Sadanne

I passed judgement on Sadanne, and I suffered as a result of it. My previous experiences with Slumberhouse have left me with a what I thought was a good idea of what the brand "is"; dark, thick, sinister potions of esoteric evocation. "They all smell like something a neolithic cave wizard concocted out of rare precious herbs and balsams" I thought, both pigeonholing the brand and putting a profoundly annoying image into the world. Surely I have no need to try the goofy, light-colored strawberry fragrance. Embarrassingly, I found myself assuming that this was just some mandatory niche house "feminine" scent, amongst a line of powerful unisex nectars we have the odd man out, a strawberry-gummi and champagne fragrance... Upon finally getting Sadanne in a sample pack from the brand however, I was shocked to find a deep, animalic undertone within it. The ambergris gives a salty, musky, almost bad-breath-like fuzziness to an otherwise confectionary strawberry note. And as the trolli-berry decadence begins to wear off, a tart, boozy wine note appears. This of course intermingles with a very subtle rose (rose petals is an apt image), and the entire thing gives off this sinister atmosphere... Somehow with this playful, idiosyncratic stack of notes, Josh Lobb has captured some oddly specific vibe. Theres something decadently hedonistic about it, while simultaneously carrying with it a sour sharpness, reminding you that every good drunk is followed by a hangover, every 2 AM entire strawberry rhubarb pie-and-champagne binge is followed by heartburn and an upset stomach. Theres a sinister extra-dimensionality to this that I think is the actual essence of the brand; a sort of dialog within the structure of the fragrance. Elsewhere the scale is colossal (like with the implied boreal threat of Norne) or startlingly microscopic (with the baubles and paraphernalia of Baque). Maybe It's not always a threat (New Sibet is like waking up and realizing you're the last person on earth ...and Kiste is the beauty of the sun moving just close enough to the Earth to assuredly destroy it) but Slumberhouse scents always seem to "say" something. Theres an implication to them...Sadanne, it's at a very human scale. It feels dissociated. 8.5/10

This is specific to the 2022 version, as a caveat, but Sådanne singlehandedly changed my mind about ambergris in fragrance. That note usually repels me, but holy moly - this whip-leathered, musky, delicious ambergris absolutely knocked my socks off. I am beginning to understand the hushed reverence and devotion that surrounds the name of Slumberhouse. There's plenty going on in this one - the delicious, relentless rose-strawberry duet is operatic and perilously sweet as it slithers against the wicked black leather of the ambergris. It's so easy to gorge myself on this one - sticky red juice running down the wrist, and a "Roses of Heliogabalus" avalanche of petals make for a bacchanalian party all the way through. With this kind of sweet, fruited excess, you'd think it might become too much of a good thing, cloying and nightmarish - no. All I want of Sådanne is more, more, more. Drown me in it. Bind me in that irresistible ambergris leather and get me ever more drunk on that petaled wine. Just delicious. Eventually, a thorny, deep pine emerges, heady and naturalistic and gloriously resinous and sticky. It plays beautifully with the ambergris, and maintains the strong framework needed to balance the riotously sweet roses and berries. Longevity and projection are staggering, too. I sprayed it on in the morning and it lingered through the afternoon of the following day. Even the room I sprayed it in held Sådanne's shadow for days after. Just absolutely wild - granted, I have a pretty sensitive nose, but this kind of performance was totally unprecedented. It's got the relentless performance levels of some of those dynamic 80s powerhouses like Opium and Giorgio - but glorious Sådanne doesn't fatigue me in the least, as the aforementioned often do. While I never expected to enjoy a fragrance so perilously sweet, or so prominently featuring ambergris, of all things - I'm so delighted I gave this one a shot. I don't ever wish to be without it. It's not a casual wear, it's not a conservative choice, and it's definitely not a safe blind buy - but it is a rapturous, hedonistic experience that leaves me dazed, delighted, and brazenly begging for more.

Without seeing the notes in advance, my first thoughts were that Sadanne smelled like white wine with something very fruity. Maybe like a mediocre-quality rosé or a strawberry wine. It smelled like fermented strawberries, that lovely scent (note sarcasm) when you buy a crate and leave them out too long, and they go bad. Seemed more dry than sweet, but as I continued to scrutinize, I decided the sweetness was perfectly balanced. Initially I thought the fermented fruit was off-putting, yet it intrigued me too. I was so impressed with my first experience with Slumberhouse that I wondered why they would create a linear fruity perfume such as Sadanne. This burning question is the reason I let it slowly unfold on my skin. There simply had to be more to it. It was worth the wait. An animalic note caught me off guard and totally threw my nose off. I had to smell it over and over again because I wondered if I was really smelling something animalic or if it was my imagination, but it continued to grow stronger. So then I had fermented, animalic strawberry. It was challenging and odd, as strawberries and wine are deliciously edible, but a dirty animal's funk is not. In the big picture, Sadanne smells wonderfully carnal. And that is not a description I ever thought I would use to describe a predominantly strawberry perfume. I sniffed my wrist all day long (lasting time was easily 24 hours, through a night of sleep), and Sadanne grew on me to the point where I want a full bottle. This is art! It's not your run-of-the-mill fruity perfume by any means. A perfumer who is not only able to come up with such an odd combination of notes that actually work well together but who succeeds in taking what could have been a Paris Hilton perfume and turns it into a whole new genre that I would like to refer to as "fruity-animalic" most certainly has captured my attention. Bravo! Very well done!

An intoxicating chameleon of a scent. Sådanne opens with a bizarre combination of deep, sticky-sweet berry-rose, syrupy booze and a counterpoint of thin, arctic, coniferous resin. The icy resin pulls the scent up and prevents it from entering sugar-bomb territory and is truly very beautiful, shimmering gently above the composition, like glass or ice. A scent so 'high pitched' it sits almost out of reach, like the eerie, breathy crystalline sound a human hears from a dog whistle. Forgive my strange metaphors here, but Sådanne is not an easy scent to explain. The notes listed are certainly present, but don't smell anything at all like I expected. This is a case where the odd, (and slightly wanky), press release actually explains the scent much more accurately than the actual notes. The notes are fairly linear, with the only major change being a shattering of the icy aurora playing out above into something gentler, less biting as a dark, animalic vibe kicks in about half way through the wear-time and again - prevents the ever-present red-berries from straying into teenage girl territory. Sillage and longevity are equally as confusing to me. Sådanne seems to shimmer in an out of focus, almost in a drunken fashion. It seems to all but disappear for a while, only to rear up again, loud and slurred out of nowhere. I initially thought longevity was about moderate, but after a few wears I've found it popping back up unexpectedly, 12 plus hours after application. In short, a wonderful, strange, ethereal monster of a frag. Drunken fruit with a rose-bud in the snow.

Oh. Wow. This is a doozy. What a beautiful fragrance (It better be, for the $$/ml) Sadanne is the link between flirtatious innocence & coy debauchery. The whole scent is an obscure juxtaposition between accords; a yin & yang type of ordeal. There is the sweet, fuzzy, effervescent half - and the animalic, lived-in, chaotic half. I semi expect this to be what an acid trip would smell like. The opening of Sadanne is complex. There are sweet, ripe strawberries soaked in white wine, or champagne. Fizzy & delicate, enveloping & romantic! Boozy, syrupy, romantic, glamorous. Combating the sweetness is a thick, dark smog of something more sinister. I'm going to attribute the sticky 'pine needles/creepy forest' feel to the ambre gris, woods, and booze - it's unique, to say the least! The drydown brings something much more wearable - a whisper of that same syrupy sweetness, and the bouncing back and forth between something dirty, old, decrepit & sticky, child-like, and sparkling... This is a wild ride, strange and haunting. I'm head over heels in love with this fragrance! There's no way to escape being lured in by it's Black-Tie-Only appeal. Best uses: Traversing around a busy city and mingling with the nightlife, wearing floor-length gowns, riding in limousines, visiting exotic countries, having a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Let me just throw this out there.. This WILL be someone's Nirvana, hands down. Hell, this could even be MY Nirvana. This was a clash between confectionery greens versus natural greens. The immediate thing that jumped out was the intense green apple jolly rancher accord. Disguised in the chummy candy flavor is a green rose but you probably wouldn't know it unless you looked at the note breakdown. Later, the syrupy sweets are condensed to leathery strips of danky natural greens. During this period is where Sadanne is most masculine. I must note that the jolly rancher accord is tattooed throughout the duration but decreases in volume. Speaking of duration, this is one of the few summer scents with killer longevity but not as cloying as the syrup suggests. In closing, who would of ever guessed that Slumberhouse would make a fragrance that is kid-friendly...and when I say kid, I'm talking teenage range. If this was packaged in a bath and body works bottle, no one would recognize this as niche perfumery. No doubt, one of the more palsy-walsy niche offerings on the market..At this point, the wrist sniffing has become somewhat of a habit.

I go back and forth with Sadanne. I've tested it several times. When I love it, I really love it. And when I don't, it's really, really bad and stinky. Each time I test it, I never know if it will be amazing or terrible. It really intrigues me! I've hesitated getting a full bottle because I just can't make up my mind whether it is the most interesting and unique strawberry scent ever, or just a terrible body odor smell :/ I do normally like ambergris and other animalic notes. Maybe my skin chemistry doesn't work with it, I don't know. One day I will decide! Update 2022: I decided that I really want this perfume but now I can't find it for a reasonable price. Oh well. Update 2024: Finally got it for a decent price. I'm so happy! My nose has grown to really appreciate this scent, especially after trying lots of other strawberry perfumes that just didn't do it for me. This is my ultimate strawberry. <333

I used to go to the Renaissance Fairs with everyone dressing as they did in Da Vinci's time, and I wore a pink empire gown with a rosebud crown on my head. There was a table overflowing with strawberries that you could buy to eat plain or dip in various sauces. The smell was incredible - hundreds of ripe berries, mingled with resinous forest setting all around, and my crown of roses! Memories of this time flashed through my mind with the first spray of Sadanne. It is crazy beautiful! A stained glass window of a perfume glittering in the light. Fragrant colors of strawberry and rose reflected on the darker ambergris and wood. The contrast makes a resplendent setting for the ingenuous strawberry note. Just so fresh and unexpected! Paired with the rose, and leavened by the ambergris, the smell is original and ravishing. Definitely a "Love" for me!

Sådanne is a rose with an accent acute—a rose by the name of a pale pink Provençal rosé, with strawberry and stone and a saline funk to match. This was a surprising love for me. The sample I had didn’t click right away—something about the rose and strawberry led me to think this was more a bleach-blonde type of perfume. But knowing Slumberhouse, that didn’t seem right. And I’m glad I stuck with it. Despite the brand’s well-known linearity, this one settles into an entirely different beast. In fact, the “settle” is more of a “stale”—the berry starts to decay, the bright acidity starts to ferment, and a furry animalic curtain drops. And that’s when things get really good. Texturally, Sådanne is pretty thick and fleshy, but it masquerades with an obscurant berry brightness. Lingerie over cellulite. I’m into it.

Some perfumes seem to benefit from packaging, and I have no doubt that if Givenchy had released this with a hot pink fluted girly OTT bottle, it would have knocked sales out of the park. This is truly a hens night or brides brunch in a bottle. Sweet, sensuous, smells like a cocktail you'd get to match your fucschia taffeta cocktail mini. There's a real bon vivant, charming and vivacious girliness to the scent. Parisienne and Gucci Rush have the same kind of vibe; carefree femininity in a bottle. Love this stuff. My only gripe is with my strange bottle and the odd Harbour Freight style black rubber nipple cap. Come on, Josh, lay off the drugs. WTF?

I don't know where to even begin with this fragrance, it's my personal favorite fragrance of all time and definitely the most feminine leaning I've personally owned. Sadanne is very fruity floral slightly boozy with a touch of animalics that keep it from going over the edge of "too sweet." at its core Sadanne is a strawberry rose fragrance, slightly salty from the ambergris and a touch of booze from the white wine. Truly an indescribable experience for me and is a must try for everyone in my opinion, I truly couldn't live without a bottle of it. 100000000000/10

I wore Sadanne today and it inspired me to log in to Fragrantica and extol its virtues. I bought my bottle years ago, so not sure about continuity of the fragrance but mine is a beast of a rose. I use beast bc, yes, this has an animalic vein running through that dark, luscious, fruity, wine sangria of a rose. What a gorgeous scent, I don't know if others even smell it on me, but I do and it makes my day better. That's all I can ask from a perfume. I think I need to log on to Fragrantica more to inspire myself and have great days amplified by a great aroma.

I feel this is a female strawberry bomb. She has no age, she can be anyone she wants to be. She loves her juicy lipstick and her seductive walk. She can make you fall for her anytime she wants. She likes to play roles and will always keep you guessing. She is a temptress. A ripe strawberry drenched in white wine toped with fresh rose petals and sprinkled with ambergris. You could say she is decadent, even trashy, but the truth is you will never really get to know her. She is a dream, a mirage. A fantasy. Lust in a bottle.

This is a rich strawberry perfume. It is a lot like ..."hot strawberry compote", you can smell the "heat" weird I know...its sensory..textural. It also has a simliar resinous note in the base (like Norne) not sure but could be coniferous? Maybe it is a combination of the wine and amber woods that creates the resinous note? Nevermind no need to dwell, this is not super sweet, though its syrupy it is balanced perfectly. This is a hot strawberry jam for grown ups, I agree its bubbly! It is perfect for winter.

What a wonderful strawberry wine rose. I typically am not a rose person at all, but this is so unique and interesting. The wine’s mineral nuance balances the juicy strawberry and rose. The jammy vibe isn’t fully rose, but more the strawberry. The animalic touches are the cherry (or strawberry) on top! The salty animalic ambergris whips everything into shape creating a full experience. This may be one of a kind for me. Edit: Wearing today (11/15/25), and it’s giving wealthy vampiric ancestor.

Tipsy strawberries and seawater, roses and a tangled forest. Projects like spilled wine and soaks clothes for weeks. Several years ago I wrote a short story set on Öland, an island off the coast of Sweden. My two young lovers celebrate midsummer eating strawberries and getting drunk, and if the pages could be scented, they'd smell like Sådanne. Salty sand and boozy sweet fruit, so sun-ripe it's alcoholic, eaten in the shadows of the wind-twisted trees on the shore. I adore it.

Amazing fragrance Unique rose and strawberry aroma with a faint animalic undertone. A seductive odor. Excellent performance all around. It is insanely gorgeous! The darker ambergris and wood were reflected in the sweet hues of strawberry and rose. Simply so novel and unexpected. The aroma is distinctive and alluring when combined with the rose and ambergris.

Made the mistake of trying a sample of this, and I'm in love--beautiful golden raisins, syrupy strawberry with vanillic boozy underpinnings. Totally not on the market from reliable sources, so Moby Dick style, this may be my white whale.

Strawberry-flavoured green wine into which some cork pieces accidentally fell. So sour, fruity and slightly woody. My mouth is watering. I find it a tad similar to Pulp, but I definitely prefer Sadanne.

Please bring this one back! It is so sweet and beautiful and I never got a chance to buy a full bottle!

Okay. Almost two months later and many samples and decants of Sadanne used. It opens up on me with sweet&sour strawberry, more authentic strawberries than strawberry jam. This has got interesting acidic note to it, a little fizzy - so it must be white wine, but to me it's sparkling white wine, kind of like champagne. Definitely sour white wine, not sweet one. This changes into rose part, at first the sweetness lingers and smells like a rose jam typically used to fill donuts (certainly in Europe, not in US) or other cookies. But then morphs into real authentic rose petals - thousands of rose petals cascading, you are standing in front and literally you can smell them. I love rose in perfumes and this, I think suddenly squeeked into my top 3 rose scents. The last, final part I find the most interesting and I always wait to have it and truly enjoy it on my skin. Yep, that is the animalic part that everyone mentions in Sadanne. It's ambergris. It's a little greasy, a little salty, a little mineralic. I love it! Sadanne is a total pleaser in warm weather. It usually sits on my skin 6 to 10 hours, depending on the amount of sprays used. As I said - I enjoy the part with ambergris the most, but I garner compliments usually within first two parts. Women (also teenage girls) seem to like Sadanne a lot and I'm frequently asked what I am wearing. Overall - amazing. It is an absolutely unique combination. Josh Lobb - you got me! Again!

My boss just told me I smell like a Yankee candle and that he won't mind smelling like one too. It does smell like an upmarket candle, one that has forest fruits in its name and comes either purple or red usually. Considering I applied a little from a Luckyscent dab sample to my right forearm, I would say the projection is pretty damn good. I have mentally placed Sådanne in the same broad catergory as Tauer's 10 Une Rose Vermeille and Parfumerie Generale's PG13 Brulure de Rose. Fruity roses that smell like real roses and real fruit. As opposed to car air-fresheners posing as perfumes. Like the Tauer and PG, Sådanne is more than just a fruity rose. Syrupy sweet fruit-bushels of ripe blackberries, strawberries, raspberries some more berries, possibly a fuzzy peach or two and of course bunches of roses. The general effect is similar to drinking a thick dessert wine like Inniskillin or another ice wine. In stark contrast to the nectar, there is a heavy leather that combats the dessert for attention. As if watching the swordplay in saber fencing, the leather and sweet notes perform a repertoire of lunges and parrys so fluid it is more a dance than merely tactical maneuvering. Weaving everything together are warm resins and dark woody notes and there you have Sådanne.

Sadanne is a very unique perfume in the niche market. It manages to do the seemingly impossible of taking a popular feminine note of strawberry and combining it with white wine, rose, ambergris and woody notes to create a lovely gourmand syrupy accord. The strawberry feels very authentic and reminds me of biting into a nice juicy strawberry. The white wine and woods give a nice warm booziness that keeps the fragrance going in its longevity and projection. The performance of the perfume is pretty good (as you would expect for an extrait de parfum). Overall, I wish I bought a bottle of this before it was discontinued. Hopefully Slumberhouse brings it back again.

Now, when I finally own my bottle I can say that Sadanne is a wild beast in disguise. From samples it seems to be polite and quite monothematic. Authentic strawberry with some rose and sour facets. A little girly. Okay. When I received the bottle and sprayed from the bottle the animal came out. It almost screamed animalic to me. Quite detectable ambergris and I believe some traces of civet are also there. Strawberry is toned down (luckily for me) and rose is a bit amped up. Definitely organic. Definitely authentic. Beautiful in its very own special way. Longevity is somewhere around 7-9 hours, sillage is moderate. I definitely like Sadanne.

Great scent. Unique rose/strawberry scent that is lightly animalic. I would LOVE to smell this on a woman. A scent of seduction. I am somewhat reminded of Cape Heartache by Imaginary Authors. While that fragrance has a prominent strawberry note, is an odd mix and doesn't work that well IMHO. The strawberry is done well here, and that is coming from someone who isn't a gourmand fan. As with most Slumberhouse fragrances, the performance is excellent. Well done!

Wow, everyone has a lot to say about this one—I mean incredibly-descriptive analyses of its allegedly psychotic syrupy notes. Has no one here smelled Victoria's Secret Strawberries and Champagne? There's nothing original about this fragrance at all. It smells good, though. However, its polarizing effect is completely lost on me, considering every American teenage girl in the late 90s probably owned the Victoria's Secret body spray or lotion at some point.

I find this being very similar to Bloody Wood. I am not saying they are exact but both are done in the same style. Both have a fruity/rose opening but this has much better performance. As mentioned previously, this has that Slumberhouse base that remains present in most of their scents. I think this is a little more feminine than BW but I do enjoy them both. Check em out both as they are great compositions!

Purchased mine when released in 2015? That's on my note anyway. A favorite fruity, floral/rose ambergris. I wouldn't even attempt to buy in today's market, no way I'd pay those prices. Again, like my other Slumberhouse, it's not an everyday, every month or even yearly kind of scent. But it's nice. Also, Victoria Secret? If it smells anything like that nowadays, that's just....sad.

A strawberry and rose cocktail. I usually gravitate to orientals, ambers, tropical flowers, citrus and wood scents. I have very few fruit forward perfumes in my 200+ collection because....one of two things: usually they don’t smell natural, and often, most are typically too sweet. This is neither, it’s a realistic strawberry dominant perfume, and surprisingly I like it.

Nothing special. Yes, strawberry/white wine combo. Yes, indie brand. But that’s it. This could be a commertial Escada summer scent. I am not ready to pay that much for a shampoo scent. Very synthetic imho. It is so close to The Body Shop Starwberry that costs 10€/30ml. Also reminds me of Phaedon Pluie de Soleil. Try before you buy

"Snow cone" strawberry, from childhood! My favorite! That's what Sadanne brings to mind for me. I like this scent. It is very smooth... Personally not finding it very animalic, but what can you expect from a crazy vintage-lover? Beautiful color, too. The more I sniff, the more I like it. Unusual and fun!

This is predominantly white wine and strawberry jam on my skin. This is nearly identical to Rose Jam by Lush, just a hair heavier on the wine. If you're hunting after this, just buy a bottle of that and layer it with a half decent wine accord and you won't be able to tell the difference.

Wow. Just wow. Very realistic wine fragrance. Instantly pick up the fruitiest of wine notes. This is a very sweet and slightly musky scent. Very feminine in nature but delicious. I would say gourmand.

A pleasant and somewhat eccentric floral gourmand scent from a house that promises fine improper perfumes. The perfume opens with notes of white wine and strawberry before settling into a firm rose heart. The perfume dries down into woody notes, synthetic musk and slight ambergris. The feminine leaning scent has moderate sillage and good longevity. Hyped to the hilt by very dedicated house fans, this is really a more natural smelling version of many candles and room sprays available on the market. Enjoy!

Thankfully only a sample. I 'm glad I didn't pay for it, either. Sadanne will have some who will be crazy for it and fall in love. I'm not one of them. It is far too sweet and syrupy for me. Gourmand is not usually my style, however, I tried it because it comes from Slumberhouse, a brand I admire. It might be better on a hot Summer's day, but on this quite cool Spring day I cannot wait until it goes away...hopefully very soon.

Good enough for millionaires but priced for billionaires and entirely deserving of faint praise.

A kinetic, shape-shifting, cinematic rose-berry musk. It’s standard practice for artists to throw curveballs. However, in the world of contemporary perfumery, where the notion of the perfumer-as-artist is often lost within an industry that privileges utility over innovation, such curveballs tend to throw the audience with greater magnitude. While Slumberhouse’s Josh Lobb unapologetically favors innovation and experimentation, his line has coalesced around a tone of melancholic nostalgia conveyed through outdoorsy, rustic, opulent, and often dark aesthetics. Despite dissenters (Pear+Olive), and stabs at other genres (Grev, Eki, Kote), the brand has become infamous for moody scents that are as demanding as they are lavish. Nonetheless, last year’s Zahd indicated a shift away from “plein air” thematics toward a sort of melodramatic demimonde; a scent that captured the olfactory impression of red and burgundy velvets and plush brocades rather than that of a pastoral space. Yet where Zahd implied a genealogical progression, Sådanne epitomizes a breakneck 180-degree directional shift. The first point to address is that Sådanne is a remarkably difficult scent to fathom—not just because of its upending of the familiar house aesthetic, but because of the way that it wears on the skin; it’s as much a meditation on sillage and performance as it is an exploration of the dominant notes. The scent starts with a luminous rose that’s sweetened by some berry-like nuances that aren’t clearly identifiable as a specific berry. Their tartness is shrewdly pervasive, and they smell closer to a stem or a branch than a damascone fantasy accord might. For the first minute or so, a distinct Kool-Aid association is triggered together with the impression of something loosely shampoo-ish, but this subsides with the emergence of a bawdy animalic undertone. These animal notes stem from the use of an ambergris accord that oscillates between civet and indole, modifying the rose into something more rose-esque and magnifying the tang of the berries. While this helps to deliver the scent from the potential terror of the Kool-Aid opening, there are several things going on at once here. Most notably, the bitter rose is transformed into a rose that’s much more botanical, and the effect of this is unsettling. Furthermore, the scent feels as if it should simply present a cheery and elevated character, but there’s a dissonance in the shadowy animalics that seeks to undermine the prettier, sweeter aspects. And this is what makes Sådanne so hard to fathom—it’s a scent in which notes and impressions undulate and buzz like electrical arcing; a scent that activates a sort of synaptic depth charge in that beneath the seemingly playful surface, a myriad of contradictions and incongruities form. So, what you have in this opening sequence is a fractal image of a bitter rose that’s first rendered sweet through the use of candied berries, and then subverted through botanical animalics. This uncanny juxtaposition causes the scent to flicker, producing a series of phantom notes that smell at times like raisins (not present), tart berries, tobacco (not present), bitter rose, and the botanical musk—an accord that can perhaps best described as mildly unnerving. This sequence—which only lasts for about 45 minutes—is uncanny in the Freudian sense. While it’s completely alien to the Slumberhouse aesthetic, it smells inexplicably familiar—like it’s been approached before in other perfumes, but not quite in this manner. At moments, the scent comes across as quite pop—like something contemporary and commercial—but it’s followed by the recognition that something like this would never fly in a mass-market because of the animalic undertones. It becomes apparent, then, that this fragrance is not just an instance of slippery accords, it’s also about the slippage of associations that the scent produces as the components seem to both conflict and compliment in ways too complex to nail down. Picture, if you will, kaleidoscopic rubies spread out over a sheet of salmon-red foil, spot-lit by a buzzing and humming fluorescence, surrounded by an inky darkness. Given the vivid visual imagery and unnerving juxtapositions that Sådanne produces, it seems that it would be the perfume of choice for several of David Lynch’s female leads. But it’s what happens next that will cause those familiar with the line’s notorious bombast to scratch their heads. After about an hour or so, the incandescent opening all but vanishes, and the scent dips radically to a trace. It’s here that the musk shows itself the most in a somewhat carnal manner, and for the next five or six hours, what you get is the semi-sweet residue of the opening notes. It becomes a sugared rose skin-scent accompanied by a musk that smells a tad post-coital; and in this respect, it might be discerned that one of Sådanne’s goal is to simulate seduction through a blur of crystalline refraction. The scent feels dreamy, but in more of a woozy, drugged-out manner than that of simply slipping on a pair of rose-tinted glasses. The unsettling aura that surrounds the fragrance really is there with you for rest of the journey. Sådanne roughly translates to “such,” but in Danish slang, it also means something to the effect of “Right on!”—a phrase that infers easy acceptance or acknowledgement. Yet, fans of Slumberhouse need to tread cautiously with this one, largely because it’s so far removed from anything the line has produced thus far. I’ve been wearing it for several days now and am still struggling to get my head around what it’s doing. Although I tend not to subscribe to gender demarcation in perfume, this does lean feminine, and the associations that it produces feel far more gendered than the heavy and perhaps more gender-neutral scents that the line is known for. Also, I think it’s a scent that could be too easy to dismiss—and frankly, I wouldn’t blame anyone for doing so as it initially appears to be quite superficial, but there’s clearly more to it than it seems. My initial impression of Sådanne was that of a polished, otherworldly rose—polished in that I couldn’t think of a single thing I’d add to or subtract from it—but as a Slumberhouse scent, it was a bit of a letdown. This glib reading has changed though, as Sådanne holds a convoluted and dynamic network of tensions and contradictions beneath its unassuming surface. And I think that this is where the real innovation can be found: whereas it’s surely not hard to produce a scent so bogged down in components that it keeps the wearer guessing for months, Sådanne is similarly enigmatic, but it achieves this effect through what appears as a relatively conventional and cheery scent. The challenge, then, is to penetrate the surface in an attempt to unpack the codes and messages that the scent wants to convey. While this isn’t the hardest Slumberhouse scent to wear, it might just be the hardest one to grasp.

A strong, funky animalic accord lurks nonchalantly beneath a rosy-red, strawberry, champagne infused veneer. Sadanne isn't an incredibly complex fragrance as it more or less consists of 4 main components--oud, white wine or champagne, rose, and strawberry. Each component is easily detectable and for the most part they comprise equal portions of the scent. I'd say the oudy-animalic aspect feels like it makes up for about 35% of the composition. The strawberry takes about 20%, the wine/champagne another 20%, and the rose about 15%. The other 10 percent goes to the more subtle parts of fragrance, such as a nice woody oud component in the base, and a bit of a salty ambergris flavor dusting the entire perimeter. Speaking of subtle, Sadanne is anything but a subtle fragrance. The strawberry note is big and proud, a bright red fruity *pop* steadily supported and given some added color by a cheerful red-rose. Add in the kind of fermented, white wine aroma and for some reason I'm reminded of women at a cocktail party. I picture a scene out of Sex and the City with a bunch of TV-pretty, middle-aged trophy-wives getting sloshed at 11 o'clock in the morning on mimosa's and fruit salad. But there's an elephant in the room. Maybe the doorman got drunk that morning and wandered up to their suite to see what all the commotion was about. Now he's heartily downing cocktails and making passes at the women who want nothing more than for him to leave but are too uncomfortable to say so. But the more they drink and the more he drinks the more charming he becomes, and suddenly, he's the life of the party, his crude humor and uninvited presence a welcome change from their hollow routine of gossip and cosmos. If you haven't realized it yet, the doorman is the animalic funk I spoke of earlier, and while it seems wildly out of place at first, the more it hangs around, the more it adds to and balances the overall scene. Not only does it provide a striking contrast to the other elements, but it brings the entire fragrance out of the frou frou pink bedazzlement of strawberries, roses, and champagne and into a much more abstract, creative, and androgynous space. It's still not going to be easy for a lot of guys to wear this without some degree of self-consciousness, but it really gives the fragrance a lot more leeway in terms of its audience and subjects, situations and occasions. Sans animalics, Sadanne would probably resemble a fragrance concocted in one of those DIY perfume shops by a group of 8th grade girls hopped up on Starbucks and their recent graduation to retainers. But with the skank in place, and the musky animalics mingling among the brighter reds and bubbly pinks, it becomes something all unto itself; a bizarre, at times beautiful, at times raw and jarring, typical Slumberhouse--which of course means that nothing is typical at all. In terms of wearability, this seems like one of Slumberhouse's less challenging fragrances--it's certainly not as strange as something like Mare or as bold as something like Jeke. For the most part it's a happy, amicable scent with identifiable notes. And as the animalics settle in to the background and the brighter aspects become more of the focal point (about an hour or two in), it becomes a pretty easy ride, though always maintaining something of an edge. I think the real challenge to its wearability will be for men and their comfort with wearing something that smells like strawberries and rose. But if that's not an issue, then there shouldn't be a problem. Projection is good, but it's not of the nuclear variety, and longevity is, as usual, way above average. Thumbs up for this release from Slumberhouse, and for the record I happen to be reviewing the latest version of Sadanne, which is housed in their new, slim rectangular bottles with metal plating on the front and a bizarre, almost-illegible font. I like the new bottles. They're nice. I have no idea if this version is exactly the same or at all different than any previous versions of Sadanne. Side note: Where to place Sadanne in the pantheon of Josh Lobb's creations is an interesting query. It's definitely among the brighter releases, at the opposite end of the spectrum from Jeke and Vikt and Norne and Rume, and much closer to Pear + Olive and certain facets of Kiste. Its closest relative may be Zahd and its heart of darkened cranberry vino, though Zahd is certainly waxier and several shades browner. But perhaps even closer in lineage was the fermented, boozy, and syrupy fruit infused woods of Slumberhouse's 2011 release, Sana. In fact Sadanne seems almost like it could have resulted from some accident or tinkering that had occurred while in the laboratory revisiting Sana, and possibly considering its version 2.0. Both fragrances have a fermented quality. While in Sana the fermentation is more literal, as if the fruit had been left out somewhere for too long, Sadanne's is deliberate, an expected component in the brewing process of Champagne. And while Sadanne features a healthy, hefty dose of animalic musk up front and center, you wouldn't be wrong to suggest that there are some animalics haunting the depths of Sana as well. Wood plays an integral role in both fragrances, though in Sadanne it's more supportive than leading. Adjust the fruit to a more palatable and familiar pitch, raise the animalics from their murky depths and let them roar, and give it all a sparkly, bright red coat? It's not too much of a stretch to view Sadanne as the second coming of Sana.

I have finally met a fruity-floral that doesn’t make me want to barf. This is not to say that I like it, I mean let’s not get crazy. But I think I can definitely say that I appreciate it. Sadanne from Slumberhouse is described on the website thusly, in the style of my very favorite sort of poetically incoherent word salad absurdity: “Stained glass syrup. Serenades in damascone minor. Allegory obscured / pastel wound. A slurry of subtlety.” It’s definitely a slurry, as in a brandy-fortified sangria, mixed with an entire canister of black cherry Koolaid, a hefty dollop of musky strawberry jam, and a jigger of tart pomegranate liqueur, strewn with the petals from the most obnoxious aggressively blooming red roses in your summer garden. Pastel? No, I think this is a shimmering crimson ruby garnet gemstone bloodbath of a scent. Subtle...yeah...I don’t think so, this is about as subtle as one of the celebrity housewives throwing a glass of Zinfandel in her frenemy’s face. I can see how this might veer into Jolly Rancher territory, like LUSH’s Rose Jam, and yet somehow it doesn’t go there. Maybe it’s the type and quality of damascones used; which I just learned from Google are chemical compounds that add complex profiles of rose, apple, blackcurrant and mint with rich plum undertone to perfumes. My .2 seconds of skimming an internet article, however, does not make me an expert, so who knows. At any rate, Sadanne is happy and joyful and a lot of fun, despite a weird undercurrent of something earthy, violety, green, and bitter. You can barely smell it, it’s almost a sense of it, rather than the scent of it. It makes me wonder what the word Sadanne is supposed to mean. It makes me think of the entry in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for kairosclerosis: "the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste." I would never wear this fragrance in a million years, but I love knowing that, much like a fleeting moment of happiness, it existed at one point in time.

My introduction to Slumberhouse was through Sadanne, which would mean I was already halfway en-route to hating this cult favourite house. My face contorted the moment I put Sadanne on. Don't we have enough fruity Roses flooding perfume stores? Haven't there always been fruity roses swarming every shelf ever since the inception of perfume stores? Why is there another Sweet Rose from an exclusive indie perfumer such as Josh Lobb? It wasn't until my second wearing that I allowed myself to open up to the liqueur floating around in it. The perfume was still sweet, jammed with jammy Rose and sugary syrupy Strawberries, though it now had a wine-like effect and musky Ambergris muscling it with each passing moment.. But then the sweetness always prevails.. the strawberry sweetener/jam goes in a couple of directions, some times embodying wine, some times elevating Red Ruby Roses, but the sweetness sticks the same in the sun and the rain. It's impossible to exorcise this fruity demon from anything interesting that's in here, but then.. that isn't the point. This gnarly fruity strawberry goo isn't a bug but a feature. Which begs the question.. what was Josh thinking? Perhaps it was just something he made for a 10 year old niece, or perhaps some affluent lady commissioned him to make something 'easy'.. perhaps it was something his first girlfriend wore. Anyways, Slumberhouse fans must contend with the fact that this is Josh Lobb's creation. Embrace it. Or as the kids say.. "Take the L" and move on. All that being said, it's not all that bad for little girls. It's also not that bad if you own a strawberry-themed confectionary. As for a man.. it would be devastating. @bigbusynose of Instagram

A big glistening pot of fruity, boozy, strawberry jam sitting on an old wooden table, polished to perfection, that’s been set for afternoon tea – nice china, those cute little spoons to serve the jam with, and an antique bowl filled with fat, fully blown roses. All of those different smells hovering in the air, which is stirred gently by the overhead fan. I get plum for some reason, even though it’s not listed in the notes, and a soft, almost baby powderish note, before the woody note comes through with the teeniest, tiniest smidgen of soap. I rather like it, but don’t know if it’s one I could wear very often – that strawberry note is pretty full on which makes it very jammy and sweet. Not sure how many blokes would wear it though – to me, this definitely falls way more on the girlie side of unisex scents. I think I’ll re-visit this little sweetie in the cooler months – it does smell lovely, but it’s hot and sticky and horribly humid today and it feels a bit much in this sort of weather. Still, I am enjoying this – it’s a fun, happy, carefree scent. EDIT: I put this on in the morning, hung around home during a very sweaty, humid sticky day, then we went off to the movies in the late afternoon. I thought it had pretty much evaporated off, but all during the movie, I kept on getting the most beautiful wafts of it - it seems to get prettier and the strawberry note softens a lot. Longevity is great - I got a good 10 hours out of that.

Shock horror, I only got to try a sample of Sadanne in 2015, and being 'overseas', by the time it shipped out and all that time in transit, I missed out on it. The 2014 version was a delicious strawberry-champagne-rose, minimal funk and animalic qualities. It took about 18 months before I was able to source Sadanne again, only through decanters, and so when it came out again (yup -- missed out on getting a bottle) in 2016, I bought ALL the remaining quantities, and I still have the decant and use it sparingly. Yeah, it's been released a few times since then, but MAN this new version is just TOO animalic for mine. It's mostly musk-funk that comes out and not much else is noticeable. No fruitiness, no booze, not much rose. I dunno if it's been officially reformulated or if something, but recent samples I've tried (2018 & 2019) indeed have that musk element. The newer 2020-21 iteration apparently is like this, too, and as such, I yearn for the earlier iterations. Additionally, it was one of the few scents students did NOT outwardly hate. Vivian from 4D even said she liked it, and that in itself is something I remember about my use of perfume around high school students. I'm not sure if I would hunt out a bottle, even if it's a 14-15 version, but still, this is indeed a great scent. A little femme-leaning, if that even means anything, but great nonetheless...

Josh Lobb has slowly but surely had made it to the top of my list of favorite perfumers. I've worn Sadanne a few times and I get a myriad impressions but one striking association that has thoroughly made its way to my hindbrain is such: I have just finished a rigorous physical activity with my barely legal girlfriend and now I can smell her syrupy berry+rose perfume and dark smelling juice on me. It's quite erotic at times and somewhat 'childish' at others. And here is why I enjoy SH perfumes so much, they're akin to a smell tattoo - rebellious, colorful, and they invoke strong associations. When I wear a SH perfume I KNOW my day is going to be more interesting and its like a smell 'Toy' which I carry around with me which I enjoy as I go about my business regardless of what others may think. Its an experience. Back to the perfume at hand, Sadanne. This is definitely the LEAST Slumberhouse-esque perfume in that its not woody, boozy, smoky or 'outdoorsy' - its also almost entirely synthetic, which is rare for this line. But I enjoyed the change nevertheless, I mean Josh is doing his thing and Im loving it because nobody else is putting out even remotely as close to the experience and quality. As for the actual notes and what it smells like please see dozen or so reviews below ^_- If someone is selling a bottle of Pear + Olive please contact me!!

Sadanne, at least theoretically, it's all I don't like about perfumery. It's a sweet fruity-floral bomb that could have easily fallen into juvenile *yummy* fragrances territories for girls who like to smell like a lollipop. As a matter of fact though, while being all of the above, it's none of the above at the same time. This was possible only thank to that genius of Josh Lobb. The fragrance opens with a juicy red-fruity note paired to some rose. It's tart and sweet at the same time and extremely radiating. The overall sweetness and candy-like aroma made me immediately think of gummy-bears but what actually saves this accord from precipice is the juxtaposition with a subtle yet remarkable animalic presence to which I like to refer to as *an actual bear*. The fragrance feels fizzy, vibrating and extremely alive while the red-floral parts merge with a darker and warmer base of incredible beauty and novelty. As in several other *Slumberhouses*, I still get distant echoes of the Lutens' typical syrupy texture but the ability of Josh Lobb's is to take the whole thing to a completely new level by skipping e certain heaviness which is typical of these kind of fragrances. A crazy composition that's both fascinating and wearable. Powerful, novel, funny and, in the end, extremely solid. Big thumbs up! Rating: 8/10

For the record I have no idea what this smells like.. But starting to wonder if looking at luckyscent 330 days prob out of the year to blind buy a bottle of any Slumberhouse fragrance and realizing I still missed the day it was released and whatever two was released sold out in a couple hours, Because people can re sell it for almost three times as much..I had a representative email me & say they had 200 ml of this one for $500 & it was going quick...& I thought “Hell” It’d prob be the one I want the least!! Whatever I’m tired of looking for over 2 years now & having to fight over what I thought was 30ml bottles, But now could be a 200ml bottle for $500 lol..I’m sure this stuff is good, But some of us like myself do have other hobbies

Finally a fruity rose perfume that doesn’t make me feel like a teenager or like I’m using a lingerie store body spray. I’m a rose hater, and I don’t usually like fruit perfumes either because they frequently smell cheap to me... But this is a realistic strawberry with a heart of real, natural rose. It opens fizzy and sparkling, slightly salty and rich. It feels natural but unique, the ambergris is very tame and adds just a bit of musky warmth. Dries down to an evergreen forest. What a departure from my typical perfume genres, something to wear for very special occasions.

It's back to what I remembered it being! A frigid rose, dry white wine, a calm strawberry and a manageable amount of ambergris. I'm in two minds over whether I want this or not. It has that Slumberhouse feel to it, without a doubt, but I'm not sure if I LOVE it -- I really like it, no doubt, but I don't know if it's a love just yet. One thing for sure, that middle period Sadanne (2018 - 2021) was WAAAAYYYY too stanky for my tastes. This one reminds me of what it was back in 2015...

Sadanne is the last of the Slumberhouse sample pack that I have from Twisted Lily. I get largely a "sweet floral strawberry champagne" vibe. A mix of strawberry, rose, and wine, this is certainly an interesting warm-weather-leaning option. It's provocative and slightly sophisticated, even though the sweetness is significant. Performance is decent but certainly not up to the level of Jeke, Norne, or Ore, but certainly a worthwhile performance if you love the scent. 6 out of 10

Incredibly sweet syrupy sickly opening, like scratch n sniff strawberry. Then even more sickly, ie, something acid goin' on. Then ..... pants, or as you say Stateside, crotch. I so enjoy the reviews which so eloquently attempt to extol the virtues of such challenging olfactory offerings. But, y'know, I still like to smell......nice. Not like strawberry diaquiri puke. But... not an instant scrubber - just got a whiff of aniseed. Wasn't expecting that. OK, now scrubbing.

this one is lovely... rose and booze and berry, it's quite wearable (for me) and i enjoyed catching wafts of it during the day. oddly enough, i get caught up in nostalgia and reminiscing in that it reminds me of something. i don't know what, though...it could be another perfume, it could be a random smell, seriously, it could be anything. les liquides imaginaires did something similar too...can't remember what, though... definitely worth a sniff and possibly more...