Perfume Gold - Wander Lust Pirouette 2012

Dew sparkles on the fingers of the pines. Are a thousand pearls. Needles that freeze. Silver silhouettes of the trunks disappear in harsh earl-gray clouds that still lie silently over the high forests. There you see your thoughts go. You hear twigs cracking under timid footsteps in the clammy bushes. Then you smell the first roots stirring, awakening in the cool, dry ground, which now and again stirs up tiny clouds of cocoa dust. The wind blows cool from the aromatic herbs above the murmuring streams that meander through the meadows down into the valley and fade in the morning light ***
Karyn Gold-Reineke spent many years in the indie fragrance trade in the American Pacific Northwest before founding her label Pirouette in Seattle in 2009. She uses only natural raw materials for her award-winning creations.
This is noticeable not least again in the rather low projection of "Wander Lust", which opens with cool, fresh notes of pine needles that soon become embedded in a mist of tart black tea notes and create the impression of coniferous earl grey. Rosewood passes before the inner nose like the cracking of damp sticks and dark cocoa can be perceived in the distance before spicy, earthy nagarmotha notes take root again in the bright, cool top note and fade out the fragrance in a light, almost mineral way with rather wild-looking spices. I find the sparse but natural understatement of this fragrance very appealing and the name absolutely fitting.

(With thanks to BeJot)