A conifer tree. Dried tree bark, a sweet sappy cone, green tree needles.

This to me is what a green scent should be.

It smells like a place in time. A walk in the forest.

This has the same spirit as the now devastatingly discontinued Magenta Pop. The fruity animalic genre is a deeply underappreciated genre, and this is another sublime addition. Very rich in juicy strawberries, a concoction of other red fruits and tarty cocktails, with that same yeasty twist that makes Magenta Pop so alluring. I really wish Prin would expand on these two and add more to the line up in the same vein as this.

So many times I try a fragrance that someone says is animalic, and I always disagree. However THIS absolutely has an animalic element in it. It smells like animal fur. It's not sweaty or dirty, it just smells like I've picked up a small animal and smelled it's fur.

Here's the thing though, you only get that note if you stick your nose right into skin. In the air it smells rich in violet petals. It smells so clean and smooth, and in such a way that no gender applies to it.

It's a cozy scent. When I first tried it, I blew this off as being boring, floral and not very animalic. I'm glad that I had a sample that I could then come back to a few months later. It's dirty in an actually animalic way. I smell like I've rubbed an animal all over me. It makes me feel like I've been transported back 100 years, and it's a fascinating sensation to experience.

I've always loved the idea of gourmands but I often find them too sweet, sickly and overbearing. I was close to writing off gourmands completely until I smelled this.

This was just a random blind by from a sample set with no expectations. On strip I just got some gentle animalic notes and not too much else and put it to the side. Decided to spray it on skin and give it a full go, and I'm delighted to discover how wonderful this is on skin.

The opening hits you briefly with a strong dose of warm nutmeg and spices, that admittedly I'd have loved to get more than a couple of seconds of as I keep wanting to reapply, and then after a few seconds the spices settle and you are finally met with a wall of strong clean waxy ambergris and cacao that comes together to smell like a high-end chocolaterie. There is no cheap sugary sweetness to it at all. Just a warm cacao with a vanilla blanket. Underneath all of this is an animalic base that never becomes stinky or dirty. The hyraceum just adds this warm hug to the overall experience creating a close and comforting feel, and giving it a wonderful character to the body of the fragrance. It has synthetic castoreum, but definitely in very low amounts and hard to detect. It's a very well balanced experience.

It's not a punchy fragrance by any means though. It settles down quickly into a skin scent so you'll definitely need a few sprays to get it to the point it will jump out at you as you wear it, as one spritz on the skin may leave you hungry for more.

If you like warmer scents but not too big on scents that creep into the gourmand territory I still think it's worth looking into as you may surprise yourself.

The image this paints for me when I wear it is a small town old beach-front shop in the UK that's full of inflatables and plastic buckets and spades warming up in the light of the summer sun, mixed with an air of slightly melting sweets. The warmth of the old wood frames in the old building releasing a nostalgic warm wood scent, the creamy smell of warm lotion-soaked skin, all being washed over by a fresh sea breeze coming in through the door.

Despite what you may think from the notes, this is absolutely a scent to wear in WARM WEATHER. Pick a nice day where the temperature is in the low to mid 20's celsius and sunny. The ozonic and melon notes really come out and sing, and the darkness in the backbone of this become more like a creamy skin vibe in the warmth. In the winter this can go a bit flat and not really punch the same, and feels like you're not getting the full blast of what this scent is all about.

Absolute genius perfumery, with I think a reputation plagued by people's aversion to what's on the notes list. Ignore that and just try it.

Sweet, fruity, addicting, sparkly, warm, incense stick adjacent. Civet-y twang adds a yeasty beer-like vibe to the whole thing that's incredibly addictive.

Sadly discontinued, so stocked up on multiple bottles.

Don't get to wear it as much as I like, as my partner thinks it smells like an underpass wall drenched in stale piss. I strongly disagree.