The Slumberhouse web site describes Grev as “a clear metallic/natural accord of star anise, crisp apple peel, spearmint leaf, ocean pine and bergamot twisted into hollowed tunnels padded in turquoise hues, dusted in candy mossy mineral powder and blanketed with copaiba resin and sandalwood oil.” I describe Grev as a minty shiv straight from the freezer.
Grev is among the 4 fragrances Slumberhouse issued when the fragrance home debuted in 2011. A beneficiant splash from my pattern tube provides inexperienced apple for a break up second earlier than mentholated mint and pine timber obliterate it. After ten minutes, Grev relaxes and turns into extra comfy to put on. After a couple of hours, its wooden — dry and reduce with a stainless blade — reveals by. That is once I benefit from the perfume most. Grev it retains its metal-herbal-minty construction proper to the top when many fragrances would have collapsed into wooden or musk.
Mint is a difficult observe for Individuals, since we are inclined to affiliate it with toothpaste. Grev’s mint is just too dry for that, however once I was carrying it, one buddy mentioned I smelled like dental medication.
Regardless of how assertive Grev is, it’s sheer and never heavy in any respect. Because it’s an olfactory substitute for air con, I didn’t count on Grev to final lengthy, however it holds its personal for a very good six hours on my pores and skin. For those who’re in search of one thing cooling but fascinating to put on, and also you’re uninterested in citrus, you may give Grev a strive.
This was a brief evaluation, so I’ll add a scent-related ghost story. Just a few nights in the past I had dinner in a buddy’s yard. We’d completed consuming and had been pushed again in our chairs with a curtain of outdated fir timber scenting the air. One buddy’s son chased the canine across the yard. A frog croaked from the pond subsequent door. It was getting darkish, and I used to be about to recommend we go in — or somebody lend me a sweater — when my buddy’s mother, a swish girl in her 80s, advised us about Stella.
“She wore the loveliest violet fragrance,” my buddy’s mom mentioned. Stella was one in all 4 ladies, together with Pearl and Jewel, who had been vaudeville performers out of San Francisco, and Ruby. Stella lived most of her life in tiny John Day in rural Japanese Oregon.
When Stella died in 1964, her bottle of violet fragrance went to Pearl. Stella’s sisters wished to scent it and keep in mind Stella, however, strive as they could, nobody may open the bottle. Then, sooner or later within the early 1970s, Pearl walked into her bed room and breathed the scent of violets and amber — Stella’s fragrance. However the bottle was nonetheless sealed. The household nonetheless talks about Stella’s go to from the afterlife.
Ultimately, my buddy’s mother ended up with the fragrance. After I discovered the bottle was down the corridor on a bed room dresser, I dragged my buddy inside to discover a yellowed flacon of Guerlain Violette Qui Embaume. Even higher, there was nonetheless fragrance in it, and the stopper lifted simply.
I dabbed a few of Stella’s violet fragrance on my wrist. It smelled like a less complicated L’Heure Bleue, wealthy in violets tinged with heliotrope, all soaked in guerlinade. And it nonetheless smelled great. I imagined Stella visiting her sisters in San Francisco and, in a hat and gloves, shopping for the bottle at I. Magnin to convey among the huge metropolis house along with her.
Slumberhouse Grev is $160 for 30 ml Extrait de Parfum. For data on the place to purchase it, see Slumberhouse beneath Fragrance Homes. As for Guerlain Violettes Qui Embaume, it was created in 1904 and is lengthy discontinued, left for ghosts.
Observe: backside picture is courtesy of Aimee Miller.
