Thundra

In the beginning, there is something like an “old lavender forgotten in a closet vibe”, giving it a little bit of an old-school/vintage feel. However, after 2 or 3 hours, it all blends together and becomes perfect. The dry down is also perfect! The dry down is somehow similar to the dry down of Opus 1144, with a subtle balsamic and powdery shade. It's hard to compare them directly, but they share some similarities. I find the dry down to be the best part of the fragrance, and I even wear it to sleep, so in the morning you will wake up to dry down 😀 My girlfriend recognizes this perfume more like a female fragrance (from my point of view she recognize the powdery aspect of musk? of this fragrance like female scent), and she really likes it. (I can agree too, that the rich humus soil is creating something like floral aspect on top of it, but at the base is still dirty and wet) I, being a 33-year-old male who prefers street-style things, am not ashamed to wear this, even though it's from 1996 and may be considered a little outdated for some people. I would say that it might be too heavy for summer, but I plan to try it on a hot summer night to see how it performs and its working very well in the beginning of summer with 27 Celsius. Also, there must be some negative things about it, so if you sweat quickly in warm weather, like me, the perfume fades from your skin relatively quickly, much faster than a regular perfume without an "oily" consistency. I have sampled 15 perfumes from Profumum, and this one is by far the best♥️ (dont like vanilla and citrus fragrances from their portfolio). It has quickly become my favorite out of approximately 200 perfumes that I've tried. I'm so impressed with it that I will buy a full bottle. Sometimes, I get more of a powdery-“floral” side from the fragrance, but more often, I get an earthy/dirty side and there is more several positions between this 2. It's like a cold herbal scent, opposite to warm and spicy fragrances. However, as I mentioned before, it takes about an hour and a half for it to start reveal its real magic. The first hour may not always be very pleasant for some people due to the mushroom introduction (im enjoying it from start to end), but it does all depend on the amount of perfume and the distance of application from your body and technique of application. I also found out that when you store the perfume in the refrigerator, the smell is more reminiscent of roots dug out of the ground. I also found that it smells little bit different if you apply 1 or 2 atomisers. According to Profumum's notes, it is recommended to massage the perfume into the skin because their perfumes are highly concentrated. When I do that, the first hour becomes better, levander/mushroom introduction transform much faster but the duration of the perfume becomes shorter and the dry down is not as beautiful. Looking ahead, this perfume has sparked my interest in exploring more earthy fragrances. If there's something out there that's more similar to "thundra," I would be interested in trying it. As a final recommendation, I suggest pairing this fragrance with the Marbert-Classic Man shower gel (red bottle). Sometimes i used it after basil shower gel, then im wondering what will happend if you replace mint with basil in this fragrance? The bad thing about it is, when you have still in the skin chemistery some leftovers from other perfumes and then you applied Thundra it can smell like some weirdly soapy flowers. My theory is, the more you wear it, the better it smells on your skin. It remains in skin quite long time, so when you have it already like base and you’ll apply it again its much better than before. I was running trip in thundra like this whole week and it was perfect!

If patchouli would grow in Arctic environments it probably would smell like the patchouli in Thundra. In one way Thundra is the cold version of Serge Lutens Borneo 1834. They are both strong on the patchouli and with high demands on the person wearing them, but at the same time they are very different. Thundra is aromatic, powerful and also cold, somewhat distant. Like being surrounded by air with the smell of snow in it. The mint in Thundra isn ́t really minty, it just make the patchouli refreshing, high tuned and very different from most takes on patchouli. Usually I like warm scents better than cold, but Thundra is that unique I feel like wearing it from time to time. Just to remind me of how patchouli also could smell. Otherwise I think Thundra is great on my husband, usually he wears cold scents better than me. Recommend it to everyone that likes a good patchouli, to everyone looking for an unique patchouli, and for everyone with an adventourus mind, heart and soul.

A mixture of soapy musk with patchouli gives me a pine-fir effect. Dried mint. No mushrooms. A very strange perfume, super-retro. Not a fan of retro, to be honest. But this one is somehow enticing, most likely it is sentimental, for a rare mood. Reminds me of some abstract men's colognes from my childhood and a coniferous bath extract that was popular in my homeland many years ago. The scent is very natural, like some elixir from an old pharmacy, mixed by hand. It is clearly a scent for yourself, meditative, and it has good longevity and a moderate sillage that will not bother others. Is it really perfume? I'm not sure. The name is beautiful, but why a "pine" perfume is named after a treeless wasteland is a mystery. It's not Tundra, it's Taiga.

This is the perfume I've been looking for forever. The smell of damp forest and soil. Too me this isn't a frozen thundra, this is woods after rain or like a cool root cellar. The patchouli is heavy in this one but with the mint comes a certain freshness, as with the musk. I was recommended this when searching for a lavender sent and it does smell like lavender. It has a certain stinginess, but not like Carons Pour un Homme e.g. Still, there's a smoothness to it, but not at all as smooth as my other lavender alternative, Kiki Voile d'Extrait from Vero Profumo, which lingers like a sweet summer's morning. Thundra has so many layers; it is in a way brutal, yet sublime. I just can't stop smelling myself whenever I put this on. Love it to bits.

This is one of my favorite fragrances. I have about 2 spritzes left in my bottle, and I am dreading using them up, because despite my love I don't think I am going to spring for another bottle. It reminds me so much of being outdoors on a certain kind of day in autumn when the intense Indian Summer is shutting down on the way towards winter. It's very evocative of the forest, the moist floor of the forest, ferns and moss, dew laden fir boughs, the heavy, clean and damp air of the rain forests of Northwestern Washington, where I loved to walk ... So I am on an avid search right now to find something else that will take me there. Any suggestions?