We begin with the citrus-charged freshness of Falling Into The Sea, which at first stupefies with its gorgeous medley of citrus fruits – lemon, bergamot, and grapefruit – complemented with lychee, adding an addictive sweetness and happy atmosphere to the fragrance. This is a vision of the kindest sea, pristine blue water and warm white sand. Its impression is of bursting freshness with the gentlest impression of salt-coated florals. Saint Julep deepens this freshness and goes about it by crafting a cocktail from crushed mint leaves, sugar, and bourbon whisky – a Mississippi must. This is a mature freshness alloyed to amber – it is superbly rounded, blended, textured and tenacious. In similar fashion, Every Storm a Serenade is a woody-aquatic fragrance that is tenaciously fresh, rendering beloved notes of vetiver, calone, ambergris, and piney wood materials in a sophisticated and elegant way.
Cape Heartache (the editor’s favourite) is a deeply woody fragrance – an expansive rendering of the Pacific Northwest in scent through fir, pine, hemlock, and vanilla. It is tinged a deep green but beautifully smooth, worked with an incredible wild strawberry note: as green as it is red, acerbic as it is sweet. It gives this vast fragrance a focal point. Memoirs of a Trespasser is a brand favourite, a vanilla-enriched wood fragrance where the oak barrel is its focus. Impressions of char, smoke, brown spirit, tobacco, are set against an addictive background of clay and resin. To finish, the giddy and exuberant fruit excitement of In Love With Everything, the scent of a tropical-and-citrus fruit punch with the exaggerations of raspberry, sugar, and a gorgeous impression of passionfruit. In the heart, an incredible rose of great tenderness - bright and real - it becomes the central body in which all else orbits.
