In a Northern Wood Alkemia

The sun dispels the remnants of the night with delicate fingers of rays, caressingly awakening the early morning: who wouldn't want to be woken up like this?
Silence lies over the forest, only the crunching of footsteps on the dry pine needles covering the springy ground can be heard: It accompanies the distant song of the birds.
Coolness and silence - what a rare commodity - are the main components of "In a northern Wood" by Alkemia.
(Don't worry, it doesn't go on so monotonously: it's the last fragrance from this brand that I received for testing and will review here.
Too bad, but I am grateful that I was able to get to know these natural beauties sealed in vials.)

The forest is silent, the morning sky is wide, the dew, as a curtain of night, still lies over everything and its droplets glitter in rich facets under the incidence of light like polished gemstones.
They embellish the hats of the mushrooms, so at home at the side of the paths, and lay their very own lace pattern over the fern fronds that guard my walk.
Spicy, damp, sometimes a little loamy and musty green accompanies my hike and only gives me a hint of how broad the color, the term "green" is.
The aromatic spicy green is joined by the balsamic pine needle green, which becomes softer and softer over time; protective and caressing to the senses.
A gray barrier of oak moss wants to be overcome in order to immerse oneself in a smoky environment:
It seems as if a multitude of milers line the paths; natural wood smoke and resinous variants fill the air with their dancing swathes, whereby the aromatic resins almost predominate, were it not for a good dose of oud: opoponax and elemi resins and the silky-silky cedarwood pay homage to it, but are ultimately admitted as equal fragrance partners: the result is beautiful!
The nature of the awakening morning shown here has its own, originally strong and at the same time supple fragrance, which invigorates the senses and thus arouses curiosity and yet protects.

This skillfully composed Nordic opus releases all of its fragrance tones and unfolds in its very own rhythm in the course of this spicy, aromatic and green symphony.
The tones play around in a cool way, making "In a northern Wood" perhaps even a counterpart to the citrusy world of summer fragrances: it transports us into a bright forest of shadows with lots of light and darker fragrance secrets, which reveal themselves step by step and thus become a harmonious sounding whole.

Sillage and longevity are typical of the brand; although too much of it could perhaps cause a headache: This clear coolness could also be quite exhausting for sensitive senses.

Now this fragrant walk is certainly not for every day.
But I could well imagine "In a northern Wood" as a time-out from a stressful day:
Close your eyes and just take a deep breath and enjoy the fresh cool morning air up there in Nordic purity and silence.

And again the question arises: Is this already perfume or is it still aromatherapy? Let everyone who has had the chance to experience "In a northern Wood" answer this for themselves.
Doesn't it really matter under which term fragrant calm and silence influence our rhythm of life for a certain time?