Reflective of a light powdery dust, this fragrance permeates the air with a gentle haziness. It features notes of Italian iris absolute, French lavender, orange flower absolute, Virginia cedarwood, opoponax, Cashmeran, frankincense, benjoin resin and white musk. Dust is an eau de parfum, edp.
It was created by classically trained British perfumer, Lyn Harris who trained in Paris and Robertet Grasse before starting her career working with many acclaimed brands. She was one of the first female master perfumers to break into the industry. Lyn Harris founded Miller Harris in 2000 as well as founding Perfumer H in 2015. The laboratory and shop of Perfumer H are located in Marylebone, London and here each person is able to see how the perfumer works and experience the working laboratory.
PERFUMER H DUST REVIEWS
Fragrantica: "Simply magical - Lyn Harris has absolutely captured falling sunlit dust. You can't really unpick the notes - seamlessly blended. Generous, giving, distinct; a scent that surrounds you and invites you in."
Fragrantica: "There is a vinyl record cover of an album called "Tapestry" by Carole King from the 1970s where the singer sits next to a partially open velvety patterned curtain in jeans and barefoot with a jet of what feels like afternoon sun coming into the hazy room. A cat is also present. This is what I try to conjure, this image, when smelling this perfume. I tend to actually love Cashmeran and here it is also a love. Orange blossom seems to be Lyn Harris's preferred note of sensuality, as in "Un Petit Rien" from years ago. I love "Dust" for its evocation of a kind of dream state and its sheer beauty redolent of shimmering dust motes in the sun."
Fragrantica: "It's like a warm sweater hug on a cold day. One of the better uses of cashmeran fixative. I'd say this, Parfums De Nicolai Amber, Cashmere, Gucci Alchemist Tiger, and Clive Christian Cashmere E use this note better than any other fragrance on the market that I've tried. Out of the ones I've listed, it's probably closer to the Nicolai and Gucci. I'd say it's better than the Nicolai, and on par or slightly below Tiger. Tiger performs better and has a drop dead tonka as well. Great fragrance in the genre. Scent 90/100. Perfomance 60/100"
Fragrantica: "Dust is comforting and maternal with a hazy sweetness. Even though it’s composed of some of my favorite notes that I can usually recognize (Iris, musk, orange blossom) the notes are not easily distinguishable to me; rather, the composition is holistic, well blended, and balanced. I wear this perfume for myself, often to bed or when cozying up with a book. Strangely, without knowing the name of the perfume, my husband said it smelled “familiar,” like his late grandmother’s apartment “but not in a bad way.” Though I don’t know what that apartment smelled like, when I wear Dust I imagine a darkened room that is momentarily permeated by a ray of afternoon sun, illuminating ancient particles of matter as they rise up to meet the light."
Fragrantica: "Another wonderful, modern and intriguing scent from MH. It has a delicacy and grace but it's no shy flower. The notes are very well blended. None stand out. It's for me a feminine no scent. The softest powdered sugar. You wear this and someone catches a whiff as you pass by and they can't help smiling. You smell feminine, soft and beguiling. They might even ask to hug you for a better sniff! A safe bet fragrance to buy a lady. Elegant and expensive smelling. Average longevity and sillage in this 15 degree room."
Fragrantica: "Warm, sweet, powdery, rich and dark. Dust centres on a honey-like orange flower with opoponax resin and cashmeran, laced through with a generous powdering of icing sugar from the iris. A real comfort smell. Maternal, rich and enveloping."
The Sniff: "When you spray Dust, by Perfumer H, it doesn’t roar into being like so many perfumes do. It doesn’t leap from the skin in an orgy of metamorphosis in those first few seconds as the blast of alcohol evaporates and scent is shot away from the body like some sort of olfactive projectile. Dust exists quietly instead, and emerges from the flacon perfectly and fully formed, right from the start. Where it wasn’t present a moment before, now it is. Rather than appearing, it feels as if the scales have dropped from your eyes and you are noticing something that was there all along. It’s a strange opening, a beautiful one, and Dust doesn’t feel like it behaves in the same way as a normal fragrance somehow. This was perhaps the first clue of some of the delights this scent contains. A gorgeous, paper-thin iris note is the first thing you notice about this scent. It is thrilling and full of that special magic that good iris notes can be, but which is often so lacking. For a moment it feels as if you have been able to glimpse the veil that separates worlds, and it is a sparkling, shimmering iris-hued diaphony. Very beautiful, very delicate, and very ethereal. Dust by Perfumer H is exquisitely blended and there are no hard edges or harsh chords as new notes make their entrance. One of the most beautifully accomplished facets of this scent is the harmonious balance of the warm and cooler elements. The iris which opens the scent is cool, thin, transparent, but this is joined as the fragrance matures, by a beautiful whisper of warm vanilla. The scent teeters between warm and cool but the skill of Lyn Harris, the perfumer, keeps it right on the line between them. In the heart of the fragrance, Dust becomes more powdery and a touch drier, the greener hints in the top moving away a little as a more floral, warm blush colours the face of the fragrance. All the time that cool, sweet breath of iris stirs the scent, running under everything else and giving the fragrance a movement which is a beautiful counterpoint to the more static notes that lay over it. Exquisite is a word which is bandied about a little too often in the fragrance world, but here its use is completely justified. The poise of the scent is almost agony to observe, so finely is it balanced. It’s the glorious agony of good art though, that strikes a chord deep inside you and makes you resonate with the universe. In many ways, spotting the individual notes in Dust feels like a futile exercise. This is one of those scents which is textured and so evocative that whilst you do need to understand what it smells like in order to decide if, for you, this is worth tracking down, there is perhaps more value in describing the texture of the fragrance. Dust does have elements which are dry and dusty, but this isn’t a dead dust, nor is it the sheddings of human life. Instead there is something in Dust which is alive, dazzling, sparkling and almost magical. There are flecks of green, hints of warmth, speckles of resin, and it all dances on a current of cool iris that ripples through everything and lifts the dust motes up in a lazy, gentle spiral. There’s something very minimalist about Dust too, it has that effortlessly simple feeling which belies very well designed and executed things that actually take a lot of effort to get to that point. Dust the perfume is that complexity/simplicity, warm/cool, light/shade very beautifully accomplished. There’s a fleeting beauty about Dust by Perfumer H, meaning that it doesn’t last for ages on skin. We tended to get somewhere between 3-4 hours of longevity out of it, but it is one of those fragrances that goes away, only to reappear a little later because you’ve warmed up or exerted yourself and reinvigorated it again. Just is a bewitching sort of scent which stays very close to the body as you wear it. It is the sort of fragrance which would utterly transfix a lover, or anyone who came close enough to smell the fragrance on your skin. The sort of scent that you really fall in love with. One of the (very minor) issues with the experience of testing Dust is that the samples come in very beautiful dab bottles, rather than a spray, and it did cause us to ponder if longevity and projection would have been improved with spray application. It’s a little tricky to get enough on from the dab bottle without tipping the whole lot over yourself in one go, so we tended to go cautiously lest we spill the precious contents! Dust feels like the sort of scent which is delightfully gender inclusive and we felt that most people would be able to wear this without feeling self-conscious. Just as it should be. The contemplative and soothing tone of this scent, along with its delicacy lends it more towards being an autumn or spring scent. It might get smothered and some of its nuances lost by the more overpowering-smelling seasons."
