narcissus. And while this flowery scent is still very Dutch (it reminded me a lot of my grandmothers home) I think it is not how I, woman of the 21st century, want to come across.

Like some beastly herbivore downed a pint of vegetable oil, hay, and greenery and vomited it all onto some dirt.