Enchanted Forest

I did not want to make a review of this fragrance for a while because I did not want to create any prejudice about it. Now after three hundred reviews here and all over the the Internet, all I can say is thank you! It was a challenging task to make our own fragrance brand and first fragrance. I had black currant bushes in front of my parents' home and I grew up with that amazing berry. It is part of my universe and the universe of many people around the world. Elena shares the same passion for that smell and we found the perfumer who is also close to it and understands this scent. We were aware that not everybody is close and understands this smell but we did not stop. Most of the people who gave a negative review are those who do not know the smell of this berry. I cannot recall the moment when, as a small kid, I was standing in front of the bush and tried that dark, tart and very aromatic berry. I don't know if I like it or not but I learned something. Later I learned to love it when it became a regular part of every festivity we had. Creating things is all about making statements. We decided to make a statement and it happened that people who are close to our universe embraced it and love the scent so much. Some people learned about it and were conquered by the fragrance and some people did not like it or understand it. We did not want to please everybody... and it is impossible to do so, but we fulfilled our dream and created something unique and dear to our hearts. I love to wear Enchanted Forest. It became my signature scent in Paris almost year ago when I smelled it for the first time in the Cafe Cojean-Louvre, where Bertrand Duchaufour showed us his first draft of the fragrance. Since then Enchanted Forest was developing but that very original scent was preserved through the voyage to the final and perfect state where Bertrand, Elena and I were fully satisfied. The design of the bottle and the box also went through stages but since the beginning we followed Elena's vision and she did an amazing job. I helped her with the technical side to transfer the drawings to the final product. Design is an important and integral part of the fragrance experience. Enchanted Forest works differently on different people. It also communicates with my mood and I have a different experience every time I wear it. It can be capricious like a kid but I have noticed that every time I spray it my mood goes up. It's like joining a party... Kupala night. When you join, the fairies give you a black currant leaf crown. It starts with wine and rum and oranges... once you relax it starts the journey through the forest... a real one with moist, green and even earthy notes but also something warm and seductive takes me over. I love Enchanted Forest. It is an addictive scent for me. I love to feel it when I pick up my jacket or on the breeze when the wind plays with it. I love it on Elena, too. It is a different Enchanted Forest on her. My skin emphasizes those green notes but on Elena it is much more soft and warm. Thank you all who reviewed Enchanted Forest. I appreciate all of your reviews and it warms our hearts to see people love it or those who are eager to learn about it. That's Enchanted Forest: a special place full of memories and surprises.

This is Art not just a fragrance. Nearby my house there's a dense forest. Every morning and evening comes a beautiful scented air from there. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I smelt it for the first time. It was a love from first sniff and this is the only niche that I've bought two bottles. Nature in a bottle. It has everything, greens, woods, light florals, earthy vibe, pine trees, herbs, fir trees, resins, forest fruits, wet soil, cassis, a faint smell of fallen decaying leaves, a little boozy vibe, cedar with a delicate swetness. This is not overly sweet scent or a gourmand. It feels natural. This is the best black currant and fir balsam note I've ever experienced. Absolutely intoxicating and mesmerizing, calming like a forest and a little melacholic. Its name, the bottle (so heavy, I love it), the decorative elements and the scent speak to me. That being said, Enchanted Forest is a totally unisex and realistic scent, so it's not for all. Not a safe scent or crowd pleasing one and definitely not for blind buy. Labyrinth of essences. Enchanted Forest is a strong, dense, complex and multilayered scent with two main parts. It is simplier than the note pyramide though. It feels like a majestic symphonic orchestra without any dissonanse. Masterfully blended to the point of perfection with a natural outcome. It's difficult to pull apart all those individual notes. You just feel things when your mind emerges memories. Unique. I've never experienced such a realistic scent in my jurney to perfumes. Original and natural. One of a kind IMO. Performance. This is all year round scent but it feels better and it performs better in mild cold weather. Fall and spring have the best weather conditions for Enchanted Forest. The longevity is great, I got 14-15 hours from it before it dies but the projection is limited. The sillage is moderate. This is not a strong scent but it has nice longevity. With overly warm weather feels uncomfortable and its performance becomes limited overall. I still have to try it in freezing temperatures to see how it feels. A fairy tail scent. Mysterious and deep it transfers you into the ancient world of fairies, elves, green spiruts, gnomes and forest nymphs. It takes me to an eerie dark world of strange beauty. The awaking of the Old World.. If it was a movie, it would be Narnia or The Fellowship of the Ring. If it was a song it would be May It Be by Enya. If it was a feast, it would be Yule celebrations in a northern dense evergreen forest. This is what ancient deities in northern countries would wear. The epitome of russian fairytail.. this could be a magic potion of Baba Yaga.. This is the smell of our ancient natural inhabitant, the Sacred Forest, the source of Life. Behold my holy grail in perfumery.

I was fortunate to try my first sprays of Enchanted Forest at the Javoy perfume boutique in Paris just a few days ago. When a bottle is as beautiful as this, the mind wonders, 'What's going to be inside?' While so many perfumers go to extreme lengths to make the most minimal and understated bottles, Enchanted Forest promises something far more complex, Eastern, and exotic. With the first spray it was like a hand grabbed hold of me and we flew over the tops of the pine trees and then landed deep, deep into the forest. The scent of pine needles and bursting ripe black currants fills the nose with an immense vaporous cloud. The projection is vast - the scent envelops the skin and then lingers in an almost smoky puff of frost on a cold day. What a complex and earthy scent -at one turn fruity like berries in wine and sugar, and then darker and deeper like the thick underbrush of scurrying animals' homes, old wooden cabins hidden behind the trees complete with musk, cedar and castorm. As a Russian friend described to me, fairy tales of the East are not nearly as cut-and-dried as they are in the west. Characters are never all good or all evil - they are far more human than heroes or villains. As I let Enchanted Forest develop on my skin, you can clearly see how this scent was inspired by the forest of fairy tales. Like the complicated characters of Baba Yaga or Father Frost, the scent moves and jumps from sweetness to resin, then deep greens and aldehydes to chilled air. It never settles into one single scent: it is a myriad of notes from the landscape that moves forward but alighting on the branches of the trees like cuckoo birds. Enchanted Forest is a concept perfume - it's about history, adventure and discovery, and it uses elements that bring this journey alive in new ways - the C02 extractions add a particularly pungent and delicious reality of scent experience that is not quite like any perfumeI've come across. It offers something to both men and women due to the carefully selected elements like artemis and carnation. In an age of over-simplicity and a race toward the sleekest of design in all things, Enchanted Forest offers us the mysterious world of ancient folklore in a perfume that can bewitch and entrance the wearer.

Enchanted Forest smells exactly like I imagine the painting 'Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf' by Viktor Vasnetsov to smell. This is so complex and fascinating and every time I spray it I notice something I haven't noticed before and everytime it takes me to a different place. Sometimes it makes me weep because it's so beautiful and other times the smell of it makes me feel nauseous. This scent can be both alluring and disturbing depending on the skin's chemistry and the mood it's wearer's in. My first reaction was similar to @dsty's. I literally laughed out loud because it was so completely different from anything else I've ever smelled. My very first impression was a lush blackcurrant bush in a dark unkempt garden. The smell captured the whole bush, not only the berries, but also the leaves, the branches, the buds, the roots and the earth underneath it. It felt like magic. The scent was so perfectly natural and deep and it evoked such strong mental images. My partner said that it smelled exactly like their grandmother's backyard. At first I found the blackcurrant so overwhelming that I didn't pay attention to anything else. But now every time I spray this on me I found something new! The first spray took me to an unkempt dark garden and with the second spray I stepped out of the garden and in to the forest. With every wearing I get deeper in that dark enchanted forest and it gets more voluminous all the time. Now I'm totally lost in it. Sometimes it's scary and unpleasant but usually it's exactly where I want to be. This scent is not something to spray on when you want to smell 'nice'. This is not a 'beauty product' or just an add-on to your outfit. In my opinion, this fragrance is art. An experience. And you should spray this with care, because it's quite strong and too many sprays can make you feel unwell. Too bad my sample is getting empty and I can never afford to buy a full bottle of this masterpiece (the flacon is also a gorgeous piece of art). It's not easy to be addicted to fragrances and broke. 10/10 (but definitely not for everyone)

I received my bottle today thank you to Fragrantica!! I love it! This is a realistic pine and blackcurrent scent. I don't find it to smell like Olympic Orchids blackbird. Blackbird turned into a pine scented car airfreshner mixed with very medicinal kids cough syrup with a base of laundry detergent. But Enchanted Forest is Enchanting! Me and my family sat around smelling it and reminiscing! It brought back memories for all of us. To me it opens with a blast of tart juicy, realistic boozy blackcurrent! A few minutes later the pine comes out and this pine smells fresh and cold, like it's dusted with snow. At this point it smells like Christmas trees and a boozy berry wine! Next the memory's start to emerge. I swear i smell Pine cones, Acorns and sap; the sap that runs down the pine trees and gets sticky on your hands. It smells like when i was a child when we used to go to the Fraiser Township park every weekend. The park was filled with pine trees and pine cones covered the ground, sap ran down the trees. Me and my brother and sisters would run around playing hide and seek. We hid behind the pine trees and would get sap all over our hands and it even got in my hair once. We would gather pine cones and make crafts out of them with mom once we got home and occasionally throw pine cones at eachother:) It was so fun and the fact that this perfume smells exactly like that time in my life makes this very special. The innocence and carefree frolicking, laughing, playing, and imaginations running wild. This is a very well made perfume. Sillage is an arms length for the first 30 minutes and then is close to the skin but still noticeable to others. Longevity was about 4 hours, it could be more, it's possible that i became nose blind after a while. Very beautiful scent. If you love the smell of pine cones, pine trees, sap and boozy blackcurrent than im sure you will love this.