Dries Van Noten Rock the Myrrh Eau de Parfum is definitely an ode to myrrh. It was heat, spiced, and woody with wealthy, balsamic resins that had been candy, thick, and virtually chewy at occasions. The cypress and pepper had been there within the opening, whereas the cypress amplified the fragrant high quality of the composition for the primary few hours. It wasn’t a very linear perfume, however the distinction between the opening and the dry down wasn’t evening and day both; it flip-flopped between being extra resinous, extra ambery to woodier and spicier earlier than turning into extra of a delicate, spiced amber in the long run.
Rock the Myrrh Notes
It’s described as “an overdose of myrrh” that’s “joined by resins of benzoin and cistus dressed up with cypress and pink pepper.”
- high notes: cypress, pink pepper
- coronary heart notes: myrrh, patchouli
- base notes: suede, benzoin
What does Rock the Myrrh Scent Like?
It opened with recent cypress, a touch of pink pepper, and thick resinous sweetness. There was a fiery side, too, not smoky or ashy, and never fairly lit incense. Rock the Myrrh was fairly fragrant; heat, spicy, and a bit jammy with candy, spiced woods underlying the gooey resins. After quarter-hour, there was a refined layer of leather-based that helped to stability out the balsamic high quality of the myrrh.
Via the following three hours of wear and tear, Rock the Myrrh vacillates between heat, spicy, and woody and sweeter and extra noticeably thick and resinous. It appeared to settle right into a spiced amber-wood base in its drydown that was clean, warming, and balanced.
Longevity
It lasted for 10 hours till it was a skin-scent and about 16 hours earlier than it was fairly tough to detect on my pores and skin. The sillage and projection had been average with the sillage dropping quicker than the projection inside the third hour of wear and tear.
Private Notes
I did take pleasure in this one fairly a bit, sufficient that I’ll re-wear at a later date to get a greater grasp of simply how a lot I loved! I’m not stunned in any respect, given the notes are precisely the sort of ones I gravitate towards (which suggests I do have scents in the identical vein already!). I used to be impressed by the longevity and sillage; the sort of sillage the place I can sit at my desk and get refined wafts each every now and then with out feeling like I’m choking on the scent.
These are extra subjective emotions primarily based on what I like (or don’t like) in a fragrance in addition to contemplating the perfume towards different perfumes I personal and love.
Testing Methodology
For testing, I used a fraction of a 2ml pattern vial dabbed to the underside and topside of my wrist space. I used an unscented moisturizer previous to making use of the scent as I discovered scent didn’t maintain effectively right here in any other case.
I bought my pattern as a part of a discovery set in Could 2022; fragrances are recognized to be reformulated over their lifetime, so be aware of when a overview was made, e.g. a overview from 2010 could not mirror what the same-named fragrance smells like in 2022.
Availability
Rock the Myrrh is accessible for $305.00 for 100ml or $375.00 for 200ml (refill).
If attainable, I extremely suggest making an attempt a perfume earlier than buying a full bottle as a result of perfume can put on in a different way simply due to pores and skin chemistry. Pores and skin chemistry can impact not simply the longevity of a perfume but in addition what notes are distinguished or hidden.
Rock the Myrrh Samples
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