St. Louis Cemetery #1 Alkemia 2015

It's not hard to make a good cemeterial scents! It has everything: its humid (but not soaking wet), melancholic, nostalgic. I love it so much. Forget the over complicated formulas to evoke a cemetery - this one, with few notes, takes you to Père Lachaise. As a visitor? As a ghost? Your choice. I really like the stone note, it adds some realness to all of it. Smells like a proper tombstone.

This fragrance really delivers what it promises from the name and the notes: wet stone (you could imagine tombstone, specifically, if you wish), covered in wet soil and some moss. I love smells like this one, so it's a win for me. A good earthy petrichor scent, not aquatic at all, no cucumbers to be found here. Properly done. Damp couture.

This scent starts out almost sweet smelling, akin to freshly crushed moss or lichen? If you are looking for something closer to a cold and wet cemetery, you have to wait about an hour for the perfume to really begin to shine. The sweet edge fades out and it turns into a cold grey day. The stone and soil smell very well balanced without being too heavy, and the perfume still retains its green mossy edge. A really interesting experience if you are willing to wait a bit for the initial sweetness to fade out. Personally, I'm willing to allow this scent to shift and change just to enjoy how close to mossy stone it smells.