Desert Cedar Juniper Ridge 2018 Solid Perfume

Follow your thoughts into the deep desert, into an illusion of surreal grotesque, where the highway ends, the scorching asphalt turns to sand, and you find a gnarled cedar as the last still undead being. An eternal wasteland stretches behind it. The desiccated old trunk has rammed itself through the roof of a Lincoln, roasting it like on a spit in the sun, hanging there a few meters above the ground, the melted tires pulling long threads, oozing thickly over rocky barren stones, just like the plastic of the dashboard mingles with the tar that the cedar bark bleeds, searing deep scars into the seats, burning the leather, the old sweat stains. There you lay down to sleep in its saddle, even at the onset of night it casts smoldering shadows deep into your dark dream and a burning rider blows into his horn.
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Juniper Ridge, based in Oakland, California, is fully committed to the sustainable ecological production of personal care products. The raw materials are mostly harvested wild by the 13-member team, they source woods from sustainably managed forests, and they produce their oils through steam distillation.
"Desert Cedar" is certainly the roughest scent of the house in its solid version. The dominant leather is dark, smoky, and (birch) tarry, reminiscent of a worn, oily workshop rag, but dried and hard in the sun. The cedar resin truly lives up to its second name, cedar gum, as it evokes images of tar mixing with liquid tires and hot plastic. The image of the melting car wreck in the desert, skewered by a tree, came to me when I wore the scent while falling asleep. When I read Delightful's statement about it in the morning, I had to chuckle. The wreck was still lying there on my arm.

(With thanks to Delightful)