Gardener's Glove

My appetite for green is satiated and then some with Gardener's Glove. A larger than life tomato leaf and accompanying galbanum immediately greet my nose, with a pithy citrus not too far behind. This is glorious and ferocious! I can almost taste the bitterness—and I delight in it. The floral heart, with linden blossom most dominant, is rendered bright, tart, and punchy with a blackcurrant. It is here where the garden is truly manifested, redolent in the aromas of all manner of leafy foliage, not just green, but juicy, sappy, nettle-like, sort of the olfactory texture of fuzzy trichomes that cover the surface of leaves. The dry down reveals a saffron-forward leather, vetiver and overall woodiness. It's a perfect coda for this almost hallucinatory beauty.

I love this so much... I couldn’t resist getting a fb once my sample ran out. It has such pungency from the tomato leaf and yet such sophistication from the leather. The florals dance around giving way to broader imagery... which truly does reflect a gardeners glove. It’s so classic but so new, and I don’t recall anything like it. I can see myself wearing this for any occasion, any time of year. It’s joy, passion, hard work, style and sophistication bottled into one. I see this quickly becoming a signature for me.

Being from Vermont, my husband got me a sampler from this house a couple years ago. Hate to say, I didn't like it at the time. My asthetic is clean, soapy, floral - you know...mall scents. And these perfumes are dank. The more I've gotten into perfumery, though, the more I appreciate them - this one in particular. It is a bold and artful portrait of leather gardening gloves after a long spring day preparing the beds. I don't know if this will be considered an insult to the art - I mean it as a compliment - but the remnants of the scent are really quite pretty - an herbal, woody, leather whisper that I've grown to enjoy. It is truly special.

I get a persistent and dominant honey note from this. It has good sillage. Thought I liked it at first, but now just reminds me of herbal teas my mom used to make whenever I got sick as a kid. A little overwhelming and not too groundbreaking.

I love this fragrance very much. It opens with a bright, sunny, green burst of citrus (including bergamot, which smells green to me), tomato leaf, and galbanum. It smells like the sun on a vegetable garden, verdant with tomato plants and herbs. As it evolves, the floral notes emerge — linden, rose, lily, jasmine — but also more greenery, in the form of blackcurrant bud, and fruit via apricot. So this vegetable garden includes flowers; it also has some flowering fruit trees, bushes, and vines, like a true French “potager”. If you’ve ever smelled a fresh, ripe apricot, warmed by the sun and just plucked, you will recognize the note, as light as it is here. A hint of roses in sunlight, a waft of jasmine, perhaps twining its way up a fence or a post, a breath of lilies, round out the heart. Those floral notes together with the linden also leave a strong impression of sweet honeysuckle. The greenness continues into the drydown, with vetiver, patchouli, and fir needle, now mixing with the warmth lent by saffron and amber notes, but on my skin the dominant theme of the base is the soft, fragrant leather of a well-worn gardener’s glove. Diane St. Clair is a true artisan; her other fragrances are equally evocative and lovely. Try them!