11/06/2021
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November nostalgia
When the morning carries cool mint over the needles, the first light of day stands in the firs, where the dew breaks the rays in orange colors, it smells of pores of Hesperian shells and the forest floor smokes spicy clouds, then the little chestnut man pushes through the woods the nutty sweet misting wagon, whose scent turns warm pirouettes with the bright dancing tobacco leaves in the golden syrup of dark matter, it fills all the visible interstices and forms the brown on the bark of the trees, fringes the resinous scent of the earth, a black shimmering licorice snail trail, the dried mosses still warm from summer, the tiny bud of a bitter peony, everything flickers in the balsam of the firs, November has gone backwards.
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founded in Toronto in 2015 and acquired by a California distributor in 2018, the minds behind Scent Trunk collaborate with artists of all stripes to create monthly fragrances from seasonal scent palettes that come together to form an annual calendar.
"Pennyroyal / November 2019" opens with a cool accord composed of the namesake Polei mint, orange, needles, and some smoke (presumably from the oud) before the scent seems to evolve chronologically backwards, from November back in time, through ripe, nutty-sweet chestnut, light-spicy tobacco to warm-earthy-resin notes (oud, labdanum) with pinpoints of anise and tart peony, with dark fir balsam increasingly ubiquitous, suggesting olfactory parallels to some Pinewards. I'm not surprised that the fragrance was a finalist in the 2020 Art & Olfaction Awards; the composition and development are exceptionally well done. The nostalgia of November takes place moderately to quietly over a good eight hours.
(With thanks to Shaking)
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founded in Toronto in 2015 and acquired by a California distributor in 2018, the minds behind Scent Trunk collaborate with artists of all stripes to create monthly fragrances from seasonal scent palettes that come together to form an annual calendar.
"Pennyroyal / November 2019" opens with a cool accord composed of the namesake Polei mint, orange, needles, and some smoke (presumably from the oud) before the scent seems to evolve chronologically backwards, from November back in time, through ripe, nutty-sweet chestnut, light-spicy tobacco to warm-earthy-resin notes (oud, labdanum) with pinpoints of anise and tart peony, with dark fir balsam increasingly ubiquitous, suggesting olfactory parallels to some Pinewards. I'm not surprised that the fragrance was a finalist in the 2020 Art & Olfaction Awards; the composition and development are exceptionally well done. The nostalgia of November takes place moderately to quietly over a good eight hours.
(With thanks to Shaking)
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