The Poet Teone Reinthal Natural Perfume 2025

Through a crack in the roof, the morning chill trickles like frosty lemon verbena leaves, leaving camphor-freezing pinpricks on the purple lavender bedspreads. An umbrella of silky white blossoms floats in the slant of the shivering attic. Beams of light fall bitterly through galbanum glass windows onto moss on the damp wooden walls. Words grow from resin on the last floorboards. Roots flow like leathery poetry into carpets of leaves and dark earths.
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According to Teone Reinthal, she uses only plant-based ingredients for her fragrances, which are subject to seasonal and local variations. Harvest conditions, freshness, and the type of distillation can also lead to different results. However, these variations are not only accepted but also highlighted and emphasized, making each batch unique.
With “The Poet,” Teone has achieved a great success in the tradition of classic chypre fragrances. The opening is tart, green, and citrusy, with sparkling lemon verbena, zesty bergamot, hesperidic and spicy muscatel, ethereal and bitter tea and camphor tree, cooling and fresh. A hint of lavender leads into the floral heart, where silky, fleshy jasmine and tuberose aromas are particularly evident, bitterly illuminated by galbanum resin. Soon, the base notes cast their green, earthy shadows, first vintage oak moss, woody and creaky, then increasingly earthy, smoky, and leathery from nagarmotha and vetiver roots, damp earth from patchouli with subtle leaf notes (violet leaf), becoming darker and darker, bitterly resinous and woody. From start to finish, the whole is timeless and stylish, moderate and long-lasting, poetry turned into fragrance.

(With thanks to Sapho)