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Clue! The excitement around this brand is contagious, and for good reason: all of their scents are so original and interesting, and their sensibility is so distinctive: a little bit cute, a little bit retro, tasteful and highly considered yet unpretentious, experimental but accessible, and surprising above all. I feel like the essence of Clue is a thought bubble with an exclamation point and question mark in it (an interrobang??). I love the Harry Nilsson soundtrack for the 1971 film that inspired this fragrance and the description sounded like such a perfect summer scent: “A cup of jasmine tea brewed with ocean water.” And it smells exactly like that! The seawater accord is incredible: salty, sandy, and briny in a way that most fresh, “aquatic” perfumes do not accurately nail at all. The jasmine tea is dreamy and mysterious. It gets washed out by the ocean notes in a sort of watercolour way, but it retains a feeling of seriousness that fits with the evocation of the deep sea. On that basis, the brand’s line “a cartoon drawing of jasmine tea” feels a tiny bit misleading, since I feel like there’s something quite wild and poetic about The Point, it doesn’t feel as “cute” as Warm Bulb (which does evoke a comic-strip drawing of a light bulb for me). The floral note of the jasmine combines with the honeyed patchouli of the heart notes to suggest a vintage flavour, a tinge of hippie vibes that fit with the 70s aesthetic of the source material, but in an abstract way that doesn’t go overboard into beads-and-fringes paisley head-shop territory. The mineral top notes and seaweedy ambergris in the base also inflect the patchouli in a surprisingly masculine way: at times, The Point almost seems to be giving whiffs of fougère, though the fragrance drifts and eddies like the tide going out, it’s very nonlinear. I love the sandy drydown—it really smells like wet sand, and I feel like I’m picking up sun-bleached driftwood in there, too. Unlike some other commenters, I’m not finding that it lasts very long (only about 3 hours), though this might be an issue with dabbing from a sample vial. In my fairly limited experience with tea scents, they present a light screen that benefits from generous application. I’m super tempted to get a full bottle of this just to enjoy for the remainder of summer, though I also think I’m really going to want a FB of Warm Bulb when the autumn rolls around, so I might hold off for that.
I wanted to get sea salt so bad, but this was a simple Jasmine for me.