Ichigo Ichie

Initial spray it’s very beautiful. Came off more floral than the cream note but drying down it popped out. In some weird way there’s a citrus that kind of smells like silent in the theme park from Toskovat’ but it’s totally different to it. But Ichigo Iche actually feels sad in dry down. In the dry down it’s very woodsy musky tea, and the greenish smell that helps and connects with the steam note. Nice creamy floral earthy more green smell and a bit cloth like. Ichigo Iche really reminds me of an old Japanese era of lifestyle. Like summer and the lady’s that put a killer amount of the clay powder on their face while smelling sweet and floral, very faint smoky wood but not offensive smoky more.. steamy. A youthful woman yet that scent of maturity. I do agree slightly with other reviews that it’s a skin scent, Ichigo Iche would be very good if it was stronger yet a trained nose will detect it. But maybe that’s what it is, I think of it as meeting a woman and getting to know them, like if it was how they’d naturally smell coming from a older era of a Japanese life. Since after all Toskovat’ is about memories. It feels like chasing for something to not go but now it’s only the things you’ve kept onto and the smells are glimpse of those memories. Definitely summer/ warmer and not colder seasons. But I’ve never tried it in the cold yet. Definitely a 4.5/5 Star only because of the how weak it can be yet so beautiful.

As someone who is half Japanese and grew up in Japan, this one was an emotional experience for me. About a minute after I sprayed this, it instantly took me to my Japanese grandmother’s house. It smelled just like her tatami room (traditional room with grass mat flooring) when there’s a bit of leftover sweet incense smell in the air and flowers by her butsudan (altar). The distinct smell of the tatami flooring mats really shine in this - I’m assuming it’s from the hinoki. There’s a beautiful earthiness combined with the sweet floral and incense notes. This fragrance evoked such an emotional reaction for me. It reminds me of my late grandmother who I absolutely adored. I will definitely be purchasing this. It’s a masterpiece.

i've been testing out a sample and i'll definitely save up to buy a full bottle. this fragrance smells as if you're sitting on an antique chair within a greenhouse full of flowers, an incense burning in a tray on top of the table in front of you while you're drinking tea. there's pollen in the air and it's ever so slightly cloudy outside with little rays of sun peeking through. i'd probably wear this more in fall through winter because i live somewhere hot and humid where the smoky aspect of this fragrance would be too much for the majority of the year (it only gets cold for maybe 2-3 months) + ̊⊹⋆

This is my #2 top Toskovat "wearable" fragrance. P0rns*ar being #1. It's such a comfy scent. It's got that floral open but the dry down on my skin is so powdery and incense forward. To me it is a nostalgic smell that I can't quite figure out where I have smelled it before. Which I think is why it is such a comfortable wear for me. I wear it on my super stressed out days so that I can just sniff my wrist and teleport myself out of reality for a moment. I will be getting a full bottle in the near future

Reminds me of my mom in her late 20's, fun fresh and ready to have fun with her other single mother friends and talk bad about men, share their latest dinner hack recipe from the magazine, and drink copious amounts of caffeine. It's zangy, tang, fruity, and extermely tropical with mentholated undertones probably from the tea, or green tea in particular. The scent does fade into an almost cotton-linen freshly washed laundry scent mixed with clean skin scent.