After the success of the first Big Sniff earlier in the year, let's have another one!
This time around, we're going to try the Bloom Perfumery Greens in Perfume sample pack. Bloom is an independent perfumery in Covent Garden which is a treasure trove of unusual and 'niche' perfumes, so there's bound to be some interesting stuff to try.
This is what Bloom have to say about their Green edit:
'This edit and sample pack explore green nuances in perfume and materials that perfumers use to create it.
A perfume belongs to a green family if aromas such as green leaves, cut grass, cucumber, runner beans, green tea and so on dominate in the character. Green perfumes are much brighter, sharper and juicier than anything in the related aromatic (herbaceous) family and are not as woody as coniferous perfumes. However, some notes/materials such as basil, or pine span families revealing greener or woodier nuances depending on what else the perfumer chooses to put in the formula
The most straightforward green materials are: lentisque (mastic) and galbanum resins, green tea (real essence or an imaginary accord), green grass/ leaves accords (made with hexenal and other molecules which really relate to what grass/leaves emit when damaged or molecules that just smell similar), freesias, neroli, violet leaves and pine.'
The sample list is as follows:
- The Soft Lawn (Imaginary Authors)
- Aube Pashmina (Huitième Art)
- Elephant (Zoologist)
- Gardens of Temptation | Tenderness (Brocard)
- Eau Simple de Concombre (Phaedon)
- Panorama (Olfactive Studio)
- PG24 Papyrus de Ciane (Parfumerie Générale)
- Pure Azure (Phaedon)
- Lentisque (Phaedon)
The cost is £15 plus £2.70 p&p in the UK (and they deliver within the rest of the EU as well). No discount on the pack this time around but if you're a new customer you'll get 5% off your next order.
Since it's a bank holiday week, it will probably be best to give people a bit more time to order and for packs to arrive, so let's start on Sunday 20th May.
So, order your pack, sign in here every Sunday and let's get sniffing!