This opens with that classic whiskey malt smell with some small suggestions of that toasted coconut-like smell of whiskey lactone. Although as it goes on, that goes away and you're left with the smell of cane sugar and a clean bourbon-like ambery oakwood smell. As for the raspberry and powderiness, that is there from start to finish and it's quite nice. It's like a white powdery musk with raspberry preserves scent that also has malt whiskey for the first half, then it turns into white powdery musk with raspberry and sugar-forward rum essences in the second half. I don't get much green notes. Very nice stuff. Only issue is when I mixed it into a blend I was working on, it created an off-putting smell. Not wet dog, like someone else experienced, but it was not what I was looking for. Sometimes these chemicals interact in ways you don't expect
Just Amazing i could not let down my scent strip the entire evening. Just so refreshing and softly sweet! love it
I'm very familiar with the smell of fresh blooming lilacs after having them on my yard growing up, and it's a smell that's intimately linked to my childhood.
This base is incredible. It brought a smile to my face and triggered the wave of nostalgia in my brain. Granted, I haven't smelled many other lilac materials but I don't need to. This is lilac in all its buttery, silky sweet glory. Delicious.
Ambrofix does impart more radiance than many other varieties of Ambroxide but also allows for more textural expression of materials in formulary. Where Ambrox Super softens many edges almost into blurred abstraction, Ambrofix allows a more complete expression of other facets in a formula while still imparting its supreme radiance.
This patchouli is terrific; I’ll be using it as my workhorse patchouli for the foreseeable future!
Everything went really quickly and easily.
Great support. Highly recommended.
Beautiful balsamic, boozy, spicy and piercing cistus oil that dances when you open the cap! Fine quality indeed!
This is a beautiful, amazing Jasmine Abs replacer with all of the funky indolic facets you'd hope and expect from Jasmine Absolute. Absolutely essential when compounding multiple trials to keep costs down!
Benzoin is already one of my favorite materials but the Benzoin Siam Resinoid is on another level. It's so complex and alluring it's like a complete perfume all on its own!
This is sun kissed meadow hay, complex and earthy, an essential for depth, familiarity and natural warmth. If you have a childhood hay memory, this is it, bottled.
Petitgrain Citronnaire is breathtaking upon opening the bottle; I almost want to drink it! It's like smelling the whole lemon plant, leaves, twigs, blossoms and all!
I do not want to run out of Lyral. In spite of IFRA restriction/ban I still ordered 100g of Lyral because to me its indispensable. Coming from Fraterworks I do not have to worry about the quality of any product as it is always top notch
Very good quality of Sambac. Expensive but effective material with low dosage (0.1%). With Jamie, I'm sure there's no adulteration so I'm looking for other naturals...
I use this in everything even traces give boost in any perfumes
I was delighted to find a fine 10% absolute in TEC here, versus the 5% I had been using. I’m using it so frequently in quantity in so many formulas, I’m going to give the 100% pure a try.
This geranium essential oil has a very nice, sweet, fresh and rosy scent. It is a superior grade from what I used to buy. I will definitely buy this again.
Compared to another birch tar I have, it certainly does not have that smell reminiscent of cooked meat at a BBQ when you reach high dilution, or reach dry down. Instead it has this smell of ashes from loose leaf quality tobacco, and that boozy vibe you feel from high proof alcohol (I don't get any particular liquor in specific; just nondescript high proof booze). Definitely on point with its description, though you of course have to dilute it or wait for the dry down for most of that tobacco and booze to really shine, otherwise it's a good classic smoky burnt-wood-in-the-distance smell. Overall it's great for a tobacco and booze note--without adding too much smokiness. Adding this to some white florals and metallics made it very addicting
Sublime, none of the screeching sulphuric notes that cassis pentanone is infamous for. It is jammy and black fruity. It’s also fizzy in some ways! Worthy every cent
I love helvetolide as it's so easy to use and works with almost anything