Immortal Meadow

This is the third Sebastiane fragrance I have sampled, and I am discovering that this perfume house has a knack for offering unique, memorable scents with quality ingredients. Emphasize quality, because all the perfumes I have tried of theirs, have a leaning toward the natural world. It is not easy to produce a realistic perfume produced in nature and not have it seem like an imitation. Sebastiane's feel like the real thing. Immortal Meadow captures a specific place and time for me that is very special. It opens on my skin with Blackberry and Patchouli, both very strong and distinct. But, when it dries down . . . nothing less than magic happens. The notes all merge into this incredible smell that for me existed only outside at my grandmother's house. She lived in the mountains. Way out in the country, down a dirt road. She loved and planted huge azure blue morning glory vines everywhere. The porch and windows were covered in them. Every year when I went to visit, I would pick the flowers and later collect the seeds. Immortal Meadow smells like the crushed morning glory vines on my hands on a hot summer day. Completely natural and very appealing. It evokes the sweet summer country air where insects buzz in the heat and vines wrap around any support to get to the sun. The name is perfect! Sillage is moderate, and the longevity on my skin about 4 - 6 hours. I have a 2 ml spray sample of this from Indiescents, but Immortal Meadow is going to be the next full bottle I buy. I don't know how they could so perfectly produce one of Nature's most exquisite scents, but somehow it happens and you are transported.

This is another great fragrance from the Sebastiane House, this is a woody chypre, It's spicy, fruity and balmy, I get black berry, grass, leather and vanilla, the grass in this is probably the most natural smelling grass I have ever smelled, more natural than Bond No.9's High Line and Carolina Herrera's 212, it smells like you just mowed your lawn, it starts off very strong and after an hour or so it's wears close to the skin, it can be worn all year 'round, I get average projection and average longevity,

For me, this is awful. It smells like drawer liners; it smells "old" but not in a good way. I could not get rid of it, despite scrubbing my wrist! Not for me.

This smells like leather and sweet cherry and then vaguely of shellfish. No thanks

Robert Elder has divulged to me that Immortal Meadow is slowly being phased out of the Sebastiane Perfumes line, and that only Espresso Royale and Black Magic are to remain. Even though I do not find this scent as seamlessly crafted as those two, I’m sorry to see it go, and I hope Robert will do something to try to replace it within the coming months. The top notes are: violet, blackberry, and iris. The heart notes are patchouli, Virginia cedar wood, vetiver, and fresh cut grass. The base notes are benzoin, leather, and vanilla. I would classify this as a fruity floral. The only problem with this fragrance is what I perceive to be the big, heady, loud, almost plastic-y opening. It could be my nose, or it could be just the way it wears on my skin. I pick up the thick, jammy blackberry distinctly, and the grass. The verdant violet pokes its head out, too. But when they come together on my skin, it creates a kind of polyurethane or vinyl effect – something highly industrial and borderline astringent. Some notes just can’t come together in a harmonious way, and this violet-grass-blackberry combination is one that definitely gave me a problem. I’m also not a fan of fragrances whose top notes I have to “sit through” just to reach some satisfying heart or base notes. However, if you can wait for that first 10-30 minutes, and don’t over-apply, you’re left with something that’s actually quite charming: a grassy blueberry scent undergirded with the calm sweetness of vanilla and vetiver. Given the appropriate amount of time to dry down, I could even see this being alluring. As it dries down, that plastic note disappears pretty quickly, and I’m left with a sweet leathered grass. When it comes to the heart and the base of Immortal Meadow, you can certainly do a lot worse than this. Although everyone should wear whatever pleases them (“Wear what you love, and not what they say you should like,” in the immortal words of Lanier Smith), this comes off much more as a women’s scent to me. It might be a little too adventurous for most guys. As with Espresso Royale and Black Magic, longevity and projection are big and bold. The perfume is thick and sits oily on the skin. I continue to catch wafts of it from an arm’s length away several hours after application. All in all, somewhat of a mixed bag, but with perhaps more positives than negatives for the perfume wearer with the patience to let something blossom on her skin.