Idyllwild 2017

Idyllwild by Ineke
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7.8 / 10 81 Ratings
A popular perfume by Ineke for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody
Spicy
Green
Fresh
Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
GrapefruitGrapefruit LavenderLavender Rhubarb teaRhubarb tea
Heart Notes Heart Notes
CypressCypress Douglas firDouglas fir SagebrushSagebrush
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk Ponderosa pinePonderosa pine CardamomCardamom CypriolCypriol OudOud

Perfumer

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Scent
7.881 Ratings
Longevity
7.264 Ratings
Sillage
6.564 Ratings
Bottle
7.260 Ratings
Value for money
6.414 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 24.04.2024.

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UntermWert

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UntermWert
UntermWert
Top Review 26  
the fresh, wild song of spring and its quiet serenity
Over the past few days, I've gotten to test out a few green and woodsy scents. Idyllwild was an addition.... about which it was not really at all.
Has captured me wonderfully and completely unstressed conquered with its quiet serenity.

The fragrance opens with fresh greens of spring and early summer: grapefruit and rhubarb are intercepted by lavender and led towards the forest. The is bright and inviting, in my imagination a mixed forest flooded with light, stretching towards the sun, as if freshly awakened. The scent is light, but not fleeting, and certainly not inconsequential.
The individual trees and woods I can not differentiated smell out, but they seem alert, friendly, facing. I enjoy the walk, the happy bustle and buzzing of the forest dwellers.... letting each other be. There's something meditative about the scent without being dreamy, something grounding without being dark, something protective without being sweet or heavy, something spicy without being kitcheny. Another reviewer here named a "fruity earthiness" - I think there is something to that.
In some description of the fragrance components, I also read that somewhere in the base, besides musk (not particularly strongly represented), sequoia is found. That then seems to be the moment that I particularly enjoy, and that earns me the feedback that I smell like bark. Reason enough .... to want it.... absolutely.

The scent has its very own forest magic - I don't experience it as mystical as some resinous, patchouli or incense-infused forest scents (I don't know many yet, but some scent descriptions here suggest that it's dark and earthy at times).... and yet it conveys its very own magic to me. It gives a certain clarity, calmness - and lifts the spirits. The forest is healthy, sprinkles me with needles and leaves in a good mood.... encourages me to take a barefoot walk.

That's where I want to be.

"In all the trees and all the waters and all the green bushes it lives, it chirps and rustles and hums and sings and splashes, everywhere resounds the fresh, wild song of spring." (from: Ronja Räubertochter, Astrid Lindgren)

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According to INeKE's description, the fragrance is a tribute to the natural wonders of California, named after a small mountain town (with a beautiful name). The woodsy components of the perfume are meant to capture the olfactory impressions of a road trip through the surrounding nature that started from there.

A tangy-spicy fragrance. M.E. because of its light freshness absolutely unisex. Wonderful in the warmer season.
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With all dearest thanks to robin for the fragrance experience (I schnurzel here with the last sample drops around, while I long for the ordered bottle)!
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Vrabec

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Vrabec
Vrabec
Top Review 18  
Authentic deep forest
Ineke Rühland, a perfumer in the USA, has decided to sort the names of her creations alphabetically. That means the first letter of a new fragrance follows the order of the alphabet. What there is not everything...
A bit uncreative in my opinion, but in itself has nothing to do with her fragrances. And there she seems versed, has at least quite intensively studied the art of perfumery in France.

Idyllwild itself is named after a town in the California mountains that seems to be most famous for having elected a golden retriever named Max as mayor. No shit.
However, this was after Ineke came up with the idea to christen her perfume after this town and it seems like it was more the surrounding gorgeous nature that prompted her to do so. Idyllwild is namely a forest fragrance.
Starts off steamy, tangy, sour. A green iceberg lettuce note is covered by good mood rhubarb. Grapefruit is barely perceptible, but the lavender comes balsamic, soothing, calming.
I step into an evergreen forest, natural, brute. There's a mist hovering over the lush shrubbery on the ground, but the strong sun breaking through the foliage makes it pleasantly warm, without the mist making for mugginess. The slight fruitiness of the earth note used here, which is arguably the secret star of this creation, turns to resinous woody notes. Not dry, smoked wood, but the deeply impressive scent of massive, venerable trees bursting with grandeur. This is definitely a mixed forest, the pinch of oriental that mixes in really authentically makes for a forest floor sprinkled with needles without making it unable to breathe. The base notes are much less strongly represented than one would assume when reading, but make the forest picture round and give the forest dwellers their place. This is, however, far in the thicket, not on sight to the invading human, so nothing stinks here either.
Idyllwild actually manages, like no one before it, to create in me a believable association of a pristine national park. In the distance I hear the wilderness cracking through the undergrowth. Flowers and berry bushes grow in the clearing. The sun is laughing, I have lightness in my belly, the forest is strong, healthy and thriving. Just as it should be.
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DJSaunterDJSaunter 2 days ago
After sampling a lot of niche wood/forest inspired scents I bought this. Green, woodsy, but enough freshness and musk to make it an easy daily scent.
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