Lavendelblüte Harry Lehmann

I recently searched the forum for a masculine, herbal, unsweetened lavender scent, and when I read the short description "krautig, würzig" for Harry Lehmann's "Lavendelblüte," I had to jump at it immediately. Well...

"Lavendelblüte" initially opens for me with a bright, flat, one-dimensional, slightly watery lavender note (nota bene: this is the EdP and not the EdC "Lavendelwasser"...), in a strange isolated form, and with a slight fatal sweetness that for some reason reminds me of sweet, overcooked baked apples or apple pie...

However, this flat opening phase doesn't last long; the sweetness soon fades, and silvery-dark and slightly spicy notes join in. A floral accord with geranium, rose, and violet supports the floral character, coumarin and cloves add some greenery and spice, and towards the base, oak moss provides some of the long-missed body.

Nevertheless, even in this fuller, rounder, yet rather laboriously assembled form, the lavender blossom still feels strangely sterile, somehow artificial, and not really all that interesting... Well, I admit that the scent is quite restrictively named "Lavendelblüte" and not "The whole lavender bush with flowers and gnarled branches and roots" or something like that. But "krautig, würzig"...? No...