the opening of this perfume and I'd say the first 15 minutes or so are the best. On direct spray you get all the fruits, bright, fizzy and sparkling but they quickly give way to a glorious 15 minutes of lightly smoked birch and tonka with a herbaceous mossy backdrop. It does feel quite cold, serious and almost a touch gothic, but never straying too far into that territory thanks to the fruits keeping it just light enough. After this, it turns a bit soapy and powdery which is fine, but I prefer it before the soapiness kicks in. The whole thing is underscored by the musk that Bortnikoff tends to be famous for, It's fatty, animalic and urinous. I have to admit, as much as I don't like the use of real deer musk in perfumery, it does smell good blending with the moss and tonka and birch in the base. Could it be done with synthetics? Probably, yes. Overall nothing groundbreaking, but a classical composition done exceedingly well.