Smoke

Beautiful! This is the best smoky. spicy. woodsy cent I have ever smelled. The smoke here is similar to the type of smoke found in Trudon Revolution (also by Lyn Harris) but is toned down into more like a background incense, which pushes it from being in-your-face annoying to sublime. The woodsiness, the spiciness, and the amberly sweetness intertwined into an incredibly classy scent cloud. The agarwood is the star of this perfume. The scent has aspects of the highest quality agarwood. An image of an ancient wood temple filled with agarwood incense appears in my mind. I smelled this on paper and had to order a FB immediately. A masterpiece if you ask me! UPDATE (05/14/2024): The bottle is here! I now detect notes of earthiness that I did not detect on paper. I also see similarities with Aesop Hwyl. The resinous earthiness is the commonality between the two. While Aesop Hwyl has the green, minty foreground, Perfumer H Smoke has the ambery spicy smoky foreground. They are the same genre but go in different directions. Smoke is a bit more refined and addictive though! lol

Smoke is in the database at last! A sublime incense masterpiece. Opening with dry, bookish woods, musky angelica (should be in the notelist) and benzoin resin, with birch tar smoke and soft, subtle oud rising. The angelica soon fades and a beautiful rounded olibanum emerges sweetened and darkened with camomile and dried rose, like a plume of fresh smoke from a woodland campfire or a temple's incense burner. Extraordinarily beautiful. Stopping you in your tracks. Then gently subsiding again into the aromatic woody notes and spices, the benzoin holding it back from ever becoming too dry. A woody, rosy incense with a lick of leatheriness. I merely liked this on the blotter but I totally swooned for it on skin. I keep the handblown bottle by my bed. Every perfume lover needs to smell this. One of the greats.

This is my most favourite smell in the world - even moreso than Rosa Mystica at mass. I try to be sparing with this, but I end up wearing it every single day - it's quite spenny, but is most definitely worth it. Whenever I go out, people compliment me on the fragrance; I should be on commission with the amount of people I've directed to Lyn's shop. An incense, amber, woody with a lick of floral, and a lasting impression. Purchasing a bottle from the original shop/workshop in Marylebone, I was made to feel the most important person in the world. I described the kind of scents I liked, and the lovely lady walked me through three or four scents she thought would match me. As with BeardedIris below, I thought it was brilliant on paper, but on my skin it took on an entirely new life!

This was a very rare blind buy success for me. Smoke has quickly become one of my favorites of all time! The olibanum and birch tar combo is divine and not at all overpowering. Meditative, soft, mysterious, and sultry. I will be wearing this all autumn and winter long. Perfumer H is such a great brand! Her scents make me long for a time before "beast mode" and before the superamber forever nose-piercing aromachemical onslaught. These fragrances remind us of what is possible in perfumery when less is more and when subtlety is allowed.

Stunningly beautiful. I tried several Perfumer H fragrances and this was the only one that blew me away. Despite the name it's not very smoky, nor is it overly churchy - just the perfect dose of ambery, resinous frankincense with a touch of spice and floral sweetness. I don't get any oud at all. This price should be enough to put me off, but this is going on my list regardless. Masterpiece!