House Cleaning in Preparation for New Year’s Eve

[Jenjin]

Green tea and blackcurrant with cassis, lemon peel, raspberry leaf, and white pine.

[samanare]

A woodsy pine scent with a splash of berries. The pine dominates the scent on me. The raspberry leaf is noticeable and both provides a berry note to the scent as well as adding to the greenery of the pine. I can't pick out the other notes on their own. The other berry notes are dominated by the raspberry. I don't get lemon at all and I think the green tea may be adding to the pine note. Overall, the combination makes for a woodsy, resiny, almost tar like pine scent. The freshness of the berries cuts through, but this is definitely a wood scent more than anything else.

[dancingchair]

On application, it smells a bit reminiscent of a cleaning chemical, but in a nice way. That burns off pretty quickly, though. In the wet stage, this is very heavy on the blackcurrant and raspberry leaf. As it wears, this becomes surprisingly resinous and tarred, almost smoky. It must be the white pine as samanare said. It ends up being a smoky wood scent with hints of deep red berries. It's decidedly sticky with tar or pine pitch. It's not what I expected from the sniff I took straight out of the decant but it's quite nice!

[Little Bird]

Smoky, astringent, and bitter, like the taste of tea that's been made with water that was way too hot and then it was left for way too long.  The pine smells like burning pine pitch and menthol.  I normally love black currant / cassis, but I get the sour lemon and no berries for the first half hour.  After that point, it's like sweet raspberry smothered in woodsmoke.  It's not at all what I hoped for.  I don't care for the harsh smoke or medicinal, bitter tones.