scent: pineward oxylus and chandlery
today, it’s the last of the trees, the one which struck me as the most odd (and therefore the most intriguing!) on the testers, plus a bonus sample I couldn’t figure out at all when I put it on paper—after all those trees, it was much milder and mellower, and I guessed at “beeswax?” mostly from the name.
oxylus, on the left, has a note list of pine needles, juniper scales, vetiver, myrtle, soil, swamp water. chandlery, or so says someone on reddit who asked the perfumer, has notes of lavender, vetiver, benzoin, anise, champaca, tuberose, and yes, beeswax.
oxylus is another one that’s staining my forearm green, and on skin, as on my little paper scrap, it’s rather nice. the pineward shop site uses the word “riparian,” and sure, I can go with that; a sharp initial rush of sap, followed by a darker vetiver bloom.
chandlery is pretty enough. reminds me of the more undistinguished things I’ve sampled from house of matriarch; a fancier variation on the hippie oil perfumes you can buy in decorative bottles from tie-dye bong shops. fortunately for me, it’s going very easy on the tuberose and I don’t smell the lavender at all. (I like the smell of lavender on its own, but it can be so domineering in a perfume!) what I’m getting here seems to be mostly champaca, benzoin, and beeswax, in an inoffensive merger. it would go well with a leaf skirt from the fairies pyjamas, had I such a garment, which I don’t.