No̱ 8 Fischersund 2019 Eau de Parfum

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.

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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.