From the Garden

This Perfume makes me feel like a bug in a summer garden, sipping on some dew, very nice and summery Update: kinda started to dislike it, the smell is kinda pungent and slightly sinthetic

I received this a few days ago and I wore it all day yesterday. Here’s my thoughts: Starts off like a fresh picked tomato, very herbal-y Sweetens up on my skin and starts smelling like pasta sauce, (I think the patchouli reads like basil in this scent). Has absolutely no earthiness to it. Honestly a little sickening after a while, I smell like an Italian restaurant. It’s not BAD, but I think it demands layering with a woody fragrance to make it actually smell earthy instead of aromatic. I was hoping for a true garden smell, but this doesn’t offer that on my skin. I’ll be playing around with layering this one. Edit: layers well with Hermes Le Jardin de Monsieur Li, gives it more of a rainy garden vibe and makes the patchouli read more like dirt than pasta sauce. Edit 2: Even with layering and playing around with different ways to wear this scent, I hate it. It’s just so weirdly sweet to me when there shouldn’t be any sweetness in this scent. Grodi grodi

I love this so much. It smells like a dirty (soil) bouquet vegetable you just plucked from the garden. I’m obsessed. I am always looking for a soil garden type smell (think Coven) and this has a very similar vibe.

Wanted to try it so badly and finally had the opportunity to wear it. The Tomato leaves definitely come through. It's earthy and warm. BUT it's so sweet. It reminds me of ripe and roasted cherry tomatoes. I didn't smell the fresh notes I hoped for. It's not heavy though. A summer's day with a lot of sun in the garden - but with some honey poured over it sadly.

I've been looking for a good and realistic tomato leaf fragrance and I think this might be it. I don't really smell the other notes listed (mandarin, geranium, patchouli) and strangely, the blackcurrant / cassis note that I keep detecting is not listed in the notes. The balance of tomato leaf vs cassis varies significantly depending on ambient temperature. When the weather is cooler, I love this fragrance, as the tomato leaf with its freshness and slight bitterness shines, with sweetness from blackcurrant supporting it in the background. However, when I wore it on a warmer spring day, sweet blackcurrant completely overwhelms the tomato leaf to the point that it just smells like blackcurrant body spray, kind of like Henry Rose's Blonde Barry. That level of sweetness is just a no for me. Noting that this was released in the fall when it's cooler rather than in the spring or summer which seems to make more sense given the gardens it's supposed to evoke, I wonder if the fall release was intentional to ensure that the tomato leaf note actually can be detected. I do like the scent of this fragrance in cooler weather, so perhaps counterintuitively, this will be reserved for those fall, winter, and early spring days when I'm yearning for a lush vegetable garden and it's not possible to do so yet. On warmer days, I'll stick to tea scents like Miller Harris' tea tonique. For reference, other tomato leaf fragrance I've tried are Miller Harris' la feuille and the newly released Celadon. La feuille was too bitter for me and Celadon does not smell like tomato leaf to me.