Sama JARDIN d'IRIS, an all-natural, mostly organic perfume, opens with the characteristic earthiness of many natural perfumes. However, it does not exhibit the amateurish quality which I have sometimes encountered in the offerings of all-natural houses. JARDIN D'IRIS seems instead to be a fully composed perfume. It is rich and layered, with a texture which makes me think immediately of ambergris. The darkness, too, calls to mind ambergris, but maybe I'm simply being overwhelmed by the genuine sandalwood--a rarity in perfumery today, it seems.
The iris here is orris root, not the delicate petals, and I would call this an oriental before a floral perfume... The woody quality reminds me of walking through the woods at dusk, twigs snapping beneath my feet. JARDIN D'IRIS opens up a beautiful scented forest through which I hope to wander again in the future...
