Plum in Cognac Scents of Wood 2020

Plum in Cognac has two words in its name that conjure up olfactory images: plum, which is juicy and sweet yet a bit sour and tart; cognac, heady and smooth with a slightly sweet and bitter grape note. This fragrance doesn't really have either of these two scent profiles. Any sweet fruitiness is distant and very tame. It does have a booziness but not really that of cognac.

So what does it actually smell like? Of course, I know that the "cognac" in the name doesn't actually refer to a note in the fragrance but the type of barrel that the fragrance was aged in - this is Scents of Wood's whole shtick. To me, this fragrance is dusty and woody with some hints of sweetness and booziness, kind of the smell I'd actually imagine being in an old distillery where they are aging some kind of spirit in vintage casks. Unfortunately the drydown is a bit boring with some slightly-sweetened vetiver. Overall, a good scent but nothing extraordinary.