A powerful solitude of night-dark woods and resins, impassive stones, frozen lichens, the electrical crackle of Northern Lights, and the saliferous petrichor of dried tears. It is a perfume.
This is the alcohol free perfume, not an oil. It is also free of parabens, phthalates, PDGs and other unpleasant things. Alkemia is hand-blended and small batch perfumery using natural essences, ethically rendered accords, and lab-created aroma molecules.
Reddit: While I was very intrigued by this scent profile, my fear is that the “electrical” part implies Alkemia’s “grey amber” note (present in a lot of their scents, either explicitly or indirectly mentioning electricity i.e. Electric Fur). It just tends to smell rubbery to me. In the vial: indeed, a lot of that rubbery grey amber, though there is some saltwater. On the skin the saltwater overpowers the grey amber, combined with a dusty sort of wood (not unlike Kabarett) and very mineralistic, cold greens from the lichens. It’s not quite sweet, wet dirt (like the First Dandelion), more like St Louis Cemetery, dry and crumbling cement. In fact I’d say it smells a lot like that but with a strong heap of saltwater and the persistent grey amber. I say persistent not because it’s the strongest note but because it’s immediately below that and once you notice it you can’t unnotice it. So overall this is… a very strange marine scent, I guess? I don’t know, maybe it’s just my note/skin, but Alkemia’s grey amber/”electricity” note is one of their strangest and tends to overpower everything. 5/10, if as it rests the grey amber calms down (it already did from when I first sniffed this 5 days ago) and some resins and more lichens come out, I could see this being a 7/10.
