04/06/2018
QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews
QuercusAlbus
2
Petrified Petrosmium
I went to considerable lengths to get this. I have always been fascinated by the aroma of earth÷mulch÷rain÷etc; and for quite some time now I have had Xerjoff marked as one of those perfume provenancers whose produce I really like a _very_ great deal. Then I found that Xerjoff do an ~earth÷mulch÷rain÷etc~: and this is it.
It doesn't disappoint: it fulfills my expectations fræ both angles. It is _very_ much indeed a fragrance that olfactorily conveys the notion of moist earth & rain; and it has that certain stamp of quality that I have come to expect of Xerjoff 'fumes.
But, is it ^petrichor^? Petrichor is the aroma produced when rain, especially thunderstorm-type rain consisting of big drops, falls on parched earth. I had marked this aroma long before I knew it was named. The occasions when I beheld the first few huge drops of a thunderstorm falling so heavily on earth so parched that each drop would cast up a little puff of dust, are indelibly engraven in my memory by reason largely of the beauty of the whole scene, but more especially by reason of the utterly sublime aroma that arose from those little puffs - the aroma called 'petrichor'.
This perfume is not petrichor. Some have said that petrichor is the holy grail of the perfumer's equippage. I do believe, alas, it has not yet been bottled. This perfume is gorgeous; but it is not petrichor. Petrified Petrosmium, maybe.
... a fortnight or so later
I was recently at my favourite apothecarial house having a good intraspire at a card with ~Concrete~ by Comme de Garçons on it. I kept thinking it was familiar, but couldn't place it. It was only this morning that I eventually thought "of course! it's ^that^ one!" - which here means, of course, ^this^ one.
It doesn't disappoint: it fulfills my expectations fræ both angles. It is _very_ much indeed a fragrance that olfactorily conveys the notion of moist earth & rain; and it has that certain stamp of quality that I have come to expect of Xerjoff 'fumes.
But, is it ^petrichor^? Petrichor is the aroma produced when rain, especially thunderstorm-type rain consisting of big drops, falls on parched earth. I had marked this aroma long before I knew it was named. The occasions when I beheld the first few huge drops of a thunderstorm falling so heavily on earth so parched that each drop would cast up a little puff of dust, are indelibly engraven in my memory by reason largely of the beauty of the whole scene, but more especially by reason of the utterly sublime aroma that arose from those little puffs - the aroma called 'petrichor'.
This perfume is not petrichor. Some have said that petrichor is the holy grail of the perfumer's equippage. I do believe, alas, it has not yet been bottled. This perfume is gorgeous; but it is not petrichor. Petrified Petrosmium, maybe.
... a fortnight or so later
I was recently at my favourite apothecarial house having a good intraspire at a card with ~Concrete~ by Comme de Garçons on it. I kept thinking it was familiar, but couldn't place it. It was only this morning that I eventually thought "of course! it's ^that^ one!" - which here means, of course, ^this^ one.
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