Pohadka

Pohadka from Ys-Uzac is an amazing agrestic perfume that smells like nothing else. It feels like a cross between Fougere Bengale and Tabac Tabou, sprinkled with minty Shiso on top. Subtle and long-lasting, natural smelling, and elegant while remaining an artistic exercise in this genre. It blooms in the heat. The opening is all about minty Shiso, grass, and hay. Bright, invigorating, warm, and green. Like taking a road trip in the countryside and lowering your car window to get a whiff while chewing mint-flavored gum. Shiso is traditionally used in Japanese cuisine and has this sparkling minty flavor to it. A unique touch in this composition that works so well. The best part about it is that this accord lasts well through the heart of the perfume, not just as an opening burst. Soon, the composition warms up as the Immortelle starts creeping in, lending a beautifully sweet, herbaceous touch. Perfectly dosed and not too heavy. This ingredient can sometimes feel overpowering but here it is light and caressing. The same goes for the Jasmine accord that sides with the immortelle. A mere whisper. The base displays powdery tobacco and soft brown leather, pairing seamlessly with the immortelle. It settles down like a glowing golden-brown flume, just like the sun sets down the landscape at sunset. It feels like a trip in the countryside ending at dusk, when the colors deepen over the land just like the perfume settles from a bright, invigorating opening on a richer, brown-hued base. Excellent craftsmanship and an overlooked perfume. One that should be on the sampling list of all fans of agrestic compositions or fans of Cortichiatto's style, as it does hint at the aforementioned Parfum d'Empire compositions while staying original. IG:@memory.of.scents

Pohadka (which is Czech for fairy-tale) is a wistful ride in the countryside, listening to ambient or dream pop on the stereo, driving into the green hills to disappear for a while. The most notable feature is its shiso (perilla leaf) note, feeling warm, herbal-minty, sour-powdery and refreshing. It steals the scene in the opening, drawing the curtains open to the panorama of cut grass and sheaves of hay, wild and unruly grey-green mugwort. Its calm, horizontal expanse is further drawn through the fragrant nicotiana blossoms, flowers that yield a scent that intersects vanillic tobacco and jasmine, further punctuated by an immortelle and labdanum. This combination reminds me of sweet woodruff and dried deer tongue. Subtle damp vegetation, smoky air, and hazy elements lead Pohadka into a twilight direction, twinkling and cerulean-blue. It is poetic by design, and could be easily misunderstood, deserving the right type of audience to embrace its every turn.

Pohadka is a true stunner, reminiscent of running through a dreamlike field in the countryside in late summer, the sun having just gone down and dusk starting to approach... Out of breath, you let your knees drop into the soft grass and earth beneath you, and lean in to inhale the sweet scents of the land... At once herbal, hay-like, powdery, leathery, faintly smoky—maybe just ‘hazy’—and with a subtle, intoxicating sweetness, I find this to be extraordinarily well blended, the materials precisely chosen and deftly administered to bring about a novel, synergistic whole. Absolutely refined and sophisticated, yet still capturing a childlike wonder—the innocence found in the simple enjoyment of an early Autumn eve... Sillage moderate, longevity outstanding, bottle very nice. Recommended to herbal and nature lovers alike. Much more could be said about the nuances of components but I’ll just leave this more impressionistic for now. Bravo, good sir!!!

Beautiful and unusual. The first part I do not like much,but after some time everything changes... is a clean scent, light and melancholy. I'd like rainy days in autumn, I like how it evolves turns slowly, almost "shy", after about one hour reveals all its beauty almost "artistic". I like it because it's different and well done .. is as if you are walking along a path with grass, trees, and leaves flying because of the wind .. I like. The sillage is soft, but the longevity is very good (10 hours). Recommend to try. Sillage: 5.5/10 Longevity: 8/10 Scent: 8.5/10 Overall: 8.5/10

This is a very delicious daywear scent. Fresh, sweet, strange; i can not stop sniffing my hand ( looks very strange for other people.. you recognise that?) It starts a bit like you wake up in a tent at a green campside, bit late cause you had a party the night before, you open the tent and than...you'll smell the sunriped but fresh grass! A little later you will smell the lovely leather, very soft tabacco and mint, the immortelle takes it over from the tobacco and last very long. A masterpiece!!