All Good Things

I got solid version of this strange little thing. I will try to describe it as I feel it. For your information: there is glitter on the very top of the solid perfume, but it if possible to scrape it off. It is recommended that you don't put your nose into the container and sniff directly. It is quite longlasting as for a solid perfume (even up to 5 or 6 hours). Firstly the smell was unpleasant, it just smelled like whole burnt pine tree with its roots covered dirt. Rather unpleasant but complex. I hated it and wanted to threw away but I decided to give it a chance again and again and it was totally worth it. I fell in love. That dirty pine (juniper) on my skin starts to become so sweet and nostalgic after a few moments. The pine stays in the background nicely and introduces buckwheat honey (tonka?) with a little bit of burnt caramel (arnise?). Sadly I don't smell rose or citruses at all. Sweet but not really traditionally sweet, not like sugar or cotton candy. I think it could be worn by men, kinda unisex-y. As on me it smell better in autumn or winter time, when I am wearing a sweater and drinking tea as it develops better and shows it less sharp, sweeter side on warm skin. But there are still some days when I don't like it at all. I think it really needs good skin chemistry, proper temperature and weather and matching mood. So... All good things come to an end? or All good things come to those who wait?

All Good Things seems to be an attempt to blend two seldom-paired aromas. The first of which is a smoky, coniferous woodiness halfway between fir balsam and a campfire, and the second of which is a very sweet, slightly spiced gourmand sort of candy shop/patisserie aroma. Your enjoyment of this will depend on your appreciation of the aforementioned 2 aromas. What makes this interesting to me is it's boldness. If this wasn't as smoky and the woods weren't as strong, this would have just been a lackluster gourmand, and if the sugary sort of gourmand aspects were too muted, it would be a very run of the mill masculine woody fragrance. The fact that it is both exceptionally smoky/woodsy and exceptionally candied and edible makes this surprisingly bold, and almost a little challenging. Fans of sweet candy fragrances might feel a little dirty with the smoke, and the smoky wood fans might blush at the fact that they feel a little bit soft and fluffy in the rather edible dry down. Therein is sort of the greatness of All Good Things: it's willingness to be this weird, genial, startlingly unisex, boundary-blurring fragrance that's personality is entirely unique due to its dichotomous embrace of two contradicting elements. Whether or not this appeals to you, I think it is a hugely fun fragrance. Oh, and it performs fantastically. 8/10

Nostalgic and pleasing, All Good Things is likeable and easy to wear. A smooth experience, noticeable but not overbearing. It does match up to it's sleeve notes; stories of the ends of parties, the parting of ways. It is quite comforting despite the spicy and sharp notes. I like to wear this in the autumn, especially during the day. It suits the season well. It is a smell that invokes memories, autumn is quite a reflective season. All Good Things is mossy and leafy too. There is a sense of the outdoors about it. Not perhaps the great outdoors, huge wildernesses, forests or anything like that. Less scale and more civilised, the things we experience everyday. Again when I think about this scent I find it linking back to where memories are made. Like a walk through your hometown. A journey back home; footpaths, parkland; stone and brick. Interesting, inexpensive and universal enough to be worth having in you collection. You probably won't wear it all the time. But you'll always want some to hand. 9/10

If I had to give this perfume an image, or a story, it would be roasting marshmallows. But it isn't just the marshmallows and graham crackers, but the entire essence of the campground and the woods, from the juniper and cedar trees, to the spicy-smoky anise in the nighttime air from the campfire, to a hint of spicy black pepper from the dying embers, a tiny hint of diesel exhaust, the sweet tonka bean-marshmallows and graham crackers. The notes online also say citrus and rose, but these are barely detectable and just balance out the gourmand and smoke with a hint of freshness/fruitiness. The name of the scent is very fitting; it is evocative of good times not just in terms of its candy sweetness, but also due to its natural, raw notes and elements (real essential oils are used, at least in the solid version I got). The perfect ratio of gourmand to smoky-woods is just amazing, unisex, and thought-provoking.

A versatile masterpiece. With a changing contrast, All Good Things is sweet and bitter at the same time, enduringly. Be aware of the candy floss note in the "perfume" part (enhanced by tonka). I would underline its (relatively) steady longevity and sillage. One’s enjoyment will depend on the the appreciation of the unbroken candy floss sweetnes. I was about to give up on it a couple of months ago because of this, but when I started to use it again it made me feel like I'm an ancient Egypitian god - exuding immortality. I was going to buy a solid, too, but they're all glittered! Further note-associations by Fragrantica users include: bitter almond, black pepper, blackened burnt sugar, camp fire, candy shop / pâtisserie, candyfloss / cotton candy, caramel, citruses, clove, coumarin, cypress, grass, guaiacum, hay, juniper, liqueur, musk, oud, roasted marshmallows, smoke, star anise, sweet berries, vanilla.