Malachite Dusk

Malachite Dusk by KoRo
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8.4 / 10 9 Ratings
A perfume by KoRo for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is resinous-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous
Smoky
Earthy
Sweet
Spicy

Fragrance Notes

LavenderLavender Black teaBlack tea Green teaGreen tea LabdanumLabdanum PapyrusPapyrus OakmossOakmoss VanillaVanilla
Ratings
Scent
8.49 Ratings
Longevity
7.67 Ratings
Sillage
6.48 Ratings
Bottle
6.45 Ratings
Submitted by Calista, last update on 28.02.2019.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Bottle
6
Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Meggi

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Meggi
Top Review 21  
The Dark Side of Lavender Power
Natural fragrances in particular sometimes come across as a medicinal herbal brew and 'Malachite Dusk' could be used as a type copy. The content of the tube doesn't just look like thick cough drops, it also smells like that, at least for the first few seconds.

It remains thickish-sweet however also afterwards. The information mentions black and green tea, but at first I think of a herbal tea with so much honey in it that the brew touches the threshold to urine leakage. Finally, a warm smoky, slightly needle-like amber note spreads and develops towards smoke. Cokey and completely un-sacral due to the needle-like impact.

She does not remain alone: Although the cold medicine topics mutate into supporting actors, lavender takes their place on the scene - and what a lavender! Dark and concentrated, similar to 'Sol de la Foret' by Alchemology, he shows the dark side of his power. Is it possible that natural perfumery is needed to awaken this fortune? I also remember the Nomen-est-Omen candidate 'Lavender Noir' from Phoenix Botanicals.

With the presentation of these two pillars, the fragrance has found its line and hardly changes any more and stylistically not at all. The fact that I can still imagine tea outside the herb direction (although richly sugared or better honeyed) and papyrus in the course of time does little to the point, is an olfactory marginal phenomenon. Also a phase of cautious lightening around noon, when a sugary-brownish cream seems to emerge from the receding smoke.

It's all a bunch of small stuff that garnishes the main characters. Until late in the evening sweet lavender streaks waft around each other, gradually thickened and darkened almost beyond recognition as well as smoky honey-like sweetness, increasingly close to that from '03.Apr.1968' by Rundholz.

Conclusion: The joke on the fragrance is natural to combine the smoke with this unusually dark lavender. The result is an all-round successful, cosy cuddle and feel-good scent for cold days.

I thank Fluxit for the sample.
20 Comments
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Sillage
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Longevity
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Scent
Fluxit

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Fluxit
Top Review 9  
"Slowly the darkness comes..."
"...the water whispers quietly." Thus Yulia Yatsenko embeds the dark green Malachite in the twilight.

Background
Yulia, based in London, has been on the move in the natural perfume sector for around 10 years. Two PhDs (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) have certainly laid a reasonable foundation for this. Some of the tinctures (including Sencha and black tea) she apparently produces herself over 1-1.5 years. I have often read discussions about tea in the field of natural fragrances, because its fragrance is not easy to preserve, that's why I find it particularly interesting here.
I like the small bottles (3, 12, 30, 60ml). The largest flacons with about 2.5-5€/ml range from the usual range for natural perfumes to the higher-priced range.

Fragrance
The liquid in the sample tube is as opaque as liquorice liqueur and drifts into similarly dark scent areas after one alcoholic second. Earthy, spicy, slightly fruity. Sticky resinous Labdanum with minimal pine appearance. Lavender reminds me in its spiciness of "French Oakmoss" by For Strange Women, perhaps also because of the oak moss it also contains, but which I cannot reliably identify.
It steams warm from the sun-heated stone, first a little moist, then drier. Tea? Possible, but not in the foreground. All in all poor in light, yes, but I don't feel this as dark, but rather as melancholy of the ending evening, if not even as a cosy ending in a secluded place. To me, however, too spicy, I want to calm down and the day with a caramel sparkle not yet.
Only over the next few hours - and Malachite Dusk keeps his head above some - does the fragrance become delicious, as a fruity resinous flake and a tasty spoonful of honey soothe the creeping night. It also goes well with the previous witch potion & cough syrup associations, both of which are easy to understand. What would I have said? Sun-poor dream drink after a sunny day.
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