Forest 2020 Edition

It's a fabulous green leafy and addictive scent. I definitely get some marijuana amongst the Cypress and pine. The overall feel is green leafiness as much as aromatic cypress note. The incense, pepper and musk are the backdrop. The pepper is hardly discernable on me. This is a very well blended fragrance and not easy to pick out notes. It's the perfect forest. A green cathedral towering above you with cool sunlight shining through where it can. It encompasses equally the aromatic conifer forest as well as the deciduous forest. Both leaf and bark. There is forest floor represented by the cannabis and patch. This is no dark and forbidding forest. This is in the Spring when all is new and pristine. The incense forms the backbone to this 'green' scent. It holds these 'green' notes together with the clean musk melding them together. It remains more or less a linear scent. It smells very natural. Very unisex. It's an anywhere scent. Green and approachable. The longevity and sillage are both very good in this cool room. If you want a modern leafy scent that lasts then do try this.

The sharp, almost cleaning-product pine and cypress that this opens with might be too astringent, even for me. But as it dries on my arm over the next minute or two, the cedar and patchouli open up and prevent it from being too sharp and shrill. Elemi (I think) is also doing a lot to bridge the gap between the pine and cypress and those lovely base notes. While the opening is quite masculine (which I like) I find that as it wears it warms up and becomes a bit more unisex. Unified, the top notes read as almost minty at the edge of its generous sillage, but getting closer the cedar really sings. There is a cool spring forest here: young cones you plucked from the pine, the wind in the cypress, wet warm earth, and the sun on a felled cedar tree in last night's big thunderstorm. As this perfume wears over the hours, it becomes mostly a fresh, living cedar that sits fairly close to my skin--it's a forest, so it makes sense that the wood is alive. It's likely this scent is mostly for men, but I really like it, and could easily see myself justifying a bottle.

I love this scent. One of my top threes from this house (along with Faqqua Iris and Thurible). This is woody but in a green way. Smells more like pine needles than pine wood, for example. Really sets the scene for me of walking through a forest in Northern California. Exhilarating and energizing. I like to layer this one with a floral, most often Magnolia Bliss from JHAG. Edit: I pulled this one out again today after not wearing it for a while and I’m falling back in love with it in real time. I get more pepper out of it than I did before, but that’s not a bad thing. This is green and woody in the most authentic way possible. Crowe’s work is an experience beyond the smell-good of a nice perfume, and true to form, Forest is more than a fragrance, it’s truly a journey. Very high up on my list of favorites. It holds up well in the Southern California heat, but I think it would be great in winter and truly all year round.

Fantastic green woodsy scent. Reminds me of the woods around the cottage in the Canadian wilderness I'd visit growing up. I get a lot of cypress and cedar on the opening, fair bit of pine too but it's balanced -- good mix between fresh and earthy. My only complaint is that this doesn't last long enough, maybe about an hour or two max on my skin. It fades into a pleasant enough clean musk with a little bit of black pepper warmth but I wish the evergreen notes would stay a little longer even if they were more subdued. Fresh enough to wear year-round but I find the evergreens fade faster in the heat and in my opinion the notes feel the most at home in colder weather. Leans slightly masculine without being obnoxious about it -- definitely wearable for anyone. Really enjoyable while remaining subtle and pretty natural, which could be discouraging for some but is exactly what I want out of a fragrance.

After Undergrowth, I was sure I'd love this - and I do! Forest opens up with the crisp scent of tree bark and resin - a pure olfactory orgasm for someone who loves these scents. As time goes by, it mellows down with a certain sweet note; not confectionary, but rather herbaceous. This is a fragrance best enjoyed inhaled deeply from some distance - and I indeed keep taking deep breaths in order to fill my lungs and mind with this spectacular potion.