I find Rock River Melody (what a lovely name) to be a special and unique perfume! Vintage-inspired, yet very modern and innovative. The use of Galbanum (and in abundance) in this fragrance is very modern and unlike any vintage scent. I love Galbanum, and here with the powdery floral variant, it's simply a dream!
While all the It Girls and little forest fairies these days wear Orpheon by Diptyque, it takes a strong personality, almost a forest priestess, like Alexa Chung, the mother of all It Girls, to rock such a scent and even make it her signature fragrance!
The very first spray was quite a shock! The opening is literally a green bomb! Of everything! (Galbanum, ivy, plant sap)
Everything hits the nose simultaneously with full force. And during the first test, I thought, no, this is too intense for me! This will absolutely not work for us!
With each subsequent application, it makes me euphoric, and I wished the opening would last longer.
I have only tested the Tears from Regime des Fleurs, but even there, the opening is so much stronger than what comes after. An intentional pattern from the house?
In any case, this bombastic and very loud opening passes quickly and glides into a green-powdery phase, with rose and daffodil. Patchouli adds depth and a certain darkness, and the green notes still come through well.
That the scent is declared as a men's fragrance is incomprehensible in itself. But with this development in the heart, the fragrance is so feminine!
It simply smells "rich." Very noble, green-golden, dense, and powdery.
The insane sillage suddenly pulls back, and incredibly, from the intensity, it becomes a skin-close scent. I have never experienced that before!
In this phase, it is for me a classic women's fragrance!
The base becomes even quieter and lays down like a warm carpet of amber and musk. Patchouli gives the fragrance, even in this phase, a wonderful depth until the end.
The longevity is average to low. I reach the base in 3 hours, and then I still have the very lightly perceptible base on me for about 2-3 hours.
Regarding the house's scent description, I can only say: just as misleading as the declaration of the gender!
* A muddy ride on horseback in sparkling green Fontainebleau forest.
The only thing that could connect with the forest are the green notes. However, with the intensity with which they come through and the subsequent powderiness, it has little to do with the forest.
If forest, then a ball with "fine ladies" who are well powdered.
