Figs and summertime lemonade
An incredibly new and inventive take on fig. Summertime lemonade, crisp and sweet in the perfect way steeped with fig leaves and hints of the jammy fruit. Is wrapped up in the most divine crisp and fresh cedar note that reads to me almost like Hinoki bc of its refreshing undertone. All of this works so well. The citrus bright and punchy but mellowed by a subtle sweetness. The fig leafy but still slightly fruity. The woods bringing a groundedness to the scent. A lovely release!
A smorgasbord kitchen sink gourmand
A lottttt going on in an almost nonsensical way but I kinda love that about it. It’s a lot of sweet things in a blend that doesn’t feel overwhelming. Candied pear, refreshingly sweet coconut water, toasty and warm sesame, buttery popcorn and marshmallow rice crispy treats. So much and yet it works? It’s a kitchen sink of gourmand notes that somehow don’t make sense together but they each have their own role. It’s fresh, fruity, sweet, powdery, warm, and toasty. If you like playful scents that are unabashedly fun, this is exactly that.
Medieval rye and buried vanilla
A medieval vanilla found buried under resins and ambers amid loaves of bread and witchy herbs. Feels like vanilla you have to dig for in an endless mountain of rye bread that’s been baked with greens smothered on the outside in a witch’s kitchen. It’s far from sweet and yet has a charming wink of something vaguely sweet as you sit with it. It’s a vanilla for people who hate vanilla. A gourmand for people who don’t ever wanna smell edible. It’s ancient and raw, warm and rich, spiced in an old school way, and bready in the perfect homestead fashion. While it’s not for me, this is incredibly well done.
Rosemary oils and gardenia mousse
A more floral departure from the original Debaser with a much more avant garde undertone to it with the cassette note. Keeps the same leafy fig as the original, but makes it much more green with an added pinching rosemary. It’s a bit *too* fresh in a sense, sharp in an “essential oil bottle you’ve just opened” way. The creamy coconut from the original is traded for a gardenia whipped mouse instead. Very floral, very lush, sweet but in a diet way, so mousse instead of say coconut cream lol. The coconut keeps its husk here though, for a nice dry woodiness added for depth rather scent. Then there’s the weird textural and temperature thing going on here. It has these cooling elements of rosemary, the floral whipped mouse, the chilly fig, that get wrapped in a hazy warmth of the cassette tape. It’s kinda like a hot vinyl smell, a muggy air feeling. This is the 70’s embodied in a pseudo fluermand fashion. Weird. Cool. Interesting. But still it doesn’t really land like Debaser managed to do.
The humble monstera
A monstera plant. Not much more, but so much to it. It’s leafy, green, fresh, vegetal even, slightly floral in a dewy and crisp way. It balances out to something more mellow, like a real monstera plant waving its leaves at your nose. It’s weird how complex a simple scent can really be in the sense that it’s hard to make something this simple that translates to a whole picture. A really well done green fragrance to top most other green fragrances.
