Maine

EDIT: I love it! It's strange to read my own old review since this is the perfume I reach for more. What changed? Not the perfume MAINE or my skin. What changes is that now I live by sea and this perfume is perfect. Really perfect. I think Maine is one of those perfumes that is true to its inspiration and flows perfectly on a similar place as Maine. When I first bought it it was because I was nostalgic of living on the coast but this perfume didn't worked for me on a urban environment! I truly advice it if you live in the open space in the country or by the coast. It's heaven. It's not just rose and grass it's a subtle yet full of character scent that turns one with the space around while maintaining its integrity. So yes, I'm truly in love with this scent now and can't wait to try the others. Oh, and I've been asked a lot what is this wonderful smell? People usually around me don't quickly understand I'm wearing a perfume they think that there is something magical in the air, really :)! I'm keeping my old review below because it's quite funny, I've never changed my mind about a perfume like this. Oh how I wanted to love MAINE. I've read so many reviews and the description seemed so appealing to me: sea, bulgarian rose, the grass. I like green fragrances and rose. But it only smells like Bulgarian Rose essential oil to me for a long time in the end it's just grass, dirty grass, not wet grass but actually grass that is decomposing. Actually that's the only part I can feel the ocean in the perfume, since here where I live, there is this ocean smell from the algae when are decomposing that is very similar. No one likes that smell, it's too strong even in an open space as the beach. I really couldn't smell like this. It gives me nauseas. Too bad :/ I'm thinking so many strongy happy reviews can't be wrong and maybe it's just a chemistry problem between my skin and the perfume because to me it really smells terrible and this wouldn't be called a perfume at all and I'm really open to medicinal and strange/unconventional fragrances!

As a non rose-lover this is my favorite rose perfume. I normally don't like rose because of the animalic qualities it sometimes has, or because it reminds me of functional scents or scents in traditional soaps and lotions. I love how this is done because there is an aquatic, light, almost minty quality to this fragrance that reminds me of the coolness of ocean air.

I got this in the February Bergamot box and I just love love it.

This is so good. It's rose and ocean air, but it has nothing in common with the ultra fresh, sea-breeze fragrances that the description might call to mind. This is real ocean air - briny, bracing, mineral, and a bit sour. It's not a traditionally pretty fragrance, and might turn off people who prefer their sea scents more tame, but it truly captures the feel of being on a craggy beach with the smell of roses and wild greenery and brackish water intermingling. I sort of get the comparisons to DS Durga's Rose Atlantic, but that's more delicate and refined, without the seaweed note that surely makes Maine so polarizing. I own and love both, and Maine is stormier and broodier.

There is something weird going on, I though when I first sniffed my wrist without looking at the notes. At the opening there is this sour, green smell that I haven't felt before in any other fragrance. Weird, but wearable. Fresh, unique and natural. This perfume is actually very amazing, the grass smells so naturally wet and alive that I can't even explain how real it feels to me. If you love green fragrances, try this. It's weird at the opening as it's a bit sour, but the grass + rose combo is just lovable.