11/17/2023
Landshark321
523 Reviews
Landshark321
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Cathartic fresh, green, resinous blend
Sampling the latest release from Parfums Quartana, Forest of the Golden Dream, the follow-up to last year’s award-winning Ierofante and the beginning of a new collection that will continue through next year called “Les Potions D’Entelechie.” It’s fresh, green, aromatic, with a fine mix of trees—for me, a cross between a summery palm and a wintery mix of cypress and pine, slightly sharp but still quite calming and transportive. There are also spices and resins (cardamom, patchouli, fir balsam resin) that round it out and given it a more wintery character, even though, to me, it remains a very fresh and pleasant fragrance, albeit with a lot of nuance. It explores, as discussed in the CaFleureBon article, the healing properties of ancient cultures, and it really does smell like a healing fragrance, but not medicinal to be clear. Natural, green, multifaceted, with a comforting familiarity.
Forest of the Golden Dream is sold both via the house site and great boutiques like Perfumology, priced at $215 for 50ml in EDP concentration, and performs well, not quite as intense as Ierofante, for comparison, but still a very pleasant level of density and projection.
8 out of 10
Forest of the Golden Dream is sold both via the house site and great boutiques like Perfumology, priced at $215 for 50ml in EDP concentration, and performs well, not quite as intense as Ierofante, for comparison, but still a very pleasant level of density and projection.
8 out of 10
