Buly

Purchased as a memento from my month-long trip in Japan, I'm now back home bathing in Foret de Komi. Touted as a mineralic-green scent inspired by a damp Russian forest, the scent really delivers on that brief. It's a damp, overgrown, and green forest...

I've found interpretations of hinoki varies from perfumer to perfumer, ranging from lemony and coniferous, to tarry and peppery. This version is a deeply unpleasant boyscout campfire burning with bandaids and liniment and makes me feel the way I do when...