Mangetsu

[doomsday_disco]

White musk, green mandarin, moonflower, oolong tea, crushed grass, ume blossom, and green amber.

[ghoulnextdoor]

Eco-poet-author Robert Macfarlane writes about daylighting, the process of bringing buried rivers back to the surface, re-exposing them to sun and air and the communities who had been living unknowingly above them. And when it comes back, everything around it comes back too. Mangetsu smells like that recovered green space. The sharp green bite of new grass pushing through loosened soil. Unripe citrus, a cool, punchy idea with as of yet no focus. A powdery floral haze, waxy, something blooming in cool air for the first time in a long time, all that new growth over warming earth, something skin-close and alive underneath it all.

[doomsday_disco]

This starts off strongest on the crushed grass, and I swear it's the same one from Emerald Lace, as the wet phase of the scent strongly reminds me of that one. Eventually, it ends up morphing, and the oolong tea becomes the dominant note. It's the one found in Ceaselessly By My Side the Demon Stirs, which has a tannic quality to it and something that reads like a touch of spice. I get touches of the white musk and moonflower with the tea note, but the green mandarin isn't distinct on me -- I'm not getting anything particularly citrus-y or fruity from this.

 

I preferred the wet phase of the scent when it was very green instead of tea-centric, so I don't need a bottle.

Edited Friday at 11:11 PM by doomsday_disco

[nikaida]

Fresh KICK of clean, wet, rainwashed greenery and white musk. There's tea early on but it's quiet in comparison to the blast of rain-vibrant cut greenery and white musk. I'm reading this as having a very clean "laundry day" kind of vibe, which I'm filing under "white musk." If I'm wrong, sue me 🤷‍♀️(for legal purposes Do Not, I have no money to pay u)

 

After maybe 30 minutes, the edges on this scent soften and round. It is still very fresh and clean, very rainwashed, but less sharp. I'm no longer being slapped in the face with a bouquet of juicy wet grass. The tea peeks out more confidently around this time, too. 
 

As drydown continues, I get the whiter/sharper aspects of moonflower, a dusting of silvered moonlit powder at their centers as they bloom through continued wear, and big splashes of clean-cool water.
 

Wet is morning laundry day after a spring rain: brisk, green, sharp, shiny, and bright. Fluffy white clouds, blue sky, wet green grass, early spring sunlight.
 

Drydown is a cool, clean, wet spring *night* after a spring rain: white-silvers and greens, rainwashed new growth and glinting moonlight, spots of cool white powder-touched blooms dotting the landscape. 
 

That opening is a little rough for me (hissss, sun! hissss, chores!) but wow does it pay off in that drydown. If you like the vibes of both sides of this perfume, you're gonna have a GREAT time.