The Greengrocer is Rook's first Scent Experiments. Perfumer Nadeem Crowe sent an unmarked sample out to those who joined in the experiment. He told the community that the scent was based on a very significant scent memory he had but no notes were disclosed. Those who received the sample wrote their own note list and story about the scent and guessed what it might based on. Some came very close indeed. The scent was then disclosed as The Greengrocer. A scent based on the smell of greengrocer's in Nadeem's birth city Amman, Jordan.
Fruit, vegetables and spices warm in the sun. Specifically the scent of peach in wooden crates and the green Astroturf that lined them. It is a limited edition. Please note this scent has been reformulated to keep it IFRA friendly but is as close to the original as possible. The Greengrocer features notes of smoke, peach, ozone, gasoline, melon, Astroturf, spices, wooden crates and musk. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
ROOK PERFUMES THE GREENGROCER REVIEWS
Rook: This fragrance is just... Hypnotising? I keep wanting to smell it over as it keeps developing on the skin, changing its notes and having very unusual character to it!
Rook: I'm in love with The Greengrocer! It's such an unusual and evocative scent and I'm fascinated by how it develops on my skin. It's extremely wearable for day or evening.
Rook: You really can close your eyes and find yourself transported with this scent - who would have thought you could capture peaches, Astroturf and petrol into a smell that is both distinctive and wearable at the same time? It’s a very wearable scent, it is a RSX for the summer, before perhaps slipping into the more core range for the autumn and winter. Highly recommended and absolutely worth snapping up in this reissue.
Fragrantica: A very unique, fresh, yet grounded perfume. It has freshness from the melon, peach, and ozonic notes but is grounded by the smoke and spices. I can most pick out the melon and plastic notes, the smoke and spices kind of meld together in the background. I have not been fortunate enough to visit Jordan, however place-based perfumes and particular those with places of importance to the perfumer always tend to resonate with me. I feel that a certain creativity, specificity, and sentimentality comes through into the perfume. A wonderful perfume, admittedly this took a few wears before it fully clicked for me, but it’s worth a try for sure.
Fragrantica: I am surprised there aren’t more reviews for this one. I’m not typically a “fruity” scent fan but thought this would be a scent to try at home in case it’s a scrubber -it’s not a scrubber. I sprayed each arm, front and back of my neck. On opening I got the fleeting scent of opening a cardboard box of waxy slightly fruity crayons. Then a lil bit of smoke set in and the smell of being on the loading dock with plastic crates of juicy melons and stone fruits on a hot day. The scent is not overly or artificially fruity and in no way sugary. On dry down I get the warm juice from those crates of fruit, a tad vanillic, with a few puffs of smoke and musk. Together it’s a soft fruity incense smell to me. The scent lasts longer on my clothes than on skin, but as my skin is getting hot I’m getting some really nice whiffs of it. I imagine this scent would really bloom on a hot sweaty day.
