Woods in Fog

Oud with a sharp medicinal nuance, plus an experimental rain in autumn edge. Smells of a pirate ship cargo hold as I would imagine it

just discovered this and am loving it, mossy damp leather that smells far better than it sounds, going on my wishlist for sure

Powerful and extremely weird. So strange it disorientates me. Certainly an astonishing bit of perfume-art exploration of its theme - there's an absolutely gigantic damp-earth, almost fungal, almost mouldy billow of moisture, to conjure the fog and some seriously punchy timber notes to evoke the trees. Very, very strong at first, with the mushroominess swelling up to almost monstrous levels, and the wood comes on with an equally punchy, sharp, astringent, medicinal note. It reminds me really powerfully of some sort of antiseptic or cleansing smell I can't pin down - TCP? clean coal tar? some sort of tinctured alcohol? - and it's not shy at all. The patchouli is equally uncompromising, but not dirty, just very very dark. I suspect many people might find this actively unpleasant - so dank, so dark, so gloomy - but for me it's just madly intriguing. Tim Burton-world in scent - quirky-Gothic, flirting with the repellent, but subversively humorous. Yet this one is a completely moody oddball with oddly conventional and weak performance - makes sense as it's an EDT, but on me the wisps of fog are almost completely blown away within a couple of hours' exposure to body warmth. After that you get a couple hours more of the faintest, gentlest ghost of patchouli, much sweeter in character. So - not nearly as moody as it seems after that grand sweeping-villain's-cape kind of opening. Will be unisex for those weirdos who can deal with it. For me, intriguing but not a love.

This feels more like Oud than the Occult Oud, it’s that plastic sort of, loud sharpness of a medicinal leather accord type nature. This smells quite antiseptic in the opening like this stuff my fiend uses in his tattoo shop he calls ‘green soap’ it’s a kind of stingy alcoholic liquid but not an unpleasant smell at all. This is tinged with an earthy, composed moist soil smell, and patchouli which turns sweeter in the drydown to an almost vanilla sweetness. Someone has but that Profumum Roma Patchouly as a comparison and although I can see why because the earthy patchouli has a strange sweetness but in truth the Italian brand’s seems to be a lot more natural. This is very similar to stuff from barruti, that Nooud one, this has a similarly plasticy, saffronesque feel, something false or fake really, but I kinda like that. The drydown is really lovely if you find the opening to strange but this is a real changer, mutating throughout. I want to like Voronoi I really do but they make them hard to love.

Immediately it's musky, herbally, medicinal, but I can smell a pleasant 'damp earth' smell. I can definitely smell patchouli, and a hint of vanilla. Over time it becomes more medicinal, but eventually calms down into something well balanced that resembles more closely a pine wood after rain. The vanilla is a constant, a finds its place a little better later on. Between the immediate spray and the dry down I find it quite off putting, too medicinal, but first spray and dry down are great. I like it a lot more when it's settled, I can really smell the sweetness of fallen pine 'leaves', which is something I really love. I was looking for something that reminded me of the forest floor, and I've gotten quite close here. I find it a little too masculine for me, although I could still see myself wearing it in the autumn. It's quite a dry and musky. Absolutely love it when it's settled, not so much the process of drying.