Sinti

this is just sooo heavenly! seriously, i can't believe this has no feedback here yet. it opens up wonderfully sharp and aromatic in all its woodsy fir glory. it's so clean and heady at the same time that honestly, i wouldn't mind if that's all that this was. but it settles down soon and softens up. i had doubts about how blueberry would work with this but it's surprisingly good. the juiciness works almost like a clearing bell, ringing just underneath the woods while this spicy rose weaves in and out. the rose and a little bit of the blueberry both go a long way to warm things up. the mintiness of the clary sage and fir could otherwise almost make it quite a cold scent. it's perfectly balanced in the end - dry, sensual, and spicy, just as liz zorn describes. sillage is decent for the first 2 hours, but i haven't had much luck with it lasting more than 4 hours. after that it's a skin scent. season-wise, i bet this will work any time.

Excited to try this since I love Soivohle’s Twelve Keys (seriously try it) and this also has a dominant fir note. Unfortunately I mostly get a spicy but dull rose and a competing note of sharp, cold sage, further muddled with the galbanum which can smell stale with the wrong treatment. Like bad breath with rose breath freshener.

I had a few samples from Soivohle in a drawer and decided to try Sinti today. If I hadn’t liked it, I wouldn’t have bothered to write a review here and, initially, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to enjoy it. It opens with a bright fruity rose, a tiny bit too sour and geranium-influenced for my taste. Perhaps it is the combo of green pine and aromatic notes with rose and blueberry that gives it that citronella tang. But alas, this phase gives way to one of the longest lasting, very pleasant rosy-posey drydowns that I can recall. It’s subtly spicy but mostly just glowing red fruity rose on the skin for hours and hours. No geranium, no stale woody notes or patchouli. Just a great take on rose with a backbone of peru balsam and vanilla to stabilize and softly sweeten. Far better than some of the most celebrated rose scents from Nahema to POAL. I highly recommend sampling it. 3.5 out of 5.

I just sampled the whole entire line and I mean in its entirety this one is probably the best one as a whole entire line I cannot believe what my nose is smelling right now