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Meadow & Fir 2013

7.5 / 10 11 Ratings
A perfume by Phoenix Botanicals for women, released in 2013. The scent is sweet-resinous. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet
Resinous
Woody
Spicy
Green

Fragrance Notes

FirFir AmberAmber Linden treeLinden tree MyrrhMyrrh ResinsResins Wild flowersWild flowers VioletViolet

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Scent
7.511 Ratings
Longevity
6.210 Ratings
Sillage
5.510 Ratings
Bottle
5.79 Ratings
Submitted by Apicius, last update on 05/12/2019.

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Morgaina

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Mr. Marmalade or Sir Jam
A natural lad who loved to roam the woods, yet a lord of Queen's grace, that was he, Sir Jam(ie). He was always surrounded by a hint of sweet berry jam, strawberry, raspberry, he loved them all. Evil tongues claimed to have seen remnants of it in his beard, both after breakfast and after the 5 o'clock tea.
Today, he was once again in a hurry, the sun was shining and he was in such a rush after breakfast that his butler could barely tear the jam-stained napkin from his neck as he stormed out. Finally spring! He wanted to go into the woods, pick violets for Lady Sara, his beloved, check on the wild bees to see if there were already honeycombs, and of course to make a little fire to do some illegal slash-and-burn farming. (Unfortunately, his forest had been declared a nature reserve)
The violets were quickly picked, and in the attempt to coax honey from the wild bees, he had to climb the lime tree, but unfortunately, the branch broke under his weight. "Maybe a little less jam, dear Jamie," he chuckled to himself. Using the branch as a crutch, he hobbled away.
"Now a little fire, so that soon it will be a bit more field for me," said and done. Only a country bumpkin is not necessarily an expert when it comes to making fire. Wet fir wood is hardly suitable for that, but luckily there was still the lime branch from the previous bee adventure. Together with the damp wood, it smoked and stank quite a bit, the greenery of spring nature around him, his beard faintly scented of strawberry jam, the tucked-in honeycomb in his jacket pocket, - he was as happy as a little boy.

"Meadow & Fir," an organic perfume oil, starts with sweet jam and then quickly transitions into fiercely crackling fire and lots of smoke, apparently, it’s coniferous trees that are playing along here. Time and again, jammy and honey-like notes come through, but the fire never goes out. The natural scent has something of a room fragrance or an essential oil that wafts away in the water bowl with the well-known tealight. For me, the best scent from the line that I have been able to try so far (many thanks to Fluxit at this point). Nevertheless, the brand Phoenix Botanicals and I do not quite warm up to each other.
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Meggi

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Disneywood
Gummy bear sweetness, dry flowers, hay, a hint of conifer. Huh? Thoughts are slowly sorting themselves out. Is perhaps a conifer honey meant? I express this conceptually quite generally, as the candy-like fruity sweetness doesn’t quite fit. In addition, there’s a bitter note that hints at something medicinal - myrrh?

I think from a distance of ‘The Holy Mountain’ by Apoteker Tepe or ‘Wald’ by Euphorium Brooklyn. Spontaneous associations that I can no longer verify, as the mentioned ones have long since moved on. But in any case, both had a cough syrup quality, which I fundamentally (not twin-like!) also find in ‘Meadow and Fir’.

Today, cough syrup becomes cough syrup syrup. This means: The sweetness pushes me away from the pharmacy, towards a shelf with over-the-counter medicines, which in turn transitions into the display with home remedies, where, for example, fennel honey is found. This serves merely as an image for me; it doesn’t smell of fennel here. I mean the presence of an intense sweetness surrounding a hopefully healing substance that is all glued together.

So: Conifer honey in the style of fennel honey. A few more modest plants from the herb corner can still join in. Linden is also fine, surprisingly distinct even, once traced back.

From late morning onwards, a retreat is generally in order, but fragments remain perceptible for a long time and manage to maintain their qualitative content in a typical natural scent way despite all the silence.

According to the description, the scent is supposed to remind one of a meadow near a forest. That would then be a rather cute-fantastical area. Rabbits blink at me with their long-lashed eyes before they sniff at sugary flowers and delightfully nibble away. A clumsy specimen gets a load of pollen in its face; its sneezing causes absurd laughter among the colony companions.

In the nearby forest, sweet sap runs down from firs and lindens in thick drops, which are caught mid-flight by happily smiling bees in cute little pots. A clumsy specimen gets a load of the sticky liquid on its head; its subsequent nosedive along with a crash landing generates absurd laughter among the swarm companions.

Everyone can probably imagine the accompanying music now. And this is just the corresponding smell.

Conclusion: Difficult. I quite like ‘Meadow and Fir’ despite the somewhat excessive sweetness. I simply appreciate the scents used per se. Others might find it much harder and probably declare it a room fragrance directly.

I thank Fluxit for the sample.
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A wonderfully beautiful pine resin and floral scent that would be even better without the sweet-gourmand jam note. Still strong!
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Lovely picnic in the conifer forest
Resin & wild flowers scent
The sun is shining
Sweet fruity~floral~resinous pine
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Deliciously sweet fir, fruity Haribo pine with strawberry jam. In the base, dry green forest, softly ambered. Gourmand plantation.
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Dimmed fir, woody floral-fruity. It really reminds me of Boclet's Fir Balsam. Very nice. A bit too subtle.
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When you take a walk in the woods and find wild strawberries...
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7 years ago
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Much more floral than the name suggests and almost fruity. I can clearly perceive linden. A bit resinous, but no fir. Banana?
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Reminds me of Boclet's Fir Balsam, sweet, floral-tinged evergreens... beautiful but a bit too sweet and syrupy for me again.
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