From the Life in the Valley Collection, Salmonberry features notes of freshly-picked salmonberries, foliage, petrichor, daffodils and morel mushrooms. This scent is inspired by the springtime foreagables in Stardew Valley. The perfumer likes to imagine that this is what her farmer would smell like when they get home after a long day out in the Cindersap Forest. Salmonberry Season opens with the tart, juicy smell of fresh salmonberries, alongside vibrant green foliage. As it blooms on your skin, a heady floral emerges: daffodils. Petrichor and morel mushrooms linger in the background. Salmonberry Season is an eau de parfum, edp.
MORARI SALMONBERRY SEASON REVIEWS
Reddit: "One of the two Stardew scents I got! And wow! I've never had a salmonberry before, but this so reminds me of my childhood home. We had dozens of raspberry bushes behind our house, and this reminds me of berry picking in the woods on a sunny spring day. Except these berries are much more tart! (but still sweet and juicy). The berry note is definitely the star of the show throughout its lifespan. The opening is my favorite because its where you get the most of the green foliage and petrichor. It's so fresh! I want it to be Spring already so I can wear this and go foraging. I'm not sure what morel's smell like so it's hard to tell if I can actually pick up the note. I get less greenery as it fades, and it lingers as this fading tart berry till the end. Longevity - about 4 hours, after the initial application it stays close to the skin. 9/10 (A foragers dream, but I wish it lasted a bit longer and stronger.)"
Reddit: "This one gets points from me for being the only one I can smell on myself without having to raise my wrist to my face. I've never had a salmonberry before so I can't speak to the accuracy, but it does smell delicious, and it makes me wonder what the villagers of Pelican Town are on that they all hate salmonberries. It opens with the full on berry blast, with enough greenery in the background to keep the fruitiness from turning into candy. After about a half hour the berry starts to lose its power, and the greenery takes center stage, still with an edge of fruit in the background. It's a very lovely, realistic forest-floor type scent. Sort of like the spring/summer version of Alkemia's Baccante, but with a tastier fruit."
A Scent A Day: ITI: "Tart and berry, the berries seem lightly pinked like dragon fruit, but flecked with husky morel and dappled with watery dew with a sliver of high pear and daffodil at the back. It reminds me of walking through Lincoln Park hunting for salmonberries. Wet: Oh yeeha, that’s neat! The salmonberry is just gorgeous on the skin with what makes me think of tart pear jelly Belly flesh muddled with fir needles and petrichor over the delicious fustiness of mushrooms set against sharp, balsamic forest notes with just a whisper of of daffodil pollen at the back. Dry: Even after 4 hours, I’m still picking up tart salmonberries underlined with daffodil pollen and tinged with green foliage with a subtle huskiness at the base. I quite like this one, even if Tony just smells the daffodil on me."
Reddit: "So I like this, almost obviously at this point. It's green, fruity, and weird, which is entirely up my alley. It feels like I stepped into a Monet painting, it smells like picking berries with a straw hat and summer dress in the early morning, or the way cottagecore moodboards think nature smells. It's absolutely wonderful. Just. Be warned: this is a little indolic. And if you have a low tolerance for that, you probably will have some difficulties with this. I don't think it's that pressing, like it isn't anywhere close to ruining the perfume as a whole, and my roommate didn't get it at all (she thought it was very shampoo-like and pleasant!), but I do smell it and wanted to let you all know. Beyond that, it dries down to a lovely red wine on me, and I'm thrilled to have found a perfume with "petrichor" that doesn't make me sick! I'm so glad I chanced this. Final Thoughts: 4.5/5! I really enjoyed this and wholeheartedly recommend trying it out if you like your perfumes on the green and fruity side."
Reddit: "Salmonberry Season opens up funky, but in a good way. Fresh dirt and that unique funk that only comes from mushroom. Underneath the dirt and the mushroom was a light berry scent, vaguely tart, vaguely sweet. This could only be the salmonberry, it's certainly like nothing I've smelled before. After a half hour, the mushroom recedes, and it's just sweetly sour salmonberry all the way down. The sillage is good, I'm still getting whiffs of it on my skin (without having to lift my arm to my nose and huff) about 2.5 hours in. The scent is definitely fainter by now, though, and I'll probably have to reapply around the 4 hour mark. The smell is very transportive, and I definitely feel like I'm digging around in the earth for some mushrooms, with the bright tartness of a salmonberry on my tongue. I definitely want to try salmonberries proper after this as well! Maybe one day . . . 3.5/5 salmonberries, will be bumped up to 4 stars depending on how long the scent lasts on me before reapplication. UPDATE: I wanted to see how long the perfume would last before reapplication. I put first put it on at 7:30AM, and I just needed to reapply at noon. So 4.5 hours, moderate longevity! Bumping my rating up to 4/5 salmonberries."
