THE BOTANIST

This is my first experience with this house and I feel dissapointed. The scent is a nice blended vetiver scent with apples mixed with a weird mixture of a musky/vegetable thing. It's a little greeny/earthy. There is also cypress which feels like Dolce&Gabbana D&G Anthology La Force 11 1st dissapointment it's scent. Generic to the bone and not pleasant for my nose. Overall it's not a groundbreaking scent and not something new. 2nd dissapointment, it has weak performance. It lives on my skin for about 4 hours as a faint skin scent. For this price range? Really? Verdict. It's a weak, overpriced & generic vetiver scent but well blended. There are better veriver scents IMO. UPDATE I've tried it again and all I can say is that it turned into a Strong Like! So I may buy it. MiN NY house is quite weird and you need time to understand its creations. This house could be one of my favourite!

My first hit was powdery old Avon, and now all I can smell is bark mulch. To me, this isn’t woody, it’s the very specific odor of bark much freshly deposited on a playground, it has the same smell of off-gassing chemicals used to treat the wood. I liked the idea of a dirt scent, but I don’t feel like they pulled it off at all. I usually love green and woody scents, but this one is just musky barkmulch to me.

I get a very strong chestnut or hazelnut note here and I’m not sure why. It really doesn’t mesh well with the sour/floral aspects

Doesn't do much for me. Too much going on and strong alcohol

Fantastic review by queerderussie and I pretty much agree with all their reviews of this line. I am nonplussed at the disdain targeted towards the brand. The Botanist is an earthy, green fragrance that is like stepping inside a greenhouse at the start of spring, with a use of vetiver that steers it away from the overtly masculine scents on the market today. It isn't too earthy, as per Coven, and it isn't too vetiver smoky, as per Arso. I think the use of bergamot and apple to effect verdancy, and the ambergris to add a mineral element are inspired. I have loved pretty much everything I've tried from the line, and having sniffed most of the niche and designer market, I have to say that I think the MIN team has brought something really interesting to the table.