Peloponnesian

One is literally transported on the coast of Greece when inhaling this scent! I was baffled by the 'marine' element of it, given the strict 'all natural' policy of this perfume house: how does Miss Balahoutis bring the sea into this bottle? Having been to Greece several times the impression it left me with was even more bewitching. The cypress (resinous, sappy and green), orange blossom, citruses and sage dominate until the heart notes, then the honey and musk come out, a faint scent of sea water always in the background. It's a charm from a distant land...

This opens bracingly with blended citrus notes tempered with some herbaceous quality, probably the sage, that transforms the initial blast to something very interesting -- you just have to keep sniffing! The scent moves quickly away from the citrus-sage-cypress, to a captivatingly clean element -- think I detect a hint of eucalyptus in the "sea scent" -- laced with a rich honey and musk. It moves fast between transitions, I'm not sure how long this will last, but I'm loving it.

Amazing, just amazing for a 100% natural perfume. This smells like a classic men's cologne on my skin. It opens with a totally real, zesty, green lime, and soon I can smell the fragrant cypress. It's a little too masculine for me personally, but still a wonderful, aromatic men's cologne for every day. It reminds me of the fresh air on my favorite hiking trail, a 4-mile hike through the woods to the ocean.

Absolutely stunning and my favorite fragrance from Strange Invisible. This style of fragrance making is a nod to historical beauty in the ancients of the Mediterranean.

I rarely write negative reviews. Usually I just figure that the perfume is not to my taste or doesn't work with my chemistry, give the perfumer the benefit of the doubt and move on. This may be the first time a perfume has actually made me angry. Happily, I'm only out the five or six bucks I spent on the sample. But this stuff is so dreadful it feels like I've been cheated out of my sample money for something that doesn't even qualify as fragrance. All I got was the smell of menthol stinging my nose and eyes for a half hour and then nothing. If I stick my nose to my wrist I can faintly smell something vaguely aquatic, as in seaweed, mixed with menthol. Literally that is it. Its lack of longevity is the only thing it has going for it. And don't get me started on what this has to do with the name. In fairness, this is clearly a masculine and not my thing and it is beastly hot so that may be affecting it as well but I am done with this line.