I recall trying this one when it came out and liking it so I figured I'd wack it on today and give it a proper review. This brand, I mean, I don't know why I have such a resistance to leaning right into them because they possess those rare perfumery qualities of being both creative and artisan but ACTUALLY balanced and wearable, acceptable, palatable fragrances and I still don't own a one of them. Cape heartache is kinda crude too. That opening is spicy, woody, sappy tree bark, covered in salty sea spray, it's very evocative and just a lovely thing, not merely an outdoorsy smell, but an olfactory shapshot. Let me just reiterate the opening 20 mins of this perfume is brilliant and I love it. Then this building sweetness of a natural feeling maltol edge, with that fruity strawberry approximate accord, sitting atop hollow, hazy modern woody, it sounds nightmarish to me and something I'd scoff at immediately as amateur hour. Unless of course my snobbery mode had been activated, (lets say it was a perfumer for Fredric Malle) then I'd be saying ' this juxtaposition is clever and tantamount to genius' or some pretentious, bias, bollocks like that. haha Well I wouldn't necessarily because as cohesive as it comes together, it does feel very shallow now, like dry, sugar paper and ethyl maltol, but I'm kinda at peace and enjoying it. Yeah, whether this perfume has just caught me on a good day or what I don't know? but it's alright by me. Love the opening, like the contrast lateron.
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Strawberries and peat are such a unique combo that you’re intrigued by yourself all day. I wore this a decade ago and recently retried it and remembered why I loved it. Classic.