Nordic Cedar

This is my favorite of all Maya's fragrance. I initially blew it off as being just another dry cedar fragrance and proceeded to fall in love with the other fragrances. Later, when I walked in the room I smelled something intoxicating! I put it on and bought it within an hour. This is not your average cedar fragrance. It's not overly dry or pencil shaving-like. It smells clean and woody but warm. I get more of the cardamom in the opening then the patchouli and amber warm it up and add sweetness. It is utterly addicting to me. Suitable for an occasion. 100% unisex. It has fantastic longevity. Projection is soft but has it's presence. I get whiffs of it throughout my day. Whatever Maya does, it just resonates with me. This is a superb house and I will be purchasing the whole line.

Apparently I am the first to review this scent from the Maya Njie house. It is a very nice, high quality, scent. The cedar is there, very prominent, from the beginning and runs through the heart till the dry down. It is a quite sweet cedar and as the scent develops, the musk gets more and more clear and pronounced. I guess it is the cardamom that creates the sweetness. This scent reminds me of sun heated needles on a path in a forest. It is a light woody scent, light as a Scandinavian summer's eve. I wish it were sharper though, and that the sillage were stronger, bay leaf would certainly give it a nice touch, and piece of moss would create a stronger sense of mystery, but in all it is a very natural quality scent well worth the money. Thumbs up!

Maya Njie’s Nordic Cedar is a quiet feast for the nose. Woody, spicy, warm, but somehow still retains a sort of coolness, the fragrance is serious but has a playful cardamom. The scent is subtle but impactful and succeeds in Njie’s goal of recreating a memory through perfume (my sister was even obsessively smelling my wrist in hopes of figuring out where she’d smelled such a fragrance before). Like a temporary lover, just when you think Nordic Cedar has left, the wind hits your face, and you realize there are still remnants of him from the night before on your neck.

I love love love the cardamom note in Vanilj, and I really tried to get along with the perfume, but it was way too sweet for me to wear. I was so pleasantly surprised when I discovered that Nordic Cedar has exactly the same cardamom note but on a dry, woody base! Much more wearable if you're, like me, not into sugary sweet scents. I have to do some more testing, but I really do think I will need a full bottle of this.

This is very much Christmas in my book! Warm and spicy combined with the dryness of the cedar. In my opinion this would have been better if the cedar (which is delicious in this) was the star of the show, on my skin it’s very much cardamom. But it is very delicious, especially on the drydown when the edge of the cardamom has worn off. Addictive scent!