Shpeeep

Obviously at this price point it's clear that this has a strong 'artificial' smell, and the somewhat childish sugared watermelon lollies notes are not out of place. It is pretty gourmand as far as cucumber sodas and sweets, and has a fun premixed colourful vodka drinks on the beach in summer vibe. It's not something I would buy again, but I will use the bottle at home in hot weather when my inner child needs something bright and happy. I wear unisex scents and gravitate to woodier green scents but there is a hint of greenness to this and the girliness of it is healing the part of me that grew up 'deprived' of scented bath products due to my parents allergies and a guilt-inducing sense of 'good taste'. Honestly I think this is a perfect first fragrance or gift for a 10-14 year old girl, or a fun blind buy for an adult who wears cucumber deodorant around the house for a fresh feeling!

There is something unexpectedly buttoned-up about this scent. I'm not an office worker or a yacht owner, but those are the top two places I feel like I should wear this. It's aquatic but in a kind of 'niche candle company does ocean breeze for the bathroom' kind of way. I get more white floral than citrus even from the opening. The dry down is beachy with some salt and wet sand but much cleaner than I expected given some hype around the seaweed notes that I had read - I don't smell 'oh no the beach is covered in seaweed today yuck' in this at all. I definitely want my partner (who does work in an office, and is a bit of a beach loving guy) to try the rest of this sample, as I am more than happy to smell it but don't really identify with anything about it for myself. Can't speak to the longevity on clothing, as I was very careful not to get it in contact with textiles due to the reputation it has for never coming out.

I have got to be honest with you folks, this smells EXACTLY like silk worm poo / crushed mulberry leaves. I like it very much, it's nostalgic if you were a kid who climbed trees and waded through streams. It's a body spray, only lasts 20 minutes or maximum an hour under ideal conditions. I also use it as a linen spray if I am listening to a podcast or audio book or having a sunny afternoon nap. This is actually a niche-level unique and interesting scent, let down only by longevity. If you enjoy quirky stuff and don't need green toned down by citrus or sweetness then this is certainly worth having in your collection. Powerfully green!

At $9.99AUD for a stylish 30ml bottle evoking the 80s origins of this, I felt like the risk was low since I am a lover of green woody aromatic scents. I admit my hopes were unreasonable given the price, as I had read reviews implying this is on par with vintage versions of more luxuriously priced woody mens fragrances, and perhaps that made me expect to smell something you would never guess was found in the section of the pharmacy that is not behind glass. To me this smells like an old style 3 star hotel, decorated and scented to please tired businessmen, with a faint cigarette smoke that will never come out of the thick curtains. Comparisons to detective films check out, this is very hard-boiled, down to the shady-part-of-town PI office with affordable rent and comically bad neighbours, but alongside a dry understanding of the world and the nature of things, and an appreciation of one or two finer things - perhaps a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask (the smokiest and peatiest available) in the bottom drawer. Unforgiving, competitive, deep dark and very very dry, a frag for a man who hasn't shed a sober tear in 35 years. The name feels almost cheeky, like it's saying 'quorum of one, you can make all your decisions for yourself'.

I would wear this to outdoor evening events in winter, like a bonfire or casual party. Somewhere that I would smoke if I hadn't quit, and where the dry and stern smoky wood of this fragrance will give me the steadfastness I need to maintain the streak.

Will give it another go, as it's possible the first spray out the nozzle of a fresh bottle isn't a fair reflection. I used 2 sprays, and scrubbed one arm after 15 minutes as the initial artificial smell was just too overpowering at that time, but this has led to a much faster fade than other people experience, and I would consider it imperceptible two hours later. Perhaps this will get more use from me than I think. I will update this review if it surprises me.

EDIT/UPDATE: Tried it again today, spritzed from much further away from my arm to aerate a touch, and for a split second I got excited thinking it was showing me it's true self, dry barky log in the woods, beyond which a lone iris is protected by ferns in a single ray of sun pierced through the thick canopy above. But as soon as it hit my skin I was faced with dark dirty old motel with stale cigarette smoke leeching out of second hand but not really vintage wooden furniture, carpet that used to be a different colour but I couldn't tell you which colour that was, and an inspirational poster of a forest on the wall behind dirty glass. It has stayed that way. My conclusion is that the problem is how it sits on my skin rather than the fragrance itself. Therefore, I have a 30ml bottle (absent 4 sprays) free to a good home in Melbourne, Australia

I was born in the 1990s so I cannot speak to the context of this fragrance, though wearing it today felt like microdosing time travel. Not because it smells particularly dated (unless I really try to see it as a 'women's' fragrance rather than the obvious unisex it is to today's nose), just because it feels comfortingly familiar while also being different from anything I'm actually familiar with. It smells 'young' and unconventional, but established and sensible. Most of all it smells DEEP, like the notes just before they drop out of the register of my ears (well, nose in this case). Resinous and dry, it's not 'patchouli essential oil instead of deoderant' 1970s, but something entirely it's own. I feel like I smell as though I read books with an indifference to genre but a deft instinct for quality. Linear scent, which I don't think is a bad thing. Compared to contemporary perfumes it's almost as though this doesn't have any opening top notes, though you can smell the alcohol when you first apply it and that makes it smell like cherry brandy and amaretto in the air. I did drink a lychee juice whilst wearing this and I think some indie or niche perfumer today could play around with a base similar to Patchouli but overlayed with some sweet lychee and neroli or something. It is still lovely and present but not overpowering at the 7.5 hour mark. In fact, it hadn't really faded since the first hour, so it's similar from the end of the first hour up until about how eight, then fades slightly but still there at 11 hours on skin. I'd be hesitant to put this on clothes as it's a deep red-brown wood colour, and ever so slightly oily.

Edit: Second day wearing patchouli, and I am noticing the vanilla and sandalwood much more than yesterday, possibly because it's warmer today and opening the fragrance up a tad. It's actually addictive. It's a completely non-gourmand amberry vanilla. I think that on a feminine woman this would be read as a 'sexy' scent, but on a man or would read more elegant/classy. It becomes a skin scent eventually after a very long presence with projection dependant on application strength, and it sticks for about 16 hours. Unlike anything else I have tried so far.