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.

This is by Alessandro Gualtieri, the nose behind Nasomatto, working in tandem with artist Birthe Leemeijer to produce a conceptual scent—one that seeks to capture and artistically render a specific space that merges nature with technology. Apparently, a polder is a hydrological entity (reclaimed land that sits below sea level) that is developed through the re-routing of water away from the area. This was done by windmills in the past, but is now more a feat of engineering in which water is moved out of the area through sluices. It seems that they're quite prevalent in the Netherlands and the scent is supposed to replicate the aesthetic headspace of such land. It's a concentrated oil, so it goes on quite thick and essentially takes the oft-repeated freshly cut grass approach and tweaks it for a more naturalistic composition. Most scents of this type have slightly sweet top notes, but here they've been edited out in favor of a more vegetal tone that sits between hay, grass, and some greasy wild-flowers. It doesn't smell or feel much like perfume—more like a natural spa product of some kind, but one that's exceptionally realistic. Also, it's subtly laconic, which lends a creamy, enveloping effect, and there's slight dirt / mineral note drifting around too which helps to create the aesthetic effect of water and wet soil. I've no idea if this is what a polder smells like, but it certainly smells like damp, grassy land. I'm as intrigued by this subtle and delicate scent as I am impressed by it.

Well this accomplishes what they set out to accomplish, and it's what I expect from a niche scent (simplicity, naturalness, and an underlying idea). However, it is a bit sweet and it's not especially animalic or "earthy," which surprised me. I also thought it might be dry, but it's "middle of the road" in that department. Projection ("sillage") is not huge but acceptable. I can't say I would pay retail prices for it, and it does remind me of something I've sampled before, so if I can remember what that was I'll post back here with that information. If you want something animcalic and earthy, you might consider tobacco absolute. I obtained some from the Perfumer's Appreentice site (it's considered a "flavor"). Now this had that animalic hay type quality, though it didn't strike me as especially tobacco-ish, but longevity was poor (an hour or two). I'm not even sure I was supposed to apply it to skin, but since it's used to flavor food or beverages and I only tried it a couple times, I was willing to take that "risk." Eau de Polder is more of a niche scent to me; it evokes a place but not too literally (for me doing that is "amateurish").

Hay, grass but not in a mowed lawn sense, dried actual wildflowers. Amazing! I got no real dirt notes to mess it up, but it’s so expensive! I do love the hay note, was looking for one. The dry down saved me by being more wildflower than hay, and it gets sweeter, which isn't a favorite on me. Still, might be decant worthy, if I can find some!

I tried this because I was told it smells like hay. To me, though, this smells like olive oil mixed with chamomile. It smells calm, oily and flat. I wanted to like it more then I did.

I looked for this when I went to Amsterdam and Rotterdam but was told it had already sold out and now Luckyscent doesn't have it any more. I so wanted to try it.

first review in a while here got to sample this rare of a Polder it smells like a pottato in dirt that just got picked and trown on the freshly cut grass

lol it must smell very dutch if i may believe the name ! what a joke :-p i bet it must smell very earthy and natural