Upon applying this creation, one gets a deeply smoky, bacon-like accord that immediately draws the wearer into a dark scenario!
You find yourself standing amid charred birch trees, surrounded by coal-black wood, knee-deep in black topsoil.
In the drydown, the fragrance sheds its initial smoky sharpness and develops a fascinatingly ethereal, earthy note, carried in places by a patchouli that is bitter to my nose. This cool, almost resinous bitterness blends perfectly with the burnt birch bark and gives the darkness an immensely profound texture.
My express thanks go to sebdrejcha, who kindly left me a sample. As can be read from his review, he could not do anything with the fragrance at all and was not impressed in the slightest.
I, however, feel as though I have waited centuries for precisely this composition.
Rugged, sublime, and absolutely unique - for me, a true masterpiece.
