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Eaglewood House of Matriarch 2016

8.4 / 10 57 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by House of Matriarch for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Smoky

Animal

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Oud

Perfumer

Christi Meshell

Ratings

Scent

8.457 Ratings

Longevity

8.149 Ratings

Sillage

7.347 Ratings

Bottle

8.040 Ratings

Value for money

6.214 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 04/19/2024.

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Ceylon

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2023

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

DarkWinterCS
291 Reviews

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DarkWinterCS

Ancestral Grave Hidden in the Forest

Dark forest at midnight
The trees sway in the wind
Howling of wild animals
Mountains in the background
Starry clear through the night
Shining points in the sky

The eagle circles its rounds
Searching the ground, the forest
Creaking of trees in the ears
Rustling in the foliage
Spirits of the ancestors swirl around
Bright spot in the middle of a clearing
Flames lick at the felled wood

Smoke rises
Men sit together in a circle
Foreign languages spoken
Feathers in long hair
Robes of leather on the body
War paint on the face
Plans are forged
Stories told

The eagle flies back
Back to its nest
Brown plumage

**

Eaglewood is a fragrance full of depth and history. Not because the DNA is so complex, but because it wants to absorb you and never let go. Dark, smoky, woody, and without a visible end. A black hole that blocks every gaze into it.

Oud in a smoky, woody base. Hints of pleasant leather notes that gently caress the nose. No note that dominantly wields the scepter. A balance between darkness and wood. No medicinal aromas in the nose, rather natural occurrences. A scent that seems noble and exalted for the surroundings, without being intrusive.

Wonderful. Here, I gladly sit by the campfire.

09/28/2018

8Scent 8Longevity

RobGordon
59 Reviews

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RobGordon

Top Review 33

The Eagle Does Not Want to Land!

As a child, I enjoyed visiting my father at the office. To avoid bothering his employees too much, I was allowed to take over my grandfather's room.

He was no longer alive, yet everything was so disorganized, as if he had just left. I carry that gene within me as well. Three things in this room will always stay in my memory:

A bottle of alcohol with an apple on it, which was still unopened before I discovered it. Back then, I didn’t know what Calvados was, but I understood why the level decreased with each of my visits. A case of spontaneous evaporation. In the desk drawer (he probably forfeited his right to privacy in my eyes) a rusty revolver from excavation work, likely from one of the World Wars.

And a black leather-covered box that housed a used electric razor. This emitted a scent that was not easy to describe as soon as I opened the box, reaching its olfactory peak in the area of the protective grid of the rotating blades.

How does one even describe a scent for which a note is supposed to be responsible, of which only a few have a concrete idea? Best not at all. But it’s worth a try.

When I received the sample, I only smelled the nozzle. And I repeated this process every few days. From the very beginning, I knew I had smelled this scent before, just didn’t know where and when.

In this case, I had to go back very far. There I was at my grandfather's desk. The box with the electric razor, from which I repeatedly removed the metal blade guard and had to realize that the razor probably didn’t clean itself. And my grandfather was likely too busy to engage in this task during his lifetime.

What I had back then, as well as when testing this scent, was an accord of sewing machine oil, which develops a characteristic scent when warmed by friction, rounded off with a hint of a strong musk aftershave, with a subtly lingering sweetness. On the skin, it is also highly linear.

Anyone who tests "Eaglewood" "blind" will never come up with the idea of talking about woody notes, thus the impression of wood is rather difficult to communicate. If Christi Meshell had created this scent from a specific oud distillate, she would be demoted from perfumer to filler. It should therefore not be surprising that, according to the perfumer, this is a composition of several oud distillates, yet without a pyramid.

Real oud is, once again, an interesting experience, yet this remains a problematic substance for me in perfumery. Burning oud chips is an exciting ritual with a long tradition, but in perfumery, it is more of a hype to justify higher prices, almost exclusively with substitutes, for actually small money from the lab.

The longevity is about 8 hours; I will skip the projection test this time. The lady refused to make herself available for scent science here. No pantys raining down, but possibly angular ashtrays and mother-in-law vases.

Animalic notes sometimes have something attractive alongside their repulsive properties. I see this fulfilled here. But it’s not enough for me to want to wear this scent myself. For that, a social environment is certainly recommended, which also sees the attractive properties. And there are worlds between wanting to have a scent under your nose and wanting to wear it regularly. The price is, by the way, $660/50ml.

I am grateful to the perfumer for the ride into the past and the awareness that arose in me while testing, that I never asked my father why he left my grandfather's office unchanged after his death.

My thanks also to @Fluxit for providing a fragrance sample.