Salted Green Mango Strangers Parfumerie 2019
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Salty 'my skin but better' goodness
Salted Green Mango is, for me, the standout of the Strangers Parfumerie line. The mango note is not really the point - it's just a momentary swelling of something syrupy and green-tropical behind the avalanche of musk and vetiver, subsiding into the ether far too quickly to be a feature.
The thing to pay attention to here is the salt. Salted Green Mango is basically a huge, spacey cloud of sparkly vetiver-musk molecules that mimics the invigorating scent of salt air. It smells clean, but despite the probably industrial amounts of white musks or Iso E Super used here, also quite organic, like what I imagine the air around the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah smells like on a breezy day. And yet, there is something clearly lab-made about the scent; it feels engineered, ergonomic, and therefore a bit more chic or more modern than just a simple clustering of naturals.
I'm in love with how this (really quite simple) scent of white, clean, salty woods and musk gives me that 'my-skin-but-better' aura; it's effortless and sensual. I'm willing to bet serious money that people who love those modern, shape-shifting floral-woody musks made to smell like 50% cyborg, 50% warm human skin stuff like Glossier You, Diptyque's Fleur de Peau, and Le Labo Ambrette 9 will love Salted Green Mango. For me, it knocks all those modern skin musks, as well as Jo Malone's (really excellent) Wood Sage & Sea Salt, right off their perches.
The thing to pay attention to here is the salt. Salted Green Mango is basically a huge, spacey cloud of sparkly vetiver-musk molecules that mimics the invigorating scent of salt air. It smells clean, but despite the probably industrial amounts of white musks or Iso E Super used here, also quite organic, like what I imagine the air around the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah smells like on a breezy day. And yet, there is something clearly lab-made about the scent; it feels engineered, ergonomic, and therefore a bit more chic or more modern than just a simple clustering of naturals.
I'm in love with how this (really quite simple) scent of white, clean, salty woods and musk gives me that 'my-skin-but-better' aura; it's effortless and sensual. I'm willing to bet serious money that people who love those modern, shape-shifting floral-woody musks made to smell like 50% cyborg, 50% warm human skin stuff like Glossier You, Diptyque's Fleur de Peau, and Le Labo Ambrette 9 will love Salted Green Mango. For me, it knocks all those modern skin musks, as well as Jo Malone's (really excellent) Wood Sage & Sea Salt, right off their perches.