shiver

this fragrance is doing exactly what it’s trying to do. i love wearing this on winter/spring days to feel like the city slicker i am not. it goes on more metallic, then dries down much woodier. my natural scent brings out the pepper notes, which i found complemented it so well. even the fragrances in the discovery set that weren’t my taste were complex, interesting, and layered; shoutout nostos! i want a full bottle NOW!!!

I absolutely love it. It’s very nostalgic for me. As a kid, one day I walked outside on a cold day in the winter and asked my parents; “what’s that smell?” and this comes SUPER close to it. Very fresh, it literally smells like the outside air on a cold day, but in a good way. I bought the full bottle after I tried a sample and I’m so happy with it.

It's a snow day and there's ice on the pine trees. You're wearing your signature pear glace body spray. Your friends dare you to run outside and stick your tongue to the frozen metal flagpole. You're stuck. But everything smells so lovely.

if you enjoy a metal note, you will love this !!!! metal is one of my favorite notes and it’s quite prominent in this fragrance. super green, minty, and silver. i might have to get a full bottle this is truly so good

A Twilight-filtered liminal space fragrance. Hard to describe – after a bedtime Benadryl my notes app includes phrases like “spaceship lobby,” “android masseuse,” and "wet computer." It’s an inorganic scent, despite the green/earthen notes. Opening plays almost like pine before morphing into cool, clean ivy. Sterile metal and petrichor emerge into the thick of its lifespan and linger for over a day on fabric. Was super curious to see Marissa Zappas’s spin on an industrial green, but was the least impressionable of the Nostos trio on my first waft. However, one month later, it’s been my most worn of the bunch. Sometimes you crave that mineral. Closest scent sibling I can imagine is Binaurale’s Incident Light, which is brighter and more citric. Mental Snapshot: An offworld wellness compound, somewhere like Titan or Europa. After sterilising yourself in a stainless steel cold plunge, you venture into the TerraSim Pod. Recycled coolant rains upon you and synthetic sediment crackles beneath your feet. They claim it smells like home. Not like you’ve been any closer than Phobos. tl;dr: ice planet onsen 🧊🪐