Eau de Céleri

This is exactly the kind of indie fragrance that reminds me I should sample more indie fragrances. It's overtly vegetal and greenly-earthy; a lean, natural, unglamorous scent that is unapologetically evocative of kitchen meal-prep. For the first hour or so I get an accord that is kind of resinousness but in a distinctly vegetal way, like fresh-spicy garden sap. There's also a hint of floral prettiness, but it's clearly there to compliment the vegetal accord, not to disguise it. It's not a strong scent or a particularly long-lived one, but that cutting-board freshness stays all the way through the dry down. It's definitely in a similar vein to Sisley Eau De Campagne, but Campagne is spicier and more citrusy, while Celeri has an almost-savory element that Campagne lacks. It's like making a pitcher of G&T's in the kitchen while your partner chops celery and cilantro for meal-prep. Or like tending a vegetable garden during a summer hot spell, with clean linens on the line, and a garden hose burbling softly at the base of a nearby tree.

Bought a 5 ml decant from the company in their mini springtime sampler, and have worn Eau de Celeri twice since yesterday. I'm absolutely smitten. I get a very green and slightly bitter opening that is very earthy and appealing. This moves into a salty brine that I adore, along with a slightly sweet grassy green (not candy or sugar sweet, more like a floral green sweetness). The vetiver then applies some woody astringency that goes so beautifully with the brine. It gives an outdoorsy feeling that is so perfect for summer/early fall. This is neither a powerhouse nor a shrinking skin scent, present but not loud. I've gotten about 6-7 hours longevity which is decent for the type. Lovely job and I'm happy to try a Canadian niche house that shows great promise.

This is a really nice rainy summer day fragrance. Really cozy and grounding. While I get the celeri, it doesn't smell like celeri. Really fresh and green. I have a tester, and enjoy it :)

a cross between Sisley’s Eau de Campagne and Union’s Holy Thistle, skewing toward Campagne. I don’t get lawn grass or galbanum, funnily enough, but it’s still green in the tomato-leaf sense. I don’t remember the first few moments but after that, it’s fairly linear, tomato leaf with a green aquatic stream running through it. As the stream quiets to a trickle, I get a grassy (but still not lawn grass) note that is close to what I imagine vetiver ‘really’ smells like. (I’m so tempted to keep going on about deltas and swamps, but I know too little about such places.) I bet a lot of people would love that ‘idealized vetiver’ phase. The tomato leaf persists throughout the long drydown, supported by a better base than my recent bottle of Campagne has, closer to what vetiver essential oil actually smells like to me, which is a little earthy, woodsy, maybe bittersweet. As a whole the scent is not a big projector, but it’s distinct enough that I like going searching for it and finding it so definitely each time. I love Campagne, and I love portions of Celeri even more. But I really don’t love portions of Celeri’s top-into-heart that ring the aromachemical alarm bells in my brain, as is usual for anything aquatic. Now I want to re-test Holy Thistle for comparison.

Not at all literal celery. Cut a stalk and compare for yourself. This reminds me in a way of Eau de Campagne, conceptually vegetal while remaining a wearable fragrance.

Masterfully done, and it smells both like celery and "celery" -- but I wear it infrequently because I'm not sure I want to smell like celery. Or "celery." The city where I live is often cold and foggy. If spring and summer were longer, or warmer, I could see myself wearing this more often. I also think this fragrance skews more younger female than mid-40s male. But I'm not done with it yet. Intriguingly green, grassy, and aqueous in a way that I haven't experienced elsewhere, though Sel de Vetiver and Invisible Monster are both distant cousins. An interesting journey, and worth seeking out. I haven't figured out though how/if/when I want to wear this.

A cool concept piece, but only wearable for the right person. The opening is strong and unpleasant. It's green and bitter, like grass without actually smelling like grass. It softens enough to become wearable, but it's still bitter and green and a faint bit floral. I have no idea who would wear this, but I have to admit it would be totally unique.

This is actually kind of nice. The celery note is strong but eventually blends well into the mix becoming more subtle in the drydown. It's quite clean, delicate and quiet, becoming just a skin scent within an hour.

Yup, this smells like celery alright. First I get a big hit of alcohol, enough to make my throat itch. Then it smells like celery with a hint of floral or citrus, which is where it stays. At the very end, it morphs into the dusty-musty smell that I often get from green scents (if anyone knows what causes this, please let me know. I haven't found a single shared note among all the perfumes that end up that way on me.) I love unsweetened green fragrances, but this is a bit too one-note for me. It's just celery and citrus without any special extra touch to elevate it. It's not unpleasant, but I can't imagine reaching for it. This might work as a layering piece, but I worry that the photorealistic veggie scent would clash with other scents rather than lending a harmonious greenness to them. The sillage and lasting power are also very light. Even just after application, I have to work hard to smell it without pressing my nose right to my wrist. I guess that's good, as I can't imagine wanting to waft celery around me all day.

I already own one of the Monsillage fragrances named Pays Dogon and I love it. With this one, I was hoping for something green, herbal and cool for summer months, I expected the celery and galbanum. I decided to take a chance based on the reviews and blind bought it. What a mistake... From the first sniff I knew our paths will go different ways. I get strong aquatic accord on the drydown that refuses to leave and gives me headache. It's sort of this dusty, powdery smell of old lady's wet mouchoir. I also get sweat. It might be my skin chemistry, my skin eats perfume and is very dry. Anyway, smell before you buy.

This smells like that scent you get when you’re about to walk into the supermarket and get a whiff of the fresh produce section.

Eau de Celeri is a natural grassland with an opening that achieves masterpiece status to the degree that you want to jump up, clap your hands, shout bravo, and cheer. This isnt a manicured bermuda neighborhood or city park golf course type lawn but rather the smell that you get from walking around a special grassland like the Black Kettle National Grasslands or perhaps even the Tallgrass prarie over in Pawhuska. Even then, most of the grasslands have a natural mustiness when its dry and pollen filled but this fragrance comes to you after a rain when the world is cleaner and smells wondrous. It has wildflowers in it, clean tallgrass prarie notes, and the bitter so called celery note smells very much like cut dandelions or milkweed. Those who have had dandelion salad would instantly recognize the flavor of this scent. I came by this fragrance via the fantastic Olfactif sample program where Tara sends out these amazing samples at a reasonable cost and then gives a too slight discount if you buy a bottle from her. Its worth subscribing to and sometimes you come across these little niche scents that make you want to cheer. I normally would not want to review a fragrance based on a sample that I had not lived with for some time but this one does not have a lot of reviews and it hits fragrant note accords that I am very at home with. Once you get past the opening, a sweetness starts to creep into the fragrance. Its not a standard or traditional "cologny" sweetness but rather a natural one. If you have ever pulled honey from a beehive before then you would recognize this sweet. Its almost clover honey but still pollen filled, uncooked, unbottled and unfiltered. It makes the fragrance more "pleasing" and gentles the bitterness of dandelion root and sharpness of the tall grass. A fragrance must be pleasing to sell and this adds a pleasing factor and yet, I feel it too soon pulls the unique lovely tall grass prarie feel into the realm of traditional sweet perfume like you would get from a Taylor Swift or Britney Spears sweetie. Sillage seems to be weak and this would seem to be a hot summer day fragrance though each person has their own opinion and reference point towards such issues. Certainly, with such a grassy and bitter opening, one very well might want the fragrance to be polite and it is. Performance is disappointing. I expect niche fragrances and especially expensive ones to last 8 hours on my skin and the opening might be 30 minutes of gentle polite and then it starts to go sweet. At 3 hours the unique starts to fade and you get another 5 hours of sweet skin scent not different than a host of others but with just a hint of celery / milkweed / and dandelion to give a bit of acid to the sweet if you hold the back of your hand right up to your nose to check. Price is disappointing. It retails for $95 for a 1.7 ounce mid size guy which is $55 an ounce. I use Imaginary Authors as a reference point when I personally regard where the price of Niche should live because you can buy it for $35 an ounce if you look and it is a fabulous product. Anything less and I give a fragrance bonus points and more requires a bit of eyebrow raise. I am not thrilled by the mid and the dry down seems like just another celebrity sweetie so for me this is a 4 hour fragrance before a need to reapply and in that regards I would need to use 2x as much of it to make me happy so in reality this seems a $100 per ounce scent. Also, perhaps this might not have a lot of versatility. It is hard to imagine when one might really want to smell like prarie. Indeed, for me, I have a native lawn with perhaps a couple of thousand different forms of foliage. And this fragrance smells extremely similar to how I often smell after a mow. A lot of what I am smelling in this fragrance is eerily similar to what I try to wash off after such an even and which takes several tries and seems to stick around for days. Around here, it is doubtful that anyone would be impressed by smelling like a brush hog ride. Still, I think city folk might very well find this to be extremely appealing and it might very well take them to a place where they do not visit, do not get to smell often, and perhaps remember fondly in the depths of the recesses of their mind. Sadly, I want to love this one but just cannot. And I cannot even put it in the like category. I might list this as a want on my profile because I do like it but the price just eclipses what Id like to pay for it. I think that I might buy another sample pack from Tara because the opening is epic and I might pay a bit for a 10 ml decant if someone did a split. But I cannot see myself paying $100 to smell like I just mowed the lawn. And my lawn is fussy and seems to always need to be mowed. I would want to have this in my collection if ever something were to happen and I did not have to mow or if I lived east of the Mississippi as a remembrance scent but I cannot ever imagine me wanting to actually wear this over others that I own. Id only want to own a very little bit for infrequent occasion of remembrant use. Overall, Im going to grade this one out at 79 as it strains to be above average but doesn't quite get there. The opening is cheer worthy and of masterpiece status. And I fully understand why it won the art and ofaction award for scent of the year. But as a livable fragrance, it seems far less impressive. That beautiful wet prarie recedes into sweetness far too quickly and gets lost in the mid and the dry down becomes a sweetie far too fast. Sillage is poor, longevity is disappointing, and you are paying a high end niche priced price for a brilliant countrified opening that unfortunately gets eaten by a citified rat race timetable. Honestly, if you took away the opening then perhaps this would achieve evisceration of review but the opening is indeed special and raises the bar of respectability. I cannot praise the opening enough but the mid is at best ordinary and the dry down except for that hint of dandelion is just almost snap your gum teenage pink sugar sweet. Eau de Celeri is a stunningly beautiful natural grassland or a tall grass prarie after a rain. But its not one where you stop awhile and visit and trudge through and get some dirt on your shoes, truly have time to enjoy and bark at the moon. Its one where at best you stop for a roadside marker, revel in its history, and get in your car, drive off, and forget as fast as you slug down a glug of cherry coke slurpee. But hopefully, its a scent to remember, even if of fleeting notice, amidst air conditioned filtered cabin air. Sometimes, remembrance is special. And the prarie fights on to live another spray.

A snappy super-green opening of galbanum and vetiver is responsible for creating the unmistakably salty impression of celery here. Yet the celery isn’t overly literal; instead it comes across more through the reference in the name than in the scent alone. Nobody’s going to complain that you smell too much like a healthy snack. Having said that, you need to be okay with ultra-green, salty, biting notes that walk a fine line between grassy and vegetal. The opening’s a bit of a struggle for me to be honest, but that’s because galbanum and I haven’t been friends for some time. However, the more I smell this scent, the more willing I am to end the feud. But the part that I like the most is the underlying aqueous accord that’s superbly handled and makes Eau de Céleri quite the showstopper. It smells like a cross between wet grass and washed stems, and that’s really where this scent remains for much of its life. Think Sel de Vetiver, only with less iodine and more greenery, and you’d be in the right ballpark. As the result, Eau de Céleri is a perfect seasonal scent — well suited for spring and cooling enough to carry you through the summer. The blending is so fantastically rendered that I look forward to seeing what else this line has to offer.

I was hoping for this to be more celery-ish either in its opening or later on, because I fancied a unique sort of fragrance. But in fact, it disapoints in general on the celery front. I may have to invoke the help of other people to sniff me and see if they get celery basenotes. Because I haven't. However. The fantastic loud green opening note is ecstatic in its verdancy. II sdpent several minutes going "Not celery, and yet SUCH green, but *what* green?" Grassy, fennelly, a scratch of vetiver bringing in a woody sort of base. Suffice to say, the greenness was so bright and deep that it stayed, oopened out to a gorgeous freshness, and then arose a certain sweetness that at first I couldn't define, but when I returned to it after five minutes, it was spearmint. Not a toothpastey spearmint, but a refreshing mojito-ish kind of spearmint - muddled in amongst the rest of the green tomatoey grassy notes. Very much a summery fragrance, although I must make a note to try it in the winter and see where it takes me.