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Bloodline American Perfumer 2019

8.5 / 10 53 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by American Perfumer for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is smoky-resinous. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Smoky

Resinous

Woody

Earthy

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Pinon pine needle Fatwood

Virginia cedar

Labdanum

Oakmoss absolute

Patchouli

Tobacco

Vanilla

Oak wood

Perfumer

Hans Hendley

Ratings

Scent

8.553 Ratings

Longevity

8.547 Ratings

Sillage

7.749 Ratings

Bottle

7.144 Ratings

Value for money

7.525 Ratings

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/11/2019

9.5Scent

EauMySoul
25 Reviews

EauMySoul

Most realistic & pleasurable woodsmoke fragrance I have smelled

I have always been really iffy on overtly smokey fragrances. I don’t like those smokey outdoor BBQ sort of fragrances that others seem to think are all that. I have never smelled one that I felt was all that appealing, let alone beautiful...until today. Bloodline is, without a doubt, the most realistic woodsmoke fragrance I have ever smelled, the most natural, and the most beautiful. There is nothing weird thrown in, nothing distracting, no rubber, no plastic, nothing “trying too hard”. It’s not too charred, nor is it lumberjack manly with added evergreen notes, nothing grilled food like, nothing Portland hippie trendy, or anything that you usually find in many smokey indie scents. This is the exquisite beauty of whiffs of firewood that you get in fresh morning air of a rustic cabin in the middle of nowhere. It’s that first smell of winter in the neighborhood you grew up in, those whiffs you get when you know it’s cold enough for someone to be using a fireplace for the first time. It’s the comforting smell of being home with family. It’s pure. It’s elegance. I can’t explain it, but Bloodline almost makes me cry.

For someone who doesn’t even like smokey fragrances to be this pleased, it is really saying something. I actually feel bad even writing a review for this because only 15 bottles were made and it sold out in an hour. But if you are a fan of smoked wood fragrances and see this one ever for sale, I strongly suggest you buy it unsniffed. I can’t image ANY fan of woodsmoke would not be pleased. In my humble opinion, this is an award worthy scent. It’s flawless. And, again, I don’t even like smokey fragrances. But when something is this good, I will make an exception.

10/19/2024

9Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

ElAttarine
88 Reviews

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ElAttarine

Top Review 29

World Tree

Come, let us listen to the drums, leaning against the old port casks, my heart pulses and beats in the dark, above us green pine needle shooting stars. I can see the gigantic World Tree, its roots in the earth connected with all other living beings, the dark bloodline of all life. I only see it in shadows, dense smoke surrounds it, resinous wood smoke, billowing juniper smoke, through which the burning splinters of wood scatter sparks that disappear again and again into the smoke. Woods and needles crackle, burst, and pop high above us, and yet it is not too hot here, almost ethereal-cool on the skin of my cheeks. No reason to be afraid. Take my hand and let us breathe in the black vanilla and cocoa that rise from below between the mossy patchouli earth holes with the smoke, let us be carried by the vanilla tobacco smoke up to the treetops, where we can fly…
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Floyd has already described the story of the scent in his beautiful review (Hendley's father had created a distillate from a large cedar that grew on the family property and then passed it on to his son; this distillate forms the center here). For me, this scent represents, on the one hand, familial lineages - although today it may not solely depend on "the blood," but rather there is more awareness that familial connections can indeed be passed down in much more diverse ways. On the other hand, it tells me the story of the World Tree, of the networks in the mulchy living soil through which all trees, plants, and fungi are interconnected, and of the interconnectedness of all living things in general, which is unfortunately often negated today in favor of an emphasis on independence. But deep interconnectedness can also enable freedom…
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It is worth being quick to pay attention here at the beginning: It starts like a single moment of lightning-fast synthesis with ambient-vanilla, simultaneously with a slight boozy note reminiscent of old port wine casks, and alongside green pine needles. But immediately, a more intense resinous wood smoke lays over it. It lingers for a long time and then very slowly, layer by layer, releases the individual notes that shone at the beginning, and even more. Beautifully rich, complex, life-saturated cedar scent, dark-earthy patchouli, a hint of dark-bitter cocoa. Later, I can perceive resinous-animalic labdanum, which I really like, and again the pine.
Great, big cinema!
With heartfelt thanks to Knopfnase!

10/27/2022

9.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
582 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 63

I come from a long line of cedar and pinyon pine

Do you see the sparks flying in the sky, rising like cool-green drops of juniper rain from distant campfires, their dark mists drifting through the forests and crackling into the underbrush? Do you hear the red cedar beating like fruity-woody wine in my veins, the hissing of the cool pine needles in the annual rings of resinous shavings? There in the oak barrels dwell fleeting shadows of the spirits of my ancestors, made from black vanilla. Do you smell the mulch in my clothes, sewn from the leaves of tobacco fields, keeping me warm here in the woods, in the dust of cocoa over earthy paths that lie many hours ahead of me? I come from long lines of cedar wood and ancient pines.
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Hans Hendley's "Bloodline" is based on an oil that Hendley's father distilled from a red cedar that stood on the Texas family property. Its aroma is reminiscent of fruity red wine from wooden barrels, which is dominated by a chord of cool pine needles, soft tobacco leaves, and robust Swiss pine resins from pitch. However, the beginning is marked by smoky juniper notes of the red cedar, before soon the leading motif, flanked by oak notes reminiscent of an old whiskey barrel with residual aromas of dark vanilla, emerges. Some time later, notes of bitter cocoa and earth from dark patchouli become perceptible, while the balsamic labdanum and oak moss add even more depth and darkness beneath the increasingly dominant Swiss pine.
A fascinating, moderately projecting, and long-lasting fragrance that initially exudes the spirit of "Fum" or "Norne," but then works in a more complex manner, carrying echoes of "Pine Barrens" or "Desert Resin," and thus ranks among the great natural fragrances for me.