Sweetgrass and Dandelion Butter

[doomsday_disco]

An unreleased summer duet.

[wodnesse]

I'm always looking for sweetgrass perfumes, it's one of my very favorite smells, so I knew I had to grab this before they ran out. I didn't expect to be so taken by the dandelion butter note as well, but it's stellar.

out of the bottle - a super nostalgic scent of summer pulling dandelions and feeling the crush of the plant matter between your fingers, a thick grassy floral dandelion smell with a backing of subtle sweetgrass. this is really gorgeous wet.

wet on me - starts out flat and low to the skin, not surprising since it's fresh from the mail, as it spreads out it starts getting a very yellow-white brightness to it, the dandelion scent comes up

dry on me - picking up a bit of throw, sweetgrass layering over, dandelion close to the skin. sniffing it gives me that pinch-between-the-nose-and-soft-palate sensation of being in a hay-only barn. It has a very vibrant and natural impression, like I've just come in from rolling in grasses and dandelions. this is a really beautiful summer scent

[kittystryker]

I agree with wodnesse above - on my skin there was a floral grass that really came through, not just pure grass, but freshly mown dandelions amongst the grass. I wish the sweetgrass came a little bit stronger? But this is such a delightful summer scent that I don’t really mind.

[puellacaerulea]

This is a fresh, green floral, with extra emphasis on the green. This is the same sappy, fresh dandelion note I love from Wild Dandelion SN, but with extra green oomph from the sweetgrass. It does lean soapy upon application, but the soapiness calms down with wear. As with most scents like this, it fades somewhat quickly, but is still a lovely, fresh summertime green scent. Fans of Wild Dandelion SN or any kind of fresh-cut grass scent will want to check this one out.

[doomsday_disco]

This was one of the b-side duets that I was most looking forward to, but alas, it wasn't a win on me.

 

I can smell the dandelion at first, get a bit of something akin to champaca incense for a bit with it, and then it just becomes a cool, powdery sort of scent on me. It is giving off the same lotion-y vibe I got from Lavender Buttercream (a previously released b-side from a few years back). Maybe that's the butter aspect of the dandelion? I'm not familiar enough with sweetgrass to really comment on that (it doesn't smell like the sweetgrass I've smelled in perfume and wax products from other vendors).

 

I won't be needing a bottle of this one as I just can't see myself reaching for this other my other dandelion loves (Wild Dandelion SN, Honeyed Weed and Dandelions, and Venus Verticordia). But if you used up your Lavender Buttercream and would like a similar scent, give this one a try.

 

 

[bheansidhe]

Having just pulled a leaf from my living sweetgrass plant and crushed it in my fingers, I can verify that this blend smells EXACTLY like concentrated sweetgrass essence. This oil doesn't have the mellow hay-like quality of dried sweetgrass, or the pungency of the smoke; it is fresh, grassy, herbally sweet, almost mineralic, with a slightly bittered vanilla component. So if you have only experienced dried or burned sweetgrass and are looking for that note, you won't really find it here - but you'll find a true fresh sweetgrass. 

 

Applied, it stays true to the sweetgrass note. I don't have a scent reference in my head for dandelion; I don't associate the flowers with a smell, and I just have a generic green-sap impression of the leaves' scent. I think it contributes an herbal (not floral) soapy note. It's not overwhelmingly soapy, just a slight impression in the back of the blend that anchors the sweetgrass. The dominant impression is the fresh sappy greenness and the complex herbal sweetgrass juice. Very springlike, but also surprisingly autumnal, because the green juices have that bitter, earthy, grounding quality to them. 

 

(BTW, I grow my sweetgrass in a large pot in a sunny area with a damp soil mix and lots of mulch. I bought the plants here: https://www.prairienursery.com/vanilla-sweet-grass-hierochloe-odorata.html )

 

 

Edited yesterday at 02:42 PM by bheansidhe