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No̱ 8 Fischersund 2019 Eau de Parfum

7.5 / 10 42 Ratings

A popular perfume by Fischersund for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is citrusy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Citrus

Woody

Green

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Rhubarb

Balsam fir

Floral notes

Grapefruit

Lemon candy Amber

Amber

Asphalt

Bergamot

Birch leaf

Fresh laundry Honey

Honey

Mineral oil

Orange cake

Petitgrain Sitka spruce

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Jón Þór Birgisson Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.542 Ratings

Longevity

6.836 Ratings

Sillage

6.235 Ratings

Bottle

7.732 Ratings

Value for money

5.819 Ratings

Submitted by Hatka, last update on 10/06/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/21/2025

9Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

itscoraline
150 Reviews

itscoraline

1

Bottled Memory

Opens with an initial blast of tart rhubarb and sharp greens. In 30 min it fades to a much closer, sweeter note reminiscent of lemon candy, with gentle hints of spruce beneath.

The dry down is absolutely gorgeous for those who love forest fragrances. Fir notes are often too harsh or artificial for my nose, but this is delicate and realistic, like walking through the woods in spring and lightly crushing fallen fir needles beneath your feet. The amber and asphalt are subtle background notes, grounding the forest in reality.

Somehow the entire experience evokes a very clear and comforting memory of place, even though it’s not mine. All credit to perfumer Jón Þór Birgisson, who has truly captured a moment in time.

04/13/2024

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

IceMachine
4 Reviews

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IceMachine

Very helpful Review 14

You know you're always welcome to stay

I've never been to Iceland. In fact, I wasn't necessarily born into traveling. I hardly ever traveled as a child and teenager. There was hardly any money for it and due to my sister's severe disability, the priorities in our family were understandably elsewhere. As a student, money was again a problem and today, having long since outgrown my student years, I'm still not one of those people who "jet" around the world several times a year. On the one hand, this is because I don't want to fly too often due to climate protection, but on the other hand, I also lack the ease with which other people simply set off. It's just not in my blood. Nevertheless, I have been able to visit some beautiful places in Europe in my life so far, sometimes by plane, often by train, especially in Germany's neighboring countries. And in Spain and Finland and Ireland and Great Britain. I spent some time studying in England. And a few years ago I even made it as far as Canada.

In all those years, Iceland was always at the top of my wish list. Yet I've never been there, something always came up, family, new jobs, pandemics. So I can't say what it smells like in Iceland. A few weeks ago, however, some fragrance samples from the Icelandic label Fischersund found their way to me. Fragrances developed and designed by Jón Þór Birgisson (singer and guitarist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós); fragrances that combine two of my favorite themes - music and perfume. Naturally, I was immediately fascinated and when I arrived at fragrance N°8 and its rhubarb note, I was hooked. The rhubarb is in the foreground for me, but in a very soft way, accompanied by gentle citrus and accompanied by a slightly tart, green note. I can't smell the advertised motor oil directly; only a delicate, slightly chewing gum-like and slightly bitter note emerges over time.
The fragrance reminds me of my childhood, of the 80s, of a warm summer's day. The sun shimmers over the asphalt, somewhere further away a synthesizer sounds from a radio. I throw money into a chewing gum machine, turn the metal handle and get a small red ball of chewing gum. It tastes fruity and sour and my hands now smell of it, mixed with the metallic smell of the machine handle. A light summer breeze blows the scent of the grasses and trees in the nearby woods around my nose. It's the vacations and I still have time before I have to be home for dinner. Life is easy and free and carefree. Does childhood in Iceland feel similar? I think so. It's probably only the landscapes you look at that are different.

In summer 2026, I will be traveling to Iceland with some of my loved ones. We're going to see the beautiful nature and the solar eclipse that will take place there. And in Reykjavik, I will visit the small Fischersund perfumery. If everything works out. If the world is still standing. In my mind's eye, I can see the rugged Icelandic landscape, the sun is shining, the wind is cool and the air is clear. Not a single tree for miles around! I wonder what it smells like there? Does Fischersunds N°8 really capture the scent of the Icelandic summer? I don't know yet.
But I will report back!

You know you're always welcome to stay
You, you know at the end of, of the day
We all, we all die anyway
(Sigur Rós - Gold)

02/15/2024

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Marieposa
52 Reviews

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Marieposa

Top Review 36

Emotional Landscapes

There is still the squeaking of the tire swing. An echo from childhood. A place that is always a different one, flows across my inner map, and yet it is there.
The sour pungency of rhubarb, the tug on the teeth, the smell of rubber that sticks to the child's clothes because the old car tire has become warm in the sun and it can't stop swinging higher and higher. Grass stains on the knees, the view of the black stones that seem to dissolve in the movement. A courageous leap, then it's just a few steps, following the meandering pale roots, along the delicate green of the grasses down to the old pine tree. The crown of daisies sways lightly, even if one of them is now lying forlornly on the lava stones. An inkling that every summer carries a little winter within it, every light knows the darkness, and even on the horizon, the snow on the highest mountain peaks will never melt. A small moment, quite inconspicuous and yet anchored in the soul. It shapes it like the glacier shapes the mountain and the surf shapes the coast.
Break off another stalk of rhubarb in your parents' wild garden, but even if you sweeten it with sugar, a grain of salt will remain.

**

Fischersund from Reykjavik has based its categorization of fragrances on the Icelandic seasons and distinguishes between the three dark, wintery Skammdegi fragrances and the three light, summery Langdegi fragrances. No 8 is one of these summer children and, in my opinion, the brightest, perhaps also the lightest fragrance in the Langdegi series, and yet it cleverly plays with opposites and contrasts.
The top note combines tart grapefruit with stalky bitter green, broken up by lovely hedione stars. The green quickly takes the lead, I perceive an ethereal cool note, would have guessed incense, which is not listed here, and suspect that it could be pine. Tree needles don't have an easy time with my skin, but share some of their natural facets with frankincense, and I suspect my impression might stem from that. The fruitiness of the grapefruit also takes on increasingly greener shades until I finally perceive it as rhubarb - and make a mental note to test intensively next rhubarb season to see if there really is such a clear olfactory relationship with grapefruit as I perceive it here.
The initial coolness is balanced by a mineral warm stone effect, for which Iso E Super could be responsible. The light, bright scent from the start turns into a transparent shimmer, but is prevented from flying away by a quirky but exciting, never unpleasant gum note. I imagine that vetiver is involved here, which can have this effect, but I'm not sure whether I've simply smelled the combination of grapefruit and vetiver so often by now that my head automatically complements it.
The cleverly used contrasts of warm and cold, light and dark create a quiet melancholy in this fragrance, which tells of summer and yet has not forgotten winter.