Soft Animal Gather Perfume 2021 Perfume Extrait

Where the dead wood grows deeper, rotting into the earth in dense mist, the last light glimmers through brown glass, flickering red over herbal ponds, and a swarm of champaca flowers flies, chased by the butterfly catcher of Spitzweg, there is the place where the soft animal lives. It digs in the warm mud for peaches, for traces of cows and their milk, its paws are dark brown and leathery, the fur is soft and somewhat bristly, smelling of roots, fur, and costus, of human hair and deer musk, of the gentle sepia-colored smoke in the underbrush above the mulch. It is rare, but if you see one, be mindful so you do not forget it.
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Gather Perfumes, based in Massachusetts, produces 100% natural fragrances. Ananda Wilson processes plant essences, extracts, and oils that come either from local wild growth or organic cultivation. All the more remarkable is the long-lasting nature of the fragrances, which can be attributed to Ananda's extensive experience and the masterful processing of the scents. She produces her fragrances in small batches, which are subject to natural seasonal variations.
A small exception in terms of plant essences is "Soft Animal," as it uses musk tinctures from musk and beaver. A video of the local trapper from whom she sources the materials can be viewed on her homepage. Her methods remain sustainable and transparent here as well. The lactone accord used, however, is of natural origin, not a chemical imitation.
"Soft Animal" combines the animal notes (bitter-sharp castoreum, muskrat musk) with the sweet and heavy scent of champaca, fruity-milky-soft lactone aromas, and woods into a fragrance that is mild-animalic, earthy-leathery, slightly fruity, resinous-medical, smoky, and darkly floral at the same time. I would have guessed blindfolded at animalic-earthy oud, fur-like costus root, and champaca, as the scent strongly resembles "Milestones" by TSVGA. The moderate fragrance does not undergo a noticeable development over the eight hours.

(With thanks to Seejungfrau and Gandix)