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.

I got a sample of this, and i really like it. It opens with a bold fruit blast of blackberry, complete with the green of the leaves, and i also get cherry. It's like those lovely cherries in a maraschino syrup. I love violet, and would love it t be much bolder, but it's fairly restrained, and very much contained within the fruit. The leather is fortunately not an overpowering note, for which i'm grateful. I dislike leather as a note, because it resembles liver in some fragrances. In Immortal Meadow, i very much like the way it seems almost resinous, maybe because it makes it's appearance around rhe same time as the benzoin, and it's a very creamy smooth rendition,, which beautifully supports the floral fruity notes, rather than a jarring addition to the composition. It's a very smoothly transitioning fragrance, and never seems to lose any of the component notes, whilst it develops, new notes simply appear smoothly, and harmoniously, each new accord becoming synergistically part of the whole. Ilike it a lot, and unlike a lot of samples I purchase, i have used the whole thing. Projection and sillage - average, but this is never a problem, i just wear more sprays. Longevity - average to good It wears close to the skin, in my opinion, but it is very nice, beautifully executed, i like it a lot.

This fragrance is 212 meets Enchanted Forest! However it smells like both done right. Enchanted Forest had too much going on and ended up being a mess on my skin and while 212 was groundbreaking and still quite wearable today its synthetic qualities would turn most fragrance lovers off in the long run. This opens with the fruity accord found in Black Magic but instead of the grass and vetiver playing a supporting cast to the leather and fruity notes the roles are reversed and the fruity and leather accord play a supporting cast almost as if to the hold these notes up to be appreciated. This is the epitome of spring but with character. This one lacks nothing in the creativity department and I would say quite humbly you ain't smelled nothing like it. But just like Elder's previous works it remains 100% wearable. The opening is fruity and bright and immediately the grass comes and really steals the show. It as if you are in Irish valley wear they are picking fruit for the harvest. I can't attest fully to performance but the dabber worked quite well. I would say this is the most versatile of the line and would be intriguing to anyone who's nose encounter it. Another really good release and though Black Magic would be my favorite I believe this one to be the best from a signature perspective.

Starts off with the crushed flower/grass stem (not stewed pear as I mentioned in my fragrantica review for Black Magic). It mellows out quite quickly and I can definitely detect the iris and violet, though this seems to waft in and out. I was hoping for the full meadow flower effect, but it seemed to move on to a honeyed amber in the background. Not a huge projection from this after say the first hour or so, but it was still there as a light, close, powdery skin scent some 18 hours later. For me I would have preferred more focus on the iris element as there were times when I thought it was about to come to the forefront, only for it to fade towards the back again. Saying that, iris was the fragrance of vogue a couple of years ago and may have had its time. More of a slightly tart floral element (dandelion or buttercup and daisy) in the middle would have really set this apart from the rest of the field (pun intended), and perhaps some patchouli blended with the honeyed amber on the dry down. I would even go so far as to add a touch more green (tree leaf) and I think of petrichor - the smell of rain on dry earth. Overall, I find this fragrance non offensive in a good way, and with its oily consistency, I'm looking forward to trying this out as the base for some layering.

Opens with a nose full of grass, like how wet grass smells after you've mowed it. Soon something strongly herbal joins the grass. It is very green, like a mixed bag of mowed grass and pruning clippings with an unhappy snail here and there. The texture is extremely oily on my skin, which doesn't help with sillage and development of the scent. I have a feeling I'm not smelling any blackberry, any vanilla, or frankly, anything in any other color than green because of this. 50 shades of green are more than I can handle. Edited to add: tried this again-- now I wiped off the excess grease. I can now catch whiffs of leather and benzoin in between the greens that remind me of the smell of soil and also a hint of florals, mostly iris. Patchouli adds to the earthiness of this scent. The greens are toning down after a while but seem to come back every now and then. What a strange scent! Very interesting in composition, but I'm not sure if I want to wear this on my skin.

This is a botanical aromatic that takes center stage around earthy, semi-sweet green notes and a polleny floral-like arrangement. Strongly naturalist in style, it does an amazing job of enrapturing the experience of a life-like meadow. Incredibly vibrant and realistic. Seems to be a step up from the Wish Upon A Star formula, with some sweetening elements added for depth and character. I would question how much though, as it seems a little skimpy; and secondly suggest it might have been the wrong blend. For this formula, I would have suggested something like Copal Balsam, Ambroxan, Beeswax Absolute, and possibly apple or an ambery or Ambergris note for depth; then maybe just a dab of Vanilla or Honey Absolute on top of that as a finishing touch. It's supposed to be an otherworldly meadow, so some otherworldly elements wouldn't be out of the norm here.

After first spray, this is like walking around in fresh-cut dewey grass! I do however get a plastic scent, nearly like mildew. I think that's the vetiver. I can smell the beginnings of blackberry, but it's also slightly veering towards star anise. After a few minutes of wearing, the green is giving way to pleasant iris and balmy benzoin, but that mildew tone is still present. This now kind of smells like the basement of my friend growing up, not that it's a bad thing. This is the scent that clung to the 1840's style dresses her mom used to make for dress-up and we'd wear them around, petticoats and all. In the end, it is not something that I'd wear, but just own to sniff and reminisce.