Dust

There is a vinyl record cover of an album called "Tapestry" by Carole King from the 1970s where the singer sits next to a partially open velvety patterned curtain in jeans and barefoot with a jet of what feels like afternoon sun coming into the hazy room. A cat is also present. This is what I try to conjure, this image, when smelling this perfume. I tend to actually love cashmeran and here it is also a love. Orange blossom seems to be Lyn Harris's preferred note of sensuality, as in "Un Petit Rien" from years ago. I love "Dust" for its evocation of a kind of dream state and its sheer beauty redolent of shimmering dust motes in the sun.

It's like a warm sweater hug on a cold day. One of the better uses of cashmeran fixative. I'd say this, Parfums De Nicolai Amber Cashmere, Gucci Alchemist Tiger, and Clive Christian Cashmere E use this note better than any other fragrance on the market that I've tried. Out of the ones I've listed, it's probably closer to the Nicolai and Gucci. I'd say it's better than the Nicolai, and on par or slightly below Tiger. Tiger performs better and has a drop dead tonka as well. Great fragrance in the genre. ------------------------------------------------------ Scent 90/100 Perfomance 60/100

Headshop. Or, a gas station run by Indians selling Nag Champa at the front counter alongside Skittles and coins exchanging hands. Not sure about the name but what a lovely, complex, sweet, and wearable fragrance from Perfumer H. I am blown away with this one.

Simply magical - Lyn Harris has absolutely captured falling sunlit dust. You can't really unpick the notes - seamlessly blended. Generous, giving, distinct; a scent that surrounds you and invites you in

Conceptually interesting - Perfumer H's Dust does indeed smell dusty. I cannot pick out a raspberry note nor the orange blossom, but the iris, musk and benzoin mix into a soft, paper dry combination that brings to mind a closed off room. As if someone cleaned it all, aired it out, changed the beddings etc, then put sheets on all the furniture and closed the door for a month or two. With that said, despite being a great fan of iris, I don't feel compelled to wear this fragrance. I see some vote on it having similarities with Lynn Harris' older creation Violet Ida, and though that one also has a paper-dry quality to its iris, it truly is another ballgame entirely. Violet Ida is beautiful, romantic, and melancholy. Dust is momentarily interesting, but despite its delicacy and sophistication I find it too stale to actually enjoy wearing it.