Vine Thief

"Vine Thief" is a complex and gorgeous masterpiece. Surprisingly, it opens with a blast of orris root and just a touch of strawberry in the background, but the orris quickly fades and takes its place behind a boozier strawberry that is neither artificial/candy smelling, nor juicy/tart. It's more like the sweet smell you get from dried strawberries, albeit still mixed with a lighter touch of orris and whiskey. After two or three minutes, the leather/labdanum and woods slowly develop and mix with the dried strawberry and orris, while the whiskey fades a little. This is definitely not a drug store strawberry. The strawberry softens the leather while the orris/iris keeps the fruit note from being too sweet. Call it sophisticated strawberry for grownups. About half an hour in, musk, skin, baby powder, and the condensed milk note start to surface and the scent really comes into itself as something glorious. It's pure comfort. Strawberries, milk, skin/powder/musk, iris, and leather sounds like a weird combination, but because it's all blended so expertly, the effect is like wrapping oneself in a childhood comfort-blanket. In winter time (now), it's like sitting beside a crackling fire, surrounded by your favourite dolls while sipping a cup of warm milk. An hour and thirty minutes in, the leather and resins are nearly gone and this is pure strawberry-milk-vanilla-skin-musk without being overly sweet. The scent works just as well for autumn and spring. It may be harder to pull off in hot weather. The drydown, after the woods burn off, might work in summer as a milk-and-strawberries-dollhead scent, but honestly the best part of this perfume is the journey, and the journey is complicated. Wonderful, but complicated. So yes, reader, I am in love with this. It's modern, with all the trendy milk and strawberry notes - but also has an expensive and timeless quality that goes beyond a simple gourmand and into woodsy and oriental territories. The packaging and bottle are also beautiful, with a bird-and-foliage Liberty print on the large cap reminiscent of William Morris's "The Strawberry Thief" (which I'm supposing it got its name from). In any case, my dresser looks fancy! I got my full bottle secondhand for less than half retail - £225 is steep! - but for people who can afford that I think this one is worth it.

Very yummy! Trying to broaden my perfume collection, and I didn’t have 1 strawberry scent!! This perfume is very very good, I will say the strawberry scent is pretty realistic, and last about an hour. The liquor note is heavy in the opening (which I think is a very good thing) and then once it all settles down, turns into a sweet & musky skin scent. This is not going to be your powerhouse, but I would say lasts a good 8-10 hours, with the last half being more of a skin scent (which truly is not a bad thing imo) I had the scent on for about 2 hours and went shopping & a stranger told me how good I smelled! So it checks a lot of boxes for me - Helps broaden my collection ✅ Compliments from strangers ✅ Smells good ✅ Lasts long ✅ Oh...the bottle design?! Magnetic cap, and super unique!

I got it blind zero regret . Amazing perfume I can't stop wearing it since I got it sexy seductive. Has new perfume profile I have never smelt something like it before. Every time I wear it I been asked what I'm wearing. Sexy in crazy way normally I don't like strawberry note it's capable of making any perfume cheap smelling. But here totally different.that perfume for sexy attractive confidence mischievous lady I would imagine you can get any man you want wearing that perfume The perfume red fruit plus creamins and there are anther notes make me feel like clean sweat of women skin little bit animalic Guys at least try

To answer my own question, yes - Vine Thief is amazing! Not what I expected but perhaps even better once I got to know it. It is sweet boozy powdery orris, you can feel a bit of condensed milk too. Strawberry gives sweetness and playfulness but all the notes are blended very well and I can’t pick strawberry apart. Sophisticated, adult gourmand. In my over 100+ collection I have nothing like it, and it is one of my all time favourites. It is an acquired taste, niche, feminine, not challenging but not conventional either, so try it out for yourself! 🫶

For me it opens very sweet strawberry with a drying down that turns more leathery and rooty. The powdery iris remains there throughout. As the fragrance dries down The strawberry takes a step back and allows the leather and the powdery milk to come through. Beautiful fragrance. Delicious smell. I think it leans more female than male. My partner thinks it smells of resin on the open. But likes the dry down immensely