Wisteria

Thanks for those links!

I'm just bumping this thread. Does anyone have anything new to add to it?

Thanks for your suggestions. I've been looking for a scent reminiscent of rain on the desert for a long time. I once met a woman in a restaurant in Springdale, Utah, outside Zion National Park, who smelled like that exactly, and I thought that she was wearing the most fabulous perfume. Then it occurred to me that she probably had some wet dirt left on her shoes from hiking and must have put some sagebrush and possibly other plants in her pocket. (I've been known to do that myself, just to carry the smell with me.) It occurred to me that a perfume that smelled even a little bit like that would be divine. I've sniffed every commercial scent that seemed like it might come close to that, but to no avail. Most smell so strongly of sage--the cooking herb, not sagebrush--that they completely miss the mark. Anyway, I'm thinking I may try coyote layered with an aquatic. I haven't tried the lab's aquatics. Which one is most rain-like? I'll also thinking of getting some of that Visiting the Temple of Auspicious Fortune Alone on the Winter Solstice while I still can. It sounds wonderful. The smell of So Cal rain, though not the same as Utah desert rain (different vegetation), is an amazing smell indeed. Of course no perfume can truly capture the smells of nature, but those that actually remind me of nature are to die for.

(I posted this earlier in the "dirt" recommendations thread, but upon consideration, I decided it doesn't really fit there since I'm looking for something that's not just earthy, but also aquatic and a little herby. I appologize for the double posting.) I'd love to find a scent that's smells of the high Utah desert during a rainstorm. That's mostly the smell of parched desert earth drinking in a rare bit of much-needed rain. It's not a fertile, loamy soil; quite the opposite, and it has a large clay component. It's also the smell of sagebrush, rabbitbrush, pinion, and juniper. Mmmm.... Obviously, no scent is going to match that exactly. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a scent that's vaguely reminiscent of it. Coyote looks like the closest thing to a desert smell, but it's dry, whereas I'm looking for something wet.

Thanks for those ideas! I've read the reviews of Kathmandu and Sri-Lanka. They both sound lovely, but I wonder if Sri-Lanka is too masculine? I'll have to read the reviews on Plunder, since I hadn't heard of it until now.

I've been afraid to try the lab's spicy scents because I'm afraid they'll smell like Shalimar, which I hate passionately. I've noticed that some of them, like Snake Oil and Morocco, have been compared to Shalimar. But I really want to try something warm and spicy this time of year. Does anyone have a recommendation for a NON-Guerlainy, non-Shalimary spicy scent? I think it's the Iris in Shalimar that turns me off. Iris and orris seem to be the common note in all the commercial perfumes that I truly can't stand. Strange, because I love the smell of real, living irises. Oh, and sandalwood is a huge plus. I loves me some sandalwood. Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know of a scent that smells like the high desert after a rainstorm? Like wet clay-ey, sandy dirt with sagebrush, pinion, juniper, rabbit brush, etc? I live in Utah, and I love the way the desert mountains smell after a rain storm. It's mostly the smell of the wet, clay soil that I'm longing for.