Mareld Björk & Berries 2021
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Salty sage on sandalwood
I'm currently happily testing my way through the Björk&Berries sample kit and have deliberately saved the best for last, because I already knew that Mareld and "Botanist | Björk & Berries" could possibly have a negative impact on my account balance. Every now and then I almost wish I could experience an Icarus effect :)
Mareld can literally be translated as "sea fire" - what figs have to do with it is not immediately clear to me. Mareld also stands for a phenomenon that can occur in the Baltic Sea in late summer or autumn: when large quantities of the phosporizing plankton Noctiluca scintillans come together, the water starts to glow blue and green!
And so the name fits the fragrance like a glove: salty, woody, a little green thanks to "decorative herbs". Unfortunately, many perfume brands often associate "sea" with sunscreen/coconut/other tropical sweet stuff, but not here. Nordic, barren, spray with wind and sand at 7°C - I get homesick! I don't notice the eucalyptus explicitly - it smells more like sage to me right from the start. Mimosa/fig? Nope, but I don't miss it in the slightest - quite the opposite! The two were more responsible for my critically raised eyebrow in advance, but that may vary from skin to skin. My nose can't tell whether it's tonka, sandalwood or the bare Hans.
Two similar candidates in this direction are Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne and Nothing but Sea and Sky, both TOLL TOLL TOLL but unfortunately both with miserable longevity. While Jo Malone is gone with the wind after just 20 minutes, Mareld has done quite well so far. For being an EdP, it has more of the longevity of an EdT, but what the heck. If you wanted it to last longer, you'd probably have to bang wood into it again without end - but that would push it back into the men's fragrance corner ... you just can't have everything. Salt-green-wood is very finely balanced here and makes the fragrance 100% unisex.
Yes, the fragrance is very close to the body, even if I mist myself generously with it I won't get on anyone's nerves - but in my eyes that makes it perfect for a) warm temperatures b) the office c) days when I like to wear perfume but am sensitive to a little "too much". Ostseeleuchten can definitely move in with me.
Not many words about the plain (euphemistically: Nordic reduced) bottle, my lab bottles look similar. 50ml or 100ml are available.
Mareld can literally be translated as "sea fire" - what figs have to do with it is not immediately clear to me. Mareld also stands for a phenomenon that can occur in the Baltic Sea in late summer or autumn: when large quantities of the phosporizing plankton Noctiluca scintillans come together, the water starts to glow blue and green!
And so the name fits the fragrance like a glove: salty, woody, a little green thanks to "decorative herbs". Unfortunately, many perfume brands often associate "sea" with sunscreen/coconut/other tropical sweet stuff, but not here. Nordic, barren, spray with wind and sand at 7°C - I get homesick! I don't notice the eucalyptus explicitly - it smells more like sage to me right from the start. Mimosa/fig? Nope, but I don't miss it in the slightest - quite the opposite! The two were more responsible for my critically raised eyebrow in advance, but that may vary from skin to skin. My nose can't tell whether it's tonka, sandalwood or the bare Hans.
Two similar candidates in this direction are Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne and Nothing but Sea and Sky, both TOLL TOLL TOLL but unfortunately both with miserable longevity. While Jo Malone is gone with the wind after just 20 minutes, Mareld has done quite well so far. For being an EdP, it has more of the longevity of an EdT, but what the heck. If you wanted it to last longer, you'd probably have to bang wood into it again without end - but that would push it back into the men's fragrance corner ... you just can't have everything. Salt-green-wood is very finely balanced here and makes the fragrance 100% unisex.
Yes, the fragrance is very close to the body, even if I mist myself generously with it I won't get on anyone's nerves - but in my eyes that makes it perfect for a) warm temperatures b) the office c) days when I like to wear perfume but am sensitive to a little "too much". Ostseeleuchten can definitely move in with me.
Not many words about the plain (euphemistically: Nordic reduced) bottle, my lab bottles look similar. 50ml or 100ml are available.
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