Up North is an aromatic aquatic fragrance created by Alie Kiral. It launched in 2024. Ask a Michigander where they’re spending a holiday weekend– 9 out of 10 times they’re going “up north”. this summer fragrance is a love letter to lake michigan. wear this to transport yourself to the top of a sand dune. It smells like climbing up a sand dune, the swaying of a willow tree, finding a Petoskey stone, napping in a hammock. Up North is an ozonic aquatic green fragrance with notes of lemonade, lake water, trillium blooms and willow trees. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
PEARFAT PARFUM UP NORTH REVIEWS
Fragrantica: Summertime on Lake Michigan in a bottle. up north begins on a sparkling citrus note at first spray, like sipping a cup of lemonade from the neighbor kid's stand on the walk down to west end beach. after a couple of minutes, it gives way to the water-on-concrete odor of the bayside marina. up north distills the smell of lake algae and freshwater lapping at the sand in a way i can only describe as sublime. there's a strong greenness thanks not only to the trillium note but also to the white willow; the ones by lake michigan take on a slightly bitter, decaying scent as their shed leaves are trampled underfoot by tourists. i haven't experienced such a transcendent, quintessentially midwestern perfume like this since clue perfumery's morel map. alie kiral has done northern Michigan very proud!
Fragrantica: A crisp and tangy aquatic just as refreshing as drinking a cold lemonade to quench your thirst after spending a long day under the hot sun. oppressive heat, wet warm sand, seeking solace in the nearby lake, and a hypersensitivity to the scent of earth.
Fragrantica: This perfume is the sun and lake algae drying into your hair, hauling your wet towel and cooler through the dune grass, getting into your car that was parked by the beach, sand still clinging to every inch of your skin and chugging down the last splashes of a warm minute maid lemonade from the cup holder. There is a breezy minerality that carries its opening (think getting misted by lake water waves) to its dry down - which smells just like coming inside after a full day outdoors. Up North is soft, dreamy, and will leave you yearning to sink your feet into wet sand.
