FumeMystery
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FumeMystery 5 years ago
Continuing with Jorum Studio samples: tested Phloem today.
A few spritzes to my torso only, under my top. A humid day.
As I don't read the notes in advance of testing, nor refer to them while testing or writing, so there will only be my impressions of the scent itself as it unfolds on my skin here.
Initial Impression: cool and fresh and invigorating at the same time, and the scent encouraged me to breathe slowly and deeply, allowing me to pick up on the calming floral scent at the end of each deep breath taken in. It struck me as being both delicate and subtly complex, and it was a pleasure to breathe it in, again and again, slowly and deeply.
After 10 minutes: almost a 'petrichor' effect, a powdery quality that brought to mind a wet pavement heating up again after a shower of rain, fragrant with nearby flowers pumping out their scent amidst sun-warmed greenery with the sun's heat burning off the rainwater. A calm reinvigorating scent lending itself to deep breathing, steadying.
A few hours later, whilst out and about: very welcome sweet and delicate fresh fragrance to accompany a busy couple of hours, close to skin but very noticeable and much appreciated as I walked around the city shopping. A real boon on a humid day.
Many Hours later: sweet 'dusty' or 'powdery' impression remains as a skin scent under clothing, after 11 hours. Very pleasing and with surprising tenacity for a delicate-seeming scent.
Perhaps beneficial for anyone having to face a stressful situation, as it really does encourage deep, slow breathing and has a settling, calming effect.
Smelling 'Phloem' throughout the day has conjured up memories of Lush's 'Kerbside Violet', but I'll have to compare side by side to see if my thoughts are fooling me.
As I don't read the notes in advance of testing, nor refer to them while testing or writing, so there will only be my impressions of the scent itself as it unfolds on my skin here.
Initial Impression: cool and fresh and invigorating at the same time, and the scent encouraged me to breathe slowly and deeply, allowing me to pick up on the calming floral scent at the end of each deep breath taken in. It struck me as being both delicate and subtly complex, and it was a pleasure to breathe it in, again and again, slowly and deeply.
After 10 minutes: almost a 'petrichor' effect, a powdery quality that brought to mind a wet pavement heating up again after a shower of rain, fragrant with nearby flowers pumping out their scent amidst sun-warmed greenery with the sun's heat burning off the rainwater. A calm reinvigorating scent lending itself to deep breathing, steadying.
A few hours later, whilst out and about: very welcome sweet and delicate fresh fragrance to accompany a busy couple of hours, close to skin but very noticeable and much appreciated as I walked around the city shopping. A real boon on a humid day.
Many Hours later: sweet 'dusty' or 'powdery' impression remains as a skin scent under clothing, after 11 hours. Very pleasing and with surprising tenacity for a delicate-seeming scent.
Perhaps beneficial for anyone having to face a stressful situation, as it really does encourage deep, slow breathing and has a settling, calming effect.
Smelling 'Phloem' throughout the day has conjured up memories of Lush's 'Kerbside Violet', but I'll have to compare side by side to see if my thoughts are fooling me.
FumeMystery 5 years ago
Arborist by Jorum Studio, edp spray sample
Sprayed scent on crooks of arms and torso and spread to wrists, as usual, and found the scent differed according to the location.
Initial impression, wrists/arms: fresh slightly mentholated 'shady' green - not high-pitched.
Initial impression, torso (warmer!): fresh with anise/fennel seeds to the fore.
Overall initial impression: low-key clean and cool fragrance, possibly suggestive of men's wash-kits. A hum of woods apparent as scent warmed on wrists and arms but the anise/fennel was more apparent on torso.
4-5 hours later, arms had hints of soft, subtle woody skin scent, delicate and pleasant.
Torso had the warm anise, very airy and diffuse but charming.
Overall, very civilised, and a welcome fresh and subtle scent on a humid and thundery day. Again, unisex but favouring the masculine side given the current trends in mainstream perfume.
I can see that this could pair nicely with 'Carduus', which would bring more spice and liquorice to fill out 'Arborist'.
Initial impression, wrists/arms: fresh slightly mentholated 'shady' green - not high-pitched.
Initial impression, torso (warmer!): fresh with anise/fennel seeds to the fore.
Overall initial impression: low-key clean and cool fragrance, possibly suggestive of men's wash-kits. A hum of woods apparent as scent warmed on wrists and arms but the anise/fennel was more apparent on torso.
4-5 hours later, arms had hints of soft, subtle woody skin scent, delicate and pleasant.
Torso had the warm anise, very airy and diffuse but charming.
Overall, very civilised, and a welcome fresh and subtle scent on a humid and thundery day. Again, unisex but favouring the masculine side given the current trends in mainstream perfume.
I can see that this could pair nicely with 'Carduus', which would bring more spice and liquorice to fill out 'Arborist'.
airy liquorice lebkuchen
Tested from the spray sample, and as described I got airy lebkuchen, spices, treacle, liquorice as the initial impression. The scent was soft, delicate but noticeable, and I caught wafts of slightly smoky, vegetal fragrance as I went along during the warm day, with a stronger treacle-liquorice perfume on the sites where I'd sprayed it (eg the crooks of my arms).
Certainly unisex but leaning slightly more masculine because it isn't a floral sweet scent as so many mainstream feminine scents are today.
Certainly unisex but leaning slightly more masculine because it isn't a floral sweet scent as so many mainstream feminine scents are today.