Desolation Peak 2022

Desolation Peak by N•O•A•M
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8.3 / 10 55 Ratings
A popular perfume by N•O•A•M for women and men, released in 2022. The scent is woody-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody
Smoky
Spicy
Resinous
Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Lemon grassLemon grass Black spruceBlack spruce Choya NakhChoya Nakh GrapefruitGrapefruit HyraceumHyraceum Pine needlePine needle Bitter orangeBitter orange Borneo oudBorneo oud Burley tobaccoBurley tobacco Ethiopian frankincenseEthiopian frankincense Himalaya cedarHimalaya cedar HyssopHyssop Indian patchouliIndian patchouli LabdanumLabdanum Laotian oudLaotian oud MatéMaté NagarmothaNagarmotha Nootka cypressNootka cypress PimentoPimento Pine resinPine resin Pine tarPine tar PropolisPropolis Tulip tree absoluteTulip tree absolute Atlas cedar absoluteAtlas cedar absolute Black pepperBlack pepper Bourbon vetiverBourbon vetiver Cade juniper woodCade juniper wood Californian incense cedarCalifornian incense cedar Geranium absoluteGeranium absolute Hinoki needle Jasmine sambacJasmine sambac Lapsang Souchong teaLapsang Souchong tea Mimosa absoluteMimosa absolute OakmossOakmoss Petitgrain sur FleursPetitgrain sur Fleurs Sequoia needle Somalian myrrhSomalian myrrh VanillaVanilla
Ratings
Scent
8.355 Ratings
Longevity
7.947 Ratings
Sillage
7.347 Ratings
Bottle
7.928 Ratings
Value for money
7.614 Ratings
Submitted by Floyd, last update on 22.12.2023.

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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Sillage
8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
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Top Review 34  
So this is the human heart outside the matrix.
What is this heart? Could I see it as a heart surgeon? Could I see it with an Insta or TikTok Like? Could I see it...

1956, Desolation Peak, North Cascades, USA

What we are doing here? Everything in nature has its origin & meaning. Causality principle.
What is it all for? Love, growth & progress. Evolution.
Aren't there more important things? The artificial mainstream & known fragrance norms have always been unimportant, boring & uninnovative.
You should think outside the box, find yourself & evolve. And this simply works best in isolation in nature.
Open up & become one with it.
Swallow the red pill.
A look out of the blue mainstream matrix :
Desolation Peak.

Desolation Peak by N.O.A.M Botanical Perfumes is a very exciting fragrance that has an incredible amount to offer with its ingredients of 100% natural origin. It can develop differently on every skin, every wearer and every fabric. But one thing is always certain: it is never boring, unnatural or simplistic.

At first, you encounter citrus-fresh & green aromas of lemongrass, grapefruit & bitter orange. They alternate constantly, but the lemongrass note predominates with cool, woody pine needles & cypress. The fresh aroma is brightened & sustained by minty & resinous facets of several resins & incense.
But since this is not a 0815 citrus forest fragrance, much more follows afterwards.
As if the beginning wasn't relaxing (& exciting) enough, you are served fine tea. It has been brewed perfectly, the tea-like smoke of the pine trees billows out of the cedar wood cup & makes you feel at one with the wooded nature among the eaglewood trees.
I admit, it gets me right away. It's like setting up a sauna with meditative, aromatic infusions in the middle of the forest and letting spicy smoke pour out of our pores.
But of course that's not all, because we're not here at Areej L-angeweil-e Dore in the Siberian forest, but in Desolation PEAK. A place that tells far more stories in a subtle, balanced way, without any toilet stone citrics or urinous animalism in the forest.
Speaking of which, this is not at all a sweaty-animalistic or unpleasantly coked-up work, as the hyraceum or tar might suggest. Instead, you only encounter soft & subtle smoky & leathery nuances for more volume & depth. This work is surprisingly wearable, but why this is so will become clearer in a moment.
Arriving at the final stage of the fragrance, incense aromas emerge, as the sweet-spicy myrrh & several resins often do in many fragrances of this genre. You stand directly in front of the resins, burn them & inhale their meditative aromas deeply. Here cinnamony-sweet, minty-bright & incense-resinous in the green-piney-mossy, cool cypress forest. Warmth & coolness, light & dark always balance each other out perfectly.
The crown is set by the balsamic ouds, which demonstrate a high distillation quality, flow appropriately into the work and further enhance the aforementioned aromas. The loamy drydown of the ouds, which I love, is of course a must. Earthy & nutty tones of bourbon vetiver, nagarmotha & patchouli provide the necessary finishing touches in this spicy forest atmosphere. They are like the warming & leathery wooden floor to which the feet cling in this cool forest.
The fragrance lingers on the skin for a long time but never screams with a pleasant sillage. So multi-layered, special & wearable at the same time in every season & for every gender. Everyone can have fun with this fragrance at any time, just as it should be.

What more can you say about it, except that it's a damn masterpiece! That a hell of a lot of heart and soul must have gone into it ?!
That they have tried to make everything you love about the world of fragrances into one ?!

After all my tests in every genre, I am rarely impressed anymore. I sort of give it 4-7 points out of reflex.
Here, however, I had wide eyes & attentive olfactory cells from start to finish. A multidimensional, many images & emotions awakening, transcendental fragrance experience, which I can only recommend to everyone! In terms of quality & DNA, you can't get much more out of a fragrance here, as in Le Boucanier & other works from the same house.

Back to the present. After looking out of the Matrix, I finally understood. What the heart is was right on the nose the whole time :
https://www.parfumo.de/Benutzer/Schoeibksr/Bild/284369

"In other words,
you gotta be heaven,
to see heaven." - Jim Carrey, Phantom Regret

A big chapeau & thank you from the bottom of my heart to N.O.A.M for this exceptional creation.

And also thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading & all the inspiration.
I love this community :)

Here's to another year. One more year.
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42 Comments
9.5
Scent
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103 Reviews
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woody woody woody!
This is damn good. You can find a lot of things inside it. balsamic, resinous, woody and green. some aspects are more oud but it is not always present. when you spray for the first time you perceive something medicinal and intense that opens the nose, with some citrus that slowly disappears and gives way to the resinous woody structure. truly beautiful!
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