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Glie - Elixir Rural Adi ale Van 2024

7.9 / 10 13 Ratings

A new perfume by Adi ale Van for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is green-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Atelier Olfactiv.
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Main accords

Green

Spicy

Earthy

Resinous

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Sage

Bitter orange

Burnt soil

Lavender

Heart Notes

Angelica

Galbanum

White thyme Grass

Grass

Iris

Leaves

Base Notes

Amber

Musk

Perfumer

Giovanni Festa

Ratings

Scent

7.913 Ratings

Longevity

8.012 Ratings

Sillage

7.412 Ratings

Bottle

8.921 Ratings

Submitted by MartialScent, last update on 11/13/2025.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/17/2024

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

JewishJesus
65 Reviews

JewishJesus

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A Spicy, Incensed Green

Wouldn't be an Adi ale Van fragrance without great performance in both its longevity and projection. This is an interesting one, where the subtitle, Elixir Rural, is artistically conveyed through its scent journey. At first, there's incense-like notes, hints of sage, lavender, and the unique soil note across a number of this house's fragrances. It has the distinct Adi ale Van DNA, yet it comes across in a more pleasant form here than in some others. From there, the fragrance melds into the forest floor with its grass and leaves over top hints of florals, wood, resin, and damp earth. Over time, it softens and becomes more musky clean. It's a really interesting scent, one that comes into a beautiful balance after the initial settling. A nuanced fragrance that manages to stay wearable and more generally appealing.

07/25/2024

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
574 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 40

Glie Overlaid the Dystopia

Life in the chlorinated cities resembled lifeless faces behind Plexiglas, which separated us from nature somewhere out there and also from ourselves. Glie was able to change something. The physical form of the application resembled the iconography of rabbits, their representations in old image files. A simple cuboid, a head with long ears that assimilated like a plug into the implanted access in human glial cells.
The images behind salty candy wrappers with tiny traces of bitter orange showed thyme in white streaks of steam or smoke over earthy floors. Relics of this stuck like on tape strips with remnants of leaves and blooming grasses, with stains from playing in summer gardens and pollen on children's denim pants. Sometimes there were cracks in the foils, then one could see sage bushes, sharply in bright green tones, smoked in the hands of a shaman. At other times, there were coniferous forest floors, withered yet shimmering from all sorts of resins, which veiled the eyes like incense between stony trees. There, in the mists of interferences, one could linger.
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The Romanian niche perfume house Adi ale Van collaborates with renowned perfumers and tries to have as much as possible handcrafted by small local businesses in Romania, a process that is suitable for limited editions. The bottles are handcrafted unique pieces by the artist Adi ale Van.
"Glie - Elixir Rural" addresses the nature of another time, another world. In fact, it is Giovanni Festa, who has also created fascinating scents like Mendittorosa's "Osang" or Adi ale Van's "Diamonitrion," who has succeeded in creating a fragrance that straddles dystopian alienation and green nature.
What he himself calls scorched earth hides the top notes behind a strangely chlorinated-salty plastic veil, in which traces of bitter orange, some earth, and above all herby-earthy angelica root are perceptible. The resins from the heart and base provide a subtle orange candy vibe here. The olfactory-related notes (herby-bright, fresh green) of white thyme and lavender then form a bridge to the heart of the fragrance, where an ethereally bright sage rises above the thyme, initially slightly smoky, soon captured by the coniferous-leaf-like galbanum resin. The impression of dried needles on a summer forest floor emerges, over which bright powdery-earthy iris notes swirl, which eventually transform into a green-incense impression with the amber of the base, sometimes cool-damp mineral, softened and lightly sweetened by the musk, lingering on the skin for a long time. A thoroughly fascinating fragrance that truly does not reveal itself upon the first or second wearing, as it brings forth different facets each time.