Lapide

A familiar herb with a hawthorn cassis-cat pissy musky side, like a warmed up fume blanc with a hint of warm spice. For a moment it has a feeling more like a fine home goods store than a personal fragrance, but as it gets more fuller as it dries down, it rounds out leaving a relatively warm and masculine leaning musk. So, in testing blind it is a HUGE surprise that this is anything but any of that! Here, the acidic side of pineapple and lime are masking themselves as cat-pissy, whereas the sweetness is in the background, and both their “we are plants” herby side is mainly present. Maybe this flavor profile works on the tongue pallet, but I can completely understand that if one wanted a cool pineapple-lime fragrance, one would be largely disappointed here. Rather, however (in the joy of testing completely blind) you're open to a rather misleading musky vibe, with no pineapple, no lime (okay, kinda of a hint after the fact) try it out for what it is rather than what it ought to be. Probably my most disjointed experience between intention and experience this far, but in a pleasant way