Fields of Rubus Kerosene 2012

Bottle Design John Pegg

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7.4 / 10 168 Ratings

Fields of Rubus is a perfume by Kerosene for women and men and was released in 2012. The scent is fruity-earthy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fruity

Earthy

Woody

Spicy

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Patchouli

Raspberry

Tobacco

Vanilla

Musk

Sandalwood

Apple

Plum

Cedar

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

John Pegg Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.4168 Ratings

Longevity

7.9128 Ratings

Sillage

7.3131 Ratings

Bottle

8.2120 Ratings

Value for money

6.723 Ratings

Submitted by Bluerose, last update on 04.04.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/05/2023

7.5
Scent

ScentStudio
141 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

A surprise and delight

Sweet, a little boozy opening with notes of smokiness. There's a fresh tobacco note that keeps the fragrance grounded and not too sweet or cloying. The sweetness is slightly fruity, but not so much so that I can identify, which fruit it is.
After dry down, the smokiness disappears and I find out that patchouli is what made the fragrance smoky in the first place.

This is just on paper, on skin, Fields of Rubus is a rich and surprisingly juicy patchouli fragrance. It is in fact very different from any Kerosene fragrance I have tried, and I've smelled a fair few by now.
Not too long after spraying, the patchouli becomes sensually dirty and tobacco is just as prevalent. The fruitiness is just in the background adding sweetness and slight freshness to the fragrance.

Reapplying, the patchouli in the beginning is so dirty that it almost smells like dark chocolate!
After dry down, the fragrance leans more masculine on me, but in a feminine way - make that make sense!

Fields of Rubus is taking me by surprise. I did not expect any of this, but I do enjoy the ride.

12/08/2019

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Floyd
290 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 27

Primeval plant in dark fields

When landscapes glide quietly into darkness, you dive into the raspberry fields, whose bright red sparks ride on the scent of plums, already dancing violet images. In the mist of the still warm sweating earth, in the smell of matured patchouli, the fruity horses slowly vanilla themselves, conchieren in Rumtraubenschoki.
And from the forest winds soon blow sandy woods in fine smoky threads, they then make the fruits disappear completely, sweet ash sand bathe in earth. Within a short time, small basins form like eyes on the patchouli, collecting dry drops of dark musk, red smoke piece in the hands of the hippies. Now hallucinations of shredded light cigars crawl across the Rubus floor like sleeping sand and invite you to stay. In dreams for hours structures of wounds in trees full of connotations you float in textures of warm reddish colors completely lost in thought.
In the fields of Rubus, Patchouli is a primeval plant whose roots all grow, fruits, wood, tobacco, smoke, musk, vanilla, developing and extremely complex. I smell nature here and no synthetics, original and rather quiet, spring, autumn and winter whisper the desire for around eight hours of journey.

08/10/2014

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

1

Opening smells exactly like Paint!

Yes, it opens really loud, and I suspect the patchouli is mostly what gives it that paint smell. But in a couple of minutes, that fresh paint opening reveals the raspberry, plum, and apple notes that smell so good. It’s too bad they don’t last very long before the woody drydown starts. Thankfully, the cedar note isn’t as strong as the patchouli, which I think blends well with the vanilla, although I'm not crazy about patchouli in general. The opening, after that initial blast of paint, reminds me of a breakfast buffet with plenty of jam, but the drydown is woody and patchouli and reminds me of Home Depot. Overall, I think the fruit, vanilla, and patchouli blend is slightly interesting, and sometimes I like the smell of Home Depot. Yes, it reminds me of lumber, but BRIGHT lumber, if that makes any sense. I would describe this as a "happy" smell.

12/27/2012

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8
Scent

MemoryOScent
37 Reviews

MemoryOScent

4

dark berry shadows

Fields of Rubus despite its benign name (I had to look up “rubus” to find out that it is the latin name for the berry genus) leaves the sunlit paths of the field for darker places. My first impression was patchouli straight up. But this was just my first “open the vial, splash some on” impression. I am very much afraid of fruity notes in perfumes, at least as it is used in most fragrances these days: a note added hastily as a “digestif” to make the composition more recognizable and accessible to young consumers. Fruit however can be incorporated beautifully in the composition to create a specific texture, much like aldehydes. It can make a perfume feel round and shiny. Jean Laporte has been the master in this use of fruit with L’Artisan Parfumeur Murs et Musc and the less berry-centric use in Route du Vetiver (you have to try really hard to get the note in this one) and the Muskissime series.

Fields of Rubus develops like an inverted pyramid: if your read the official note listing, read it from the last to first to get an idea of what this smells like. First I get patchouli, a brown, autumnal patchouli laced with amber. It is not a camphorous, herbal, green patchouli. This patchouli smells of chocolate, or to be more precise, it smells of carobs which are used to make chocolate substitute. Now carob has a labdanum similarity so probably this is where I get the amber lace in the opening of this. Then comes a bread yeast note with slightly sour hue. From the way I am describing this you can tell that the opening is right up my alley, strange, difficult and moody. It is not meant to be a crowd pleaser but please bear with me and my rantings because it is worth it. Yeast goes away and carob just leaves its autumnal warmth on the skin. Then comes tobacco and guaiac wood (yeap, I get guaiac wood here), good old unscented tobacco, not the cherry flavoured variety. So where is the fruit? It’s in there, in the deep drydown as a berry note with a subtle vanilla and an even more subtle musk note but in reality it has been there all along making the carob sticky and the tobacco leaves damp. Although this is by no means a feminine scent it is probably the one that more daring women, the ones that enjoy Bandit, would feel most comfortable slipping into. Fields of Rubus dwells on the edge of the field, in the shadows of the trees, in a mysterious and dubious, genderless place. If Creature conjures Dryads, Fields of Rubus dances on the Faun’s goat legs.

Notes from Kerosene: Raspberry, Plum, Apple, Tobacco Wood, Musk, Vanilla, Sandalwood, Cedar, and Patchouli.

Notes from my nose: carob, yeast, tobacco, guaiac wood, vanilla, musk, berries