Spirit by @vallensefragrance embodies all that is best about living in Northern Europe. Bright and invigorating yet never chilly or forbidding. Pine trees sway above tufts of crushed mint and trampled sappy stems.
Who know which mythical creature has just passed through this enchanted glade?
A solitary white flower basks in a beam of watery sun. The vibrance of spring’s green leaves now turned to amber and maple, tumble down into rich and fecund woodland earth. Peridot velvet moss dappled with soft musk embraces you warmly as you lift your face to the light.
Challenging/terrible opening. I like ‘clean’ outrageously soapy and bracing effects, white musk and so forth so if you’re offending me with similar then it must be bad. I feel the style of this is ‘Italian’ in a loose sense. Spirit is too much. It’s unpleasant. Cool and mildly green, I want to say geranium but I like geranium. For 15-20 minutes or so. Then it starts to get a sort of floracy which I can start to get behind, then in the deep, deep, drydown (many hours later) it becomes something I’d actively say I enjoy. A real tale of two halves, which unfortunately for me equates to a bad/not to my taste perfume. Again this seems crude like source, I’d actually say sun is probably the most refined but they all come off indy, and that’s because they are! But… I crave more for in excess of 200 quid a bottle.
The freshness of this amazing fragrance just hits you in the face immediately. I get a coolness from it, a mint/eucalyptus note that is clean in that cold winters day way with the holy grass musk just elevating it all.
bliming marvellous.