Old School Bench is reminiscent of young artists etching in school. Pencil shavings, charcoal on paper, blackboards and vintage school desks. It features top notes of lemon, bergamot and angelica root; middle notes of geranium, rum, cocoa and wood wax; and base notes of cedarwood, vanilla, patchouli and vetiver. Old School Bench is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica: Beautiful if you’re from an older city. Reminds me of an old wooden bench with time and human wear over the years. Love it, brings back memories. Somewhat sweet. Very wearable. Reminds me of my youth going to a fifty year old school bench hanging out smelling the memories of those that sat there before. Reminds me of an old oak wine cellar with fifty to seventy year age and angels share. Got a deep organic age vibe with some sweetness. Very nice and pleasant.
Fragrantica: A woody scent with polished furniture feel. It starts with a fresh citruses mixed with dump flowers. Lemons and geranium gives freshness. Patchouli and angelica are giving a moist, dump touch. The vetiver here is almost nutty, giving that characteristic dirty earthy feel. The sweetness comes from vanilla and cacao. It gives a full ambery roundness to the composition. Rum tends to go in a vanilla territory and here it makes for the vanilla sweet booziness. Whereas angelica gives off a different liquor feel more close to vermouth. The beeswax, germanium and alcohol makes an accord that is a bit similar to a wood polish.
Fragrantica: To me, this smells just like an old park bench. Woody, spilled liquor, old cigarettes. I enjoy it.
Fragrantica: Nostalgic and unique woody chypre scent evoking the smell of old furniture. The scent opens with aromatic notes of angelica, bergamot and lemon. The heart is mostly wood wax and geranium with slight cacao and rum. The perfume settles on a base of vetiver and cedar with slight hints of vanilla and patchouli. The unisex well blended scent has moderate projection and good longevity. Will definitely take you back to your school days. Enjoy!
Fragrantica: This perfumer has a unique style. I think they speak a language of memory and nostalgia and transporting you to special places and experiences. The perfumer made it as a special memory experience of an abstract interpretation of an etching art studio. I've never been in one. But in any case. This one is a special place for me according to it's transportive vibe to my own scent memory palate. As if it was waiting for me to discover it. All of the fun of traveling down scent roads is finding something like this for yourself. A place, all your own, that you want to spend lots of time in. I haven't stopped wearing this for a week or more. It's now my signature scent. The place I want to be most often. Bottle purchased. Considering getting a back up. 10 of 10. Strong performance. A good value considering what it does for me even though these are not cheap. At different temperatures and humidities it sings slightly different melodies. All of them beautiful and refrains of one another. A vanillic, rum soaked, cedar/patchouli base, that has other subtle supporting accords that seem to imply a weathered, worldy, wisdom, and use. Like a space of some reverance and veneration but one that has been used, appreciated, and that carries the memory of time. It makes me feel interested, intrigued, nostalgic, calm, quiet, still, reflective, and appreciative. Like I'm smelling a good story. My new all time favorite.
Fragrantica: Old School Bench opens really dry. Dry patchouli, dry cedar and dry, dusty cacao powder. Alsmost like an attack on the lungs. After a while the scent deepens. A touch of honey for the barest hint of sweetness and vetiver and whiskey for a deep smoky flavor. There's a sour note to it as well. The base is pencil shavings and a deep smoked wood accord, like the beams in an old room where fires have been lit for centuries to keep the cold out. I find it simple and quite linear, but in the best way possible. Can't get enough of the smoked woods. It reminds me of ancient lecture halls. A very old school bench indeed.
Fragrantica: This is another strong offering from the collection. In fact, while I personally prefer Moon Dust (and perhaps Barrel), I find this to be the line’s most successful realization of an experimental and articulate vision. It opens with what appears to be a bizarre yet engaging alliance of wood and chocolate that carries an insinuation of a boozy Turkish Delight. Despite this, there’s no overt sweetness as the chocolate notes are rendered with poise. Instead, what emerges is a musty note that becomes a dominant player in the blend—one that elevates this scent into truly distinctive territories. It shares some of Moon Dust’s sense of alienation, but adds an organic pulse through a chord that smells vaguely berry-like and varnished at the same time. Picture an old piece of oak furniture, dripping in character and history—one that’s been given a new lease of life through the application of a semi-sweet chemical process—and you’ll have a sense of what this is about. It’s fairly linear, but is surprisingly accessible and pleasant. I’m honestly not sure how this was accomplished, but it works very well. A real standout.
