Single Note: Graveyard Dirt Redux

[charis]

Occasionally there are scents that just spawn that "YES, EXACTLY THAT" sort of response where they're pretty much 100% as described. This one takes me back to the Jewish cemeteries I've wandered through in the Czech Republic -- to my family's gravesite in Brno, with moss tracing the markers and pine underfoot as I searched for the right row; to the large cemetery in Prague, with the famous gravestones crowded with pebbles and coins people have left behind; to the tumbledown hillside in Mikulov, where the stones were pulled up during the war and yew and fruit trees stand side by side. It's one of those visceral memory kind of scents for me, where I stood there sniffing the bottle at Will Call and just kind of spaced out for a second.

Babbling glee aside: this one's wet dirt in the bottle to me, with a hint of trampled old-pine greenery and grass shadowing it. I didn't put it on my skin -- I'm not sure if it's something I'd want to smell like, necessarily? -- but it's a lovely unique thing all the same.

(And now I think I might have talked myself into buying it after all, when I talked myself out of it at Will Call yesterday, just to shove my nose in the bottle on those bad days ...)

[ModderRhu]

This smells like real soil + something kind of like alcohol vapor. I still like and want it though

[Viridian]

Smelled this at NYCC and was tempted. It's 100% damp fresh dirt, and I think it would layer well with many things for that "I've been outside" feel without any leaf notes.

 

If you've ever seriously thought that a scent needed more dirt, this one is for you.

[suki]

I was delighted (delighted, I tell you!) to see the mighty return of Graveyard Dirt. I had a bottle a number of years ago, during one of it's previous incarnations and even at that time I remember thinking to myself "This really is a Single Note" because it was just SO purely what it is. But then, as we all have stories of, I swapped it away for something else and have regretted it over the ensuing ages.

 

Until now!

 

And so, it's been a total pleasure to uncork this latest vintage and discover that it's just as it was in past versions and I really couldn't be more relived or pleased.

 

Graveyard Dirt has a name that can be perceived as silly or sinister or Goth-y, but the scent is pure evocation of this very real world. This is rich, black, damp soil. This isn't dusty city dirt, baked and frozen too many time to harbor or support life. This is the mineral-rich topsoil that grows robust fields of nourishment and holds summer rains and sweet longing. This is long, hot nights laying back in tall grasses and autumnal harvests and the whispering promise of spring's return and the chance to ride hobby horses and dance around maypoles and find hands-feet-nails caked and coated with rich, fragrant life.

 

Bottled.

 

 

Perfect for layering since, as is the case with many Single Notes, Graveyard Dirt stays true from bottle through dry-down, I find that it's eminently wearable all on it's own.

 

Glad to have this beautiful scent back in the fold.

[zankoku_zen]

Oh man, Graveyard Dirt, we seem to have the same problem as we did with the previous incarnation. On wet, you're a moist, wet, dirty earth note. With perhaps a touch of clay. Low throw, but that's OK.

 

15 minutes later, you're GONE. Like you were never there.

 

Graveyard Dirt has left the building.

[Blood onmy hands]

This smells pretty much the same as I remember the original Graveyard Dirt smelling. It's like rich, damp, black potting soil with decaying mulch and a hint of green moss.

[gingiemay]

In the bottle, it does smell of damp dirt, it is strong and a little strange. But on my skin it sweetens in a lovely way. I'm very happy as I had tried an older Graveyard Dirt and it didn't work on me, just smelled like rotting. But this version is really nice, I even reapplied throughout the day. Not a lot of throw.

[everanything]

Bottle: wet, sticky, rich earth. There's a weird ooomph to this: it activates my synesthesia and reminds me, not unpleasantly, of falling face-first into a lawn, and having grit in my teeth after. The soil is so rich, it's almost taste-able. That may seem weird, but I really like it.

 

Wet: Same. No green notes or clay whatsoever.

 

Dry: it does tamper down a bit, staying really skin-close, but I don't have to huff to pick it up again. The soil is a bit more dry, and that grit note has softened, but it's still lovely. It's oddly comforting. I want to try this as a base for a lot of my Moons.

[milo]

I find the Lab's dirt note very comforting, like I'm working in the garden with warm soil and the smell of plants around me. I can't seem to differentiate, though, and they all smell the same to me, which is OK! I doubt I would ever invest in a bottle, but I get enough testers and imps to fuel my craving. Death Cap is another that I get the dirt note from, and I have a few imps of those to keep me going:)

[porcelina]

Smells like my beloved 2008 Graveyard Dirt, which I love love love. A beautiful, cool, damp soil smell, which wears beautifully as a perfume.

[savage_rose]

Dirty, wet, mossy and moist. The perfect dirt scent!

[Aveya]

Wet / early on skin : Mushroom single note.

 

Drydown on skin: Warm amber-y almost vanilla-leather dirt. Actually really really beautiful. Low throw, a skin-sniffer.

 

The low-throw will cause me to trade it. But worth the smell. I won't be so afraid of her dirt scents now.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Aveya