Watting Warbler

流莺树

Damfoolperfume

Tested blind: Damfool perfumes seem to go through distinct stages. Warbler opens with a big brown and tan haze of dried grasses and hay and tobacco. It’s like traditional Chinese medicine. Very herbal but not in a sharp freshly cut green leaf kind of way. This is more rich and warming. Not your typical gourmand. This perfume is new to me; I bought a comprehensive discovery set from Soul Fortune, a HK based retailer, and am working my way through it. Stele describes Nandescent’s work as giving NPC energy but these perfumes are BIG and your face. Like Bertrand Duchaufor big. Now I love big vintage perfumes but the unfamiliar ingredients, super herbal camphorous medicinal nature of these is really challenging me. Colour me intrigued though. It’ll take me a long while to work my way through this gargantuan set.

Fruity opening - almost like a combination of strawberries raspberries and peaches in a fruit punch

It feels like laughter and childhood
That's a "gourmand" even I could get behind

Inspired by the Guangdong sweet soup - which probably is something full of fruit and BigBuddah (perfumer) and other kids love (it says in the copy)

The more it drys down the more a slightly darker more substantial base shines true... It's sweet and resionous and woody ... Almost like a sunlight dark yet sunbleached wooden table where people sit and smoke and just live around/with it

The juicy fruityness fades and way more of the subtle sweetness with a bit of woods and earthy almost tea adjacent notes come through the longer it sits on skin