Pine needles with weak projection
Green turpentine-like pine needles, with drops of bergamot and cranberry juice, evolve through old, velvety, soapy incense, lightened by fresh mint into a sweetish powdery resin. Projection is weak and longevity is around 3 hours. It is more a cologne than an eau de parfum. Unfortunately, there are plenty of better forest fragrances on the market.
Lovely frankincense summer fragrance
This perfume shows how great incense can work in a summer fragrance. Wonderfully bitter, juicy citrus, infused with unlit, earthy frankincense resin, moves through mossy civet to velvety dry woods of Virginia juniper, complemented by woody vetiver. Lasts about 4 hours. If you love incense like I do, definitely give this perfume a try.
Dusty musk with lemon zest and spice
A sparkling blend of bitter lemon zest and sweet lime moves through heady jasmine sambac to a dominant accord of dusty musk made of resinous nutmeg, bitter saffron, sweet warm sandalwood, mossy oakmoss and leathery castoreum infused with dry smoke of fossil amber. The finish is silky, wispy civet, sweetened with vanilla. It lasts about 5 hours.
A contrast of floral and animalic ingredients
A beautiful natural fragrance based on a contrast of floral and animalic ingredients. A dense rose refreshed with bergamot and other citruses evolves through a tart green tuberose to a velvety, animalic warm blend of oud and real ambergris, from which a bitter choya nakh smoke with mineral undertones stands out and which sweetens with silky, spicy sandalwood. The finish belongs to powdery musk.
A Barouk cedar forest during a storm
The Lebanese perfumer Hubert Fattal was inspired to create Eau de Cèdre by an evening walk through a Barouk cedar forest during a storm. However, since the essential oil of the Lebanese cedar is practically unavailable due to the protection of the trees, he had to reconstruct its scent using other types of cedar.
He smoothed the initial freshly crushed pepper with dry Virginia cedar wood, aerated it with lavender, and combined it with a cool incense resin, which he laid over the resinous wood of Himalayan cedar, undertoned with peppery guaiac and smoothed with a splash of milky sandalwood. The result is a European-style perfume that can withstand comparison to Tam Dao EdP (Diptyque) or Royal Oud (Creed). Eau de Cèdre perfume shares with them not only the high quality of the ingredients, but also the weaker projection and the approximately four-hour longetivity. At the same time, it retains its distinctiveness thanks to the incense resin that serves as a staple between the two woods - the opening dry down and the final resinous one.
