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Chasing Autumn 2014 Parfum

7.9 / 10 55 Ratings
A popular perfume by Neil Morris Fragrances for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is smoky-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Spicy
Woody
Earthy
Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Birch tarBirch tar Atlas cedarAtlas cedar CoffeeCoffee NagarmothaNagarmotha Nootka cypressNootka cypress Siberian fir needleSiberian fir needle AmberAmber NutmegNutmeg VetiverVetiver LeatherLeather

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.955 Ratings
Longevity
8.646 Ratings
Sillage
8.346 Ratings
Bottle
5.646 Ratings
Value for money
7.511 Ratings
Submitted by Michael, last update on 11/04/2025.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Mlleghoul

461 Reviews
Mlleghoul
Mlleghoul
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an homage to the flickering fires of autumn
Chasing Autumn brings to life the autumn I've always yearned for, living in Florida's endless summer. It's a scent that captures not just a season, but a frame of mind and a state of being I'm perpetually seeking. Millais' painting Autumn Leaves comes to mind - a twilight scene where young girls gather fallen foliage, their faces touched with a melancholic reverence for the changing season. The painting draws our eyes to a vivid pile of rustling leaves, with only a wisp of smoke hinting at a distant bonfire.

This fragrance, however, boldly brings that bonfire to the forefront. The fir and birch tar notes roar to life, evoking the crackling warmth of autumn nights I've only imagined. It's as if Morris has taken that implied warmth from Millais' canvas and made it the heart of this olfactory experience. The leather and coffee accords add depth, reminiscent of cozy evenings of the sort I feel in Emily Brontë's poetry.

Emily Brontë's "Fall, Leaves, Fall" echoes as I wear this scent. Her words are not just poetry, but an invocation - a chant to usher in the coming winter. The line "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree" feels like a spell being cast, and this fragrance embodies that mystical transition. Where Brontë's poem is a call to the approaching cold, Chasing Autumn captures the very essence of that summoning.

ALSO this scent conjures the underlying atmosphere of Over The Garden Wall, stripped of its childish elements (I love those elements! But!) It evokes that sense of being lost in an autumnal otherworld, where mystery and melancholy reign supreme. The fragrance captures the essence of wandering through the Unknown, with its subtle menace and ominous presence lurking just beneath the surface of fallen leaves and shadowy forests.

Chasing Autumn is an homage to those flickering fires of autumn, allowing me to immerse myself in a fall feeling that exists more in my mind than in my subtropical reality. It's a sensory journey to the autumn I chase year after year, never quite reaching but always dreaming of - a season both beautiful and slightly foreboding.
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Carboytony

116 Reviews
Carboytony
Carboytony
2  
New England Autumn in a Bottle!
The aroma of roasting coffee beans greets you, immediately followed by the magical smell of an Autumn bonfire. Gorgeously smokey, gloriously woodsy, just glorious!

There is a most beautiful cedar note in the drydown, accenting the tingling fir and pine notes, complimenting the delicate hardiness of Cypress. These wood notes are out in force and are just so well done! Slight hints of nutmeg are sprinkled throughout the composition, really adding icing to the cake. Amber warms in the drydown as well, it really sparkles in the base notes. Vetiver ties it all together.
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BobbyGee

230 Reviews
BobbyGee
BobbyGee
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Neil Morris Fragrances / Chasing Autumn
MEGA REALISTIC smell of burnt autumn leaves. Around the forest with firs, pines, cypresses and a large pile of plundered leaves in the center. We set it on fire and let it burn ... let it burn, let it smoke. The smoke is so big we smell like it.
I just thought that using this perfume is a good excuse for people returning home, when asked by their partner: 'where have you been?' Just spray yourself before entering the house. Nobody will have any doubts that you were standing by a huge fire of burnt leaves. But where the hell come from such a fire and such dry leaves in spring and summer? Ha ha.
Oh, for sensitive noses - you will notice that this effect was obtained, among others thanks to roasted black coffee beans.
For me - a perfume masterpiece.

Notes: vetiver, coffee, nutmeg, Siberian fir needles, nagarmotha, birch tar, amber, Atlas cedar, Nutcai cypress
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AlexD76

114 Reviews
AlexD76
AlexD76
1  
A Deep Dive into the Melancholy Beauty of Fall
Chasing Autumn is a hauntingly beautiful, moody and atmospheric scent that showcases the melancholy aspects of the fall season. This is not the smiling, crisp, apple-picking, pumpkin spice latte section of autumn - it is the moodier, haunting beauty of dried, decaying leaves, with that smoky chill in the air, that leaves you contemplative and pensive towards the much shorter days of late October.
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Chizza

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Chizza
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The Forest Cabin in the Mountains
The first time I wanted to go hunting for autumn with Neil, I thought to myself, after testing more than 900 fragrances and having a penchant for rough leather, smoke, and the like, that not much could come my way that would be too much for me. Well...wrong.
Chasing Autumn captivated me during the first test in the car; I didn't even smell Neil's Fetish on the other arm anymore, and anyone who knows that one knows that says something. Chasing Autumn is probably one of the strongest fragrances I know. It is fundamentally not a reinvention but rather reminiscent of other works. More on that later. In any case, he created all the perfumes himself, which is fundamentally likable.

I am not revealing a secret when I say that after the birch tar, nothing comes at all. It is so intense, so black that even experienced noses will feel differently after several sprays. One certainly notices a sharpness and wonders where it comes from. The culprit may be the false cypress, which, when you take the leaves, gives off a sharp smell, but ultimately gets burned, and thus the intense resin will carry the sharpness within it. This is olfactorily overwhelming enough.

But no, all the ingredients push forward. Nagarmotha is known to be extremely spicy, and when you add this, creating a spicy-sharp tar cloud, you know what bites in the nose. Exciting in this context is another note that I perceive. Coffee. Not ground coffee, but rather unroasted. Archaisic in some way, like Chasing Autumn as a whole.

I cannot perceive the other ingredients individually. The trees will surely carry this intensely smoky and biting scent. It is not possible for me to compare this smoky-black, inhospitable, toxic-smelling creation. Many fragrances are also pure smoke like Incendo, Black Sheep, etc. In this intensity and projection, for me, only Birch Tar & Russian Leather comes close, but it smells different.

Suddenly I also know what I am smelling. Soot. Which makes sense because in the past, highly resinous coniferous wood was burned to obtain soot, which was needed as a component for other products. Coniferous woods are, for example, false cypresses and the fir, both present here. This manufacturing process was usually carried out in the same cabin where the tar distiller produced birch tar.

Thus, the autumn hunt ultimately becomes a retreat into a remote forest cabin of this profession or these professions. By the way: the professions have become extinct; nowadays, there are of course other means and ways. Nevertheless, I gladly let myself be taken along olfactorily; the scent itself is too strong for me to wear daily, but considered as art, we have a successful product here.
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2 years ago
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An initial blast of smoked mackerel, fading to burnt rubber, renders this one nose-wrinklingly unattractive for me.
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Summer forest
Trembling heat
Birches stand black and sweat
Burnt bark
Meadows turn brown
The needles wither on the trees
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Extinguished fire.
Burnt forest.
Black sooty ground.
Ash floats through the air.
Tar smokes.
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The cheeks stained with ash
it's not the chimney sweep
A little hat with feathers
crossbow slung over the shoulder
but it's not a hunter :)
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Chasing autumn
in its darker colors
reading coffee grounds
the future will burn
pitch and sulfur
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The animals dissolve into ham smoke
The tar road through the woods bubbles
In the end, all that's left of the trees is ash
Coffee in hand*
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This is one of the most intense scents I've encountered so far. The smoke is overshadowed by a strong coffee-like, oily spice.
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Something deeply familiar. A place I've been for several lifetimes. A safe refuge in wild nature. Warmth. Ember. Autumn.
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Indeed the scent of my homeland, when wandering through the Siberian forests. Pine needles and chewing on birch tar. Quite intense.
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4 years ago
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Chasing autumn so fast that my shoes are smoking. Unfortunately, for me, it's too dull, bitter, and one-dimensional. Just gray ash...
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