Olympic Rainforest

Wow I love this. Damp, deep green, musky, mossy, and genuinely fernlike. But it also smells distinctly like a perfume, an old-school mossy chypre from the 70’s or 80’s – Aromatics Elixir, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mystere, that sort of thing. Only more realistically foresty. it’s distinctly tangy too – it feels like there’s citrus in there, and after a few minutes a camphor note too. After about half an hour Olympic Rainforest is definitely a camphor scent – that medicinal smell of eucalyptus or tiger balm. It’s a controversial scent, but I’m a die-hard camphor fan so this suits me fine. Here, the eucalyptus is unsweetened and blends with realistic cedarwood and remnants of musk and moss, to give a true deep-forest feeling. The far drydown is a little bit sweet and resinous, but in a subtle way. Olympic Rainforest reminds me of the (much more elaborate and expensive) mossy-camphoraceous chypre that is Bogue Maai. It might be a decent substitute. I think it’s strictly better than Zoologist Koala, a much simpler and sweeter eucalyptus scent; I like Olympic Rainforest’s greater mossiness and complexity. Forest scents are my bag, and Olympic Rainforest is so perfect I am considering getting a full bottle one day.

Holy cedar. This is one of those fragrances that seems to want to jump right out of the bottle into your nose. This is jumpy, punchy; this scent bobs and weaves around you like a monkey then slinks past you like a cat. The greenness is sultry, a delightful combination I attribute to the depth of the woods and leaves. If you give in to this smell, your nose will eventually find the softer forest floor, fizzing to itself beneath the tree cover. After some time the beeswax and myrrh step forward to center the howling flora. These notes together create a narcotic effect, at least on me; when you smell deep, say "ah," and your eyes fall half-closed. Sugarcane appears on my skin here, something I have never experienced with perfume. I feel potent, powerful, even delicious. Very unexpected from this genre of perfume. Occasions I imagine this singing in: Date with the girl from the co-op, after-shower ritual before adventuring into the forest, cold seasonal wear for a witch with lush tattoos, deterring insects while attracting humans. Rituals conducted under the blue glow of Venus. Showed this to a friend right after spraying and they said "I would've named this Sexy Goblin. Or Cunt Beast."

I love outdoor "scents of place/space" and this one really intrigued me. I was expecting a much more typical experience of pine, some smoke, etc. But, that isn't what I smelled with this creation. There was an overall airiness to it, nothing heavy, damp, or rotting. A spacious scent to me. Herbal, spicy, floral, and even flashes of a champhorous/picklely note all come and go. An Observation: I feel like the juice itself develops a couple of months after the first initial sprays from the bottle. Nothing drastic, but with both the sample bottle as well as the 30ml at around the 2 month mark the scent becomes smoother, and more harmonious. I bought the 30ml in the late fall, and realized that It wasn't really a cold weather scent. This week, the spring arrived and I pulled this one out of back with the arrival of warm weather. This stuff was amazing. It smells like an artistically enhanced forest in the springtime. Really performs well in 60-70+ weather for me with good longevity to boot. 8 hours for me with 6 sprays, and a skin scent until you wash it off. Unisex leaning slightly masculine but any woman could easily wear this.

I want to laugh when I read comments about this smelling like an air freshener. It has very bright and fresh fir top notes, but the heart to drydown of the fragrance is extremely earthy. I find it hard to describe it better than its scent pyramid does, really. It smells like wet, hyphae-encrusted bark, decomposing, mossy forest floor, and cool autumn air. Also present is a delicate floral structure that makes it remarkably wearable. Slightly sweet resins and oakmoss lend a sophisticated but natural chypre aroma to the base. Overall, this is one of the most natural and wearable fragrances like this. It's hard not to draw a comparison to Slumberhouse's Norne, but this is the rich, live conifer forest of the Pacific Northwest to Slumberhouse's dark, frozen timbers of Norway. I couldn't possibly recommend a better perfume to a person who wants the rich, natural aroma of the conifer forest. My only qualm is with longevity, but it is possible that I'm just not applying enough from the screw-top bottle.

First whiff of this was almost medicinal, from the balsam and myrhh perhaps. The very next instant was earthy and damp from the mushrooms. Then after a min. or so, the fir and cedar came out. Then it was earthy again. Amazing. There is fir and cedar in the base. After about twenty min. I started to get the wildflowers. What a divine floral to use here. So pretty, soft and sweet (not sugary at all). Wow. the complexity of this is astounding. The heart of this is the wildflowers with oakmoss and something I'm not familiar with, the fern maybe? The oakmoss is a little dusty. The fir and cedar are still in the base. The drydown is fir, myrhh, honey and something earthy and woody, maybe the mushrooms. The honey sweetens this up giving it the perfect balance. The fir and cedar persist in the base, a constant throughout the evolution of this scent. It lasted about five hours with moderate projection. This scent is worth every penny. It's quite a show. The craftsmanship is awe inspiring. True artistry.

This perfume opens on my skin with a sharp pine note that might bring to mind a pine air freshener for some, but give it a few minutes and it blooms into a more rounded, sweeter smell of a Pacific Northwest conifer forest. It's like the sun suddenly dissipating a very dense fog and the warmth letting other plants and trees release their scent. Norne by Slumberhouse reminds me of an evergreen forest in late fall, dank and boggy. Olympic Rainforest reminds me more of an evergreen forest before the rains hit, maybe early fall when it warms up in the afternoon and there might still be a few wildflowers blooming in the meadows. Later in the drydown there is a beautiful, restrained oakmoss note which, with the mushroom absolute, gives the impression of a more damp forest than the opening and middle. The longevity on my skin is about 4-5 hours. Love this perfume!!

I am a fan, after asking around about forest smells this is the best so far. Last very well, a lingering skin scent after 12 hours on me. Opens very dark and dank. I get notes not mentioned above: yarrow, camphor, loamy earth. Think of it like a day in the forest, at dawn the forest is still wet and dewey. As the scent/day progresses the earth dries out and the sun starts shining. Soon it loses some mustyness and gets slightly sweet in the dense foliage vibe. Very dark green with a hint of pine, mint and bitter burnt stump. And finaly once the scent hits the zenith and the damp is evaporated there is a lovley strong ceder and faint beeswax. My fav Olympic Orchid, I will get the full bottle eventualy. ⛤⛤⛤⛤⛤ ...Got my full bottle and scent it very consistent with my sample - still love it.

From Olympic Rainforest I get eucalyptus, pine, cedar, moss, and mushrooms. Aromatic green, earthy brown. Brings me to an old, mystical forest. The reviewer before me said that Olympic Rainforest smells like the decomposing bodies they come across as a police officer, masked by Vick's Vapo Rub. The Vick's comment makes sense, since there's a prominent eucalyptus note. I'm surprised they're reminded of bodies. Perhaps it's the slight sweet and warmth, combined with an earthy aspect that's creeping them out. However, I get no animalic or fruity notes, nothing rancid. I also see a few comments about this smelling like gum ... I wonder if it's the eucalyptus, which can remind of mint or wintergreen, associated with gum. For me this is a beautiful, natural fragrance.

This is outstanding and I mean everything about it in all its phases-from initial application all the way to the dry down which is divine. Rainforest is so well crafted, deep and rich that this is truly a scent born of pure genius. It genuinely replicates the smell of a real forest and I know forest because I live smack dab in the middle of one that is comprised of firs, pines, spruces, cedars, larches, birches and ferns and I hike it all year round. I own several forest scents and this is the best, hands down. I never would have imagined that Slumberhouse's Norne or Vikt could be topped but this did it. Simply superb and I am very impressed with not only the scent but its longevity and sillage. Truly remarkable.

first exposure is INCREDIBLY petrichor, but like rain on asphalt, and frankly the BEST capture of it i've ever smelled; it quickly changes to cedar, camphor, and wet earth. like all of Ellen Covey's scents that i've tried, there is something so lush and organic here. pacific botany in a bottle. i agree that it has pretty low projection after it dries down, but once it does, it gets darker and sweeter; the myrrh and flowers come through at that point. even though its quite subtle by the end of the day of wearing it, i'm obsessed with the sensual thing it morphs into. margin, zachary gray remix - benoit pioulard, zachary gray what still remains - azaleh

Just perfect. I ordered a 5ml travel spray directly from OO and after a few wears I’m making this a permanent addition to my wardrobe. It starts off bracing and takes me on a sunrise to sunset journey in an old growth mixed forest. If my soul had a smell it would be this. Just the most ephemeral essence of being deep in the backcountry in late March. All the winter chill has left the woods and the humid warmth of summer is still far away. Highly experiential and the polar opposite of linear. Also, completely unlike anything else I’ve ever tried. Ellen Covey is a virtuoso.

A much more interesting fragrance than the more recognized woodcut imho, I think this one is rather stunning and is one of the few fragrances that made my hair stand on end when I first smelled it. This is lush forest but not too literal a pine resin fragrance like some forest ones are, this one is more than the sum of its parts with the pine yes but also the large oakmoss portion and the florals lending a hand. Great job by Dr. Covey on this, it's just the sort of fragrance that I love. ps. fans of Rogue's Mouse Illumine, you'll really like this one too I would think.

It smells like a mountain forest, but im not sure if its a *rainforest* . Not as damp, or wet as I had hoped, but it does evoke an evergreen alpine forest with strong balsam fir and cedarwood notes. I bought it for my boyfriend who grew up in the Appalachian mountains and he absolutely loves it. Total "hiker" fragrance, verrrry wood-sy, which makes it read a bit more masculine to me, but is absolutely wearable by anyone who loves the outdoors. The entire Portland polycule probably smells like this by now lol.

Fir and pine and spruce and evergreen... basically this huge wet coniferous forest; the damp tree trunks, the bitter resinous sap, and earthy dirt covered in ferny undergrowth littered with mushrooms. All this foliage after a healthy, heavy rainfall. There's a sweetness to it, not sugary, but like the sweetness of freshly cut, healthy wood if you've ever smelled it. I usually stay far away from fragrances with any sort of interpretation of a conifer, but this one is really, really well done!

This is incredibly evocative, I expected that would be more of an interpretation, but it really sends me back to hiking in the redwoods. It has that damp, earthy spicy-redwood scent of the forest floor, you can almost feel the cool mist on your face and the soft layers of bark under your feet. I agree with nargis' review, it feels very alive. My only complaint is that it fades off a little too quickly and becomes very very light. This is something special though.

This is a trip through the northwest condensed in a bottle. Your hike starts through a recently burned forest, where all that's left is smoldering conifers and tortured earth. You pass through this section pretty quickly to the untouched forest beyond. Dank earth, moss, ferns, and evergreens in profusion. The sweet flowering bushes along the creek add a touch of sweetness to an otherwise rustic, woody smell. Incredibly well done. Good projection and longevity.

Olympic Rainforest smells like bitter, dark green foliage to me. I imagine rather mixed forest, not just evergreen. The scent is quite natural and very pleasant. When I think of rainforest, I expect something hot and tropical, but Olympic Rainforest is quite cool, although I can definitely feel the humidity there. This is so far my second favorite scent from the house, after Blackbird. Better than Slumberhouse Norne IMHO.

Disappointed that this did not work for me at all. It was very linear, starting out like intense pine and never really becoming anything else. It definitely smelled like the kind of cough drops I hate. The menthol quality made me gag after some time, at which point I had to scrub--and I rarely scrub. Being from northern California I've smelled my share of forests, and this to me was not natural, yes, more like Pine Sol.

This is just about as close as I've came to a true forest scent. It opens with a strong whiff of freshly cut pine but that mellows quickly with the cedar. The oakmoss gives it richness & keeps it from being to "piney". I couldn't really detect anything that reminded me of a mushroom but maybe that's the note that gives it that extra depth.

I lived in the Pacific Northwest for a while, and this is exactly my idealized memories of the forests there, translated into perfume. I'll take Atomikbomb_'s word that it isn't exactly like what it is when you are there on the ground, but if you move away from the PacNW, this is what you will remember it being like. What a stunner.