Friend of Deers

I thought I didn't like this one at first, then it grew and grew on me. Pretty soon I was applying the sample every day and huffing my clothes when they had a residual whiff of it, so here I am writing a review and buying a full-sized bottle.

This is like rural autumn in a bottle, and I don't mean autumn like a pumpkin-spiced candle; I mean autumn like the sweetness in the air as the nights get longer and the grass goes dry, with a soft, shyly herbal, muskily woody dry-down that feels like sunset in october. Less poetically, I can say that on me, the spiced honey dominates for the first half hour before it all settles into a warm, sweet, dry, subtly floral scent. The peat fire and the thyme are barely discernable in the background, and it's so well-blended that it's hard to pick out the notes individually, it just smells... unique, cosy, a little bit wild, like a dormouse's nest or a deer peeking at you from between the trees. The notes don't really do justice to the scent, so if you're at all curious, or are looking for a signature autumn scent, I would give it a go and just see how it settles on your skin.

This is a keeper, I keep coming back to it. The apple blossoms in spiced honey vibes are really comforting in colder weather!