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.

Dust is comforting and maternal with a hazy sweetness. Even though it’s composed of some of my favorite notes that I can usually recognize (Iris, musk, orange blossom) the notes are not easily distinguishable to me; rather, the composition is holistic, well blended, and balanced. I wear this perfume for myself, often to bed or when cozying up with a book. Strangely, without knowing the name of the perfume, my husband said it smelled “familiar,” like his late grandmother’s apartment “but not in a bad way.” Though I don’t know what that apartment smelled like, when I wear Dust I imagine a darkened room that is momentarily permeated by a ray of afternoon sun, illuminating ancient particles of matter as they rise up to meet the light.

Another wonderful, modern and intriguing scent from MH. It has a delicacy and grace but it's no shy flower. The notes are very well blended. None stand out. It's for me a feminine no scent. The softest powdered sugar. You wear this and someone catches a whiff as you pass by and they can't help smiling. You smell feminine, soft and beguiling. They might even ask to hug you for a better sniff! 😀 A safe bet fragrance to buy a lady. Elegant and expensive smelling. Average longevity and sillage in this 15 degree room.

Warm, sweet, powdery, rich and dark. Dust centres on a honey-like orange flower with opoponax resin and cashmeran, laced through with a generous powdering of icing sugar from the iris. A real comfort smell. Maternal, rich and enveloping.

Interesting and conceptual. It's hard to pick up individual notes, but as it dries down I do get the sweeter raspberry leaf vanilla. Pretty nice, kinda weird!

I used to be a huge fan of perfumer H back in the days where I was more into fashion and only vaguely interested in fragrance. This brand seems to have wormed its way into every single artisinal/ avant garde fashion retailer on earth. Anyways, having revisited the brand after not smelling it in years, and being much more well versed in fragrance and more resistant to perfume “marketing” as it may be, I find myself a bit unimpressed with the offerings. Dust, as well as saddle both kind of feel flat, synthetic, and don’t do much to evoke the materials or themes they are named after. Smoke kind of has a harsh synthy oriental accord to it with an eerie lingering sweetness that is distracting. To sweet and not dry enough to smell like “dust”. Someone else said it smells like a head shop and I kind of agree. It has the same sort of feeling as when you walk into a headshop and the cloud of cheap incense starts choking you out and giving you a spiked headache that stabs at the back of the base of your skull