Tonka bean
Hay absolute
Honeysuckle
Star jasmine
Tea
Tobacco
Vanilla
Magnolia05/12/2025
kittea
56 Reviews
kittea
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Hay there ;)
I've visited South Carolina before, but never spent all that much time there. So I don't have the scent memory that this perfume is trying to tap into. I don't know what kudzu smells like, and the only tobacco I've smelled has been in pipes. Nonetheless this is nostalgic to me, a hot summer day in a bottle.
Usually I think of cut grass as smelling fresh and green (like my favorite chemical cis-3-hexenol). But if you've ever had to mow on an incredibly hot day, when the grass is barely clinging onto life after baking in the sun for a week, and you're dripping sweat and wishing you'd gotten up to do this earlier when it was cooler out, you've smelled this. It's heavy and thick and honeyed, and somehow feels humid even on a dry day.
For me in Wisconsin, this scent probably came from sweetgrass and clover, but I'm pretty sure this feeling in Carolina comes from the hay absolute, which is above and beyond the star of the show here. Pairing it with tonka makes obvious sense, a coumarin match made in heaven. This is sweet, but it's not sweet in the way of candies or gourmands, it's sweet in the way hay is sweet. No added sugar here. This is the scent of a languid, sticky summer.
It's also the first time I've put a scent on for the night and still been able to smell it in the morning when I woke up, so points for that.
Usually I think of cut grass as smelling fresh and green (like my favorite chemical cis-3-hexenol). But if you've ever had to mow on an incredibly hot day, when the grass is barely clinging onto life after baking in the sun for a week, and you're dripping sweat and wishing you'd gotten up to do this earlier when it was cooler out, you've smelled this. It's heavy and thick and honeyed, and somehow feels humid even on a dry day.
For me in Wisconsin, this scent probably came from sweetgrass and clover, but I'm pretty sure this feeling in Carolina comes from the hay absolute, which is above and beyond the star of the show here. Pairing it with tonka makes obvious sense, a coumarin match made in heaven. This is sweet, but it's not sweet in the way of candies or gourmands, it's sweet in the way hay is sweet. No added sugar here. This is the scent of a languid, sticky summer.
It's also the first time I've put a scent on for the night and still been able to smell it in the morning when I woke up, so points for that.
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